The Magic of Climbing Guidebooks
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To Niall Grimes, guidebooks are not sets of written instructions but a magical set of spells. These spells cast their charms over climbers, as they thumb their pages looking for instructions and grades, and lead the readers onto the otherworldly experiences on the vertical, with rock as their medium.