The Kalymnos Rockfax is now available for pre-ordering at the special offer price of £24.95 (about €28.60 - RRP £34.95/€39.95). Pre-orders will be sent out as soon as we receive stock which is expected to be in the week beginning 7 May.
Kalymnos is one of the best-known sport climbing destination on the planet and Rockfax is very excited to announce that this new book is currently at the printers and will be published in early May.
This will be the first printed Rockfax to the island although we have been producing guides to Kalymnos for the last 15 years. Initially this was in the form of downloaded PDF MiniGuides and it has also been included in the Rockfax app since 2016. The main author for most of these publications has been Chris Craggs who now brings his ten year obsession to the island to life with this great guidebook.
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The book contains all the latest developments with over 3000 routes described on its 456 pages. It is presented in the usual Rockfax style with detailed approach maps, big full-colour photo-topos and all the usual features like symbols, colour-codes and thumb tabs. We have been lucky enough to have got hold of plenty of inspiring action photos as well from the likes of Mike Hutton, Kieren Duncan, Simon Carter and many others.
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Kalymnos is also available through the Rockfax app. Currently this is the 2016 version but that will be updated over the next few weeks and this will be a free update for those who have already bought the current package. More on the app here.
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The book will be supporting bolting and access work on the island through the Glaros Bar bolt fund. Steve and Sue McDonnell have been a great help and we are happy to help contribute to this excellent fund by passing on some of the proceeds from the sale of the book.
Comments
You mention that some of the proceeds will go to the local bolt fund, will this be equal to the proceeds from the local guide book?
Thanks,
Paul.
Just for clarification purposes, is there a complete list of crags included within this guide and is this a selective or definitive guide for those crags ?
Thanx
Hi Paul
I don't know since the amount donated from the local guidebook is not public information. There is a figure claimed here of €5000 - http://climbkalymnos.com/bbpress/topic.php?id=6222 - although that is what has been spent, not the proportion from the book. I have also heard other figures, and the island received a massive grant from the EU for rebolting recently as well.
Based on our usual figures and what Steve McDonnell has told me about the Glaros Bar Bolt Fund, it will be a major contributor to that fund over the next few years, and I am confident that we will easily make up any shortfall.
Alan
I have extended the list of crags on the Rockfax book page https://www.rockfax.com/climbing-guides/books/kalymnos/
The book describes all the routes on the crags included which is pretty much all of them at the time of writing although I think there may be a couple of hard caves that we haven't got in there.
Alan
Thanks for that Alan, but being a bit dim I'm still not sure which crags are included, for example, does the Grand Grotte area includes the crags to the left 'Afternoon' etc and to the right 'Panorama and Stankill' ? There's mention of Sea Breeze but not Belgium Chocolates and what's the Secret Garden called these days and is it included ? etc etc etc, is there a definitive (sic) list ?
I'm not trying to be deliberately obtuse but would just like to know 'exactly' which crags are included before I purchase it to find some of my favourites missing.
Cheers