Ground Up has quickly established itself as an innovative and dynamic guidebook publisher at the forefront of the new wave of modern climbing guidebooks. Ground Up’s first book, North Wales Rock (published in 2007) has sold well and received widespread critical acclaim, including two separate book reviews on UKClimbing.com

“This is a guide of considerable significance, both in the context of the North Wales scene - (it's good to see that the torch has been safely passed on to the next generation) and to wider UK guidebook developments.”

Chris Craggs, 1st UKClimbing.com book review

“The Ground Up team have raised the bar for North Wales guides.”

“This guide is packed with so many new, quality photos that the whole area looks fresh even for the most jaded. Better still are the photo topos which are of such clarity they'll leave the enthusiast gazing for hours.”

Ashley Tyler 2nd UKClimbing.com book review

Ground Up has now shifted its attention to a series of definitive climbing guides for the North Wales area. Three exciting new titles are slated for production over the next year.

Gogarth North The glorious sea cliffs of Gogarth, situated on the western tip of Anglesey, provide an unparalleled range of exciting traditional routes in a beautiful and atmospheric location. It is nearly 20 years since the last definitive guide was produced to the area; since then there has been over 300 new routes done on the various Anglesey sea cliffs.

Gogarth North covers the run of dramatic cliffs across the Gogarth Bay and round the North Stack promontory. It also includes the little known limestone sport crags along the north coast of Anglesey, which have undergone a re-equipping program in the last year.

- Over 500 action packed routes

- Holyhead Mountain, Upper Tier, Main Cliff, Easter Island Gully, Wen Zawn, Flytrap Area, North Stack, Tsunami Zawn, Breakwater Quarry, the Benllech and Fedw Fawr limestone crags

- Full colour topos, extensive area maps and individual crag approach maps

- In depth history section written by Martin Crook

- Atmospheric and inspiring action shots from the best climbing photographers available, including: Ray Wood, Jethro Kiernan, Glenn Robbins and Dave Kendall



The guide has been extensively researched by the Ground Up team, which consists of Simon Panton (editor), Simon Marsh, Graham Desroy, Rob Wilson, Al Leary, Adam Wainwright, Martin Crook, George Smith, Pete Robins and James McHaffie.

Publishing date: June 2008

North Wales Slate After years of neglect the Llanberis slate quarries are back in vogue. A comprehensive re-equipping program, coupled with an energetic new route boom has seen these atmospheric and sombre crags come alive again. Many of the new routes are lower grade sport routes, a development that has proved very popular, both with local climbers and weekend visitors looking for quick drying options when the mountain crags are wet.

Work on the new guide is well underway; the main authors, Pete Robins, Mark Reeves and Mark Dicken have been busy checking and re-equipping routes throughout the Dinorwig and Glyn Rhonwy quarries. Plus, more than half the pages have already been layed out. Expect to see the usual Ground Up treatment: full colour topos, fresh descriptions and mind blowing action shots, coupled with the most eye catching design around.

Estimated publishing date: October 2008

Gogarth South A wonderful series of crags running south from the South Stack lighthouse and around the Range to Rhoscolyn, these sea cliffs provide some of the most adventurous and exciting climbing around. Gogarth South will provide an essential companion to the Gogarth North guide.

Estimated publishing date: winter 2008/09

Sample pages from the forthcoming Gogarth North guide will be online shortly. Watch this space.

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