Product Description

The Red River Gorge in eastern Kentucky is one of the best rock-climbing areas in the world. Its solid well-featured sandstone makes for steep, spectacular climbing, with an almost equal mix of sport and traditionally protected pitches. This revised and updated second edition describes over 1600 climbs, including over 300 previously undocumented pitches in Muir Valley and the Pendergrass-Murray Recreational Preserve.
Red River Gorge, Rock Climbs also showcases the region s climbing with hundreds of color photographs, including stunning action shots from Simon Carter, Dawn Kish, Jim Thornburg, Peter McDermott, Wes Allen, and Scott James.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #592007 in Books
• Brand: Liberty Mountain
• Published on: 2007-09-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 372 pages

Customer Reviews

You need this book...
...if you're traveling to the Red to go climbing. The photos are clear, the maps are accurate, and the descriptions are spot-on.

Best climbing guidebook I have ever purchased
I just bought this in preparation for my first trip to Red River Gorge, and since I haven't climbed there yet, my review is necessarily limited. However, this guidebook is very well organized, printed on glossy paper, and has extremely good photographs throughout. The production quality alone makes it the best guidebook I have in my collection. Information about the climbs is thorough and has allowed me to plan my upcoming trip to get the most bang for the buck.

Best guide book out there.
Simple--this is the best guide available for RRG climbing. A little expensive, but worth it. Durable cover and pages (cover also functions as bookmark). Sectioned off well. Good maps and driving/approach directions. Accurate for # of bolts and length of climbs (not sure why some climbing books don't include these two very important pieces of info). Tick list by trad/sport and grade is a great feature, although a few climbs in Muir Valley are missing in the 2ed.