Steve Roper

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Steve Roper
Personal information
Main disciplineRock climbing
Born1941 (age 82–83)
NationalityAmerican

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), ISBN 0-934641-89-7
  • "Climber's Guide to Yosemite Valley" (1971), ISBN 0-87156-048-8
  • The Climber's Guide to the High Sierra, (1976), ISBN 0-87156-147-6
  • Fifty Classic Climbs of North America, (1979), ISBN 0-87156-292-8
  • "Timberline Country: The Sierra High Route" (1982) ISBN 0-87156-298-7
  • Sierra High Route: Traversing Timberline Country (1997), ISBN 0-89886-506-9
  • 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

  • Roper, Steve; Allen Steck, eds. (1989). Ascent, Volume V. San Francisco, CA, USA: Sierra Club Books. ISBN 0-87156-701-6.
  • 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

See also

References

  1. ^ "Sierra Club Awards - List by Award" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 April 2014.
  2. ^ Jones, Chris (1976). Climbing in North America. Berkeley, CA, USA: University of California Press. pp. 273–274. ISBN 0-520-02976-3.
  3. ^ Roper, Steve; Steck, Allen (1979). Fifty Classic Climbs of North America. San Francisco: Sierra Club Books. p. 219. ISBN 0-87156-292-8.
  4. ^ Kor, Layton (1964). "El Capitan's West Buttress". American Alpine Journal. 22 (53). New York, NY, USA: American Alpine Club: 79. ASIN B000FLCQEM.