New topo - Leonidio and Kyparissi

Aris and Katie report about the new Leonidio and Kyparissi guidebook. 496 pages in total, includes 83 crags (51 in the print edition + 32 extra in the app) and nearly 2500 sport routes for all levels. Developments up to December 2020 are included. In comparison with their old selective topo, the number of crags has almost doubled up.

Other features:
Crag Planner to help you work out your climbing itinerary
Large, clear, accurate photo-topos
Ample drone photos for easy wayfinding (new!)
GPS coordinates for each sector
User-friendly layout and info about shade, orientation, kid-friendliness, equippers, and essential gear for each crag
Route star ratings and descriptions that are concise yet informative
Hundreds of full-color action photos
Stories about local life, history, and people (new!)
…and, of course, the FREE APP version by Vertical-Life. As always, you get two books in one 🙂

This guidebook was made possible by the warm collaboration with the people and municipality of South Kynouria (i.e. Leonidio) and the Leonidio Association of Business Owners. If working during the pandemic was such a challenge, publishing a new guidebook amidst a pandemic—and a climbing season that’s essentially cancelled—will be an even greater challenge. Yet here we are: missing the crags desperately, but keeping ourselves and others safe, and waiting to show you our beautiful country and its superb cliffs as soon as travel reopens. We are grateful as ever for all your support, dear friends. Be well, and please enjoy a preview of our new Leonidio & Kyparissi guidebook below 🙏

PS. The proceeds of this guidebook go back into local climbing and crag maintenance. As for giving back to the community, the Leonidio municipality has committed to using most proceeds from the guidebook for further development and route maintenance. Importantly, this ensures the local authorities will have an ongoing stream of revenue to use for climbing—a low-impact form of tourism which has already added immense value to Leonidio. Soon you will be able to read more about how these proceeds are used on the official Climbinleonidio.com. (The estimation is that around 20 000 Euro will go back to new bolts, rebolting and trails etc.)