Steve Roper
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Steve Roper is a noted climber and historian of the Sierra Nevada in the United States. He along with Allen Steck are the founding editors of the Sierra Club journal Ascent.
Roper is the winner of the Sierra Club's Francis P. Farquhar Mountaineering Award for 1983.[1] He is also, with Allen Steck, the recipient of the American Alpine Club's Literary Award (1995).
Publications
- "A Climber's Guide to Yosemite Valley" (1964) LCC # 63-21911
- A Climber's Guide to Pinnacles National Monument (1966), Template:ISBN
- "Climber's Guide to Yosemite Valley" (1971), Template:ISBN
- The Climber's Guide to the High Sierra, (1976), Template:ISBN
- Fifty Classic Climbs of North America, (1979), Template:ISBN
- "Timberline Country: The Sierra High Route" (1982) Template:ISBN
- Sierra High Route: Traversing Timberline Country (1997), Template:ISBN
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Roper, Steve (2004) [1994]. Camp 4: Recollections of a Yosemite Rockclimber. Seattle, WA, USA: The Mountaineers Books. ISBN 0-89886-587-5.
Publications as editor
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Roper, Steve; Allen Steck, eds. (1989). Ascent, Volume V. San Francisco, CA, USA: Sierra Club Books. ISBN 0-87156-701-6.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Roper, Steve (2003). Ordeal by Piton - Writings from the Golden Age of Yosemite Climbing. Stanford, CA, USA: Stanford University Libraries. ISBN 0-911221-26-3.
Notable ascents
- 1959 North Face of Middle Cathedral Rock, Yosemite Valley, CA (VI 5.9 A4), with Bob Kamps and Chuck Pratt.[2]
- 1963, first free ascent of the Kor-Ingalls Route on Castleton Tower near Moab, Utah, with Chuck Pratt.[3]
- 1963 West Buttress, El Capitan, Yosemite Valley, California. (VI 5.10 A3+) FA with Layton Kor.[4]
- 1963 Third ascent of the El Cap Nose, with Glen Denny and Layton Kor.
- 1966 First one-day ascent of the NW face of Half Dome, with Jeff Foott.
- 1966 Third ascent of the Salathe Wall on El Cap, with Dick Long and Allen Steck.
See also
References
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- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content."Sierra Club Awards - List by Award" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on April 7, 2014.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Jones, Chris (1976). Climbing in North America. Berkeley, CA, USA: University of California Press. pp. 273–274. ISBN 0-520-02976-3.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Roper, Steve; Steck, Allen (1979). Fifty Classic Climbs of North America. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. p. 219. ISBN 0-87156-292-8.
- ^ Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Kor, Layton (1964). "El Capitan's West Buttress". American Alpine Journal. 22 (53). New York, NY, USA: American Alpine Club: 79. ASIN B000FLCQEM.
External links
- The Sierra High Route: A Journey at Timberline, Roper's account of how he forged the Sierra High Route
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