A Climber's Guide to Yosemite Valley by Steve Roper (1964) Fairbanks

A Climber's Guide to Yosemite Valley by Steve Roper (1964) FairbanksThe first full climbing guidebook to Yosemite Valley. This is one of the most desirable climbing collector's items: consider that it was this iconic little book (limited to less than 500 copies), which guided the early Yosemite pioneers and their friends up the vertical paradise of climbing. 190 pages, black and white with historical photos and handsome charcoal sketches. No dust jacket, but book is in excellent condition otherwise, with tight pages

sport climbs

I have two white covers (original) and one orange cover (reprints)

Wyoming (no ice climbing covered here)

Rocky and Bear Canyons

Elizabeth Klobusicky-Mailänder

Conversations with Washington Mountaineers

decades later

By Richard Gillette

There is a lifetime of amazing climbing in this book

and part of which would go on to become the material for his definitive 2015 High Peaks guide

and is SIGNED by author Vernon Phinney

In some areas