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Climbing in Cornwall

A CLIMBERS’ GUIDE
TO NORTH, SOUTH AND EAST CORNWALL

by Carver, Stanier & Littlejohn

 

OUT OF PRINT

Review published in Mountain 28, July 1973:

 

Cheap pirate paper-backs show the way to big clubs

 

Climbing in Cornwall

by Toni Carver, Peter Stanier and Pat Littlejohn

James Pike: 40p

 

A slightly more polished paperback than the Great Zawn guide, this lists the climbs outside the C.C.’s West Penwith domain. Many of the cliffs have only local or esoteric interest, but a number of the newly developed sea cliffs along the north coast (Tintagel, Lower Sharpnose and Cam Gowla) demand serious attention from competent visiting parties. Both these Cornwall guides and the South East Wales guide seem to be in the best traditions of cheap spontaneous publishing by interested climbers, and may indicate a backlash against the spiraling prices of the more official type of publication.

Ken Wilson

 

N.B. – The Great Zawn guide mentioned in this review is Great Zawn
by Pat Littlejohn and Frank Cannings which was also reviewed in Mountain 28.

Review published in The St Ives Times & Echo,
8th June 1973:

 

Rock climbing in Cornwall: a new pocket guide

 

“Climbing in Cornwall,” the first guide of its kind to be written by local climbers and printed and pub­lished in the county lists, classifies and outlines recognised climbs in at the north, south and east of the a Duchy, and many that are lesser known or have only recently been se charted.
   The guide is compact and well he indexed and includes maps, dia­grams and photographs. It has been compiled and edited by Toni Carver of St. Ives who has written it in co-operation with Peter Stanier and Pat Littlejohn. The foundation work was by the Truro School Rock Climbing Club (founded by Mr. Carver), whose Minions Group have developed many of the climbing areas described.
   The book is a necessary compan­ion to the Climbers’ Club guides – Cornwall Vol. 1 and 2 which deal exclusively with West Penwith. In a foreword the editor says that it’s only in the last ten years that climbers of the modern school have be­gun to exploit the vast potential of to the area covered.
   “Some of the modern crags – Cheesewring, Lower Sharpnose Point, Cligga Head, etc. are now highly developed, providing the main reason for this guide. The north coast, with its staggering potential for fut­ure development, now has some of the hardest and finest routes In the country to offer the high-grade climber.”
   “Climbing in Cornwall” (price 40p) is printed and published by James Pike, Ltd., Consols House. St. Ives.

 

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