Climbing in the Calanques

The Calanques climbing guidebook (new English version)

We spent so many years working on this collection of information, tracking the
original routes… so many months climbing up the numerous trad or bolted
routes…

This guidebook is a large selection of climbing routes in the Calanques. It is
the continuation of the previous guidebooks published by the CT13 FFME. We
tried hard to meet several criteria: publish a guidebook in a single volume,
provide a description of the Calanques that is as thorough as possible, meet
climbers’ expectations and preferences, and arouse interest in all types of
climbing. That is why we chose to present several new areas that were not
described in previous guidebooks.

This guidebook is not exhaustive when compared with a collection of 10
complete guidebooks that were published a while ago by Alexis Lucchesi.
We cannot claim to be exhaustive because anyone can find traces of climbing or
equipment on any cliff, even unexpected ones. Climbers are more modest than we
can imagine, and some climbers who discover new routes do not feel the need to
shout it from the rooftops! For the topographer, the collection and
verification of information is a real vocation.