GREAT ROCK CLIMBS OF THE WESTERN CAPE, The Guidebook, 75 Classic Trad Routes

160pp., colour illus., map, paperback, Blue Mountain Publishers, Montagu, 2026. 

ISBN: 9781049262642

This guidebook is published as the companion to the coffee table book, Great Rock Climbs of the Western Cape, 75 Classic Trad Routes. It includes all the routes in guidebook format - from Table Mountain to the Cederberg. as well as the Du Toit’s Kloof Mountains, the Hex River range, and the mountains of Montagu, Banhoek, Kogelberg and Towerkop - with detailed RDs, topos, diagrams and all the access, approach and descent information climbers will need.

Tony Lourens has been climbing and mountaineering for over 40 years and has been a guide and instructor since 1992. He is the author of several books on climbing and hiking/ scrambling, including Western Cape Rock, Cape Peninsula Select, Cederberg Rock and Southern Peninsula Classics. He is also the founder, publisher and editor of SA Mountain Magazine.