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Topos for selected Plaisir, Extreme, and Alpine climbs for beginners and experts

For over 39 years, we have made writing climbing guidebooks our passion. Our goal is to create user friendly and interesting guidebooks to beginner and fun climbs as well as to the cutting edge hard climbs. In Switzerland “Plaisir” climbing has long meant stress free, fun well protected climbs. Father of Plaisir Climbing Jürg von Känel started Filidor Publishing House in 1986.


For over 39 years, we have made writing climbing guidebooks our passion. Our goal is to create user friendly and interesting guidebooks to beginner and fun climbs as well as to the cutting edge hard climbs. In Switzerland “Plaisir” climbing has long meant stress free, fun well protected climbs. Father of Plaisir Climbing Jürg von Känel started Filidor Publishing House in 1986.


We have been passionately creating climbing guides for 39 years! Our goal is to produce guides that are as user-friendly and appealing as possible. Beginners and recreational climbers will find the right literature in the popular plaisir guides, while experts will reach for the extreme series. “Plaisir climbing” has long been established in Switzerland as a term for stress-free, enjoyable climbing. Plaisir inventor Jürg von Känel founded Filidor Publishing in 1986.

To our customers from outside Switzerland, we suggest ordering books directly from tmms Publishing in Germany or Cordee Books in UK.