Guidebook Development Fund
Producing guidebooks is a long, arduous process of climbing, information gathering, photographing, and designing elements for the final product. But I love doing it. I love establishing routes, helping develop climbing areas, and sharing those experiences with future visiting climbers.
Any donation towards the Guidebook Development Fund is enormously appreciated, and it goes a long way in helping me produce more work that, in the long run, benefits you, the traveling climber, as well as our community as a whole.
If you want to see the work I have produced in the past, click the button below and over to the Guidebooks section of my website!
- Ryder
Projects that need a lift!
Book ready for the press!
Baiyansi Climbing, 3rd Edition
(English and Chinese bilingual edition)
The newest update to one of China’s best up-and-coming big wall destinations is getting a huge lift! I spent weeks in China putting up new routes, documenting new topos via drone, and upgrading the Chinese translation of the book. What resulted was probably the best guidbeook I have made to-date.
Creating this book was no small feat, as I did all of the new design and translation myself. To make print copies and to continue expanding on the current roster of routes available to the climbing community, I need help from the community. The good news is that this book is done, and all I need to do is send it to the presses!
To date, I have put in years of my life to create routes, document them, make books, and share them with the world, and I am discovering that there is only so far I can go as 1 human. Please consider pitching in to keep the momentum up.
Looking ahead to hopeful, projects…
Liming Rock, 7th Edition
(English and Chinese bilingual edition)
10 years have passed since the Liming guidebook got a bilingual edition. It is high time that we get a resource for both the international and Chinese climbing communities! The original author and developer, Mike Dobie, was one of my most influential mentors in climbing. He taught me how to open new routes and, more importantly, how to share that experience with the climbing community. My goal is to carry forward the tradition he set.
This good news is that this project is already underway! But I need some help. I need to spend more time in the region, cleaning up old routes and updating the guidebook to reflect the wealth of new resources now available to the traveling climber! And the job is only halfway done there, as I need to collaborate with Chinese climbers to ensure that the translation of the book is accurate for everyone.
If you can contribute, thank you! You are pitching in towards the creation of better resources that benefit a global climbing community.