Southeast France Guidebooks
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This guidebook published by Jingo Wobbly describes nearly 40 separate sports climbing and rock climbing areas around Avignon and Mont Ventoux. It includes the crags of Saint Leger, Venasque, Clapis Face, Saint Julian & Trois Rivieres.
Published in April 2006 the guidebook is in French and English text.
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Grimper Autour de Toulon is the definitive guidebook to the rock climbing found in the Toulon area in southeast France. The climbing is located in the hills to the north of Toulon across a large number of limestone crags including Baou de 4 Ouro, Faron, Citerne and the towers at Fenouillet. All the routes are shown on a mixture of colour topos and colour photo-topos. Published in March 2013, this guidebook is in French text only.
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The full name of this guidebook is Escalade en Brianconnais, Haut Val Durance and Queyras, which essentially describes the rock climbing around the Durance Valley in the Hautes Alps near Grenoble (sometimes referred to as the Southern Alps or the Ecrins). The rock climbing areas covered is around the towns of Briancon, Ailefroide, La Vallouise, L'Argentiere-la-bessee & Guillestre. The guidebook describes 11 separate rock climbing areas and 81 major crags ranging from single pitch and multi-pitch sports routes to long classic alpine ascents up to 600m long.
Re-published in 2012 and the guidebook is in French and English text throughout, with the routes illustrated on a mixture full colour photo-topos or topo diagrams with French grades.
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This guidebook by Rockfax describes some of the popular sports climbing areas in the Haute Provence region of France. This is the area to the east of Avignon and south of Gap in southern France. In total 14 separate sports climbing areas are described and over 2,500 routes, including world famous crags at Ceuse, Sisteron, Orpierre and Buoux.
Published in December 2009 by Rockfax the guidebook is in English text throughout.
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The Provence Verte rock climbing guidebook describes the limestone sport climbing at the famous Vallon Sourn (Roches de Bargarèdes). The climbing here is situated above the river Argens between the villages of Correns and Chateauvert, in the south of France. Also covered in the guidebook are the sports climbing areas of L'Hacienda at Val Obscur, La Roquette at Correns and Falaises de Brauch at Carcès. In total there are 295 routes described in the guidebook across a wide range of grades with many in the F4 to F6 range.
Published by La Corditelle in 2010, this guidebook is in French and English text, and all the routes are illustrated on clear photo-topos with French grades used throughout.
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This guidebook by Rockfax describes some of the popular sports climbing areas in the Cote d’Azur region of France. This area is the southern coast of France between Marseille and Monaco near the Italian border. In total 10 major sport climbing areas are described with over 2,700 routes, including world famous crags at Verdon, Les Calanques (near Marseille), Massif del’Esterel (near Frejus), and around Toulon.
Published in December 2010 by Rockfax the guidebook is in English text throughout.
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This guidebook describes 10 separate sports climbing areas and over 400 routes in the Verdon gorge and around the village of Aiguines. It covers many of the single pitch and multi-pitch sports routes to be found in this area.
Published in 2012 the guidebook is in French and English text throughout.
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