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

See Past Guidebook Projects

Exciting News! The 3rd edition of the Baiyansi guidebook is available!

After putting in long days for over a months, the newest edition of the Baiyansi guidebook is here!

This book is the biggest leap forward and the biggest challenge I have done in all of my printed creative projects. Full of new resources, vastly improved topos, and even some brand new routes, this guidebook is key for any visitors looking to explore one of the best up-and-coming big wall destinations in all of China!

Between Baiyansi, Liming, and Shigu, this region of Yunnan is one of the best areas for climbing everything from granite big wall, sandstone cracks, and limestone sport.

I do all the graphic design, translation work and coordination with native speakers, and print logistics myself. Everything I do is sustained by support from the community and stoked climbers like YOU!

I have a limited number of paper guidebooks that I brought back from China, but I also made the English version available as a PDF!

Get your copy and get ready to climb some adventure routes!

Buy a hard copy!

Buy the E-version!

Pitch in for the Projects!

All the work I do for making guidebooks and developing routes has been crowd-funded. I am an independent writer and creator. I am not a sponsored athlete when I go put up new routes. No one pays me to go out and gather the information I need to make a guidebook.

I do these things because they are my passion.

Your support goes DIRECTLY towards allowing me the time and means to get both routes and books made!

See below the donation box to find out what projects are in-the-works!

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Projects that need a lift!

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.