For the last fifteen years, expatriate climbers have been developing limestone cliffs in the United Arab Emirates and North-West Oman but none of the climbing has been documented in print until now.

UAE Rock Climbing describes around 600 routes including single-pitch and multi-pitch trad climbing from Diff to E5, sport climbing from 4 to 8a and bouldering from V0 to V8. It also introduces the arabian-dhow-accessed DWS areas of the pristine Musandam coast of Oman; over 100km of cliffs above warm coral seas, inaccessible by road!

Students of climbing history will be interested to know that it covers the last pioneering work of the greatly-missed Dorset legend, Damian Cook. The giant boulder field that he developed, now named after him, is probably the most extensive in the Middle East and points the way to the virtually unlimited bouldering potential of the region. The mid-winter climate, around 20°C with almost no rainfall, is amongst the most attractive in the northern hemisphere.

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