Follow the links below for free downloading or purchasing copies of guidebooks for China climbing. Click on thumbnails or links to download.
Baiyansi Climbing/白岩寺攀岩 (2020)
by: Ryder Stroud （史瑞德）and Dane Schellenberg（德恩）
translated by: Xinwu Liu（刘心武）
Languages: English and Chinese/双语版
edition 1, February 2020
Baiyansi is a beautiful, up-and-coming granite climbing area in the highlands of northwest Yunnan Province located close to both Shigu and Liming, both destination climbing areas in southwest China. Baiyansi features a huge, ~550-meter main wall that plays host to multipitch rock climbing, with the potential for more big wall climbing as well as big aid and free climbing routes. While there are only a handful of routes in this first edition, this guide will hopefully serve as a means to get more adventurous climbers excited about putting up new routes in the area!
Click the cover image below or here to download the guidebook.
***For the GPX companion downloads for the book, click the links below./下面的网页链接可以下载配线路书的GPX
Baiyansi, hiking approach GPX (vehicle high point to temple ruins camp)/白岩寺，到大本营的徒步路线GPX
Liming Rock, 7th Edition (2019)
Now available digitally through the Rakkup app!
The authoritative guide to China's trad climbing mecca is getting an overhaul! The new guidebook to Liming is chock full of new topos and media made just for the new edition, including stunning photos from climbing photographer Garrett Bradley. With more routes going up with each new edition, Liming is becoming a place for both cragging and new routing, and this book has it all! New editions will also be available in the Faraway Hotel in Liming Village around the new year.
Wild West China Route Guide (2015)
by: Ryder Stroud
China's western mountainous regions are home not just to high peaks for the mountaineer but with rock walls of all types waiting to see climbers on their flanks. The Wild West book is a compilation of various areas in which the Wild West China team (Mike Dobie, Ana Pautler, Ryder Stroud, Raúl Saúco, and Dan Jerke) established new routes. Though it is just a single summer's sampling of the wealth of climbing China has to offer, it is one of the few resources that exist on this topic with this much depth, featuring rich photos, topos, and descriptions on getting to these new locations.
Many thanks to Black Diamond, Goal Zero, Dali Bar, and Climb Dali in support of this guidebook.
Daocheng Bouldering (2014)
by: Michael Dobie
While the book is entitled Daocheng Bouldering, this guidebook encompasses a much broader number of areas and routes in western Sichuan. Daocheng Bouldering also contains key beta for destinations like Zhajinjiabo, China's granite alpine playground, Haizi Shan Preserve, and the high peaks of the Litang-Batang area.
Download the guidebook here or by clicking the image below.
Keketuohai Climbing Routebook (edition 2015)
by: Ola Przybysz
The authoritative guidebook on China's granite multipitch paradise, Keketuohai. With cragging, multipitch up to 10 pitches, and endless development opportunity, Keketuohai will be a center for high-quality trad in China and internationally. With routes including those established all the way to the end of 2014, the new 2015 edition is a great showcase for Keketuohai as a destination for climbing and new development. Some new routes from 2015 are included in the Wild West China Route guide.
Climb China (2014, 1st edition)
by: Ana Pautler, Kevin Wojton, and Karen Thang
The guide to every China vacation climber's dream, Climb China is the only published climbing guide on China that encompasses the best areas in the country. With a breadth stretching from Baihe to Guoliang and Getu to Kunming, Climb China is the book to buy if you are looking to explore many destinations on your climbing trip to the Middle Kingdom.
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Shuangqiaogou Ice Climbing
by: 小拓 (Torsten Treufeld) and 何川 (“River” He Chuan)
The only guide to Sichuan Province's and China's ice climbing capital: Shuangqiaogou. With routes from 50-500 meters in length beneath soaring 5000-meter peaks, Shuangqiaogou is the place to climb ice in Asia.
Dali Area Climbing (coming soon)
BY: DANE SCHELLENBERG
Dali, Yunnan Province, is not just a beautiful tourist and artist town nestled in the mountains of southwest China. It is also the home to a developing climbing and bouldering soon with a wealth of terrain on a variety of different stones. The book will include climbs in the immediate Dali area, Shuanglang crags, Shimenguan, and Shaxi area.
