Steve Roper: 2 books
Camp 4
Recollections of a Yosemite Rockclimber
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2013
* Includes stories of such greats as Royal Robbins, Yvon Chouinard, Allen Steck, and Warren Harding * Captures the raucous, outrageous, innovative spirit of climbing in Yosemie during this period * Portrays the advances in equipment and style that revolutionized big-wall climbing In the 1960's, California's...
by Yvon Chouinard, Glenn Denny, Steve Roper
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2013
The sheer granite walls of Yosemite Valley galvanized a dedicated group of rock climbers in the 1960s, who saw the nearly holdless, glacier-polished faces as the purest form of challenge. The awesome Half Dome and El Capitan were first climbed in the late 1950s, ushering in a new era of rock climbing...