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!
Project on the Front Burner!
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.
What you will get for pitching in:
Regular updates from the field about progress on the project.
Commemorative Liming swag (art and hats for as long as supplies last!)
A complimentary copy of the guidebook (for $50 and up donations)
Looking ahead to hopeful, projects…
Keketuohai Climbing, 2nd Edition
(English and Chinese bilingual edition)
In a wildly unexpected turn of events, Keketuohai National Park has re-opened to climbing after 8 years! After years of uncertainty over climbing access, the park finally has decided to take a stance that climbing can be beneficial to a national park that is otherwise far-flung in one of the most northwesterly reaches of China.
The guidebook sorely needs an update in media and information. The first guidebook by Polish climber Ola Przybysz came out in 2014, with a small update written by the Wild West China Exploration team (which I was in!) making an update a year later after they established more routes there.
To date, no comprehensive guidebook in English and Chinese exists for the park. That is what I intend to publish, provided the park is still friendly to climbers over the next year or two.
But I cannot get the job done on my own! This one has more moving parts than the Liming book, but it would still be an incredible addition to the new generation of climbing guides becoming available in China for both Chinese and international climbers.
COMING SOON:
Hard copies of the 2nd Edition of the Baiyansi Guidebook!
The first time the Baiyansi guidebook will ever be in print!
I have already printed test proofs of the book. I am hoping for folks in the community to be interested in owning a commemorative (and useful!) copy of the book as a way of supporting my mission to put up routes and give even more back to the climbing community.
Since I fund the print production on my own, I need about about 15-20 people to support a limited first run of the hard copy.
If you are interested in a copy, please fill out the form below!