Climbing and Mountaineering Software

We are volunteers and climbers committed to enhancing published climbing information through modern software for the benefit of all climbers

Do you or your organisation publish Climbing and Mountaineering guidebooks or information?
Our software may help you

Are you interested in volunteering to help build and maintain software?
Your help will be appreciated.

Vision

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The project started in 2020 with the vision to create a climber-owned UK routes database with better coverage, data accuracy and first ascent information.

With guidebooks increasingly being selective, there is an increasing need for digital route descriptions, first ascent information and topos for crags and climbs excluded from print.

Wikis, such as alt h UK Climbing, whilst a great resource, will not fill this need.

The application developed for the alt l Scottish Mountaineering Club and alt l The Climbers' Club now encompasses around half the routes in mainland Britain.

Supporting Climbing Clubs

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In addition to supporting clubs with their guidebook publishing, software has been developed for:

Ownership

either the software is licenced or provided to Climbing Clubs free of charge
or is available for free online use (as per TopoEditor)
in the future, it may be that some software will be made open source
or that some new software may be subject to licencing fee (if commercial development or support is required)

All code is stored on GitLab or alt h GitHub.

We are not a commercial organisation and do not make money from this venture