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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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
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Publications as editor
Notable ascents
- 1959 North Face of Middle Cathedral Rock, Yosemite Valley, CA (VI 5.9 A4), with Bob Kamps and Chuck Pratt.<ref>
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- 1963, first free ascent of the Kor-Ingalls Route on Castleton Tower near Moab, Utah, with Chuck Pratt.<ref>Template:Fifty Classic Climbs</ref>
- 1963 West Buttress, El Capitan, Yosemite Valley, California. (VI 5.10 A3+) FA with Layton Kor.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref>
- 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
External links
- The Sierra High Route: A Journey at Timberline, Roper's account of how he forged the Sierra High Route