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Vertebrate Publishing is a book publisher that established itself near Peak District. It's motto is that they won't publish anything they personally wouldn't read or use, their goal is to inspire people.
Their location is ideal and inspired them to run their business the way they do, full of passion for the outdoors, exploration and nature, and that is the energy they want to transmit to people through their publishings. It is very important to VP to inspire the next generation and make sure the youngsters get outside enough and learn to connect and respect nature.
VP is well known in the climbing scene as they published many books by great mountaineers and great ascends.
Imagine an alien came down to Earth, stuck a probe into a climber’s brain – one who’d been climbing for over thirty years – and then transmogrified the contents into a big book of climbing tips. Well, 1001 Climbing Tips by Andy Kirkpatrick is just such a book. This is no regular instruction manual – it’s much more useful than that. This is a massive... Imagine an alien came down to Earth,...
The forest of Fontainebleau is one of the major bouldering spots of the world. Thousands of sandstone boulders lie scattered over an area of some 1,200 square kilometres of forest, wonderfully-shaped boulders of superb quality rock in a wilderness of pine, beech and oak trees. The climbing style is addictive, a subtle mixture of body positioning, footwork... The forest of Fontainebleau is one of...
The forest of Fontainebleau is one of the major bouldering spots of the world. Thousands upon thousands of sandstone boulders lie scattered over an area of some 1,200 square kilometres of forest, wonderfully-shaped boulders of superb quality rock in a wilderness of pine, beech and oak trees. The climbing style is addictive, a subtle mixture of body... The forest of Fontainebleau is one of...
WINNER - 2011 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature GRAND PRIZE WINNER - Banff Mountain Book Festival 2011 One of the most important mountaineering books to be written for many years. – Boardman Tasker Prize Painstakingly researched and well crafted, this remarkable book acknowledges the significance of Polish mountaineers during the golden age of... WINNER - 2011 Boardman Tasker Prize...
WINNER - Grand Prize, Banff Mountain Book Festival 2009 'Moffatt and Grimes have done climbing history a service in setting down the story of UK climbing in the “dole era” of the 1980s — a story that was quickly becoming forgotten.' When Jerry Moffatt burst onto the scene as a brash 17-year-old, rock climbing had never seen anyone like him before.... WINNER - Grand Prize, Banff Mountain...
Lake District Bouldering is the long-awaited guide to bouldering in the Lake District National Park. Written by Greg Chapman, one of the pioneers of bouldering in the Lakes, it features almost 3,000 individually numbered problems and dozens of variations and linkups at over 70 venues. Greg created the LakesBloc website in 2003 with the sole aim of... Lake District Bouldering is the...
WINNER – Best Guidebook, 2011 Banff Mountain Book Festival Reprinted in 2019 The most comprehensive guide to bouldering in the Peak District ever published. All approach, crag and problem information has been reviewed and revised since our first Peak District Bouldering guidebook (2005), and the authors have spent several years researching, writing and... WINNER – Best Guidebook, 2011 Banff...
WINNER - The Boardman Tasker Prize 2010 Shortlisted for the Banff Mountain Book Festival 2010 Ron Fawcett is a natural-born climber. In 1969, while still at school in his native Yorkshire, he tied into a climbing rope for the first time and was instantly hooked. From that moment on, it seemed nothing else in his life mattered nearly as much as his next... WINNER - The Boardman Tasker Prize...
LONGLISTED – 2015 Banff Mountain Book Competition ‘Ever since I first set foot on rock at the tender age of seven years, climbing has been the most important thing in my life. In fact I would go so far as to say it is my reason for living and as long as I am able to climb I hope I will. It is from climbing I draw my inspiration for life.’ On 14 June... LONGLISTED – 2015 Banff Mountain Book...