Guidebook Proposal:
- An updated version
of the 2004 Llanberis is planned for Spring 2008.
New routes will be included together with any
necessary revisions to the text of the 2004 guide.
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The guidebook will be in full colour throughout in
the new CC format (as in Lower Wye Valley –
see sample
pages on this website), which will make it a
visually user-friendly book
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There will be full colour photodiagrams of most of
the crags; in the case of some of the smaller, more
obscure crags with few climbs on, these may be only
small thumbnail pictures to aid location
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The maps will be in colour, and there will be more
action photos than in the 2004 book. We
would welcome any Llanberis and Ogwen action photos
that climbers may think suitable.
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The guide is being updated by Iwan Arfon Jones,
supported by a team of local climbers. Artwork and
action photos are being organized by Don Sargeant.
The editor is Bob Moulton.
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This guide describes the climbing in the centre of the CC's
heartland - the club has two huts in the Pass.
The ever-popular Three Cliffs
on the north side of the Pass are covered, as well as the larger, and
more forbidding cliffs on the south side. Also described is the hard climbing
on Scimitar Ridge and the relatively recently developed climbing on the small
crags in the Cwm Glas Bach area.
The previous guide (1994) was written by the late
Paul Williams (resident of Llanberis, tragically killed climbing
in 1995) with assistance from Iwan Arfon Jones. Iwan has continued this work
and coordinated the production of the current guide, assisted by a team of local
activists. Iwan has had a major involvement in three of the current CC guidebook
titles (Ogwen and Carneddau, Tremadog and Lleyn), and he is now one of the most
prolific of the CC's guidebook authors.
Although there have been relatively
few new routes since the 1994 guide (mainly short hard pitches on the south
side of the Pass), a thorough reassessment of all the old routes has been made.
The new guide has a short Bouldering section, written by Simon Panton,
and serves as a taster to Simon's North Wales Bouldering guide, expected in
2003.
 Considerable historical research has been carried out for the guide,
and numerous relevant (and often amusing) quotes have been added into to the
first ascent section. A complete set of mostly new photodiagrams are being prepared
for the new guide.
In keeping with the CC's preference for using only Welsh names
for its Welsh guidebook titles, the new guide's title is 'Llanberis'
rather than 'Llanberis Pass'. Although the climbing is, of course, well up the
Pass from the town of Llanberis, this is appropriate because Llanberis is in
fact the old name for the village of Nant Peris.
The final section of the 1994 guide,
the 5-page Outlying Crags section, which covers the climbing above the
Pen y Gwyrd to Capel Coed road, is being omitted from this guide and will be included
in the next Ogwen and Carneddau guide. In the meantime the relevant section will
be posted on this website.
Dave and Ann Fooks on Left Wall (E2 5c), Dinas Cromlech
Photo by Carl Ryan
Free Llanberis Photodiagram Supplement
We are aware of the deficiencies in a number of the photodiagrams
in the 2004 Llanberis guidebook and are now issuing a free 20-page supplement
of colour photodiagrams with an adhesive strip to fix it into the back of the
guidebook. The supplement, which will be available towards the end of April,
will be ready inserted into the back of all further guidebooks sold; and for
those who have already bought a copy it will be available through climbing shops.
It will also be available direct from Cordee (3a De Montfort St, Leicester,
LE1 7HD) in return for a stamped addressed envelope of at least 110 mm by 170
mm in size (standard letter rate). Please note that we will be sending the supplement
to all those who originally received complimentary copies of the guide.
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