Rock climbing in Verdon Gorge

The above information has been extracted from the "Aiguines, Verdon rive gauche" guidebook, which covers the majority of sports routes in the Verdon Valley. Buy this guidebook from our shop. There are other non-bolted routes at Verdon, but these are not covered in this guidebook.

The big wall routes on crags such as Les Cavaliers and Sallieres it is necessary to abseil down to the start of the route, which will be to a hanging belay or a grassy ledge. This atmosphere can be intimidating and is certainly committing, knowing the only way out is to climb your chosen route. However there is a good range grades on these multi-pitch routes that go from F5 up to F8+. However it is worth noting that to climb these routes either a single 70m rope or twin 50m ropes will be necessary as many of the pitches are up to 35m long. The bolted routes in these areas are covered in the "Aiguines, Verdon rive gauche" guidebook, which is available to buy from our shop.

However there are plenty of single pitch sports routes to be found in the Verdon gorge that start from the valley floor, and are therefore much more friendly and safe, at crags such as Bauchet. There are other limestone crags in the immediate area around the gorge that offer mainly single pitch sports routes, along with some multi-pitch routes. All of these routes are covered in the "Aiguines, Verdon rive gauche" guidebook, which is available to buy from our shop.