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• Grammar: Please use correct English grammar and punctuation in climb descriptions, including correct use of capitals and proper sentences. Avoid txt style abbreviations. Remember it will be published in a book. 
• Keep sentences short and punchy. Hemingway style. If in doubt, break sentences with multiple clauses into their own sentences.
• Capitalisation: Headings and climb names should be capitalised in Title Case.
• Punctuation: always place a space after fullstop, comma, colon or semi-colon, but never before. An ellipsis has 3 dots only. There should be a space bother before and after a dash.
• Spacing: only ever a single space. No blank lines.
• No space between the number and "m" or "km" where its a length eg "123m" not "123 m"
• Try to keep line breaks to a minimum, as they chew up space. But line breaks in a multi pitch climb are OK, they make it much more readable.
• For multipitch, the format is:
  1. 30m 18. Blah.
  2. 25m 26. Blah blah.
  • Note - no brackets at all, use a dot after the pitch number and a dot after the grade.
  • Put each pitch on a new line.
• For climbs, include the first ascent in the FA box. For boulders, no FA is recorded.
• No "FA" text is needed, just the name and date of the first ascensionist. FFA is ok in that case. Full names are preferred if available, otherwise like "J. Nermut" with a space after the full stop.
• Dates: Standard format is the 3 letter abbreviated month (with no full stop) with the full year. e.g. Jun 1974 or Dec 2007. Full stop at the end of the FA info.
• Abbreviations: Abbreviations for L and R are ok but not mandatory. BR, FH & DBB are also ok.
• Arête has a circumflex on the e.
• Guides should read left to right, with very few exceptions. However, keep in mind the direction the reader will be walking along the cliff line.
• Break climbs into sections based on buttresses or crags wherever possible. Use a heading2 or heading3 style text block to start the section.
  
  

Here is an example climb in the correct style:

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