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Cordee Books Trad Climbing: Trad Climbing - The Positive Approach to Improving Your Climbing, offers ropework and gear protection skills to help you improve your traditional climbing skills. Great for improving your confidence, knowlegde and skills, Trad Climbing is an interesting book for the keen climber. Aimed at both novice and experienced climbers, this book aims to help control those mind games that so often put a ceiling on your skills, and helps to tone and improve your climbing.; £19.95

Cordee Books Climbing: From Gym to Crag: Climbing: From Gym to Crag by Cicerone books is a handy and concise guide to helping you build the skills needed for rock climbing. The four main areas covered in this book are Indoor Climbing, Sport Climbing, Traditional Climbing, and Retreat Techniques. Climbing indoors is relatively safe, and making that transition to outdoor climbing sucessfully where the dangers are ten fold and mistakes are costly is extremely important. There are instructional chapters on safety, belaying, technique, leading, and anchors, helping any level of climber obtain a good knowledge of safety techniques.; £15.99

Cordee Books Climbing: Training For Peak Peformance: There was a time when climbers didn't train much, and if they did, it certainly was not very sophisticated compared to what other top athletes were doing. Of course, there was also a time when if you led a 5.10 route on sight, you were considered a decent rock climber. Now 5.10s are quite modest, and effective training for climbing is a sophisticated affair that leaves little room for missteps. So whether you're a climbing gym whiz or lust after clean ascents of classic alpine routes, give yourself the edge with this rock-solid guide to peak performance.; £14.99

Cordee Books Gym Climbing Book: Gym Climbing - Maximizing Your Indoor Experience, is a great guide for getting to know the ins and outs of indoor climbing. From tying into a harness, how to move on the wall, and how to improve your technique, this guide is full of handy tips and hints. A must have for any new indoor climbing enthusiast.; £14.99

Cicerone Rock Climbing: The Cicerone - Rock Climbing Guide covers all the basic rock climbing skills and climbing equipment, is invaluable not only for beginners but also for climbers wanting to increase their technical knowledge of climbing single- and multi-pitch routes. Written by one of the UK’s top mountain instructors this would make an ideal gift or book for life!; £12.95