A Step by Step Guide to High-Tech Treasure Hunting with a GPS
This is the first UK-oriented guide to geocaching, an accessible, fun and family-friendly outdoor activity that is rapidly growing in popularity. Primarily an introduction for newcomers, but also offering advice for veterans, the step-by-step guide explains all the equipment needed as well as how to identify, find and create your own geocaches.
Southern Andalucia - Sierras Tejeda, Almijara and Alhama
Guidebook to 24 graded day walks in the mountains of the Sierras Tejeda, Almijara and Alhama in the region of Axarquia. All routes accessible from the holiday towns of Nerja and Velez-Malaga on the Costa del Sol. Routes range from easy strolls to strenuous climbs, some reaching summits over 2000m.
This handy pocket-sized guidebook offers route descriptions for 111 day walks and 10 multiday tours in the Valais - home to some of Europe's most dramatic mountains from the Matterhorn and Monte Rosa to Bietschhorn and Grand Combin. From easy valley walks to harder treks across rugged passes over high ridges - routes for all abilities.
This book is a wonderful collection of 75 autobiographical short stories from prolific outdoors writer Kev Reynolds, recording his treasured recollections of 50 years of mountain travel and adventure. These tales spread across the Moroccan Atlas, Pyrenees, European Alps, Himalaya and elsewhere leave you by turns amused, reflective and inspired.
40 Trekking and Mountain Biking Routes in the Sacred Valley
This guide describes a range of half-, full- and multi-day mountainbiking and hiking routes, including 7 different routes with access to Machu Picchu via quiet Inca roads and trails which reveal the spectacular scenery and archaeological richness of the Valley. The guide includes many previously unpublished routes.
A guidebook to 25 walks with all the information needed to enjoy a range of walks in the vales and glades of the ancient Forest of Dean. From short 4-mile walks to all-day sections of long-distance trails such as the Offa's Dyke Path and Gloucestershire Way, this guide is the ideal companion to exploring the forest and its unique history.
In 42 walks ranging from easy to challenging and between 5 and 20km, this guide to the Auvergne is ideal for day walkers and hikers exploring an often-forgotten region in central France. The volcanic geography, crater-lakes, castles and monasteries provide a stunning backdrop to walks, with bases in Vichy, Clermont-Ferrand and Puy-en-Velay.
An inspirational guidebook to 50 classic walks on the rolling Pennine landscape, set across the backbone of England. The graded routes, between 6 and 18 miles in length, cover classic Pennine fells and moor like Whernside, Ilkley Moor and Pendle Hill; exploring the North and South Pennines, Yorkshire Dales, Howgills and Dark Peak.
To the impartial observer Britain does not appear to have any mountains. Yet the British invented the sport of mountain climbing and for two periods in history British climbers led the world in the pursuit of this beautiful and dangerous obsession. Unjustifiable Risk is the story of the social, economic and cultural conditions that gave rise to ......
