A Climber’s Guide to Yosemite Valley by Steve Roper
- Published by Sierra Club, San Francisco
- Copyright 1964 (first edition)
- Hardcover with Dust Jacket
- 190 pages
Condition: Dust jacket shows notable general wear including chipping at top of spine and a price-clipped inner flap. Book itself is clean/unmarked and in excellent overall condition. See photos.
Synopsis:
A Climber’s Guide to Yosemite Valley
is Steve Roper’s 1964 Sierra Club “Red Guide,” the first standalone Valley route book after the old High Sierra chapter. About 300 routes from fourth-class scrambles to El Capitan and Half Dome, with Valley climbing history, gear notes, a glossary, photographs, and Al Macdonald line drawings. Written when Roper was in his early twenties. This is the first edition hardcover with dust jacket—190 pages—not the enlarged 1971 revision. Foundational Yosemite guidebook for climbing history and Sierra Club firsts.
Why You’ll Love It:
- 1964 Sierra Club first edition hardcover with dust jacket
- Roper’s original Yosemite Valley “Red Guide,” 190 pages
- Photos plus Al Macdonald route drawings; El Cap to fourth-class
- Collectible first of the modern Valley climbing guide
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