Climbing in Corsica
With nearly a hundred sport crags and more than a thousand multi-pitch routes, Corsica is today a recognised climbing destination.
To find out more… and even much more, there is a dedicated website, three guidebooks and an app.
The Corsica Escalade website
To find out where to climb in Corsica, get to know some iconic climbers of the island, learn the rules for equipping new routes, find out where the money from Corsican guidebooks goes, and much more…
Visit the Corsica Climbing website at Corsica Escalade.
Sport crags:
Corsica offers a large number of sport crags in a 6a-7b level. While granite is the dominant rock on the island, the Bastia region offers shale sites and the Corti region limestone sites providing a particularly varied climbing.
From the seaside to the higher altitude, the climber experiences an ever-changing environment. By cleverly playing with the altitude and the various orientations, the season suitable for climbing is around 365 days a year!
To explore all the sport crags in Corsica: The guidebook Falaises de Corse
Multi-pitch climbing:
The multi-pitch routes are mainly on granite rock except in the high-altitude massifs (Cintu – Haut Ascu) where rhyolite becomes the dominant rock and at Paglia Orba with its characteristic pudding stone. Some massifs are dedicated to trad climbing, but generally you can find trad climbing and equipped routes in the same massifs.
There are two guidebooks available to discover multi-pitch routes in Corsica (both are bilingual English-French):
Bavella Corsica : A selection of 150 multi-pitch routes in the Bavella massif
Grandes voies de Corse : A selection of 110 routes from other parts of Corsica
Sale retailers
The climbing guides Falaises de Corse, Grandes voies de Corse and Bavella Corsica are all distributed through Europe.
You can find all retailers HERE.