A Climber's Guide to Yosemite Valley [Paperback]

Steve Roper (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 304 pages
• Publisher: Random House, Inc.; First Edition edition (June 12, 1982)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0871560488
• ISBN-13: 978-0871560483
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 5 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,305,808 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Outdated, but still useful, May 13, 1999

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This review is from: A Climber's Guide to Yosemite Valley (Paperback)

Twenty-five years ago, this was THE guidebook to climbing in Yosemite. We used to play trivia games to name the first ascent parties, the dates, etc., of the most obscure climbs Roper listed. Another part of the game was figuring out Roper's idiosyncrasies - for example, each sentence describes a seperate pitch & the adjective "adventurous" means dangerously loose & dirty. Nowadays, the book is mainly an historical artifact. The number of climbs is many times greater than in 1971 & the level of difficulty of climbs has similarly increased. But Roper's book is still useful for both the history of climbing in the Valley & also for descriptions of how to get to the various climbing areas, with verbal descriptions of the climbs (a rarity in this age of topos).