Guidebook, Photo and Map Library

ANDES have an extensive guidebook, photo and map library for the Andes in the office in Castle Douglas. With over 50 guidebooks and 300 topographic maps, plus a large number of other reference books, magazine articles and other materials this is one of the most extensive collections of material on mountaineering in the Andes anywhere in the world. For copyright reasons we cannot copy and send out any of this material, but genuine personal callers are always welcome to visit and browse.

We are always interested to buy rare items to improve the collection.

Guidebooks

We have over 40 climbing and trekking guidebooks to the Andes and Brazil, mostly in Spanish or Portuguese. We also have a large reference collection of journal and magazine articles. Only a few of these are available outside South America, and many of them are no longer available anywhere!

Whole Andes - 14 different guidebooks

Argentina - 9 trekking and climbing guides

Bolivia - 3 trekking and climbing guides

Brazil - 10 climbing and walking guides

Chile - 4 climbing guides

Ecuador - 1 climbing guide

Peru - 10 climbing and trekking guides

Venezuela - 2 climbing and trekking guides

We have two bookcases rammed full of climbing guidebooks, road atlases and more general guidebooks to the Andes and Brazil.

Photos

We have a photo library of nearly 15,000 shots including pictures of all the 6000m peaks from almost every angle and indeed the vast majority of snow-capped peaks in the Andes.

Maps

We have maps giving full coverage at the best available scale of 98% of Andean peaks over 5000m.

Argentina - 65 topographic maps

Bolivia - 45 topographic maps

Brazil - only one road atlas!

Chile - 63 topographic maps

Colombia - 12 topographic maps

Ecuador - 30 topographic maps

Peru - 70 topographic maps

Venezuela - 5 topographic maps

We have a four drawer filing cabinet full of Andean maps! With almost complete coverage of every one of the 800+ peaks of over 5000m.

We have a four drawer filing cabinet filled with over 300 Andean maps! We have almost complete coverage of every one of the 800+ peaks of over 5000m in the Andes.

To make an appointment to visit the library please contact us by email or phone. Please note that weekend visits are not usually suitable as I'll be out doing something if it si not raining! But evening visits are normally fine with some notice. Castle Douglas is in southern Scotland, 2-2½ hours drive from Glasgow, Edinburgh and Newcastle, 3 hours from Manchester, 4 or 5 hours from Birmingham and Sheffield.

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