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FIFTY CLASSIC CLIMBS OF NORTH AMERICA Steve Roper and Allen Steck 1979 1st ed Hardcover SIGNED by 4: Roper, Steck, Frost and Robbins
By Roper, Steve and Allen Steck.
Price: $395.00


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San Francisco, Sierra Club, 1979, 1st edition. 324 pp, many photos. Large format hardcover with dust jacket. Other than the signatures, there is no writing in the book or other flaws, and the dust jacket has no wear and is not price clipped. The Dust Jacket is protected by a removable Brodart clear plastic book cover. The Dust Jacket and the Book are in Fine condition.





This copy is SIGNED by Steve Roper and Allen Steck, the authors and climbers, as well as by Royal Robbins and Tom Frost, two names that make us proud to be American climbers. Robbins and Frost were instrumental in the 1960s rapid drumbeat of awesome long, multi-day climbs in Yosemite. Roper wrote the first stand alone guidebook to Yosemite in 1964, and Steck was part of a two man team who put in the Steck-Salathe route on Sentinel Rock. We gathered these signatures in person over a period of twenty years, and sold every book we had signed. This copy just came back to us in an estate purchase. 

Fifty of the finest rock, ice and mountain climbs in the USA and Canada. This book has become an American classic, and influenced many a climber. 

Fifty Classic Climbs of North America is a 1979 climbing guidebook, dream book and history written by Steve Roper and Allen Steck. It is considered a classic piece of climbing literature, known to many climbers as simply The Book, and has served as an inspiration for more recent climbing books, such as Mark Kroese's Fifty Favorite Climbs. Though much of the book's contents are now out of date, it is still recognized as a definitive text which goes beyond the traditional guidebook. 

This is a list of fifty fine and classic rock, ice and mountain climbs in the USA and Canada (in 1979). This is not THE fifty classic routes. This book has become an American classic, and influenced many a climber. And unlike many ''best climbs'' or ''highest peak'' guidebooks, nobody has yet done them all. This has been attributed to the difficulty of some of the Alaskan and Canadian routes, such as the Hummingbird Ridge of Mount Logan which has never been repeated by the original route.

THESE ARE THE ROUTES IN FIFTY CLASSIC CLIMBS

Steve Roper and Allen Steck, 

Fifty Classic Climbs of North America,


Alaska and the Yukon

Mount Saint Elias Abruzzi Ridge

Mount Fairweather Carpe Ridge

Mount Hunter West Ridge

Mount McKinley Cassin Ridge

Moose's Tooth West Ridge

Mount Huntington West Face

Mount Logan Hummingbird Ridge

Middle Triple Peak East Buttress

Western Canada

Mount Sir Donald Northwest Arete

Bugaboo Spire East Ridge

South Howser Tower West Buttress

Mount Robson Wishbone Arete

Mount Edith Cavell North Face

Mount Alberta Japanese Route

Mount Temple East Ridge

Mount Waddington South Face

Devil's Thumb East Ridge

Lotus Flower Tower

The Pacific Northwest & Tetons

Mount Rainier Liberty Ridge

Forbidden Peak West Ridge

Mount Shuksan Price Glacier

Slesse Mountain Northeast Buttress

Mount Stuart North Ridge

Liberty Bell Mountain Liberty Crack

Wyoming Devil's Tower Durrance Route

Grand Teton North Ridge

Grand Teton Direct Exum Ridge

Grand Teton North Face

Mount Moran Direct South Buttress

Pingora Northeast Face

Wolf's Head East Ridge

Colorado

Crestone Needle Ellingwood Ledges

Hallett Peak Northcutt-Carter Route

Petit Grepon South Face

Longs Peak The Diamond

The Southwest

Shiprock

Castleton Tower Kor-Ingalls Route

The Titan

California: High Sierra and Yosemite

The Royal Arches Lost Arrow Spire

Sentinel Rock Steck-Salathe Route

Middle Cathedral Rock East Buttress

Half Dome Northwest Face

El Capitan Nose Route

El Capitan Salathe Wall

Mount Whitney East Face

Fairview Dome North Face

Clyde Minaret Southeast Face

Charlotte Dome South Face

Lover's Leap Traveler Buttress


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