After many months of fieldwork, trial and error, and endless hours in front of the computer, we are thrilled to announce the upcoming publication of our new guidebook! Greece Sport Climbing: The Best Of, as it is called, is due to be published in late September/early October. Made in the style and quality of the Kalymnos guidebook, it is meant as part of the same series. To answer a frequently asked question, the new guidebook does not include every single crag in Greece, nor does it include any Kalymnos crags. What does it include? A selection of what we consider to be the best crags in Greece outside of Kalymnos, focusing mostly on crags with single-pitch sport routes, but also including some standout multi-pitch and mixed-style routes. Taken together, we hope these two guidebooks will give climbers around the world plenty of good reasons to keep visiting and exploring our marvelous, mountainous country, many parts of which remain largely unknown.

Along with the Greece Sport Climbing guidebook we will launch a new website, Climb Greece. (The website is still under construction, so bear with us for a couple of weeks. Our long hours at the computer are far from over.) The new website will strive to provide useful climbing information and updates about crags in the rest of Greece, in a simple, accessible manner. Like Climb Kalymnos, it will also feature an interactive route database, a forum, and so on.

The Greece Sport Climbing guidebook is available to order online from our new website Climb Greece, with worldwide shipping, as well as in stores on Kalymnos and at other locations in the rest of Greece.

For now, we leave you with two partial samples from the Greece Sport Climbing guidebook (Meteora and Nafplio).

A big Thank You to everyone who cheered us on along the way!

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Publication info

Greece Sport Climbing: The Best Of by Aris Theodoropoulos
Publisher: Terrain
Pages: 320
Language: English
ISBN: 978-960-9456-20-3

Features:

• A clear, user-friendly page layout similar to that of the Kalymnos guidebook
• A concise Crag Planner
• Hundreds of photo-topos and stunning images
• Detailed, custom-made maps with approach paths
• GPS coordinates for all crags
• Additional helpful crag info (e.g. conditions, rock type, sun/shade, orientation, child-friendliness etc.)
• Tips on travel, accommodation, amenities, local interests and other activities
• Suggested itineraries for a one- or two-week rock trip around Greece
• Nearly 1700 selected routes in 29 sectors throughout Greece, including:

– The “sacred” conglomerate towers of Meteora
– Almyros, Pyli Little Gorge and Mouzaki, for “Kalymnos-style” climbing
– Hardcore sport crags Chatzouri, Alepochori and Kleisoura, in the Patras Area
– The solid, 917-meter limestone massif of Varasova
– Outstanding crags in the Peloponnese (Leonidio, Nafplio, Zobolo, Lagada and Nedousa)
– The Aegean islands of Anafi and Symi
– Three crags on the famous island of Crete (Voulismeno Aloni, Plakias and Tersanas Cave, also known as the “new Grande Grotta”)
– Crag highlights in the Athens Area—the only capital with so much quality climbing so close to the city.

Please note: Greece Sport Climbing: The Best Of does not include the crags of Kalymnos.

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