The SMC offers a diverse number of publications, appealing to all outdoor enthusiasts. These pages present a summary of our offerings, in addition to our annual Journal. Click on a menu item on left for publications. Download a 4-page PDF file for current list and prices here. Click on a cover image for fuller description and purchase option.
Introduction
The SMC produces a number of Hillwalkers’ Guides including the best and most popular guides to The Munros and The Corbetts, together with a series of area guidebooks covering all of Scotland. In addition to its Scramblers’ Guides it produces the definitive series of Climbers’ Guidebooks covering summer and winter climbing in Scotland.
The SMC and the Scottish Mountaineering Trust (SMT) also publish books on the Scottish mountain environment, its history and its culture. The information provided in these publications is produced for the benefit of Climbers and Hillwalkers and the profits go to the SMT, a registered charity which supports a range of initiatives connected with Scottish mountaineering and Scottish mountain related projects.
News & Offers
The new Climbers’ Guide to The Cairngorms has just been published and is now available just in time for the coming winter. Go to the climbing guides pages for further details.
Skye Scrambles. The SMC is urgently seeking good quality images of scrambling in Skye. If you have any such images go here.
The final Climbers' Guidebook in the trilogy covering the north of Scotland was published in May 2007. Northern Highlands South covers the area from Torridon to Knoydart and has rightly proved popular. Go to the climbing guides pages for further details.
A new, fully revised and expanded edition of Scottish Hill Names was published in 2007 by the SMT and is an extremely useful companion to the SMC Hillwalkers’ titles. This is a fascinating book about the origin, the meaning and the pronunciation of the names of Scotland’s hills.
Hostile Habitats was published in August 2006 and proved so popular that it sold out and had to be reprinted in January 2007. It is encouraging that there is such a demand for this book as it illustrates the importance which we place on the mountain environment. To learn more about the mountain environment, order your copy of this excellent book, inclusive of postage and packing, by clicking on the order form link below. Clicking on the cover image takes you to the book page.
The SMC’s Climbers' Guidebook pouches have been specifically designed for use with its Climbers' Guidebooks and prove particularly useful in both carrying and protecting your SMC guidebooks. To order one of these invaluable items click on the order link form below. Clicking on the product gives you more information.
A Chance in a Million is the indispensable handbook on avalanches and snow conditions for Hillwalkers’ and Climbers venturing into the Scottish Mountains; to order your copy at the reduced price of £10.00 (normally £13.00) click on either the order form, or the cover image below.
Ski-mountaineering in Scotland remains the guidebook to have on this subject; to order your copy at the reduced price of £10.00 (normally £13.00) click on either the order form, or the cover image below.
The more information we receive, the better the guides we can produce.
The SMC is interested in receiving any feedback and general information which will help improve its publications. Go To Feedback Page
The SMC actively looks for photographic contributions to its publications and pays a modest fee for any used plus a free copy of the publication. Go To: Photo Page
The New Climbs Editor of the SMC Journal is keen to receive any information on new climbs and relevant information following repeat ascents. Go To: New Climbs Page
Contact Details
If you have comments of a general nature to make on any of our publications, including ideas for new publications, or improvements on existing ones, write in the first instance to:
Convenor Publications Sub-Committee
Rab Anderson
24 Paties Road
Edinburgh
EH14 1EE email
If you have new route information, such as first ascent details, corrections to description or gradings etc, then write to:
Andy Nisbet
New Routes Editor
20 Craigie Avenue
Boat of Garten
Inverness-shire
PH24 3BL email
Some climbers may have been disappointed in the past not to see some routes appear in a new guidebook. Andy does his best to collate the information, but he cannot find everything, particularly some routes which may have been published in obscure publications and edited to the point of being meaningless (and you all know what we mean!)
Send in your brill routes with a full, clear description in the SMC Journal house style if possible.
Summit Boulders - Ben Cleuch
If you have information for existing climbing guidebooks, or have quality photographs you would like to be considered for a guidebook in production (modest payment and free copy of the guide for any used), write in the first instance to:
Brian M. Davison
Series Editor Climbing Guides
70 Aldcliffe Road
Lancaster
LA1 1SJ email
If you have information for existing district guidebooks or general publications, or have quality slides you would like to be considered for a guidebook in production (modest payment and free copy of the guide for any used), write in the first instance to:
If you have information for existing area guidebooks, including The Munros and The Corbetts, the Series Editor is:
Rab Anderson
24 Paties Road
Edinburgh
EH14 1EE email
All profits from our guidebooks go to the Scottish Mountaineering Trust which is a Scottish-registered charity. Purchasing an SMC publication therefore helps the Scottish mountain environment. See the SMT Page for more details of what they do.
