Thailand Deep Water Soloing Guide Book
2ND EDITION!

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25 more routes and many new areas including; Ko Hong East near Ao Nang and Ko Hong West near Phuket, Phi Phi Islands, Railay area, Koh Yao Island and areas near the famous Phang Nga National Park. A total of 100 well documented routes on 40 islands with clear text, newly enhanced map descriptions, and colored photographs. Even new route potential is mapped out to guarantee that the adventure is turned up to full volume! The PDF enables you to zoom in for incredible detail or print off pages of the whole book to take with you.

Deep water soloing
...is the ultimate freedom for a climber.

You are unencumbered from rope and gear. You can push yourself to your limit with no fear of consequence. Your flow is not interrupted by placing gear, clipping a bolt or worrying about a belayer. Where else can you climb a first ascent onsight that is 60 feet long and at your limit in less than 5 minutes? Deep water soloing up holds the highest standards and ethics. No bolts or rappel slings. No ice tools or aid hammers marring the rock. No hang dogging. Just you and the rock until the moment you fall and start again.

“Matt Maddaloni”

Thailand’s Railay Peninsula is world renown for warm water, tropical sandy beaches, palm trees, bamboo bungalows and friendly local people. And now… deep water soloing. There are 65 routes already established with hundreds of possibilities waiting to be discovered. The limestone islands protrude from the Andaman Sea like citadels from a fantasy novel. The rock is that perfect gold and gray limestone with many tufa lines and huge stalactites hanging from the overhanging walls like wax dripping from candles.

In 2004 Tim Emmet, Neil Gresham and Mike Weeks from the UK put up the first documented deep water soloing routes near Railay Peninsula. It was that trip that they introduced Matt Maddaloni to the sport, the author of the first DWS guidebook for the area. Matt has visited the islands on five major trips and has put up about half the routes.