1001 Walking Tips by Paul Besley is a huge collection of small tips to make a real difference to your walking, whether you’re in your local urban area, in a national park, on a long-distance trail or hiking in the mountains in winter.
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Teaching Navigation: Practical Ideas for Outdoor Tutors
Teaching Navigation: Practical Ideas for Outdoor Tutors is an insightful and highly practical guide designed for anyone responsible for helping others build confidence and competence in the outdoors. Rather than presenting navigation merely as a technical skillset, the book positions it as an empowering tool; one that fosters independence, awareness, decision-making, and a deeper connection to the natural world. For educators, youth leaders, outdoor instructors, and even experienced adventurers looking to improve how they teach, it is a thoughtful resource filled with both inspiration and actionable strategies.
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Aircraft Wrecks: A Walker’s Guide: Historic Crash Sites on the Moors and Mountains of the British Isles
Originally published in 2009, this fascinating paperback aims to give readers access to the remains of hundreds of historic aircraft that still lie at crash sites on the moors and mountains of the British Isles.
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Outdoor First Aid
Now on its second edition, Outdoor First Aid by Katherine Wills is fully updated and revised for 2024. If you have an interest in outdoor first aid or just work in the outdoors, this book is the perfect coffee table read.
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Snowdonia Mountain Walks and Scrambles
Snowdonia Mountain Walks and Scrambles by Mark Reeves should be your go-to guide book for scrambling adventures in North Wales.
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Mountain Walks Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon: 15 routes to enjoy on and around Snowdon
Mountain Walks Yr Wyddfa/Snowdon by local mountaineer Kate Worthington is a brilliant guide to the variety of walking routes to the summit of Snowdon (Yr Wyddfa). As well as the traditional Snowdon summit routes, there are also lower-level alternatives for mixed weather or shorter days and for those new to mountain walking. All with a ‘Snowdon’ theme.
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How to Climb a Mountain – The Ultimate Beginner’s Guide to Reaching Your First Summit
OK this might be seen as perhaps a ‘dodgy’ book review (as it was written by Simon from MountainXperience!) but we still think it’s worth sharing!
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Rough Guide – Snowdonia & North Wales
If you’ve climbed Snowdon with MountainXperience and are looking for other things to do around Snowdonia and North Wales then you need to check out this great Staycation book from the team at Rough Guides.
With international travel restricted during the Covid 19 pandemic, and with travel rules still changing day-by-day, it’s no wonder that so many are hoping to avoid disappointment by continuing to holiday closer to home. To help you make the most of your summer at home, Rough Guides have launched a series of fantastic Staycation guidebooks. The series brings you all the inspiration, ideas and practical advice you need to make the most of your time in well-loved UK destinations such as Snowdonia & North Wales. Each guidebook is packed with detailed itineraries for walks and tours, local highlights and time-saving tips, as well as historical and cultural insights and essential maps.
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Ultimate Navigation Manual – Lyle Brotherton
If you’ve been lucky enough to come on one of our navigation weekends in Snowdonia or the Peak District and would like to develop your mountain navigation even more then we can highly recommend the Ultimate Navigation Manual by expert navigator Lyle Brotherton.
This comprehensive guide is suitable for everyone from beginners to advanced navigators. The book will take you through all the techniques required to become an expert navigator from the fundamental principals through to the advanced technology of GPS devices.
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Snowdon – An A – Z of Facts and Trivia – Tony Ellis
If you’re as big a fan of Wales’ highest mountain as we are then you’ll love this book written by local author and Snowdon volunteer warden, Tony Ellis. It’s a unique resource of thousands of facts and items of trivia about Snowdon, probably the busiest mountain in the world.
Some facts refer back to the formation of the mountain several million years ago, or to its shaping by the ice age which came to an end just twelve thousand years ago! But most relate to man’s presence on Snowdon in the last 400 years right up to the present day. Organised alphabetically in over 250 short sections and with over 150 illustrations, whether you’re after useful facts or far-from-useful trivia, this book is guaranteed to inform and amuse.
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