Internet Climbing Resources

There is a considerable amount of climbing expertise and information on the www. The information ranges from the Climbing Archive to the homepages of climbers. A partial listing follows; if you would like to make an addition or comment just mail.

There has been several neat and new www pages that have come out in the past little while. The biggest development is start of the Climbing Magazine" pages. These are just starting, and yes there is a typo in those pages, but its happening. Web users will note that although the images are on the main page are "broken" they still work as hot links to content.

The National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) has also set up a website that goes much beyond simply a point of contact.

There are also a couple of new sections in the Waddington Gallery. One is about climbing and mountaineering gear and the other is about skills . Although its just a start, if people are willing to make contributions (they needn't include images), then I'll stick them up.

General Information

Can enough be said about the The Climbing Archive!? Its contains trip reports, guides, FAQs and all kinds of other useful information. We owe Magnus several beers.

Want a good guide to what can go wrong while climbing, or some plain enteraining reading? Peter Steinmetz has put up Accidents in North American Mountaineering.

For the past little while -T has been posting Tony Bubb's Climbing Tips on rec.climbing. Writtin with Tony's usual style, they are both informative and entertaining. (These are also available at the Clubhouse and the Archive.) John Brynes (aka Lord Slime) has also has started posting some information about the psychological aspects of leading.

Another web archive site is Bret Watson's The Web Climbers Club House. It has recent climbing news, a magazine, new routes, web climbing areas, and the climbers clubhouse. Its a neat net resource.

From Trango Towers to caving in California The Big Wall Page has adventures and general aid climbing information brought to you by John Middendorf. It has a whack of great photos, and is a real nice point of contact for A5 gear.

Its just started but A Climbers Library is attempting to pull together both descriptions of climbs in Europe and climbing quotes of various kinds.

Andy Mayer also has an archive that includes a few old posts from rec.climbing, some important graphs *and* a whole bunch of climbing .gif files.

Other general sources of information include:

Weather Information

Organizations:

Guides:

The following is only a partial listing of all the climbing guides that are available on the web. I've deliberately tried to avoid total duplication with the Climbing Archive, and would suggest that everyone look there also. There are some great ones in there.
  • Annapolis Rocks Guide
  • Climbing around Atlanta, Ga
  • The Deep South Climber's Companion
  • Climbing Gyms in the Dallas
  • Climbing in the U.K.
  • European Rock Climbing
  • Frankenjura
  • Irish Climbing
  • Kristian's Guide to Climbing in Norway!
  • Scottish Climbing from Edinburgh There is also an assortment of information about trekking in the Himalayas:

    Finally, there is Paul Friberg's index of climbing areas listed in Climbing, Rock & Ice, Sport Climbers Connection, and NE crux.

    Commercial Services:

    Magazines:

    Ravage is the first electronic climbing magazine. Its cool.

    Climbers' Homepages:

    These are haphazardly grabbed from rec.climbing. If you are a climber and would like to have a pointer to your homepage listed here, then let me know, and I'll stick it up. Of course, the climbers directory at the archive is working again (!!!), so you'll want to look there also.

    Lets begin with *the* most substantial of the home pages. If nothing else you have to check out where Quang-Tuan Luong proofs his papers.