Guia de Escalada en Mexico Norte – The Mexican Rock Climbing Guide Book North

If rock climbing would have been developed much earlier in Mexico, as in
Europe, surely there would be so many routes that one would have to dedicate
over a lifetime to climb them all. Mexico is rock quality rich, either for
sport, traditional or big wall climbing, even having monoliths almost a
thousand meters high.

The mexican climber is the one who, without question, has provided the most to
the rock climbing development in Mexico since the past century, but it`s worth
to say that foreign climbers also have helped all this great projects (mostly
from United States), developing very important zones as Potrero Chico or El
Salto, near Monterrey, in the Nuevo León state.

Talking about sport climbing and bouldering, today there are quite a lot of
developed zones through all the country (near 300!); however, mexican climbers
that dedicate their effort in creating new routes are reduced to only a few
numbered group.

And it isn`t that big rock walls are missing: La Huasteca, Potrero Chico, the
big walls in Chihuahua as El Gigante or the wall in Basaseachic waterfall, the
Sierra de Durango or El Gran Trono Blanco in Baja California Norte already
offer several journeys to know a bit of the great mexican walls. Also, it`s
surprising the big amount of virgin spots that exist through all the country,
still waiting for a first climb.

Product of dispersion and, many times, the lack of knowledge and
communication, climbing in Mexico advances at a lower rate than it really
could. The project of the Rock Climbing in Mexico guide, by As de Guía, has
the objective to deliver that knowledge to everyone that seeks to use it for
good reasons, either it is just to enjoy a great climb or to collaborate with
the development of new routes that will give shape to the future of climbing
in the mexican territory.