In reply to stonedonkey:
> (In reply to Alan James - UKC)
> 2 How well are the guides received in other parts of the world?
This may give you some indication from a US perspective. It's a bit Mick-centric only because I'm over here and Alan is over there (change here and there around depending where you are). Alan is the driving force.
"What Other US Guidebook Publishers Are Saying About
Rockfax Guidebooks"
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“Rockfax has developed the industry standard”
Marc Bourdon
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“Huge thanks to..Mick Ryan and Rockfax guidebooks for
editing topos and being a great help in general.
Mick, Thanks for your ongoing advice, help, and
support about guidebooks.”
Chris McNamara
Publisher and author.
SUPERTOPO
Quotes from his ‘High Sierra Climbing Supertopo’
California, USA, 2004.
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“I'd like to thank Mick Ryan and Alan James of Rockfax
guidebooks for providing inspiration and allowing me
to borrow the excellent and popular icon format that
Rockfax has developed after years of setting the
industry standard.”
Marc Bourdon
Publisher, author and mountain guide.
QUICKDRAW PUBLICATIONS
Quote from his ‘Squamish Select’ guidebook, British
Columbia, CANADA, 2004.
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“Thanks to Mick Ryan of Rockfax guidebooks, a fellow
believer that guidebooks should be more than just a
bunch of numbers and topos. Mick answered more
questions about how to write a guidebook than he
deserved, kept me well fed and well liquored up on
Stone IPA's after marathon East Side climbing days,
and kept telling me I was doing a great job.”
Bob Banks
Publisher and author.
Quote from his guidebook ‘Ocean's Eleven - bouldering
around Santa Barbara’,
California, USA, 2003.
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“Mick,
Thanks for the inspiration and advice. You the Man!”
Marty Lewis
Publisher and author.
MAXIMUS PRESS
Quote from his ‘Mammoth Area Rock Climbs’, California,
USA,2004.
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I am indebted to Mick Ryan and Alan James at Rockfax
for the inspiration of their excellent guidebooks and
loaning me their Rockfax symbol font.
Dave Pegg
Publisher and author.
WOLVERINE PUBLISHING
Quote from his guidebook, ‘Western Sloper’, Colorado,
USA, 2002.
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A huge thanks to Mick Ryan and Alan James for
providing the format and infamous Rockfax Symbols for
this guide, and the impetus for this entire project.
Jason Huckaby
Publisher and author.
MAINE VERTICAL
Quote from his guidebook ‘Acadia’,
Maine, USA, 2002.
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Thanks to Mick Ryan of Rockfax for talking me into
doing the first edition of this guide and for allowing
us to use the Rockfax format for this second edition.
Ward Smith
Publisher and author.
RUMNEY CLIMBERS COALTION
Quote from his guidebook to ‘Rumney’,
New Hampshire, USA 2001
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