A selected guide to local rockclimbs around Melbourne by Glenn Tempest. The guide is full colour, 156 pages and has been produced in a unique landscape format to better cope with single pitch routes which represent most of Melbourne’s local areas. Climbers will discover over 500 selected climb descriptions, 75 photo topos and accurate approach maps. The guide is wire-o-bound, has a heavy duty cover and comes with an elastic closure.

The areas covered include:

• The You Yangs (Urinal Wall, Royalty Walls, Gravel Pit Tor, Flinders Peak Slabs)
• Falcons Lookout at Werribee Gorge
• Mt Beckworth (The Main Group)
• Camels Hump (Lower Cliff and Omega Block)
• Black Hill (Mushroom Rock, The Monolith Area, Milawa Area, Eastern Lookout Area)
• Mt Alexander (Dog Rocks, Wabbit Rocks)
• Ben Cairn (near Healesville)
• The Cathedral Range (Sugarloaf Peak, South Jawbone, Blue Haze Peak and North Jawbone)

Open Spaces Publishing, First Edition, 2010, ISBN 9780975233368.