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 Though much of the book's contents are now out of date, it is still recognized as a definitive text which goes beyond the traditional guidebook.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
