📚 Rock Climbing

Hands and feet on stone: the grades, the protection, and the route read as a vertical puzzle.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject rock climbing in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Between a Rock and a Hard Place	Aron Ralston	2004	25
	Climbing	Nate Fitch	2015	11
	Rocks	Chris Oxlade	2002	10
	Rock-climbing in the English Lake District	Owen Glynne Jones	1897	7
	Master of rock	Pat Ament	1977	7
	Alone on the wall	Alex Honnold	2015	7
	The push	Tommy Caldwell	2017	7
	The climber's handbook	Garth Hattingh	1998	6
	The Complete Rock Climber	Malcolm Creasey	1999	6
	Science of Climbing and Mountaineering	Ludovic Seifert	2016	6
	Climbing days	Dorothy Pilley	1935	5
	Rock Climbing	Peter Livesey	1978	5
	Fifty Classic Climbs	Steve Roper	1979	5
	How to rock climb!	John Long	1989	5
	Climbing anchors	John Long	1993	5
	Southern Sandstone	Tim Daniells	1981	4
	Classic rock climbs in Great Britain	Bill Birkett	1986	4
	Learn rock climbing in a weekend	Kevin Walker	1991	4
	Mountaineering	The Mountaineers	2003	4
	Gym Climbing	Matt Burbach	2004	4
	Training for Climbing	Eric Horst	2008	4
	Better bouldering	John Sherman	2011	4
	Eastern crags	Harold Drasdo	1959	3
	Rock climbing	Peter Nock	1963	3
	Adventures in climbing	Rusty Westmorland	1964	3
	The book of rock climbing	Walt Unsworth	1968	3
	Basic rockcraft	Royal Robbins	1971	3
	Big wall climbing	Doug K. Scott	1974	3
	Rock Climbs in the Peak District (Peak District Climbs)	Geoff Milburn	1987	3
	One man's mountains	Tom Patey	1987	3

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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