{{Short description|American climber and historian of the Sierra Nevada}} {{about|the climber|the comic strip character|Steve Roper and Mike Nomad}} {{Use American English|date=May 2026}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2026}} {{Infobox climber | name = Steve Roper | image = | image_size = | caption = | full name = | birth_name = | nickname = | typeofclimber = Rock climbing | other_discipline = | citizenship = | birth_date = {{birth year and age|1941}} | birth_place = | nationality = American | start_age = | start_discipline = | notable_ascents = | partnerships = | retirement_age = | final_ascent = | spouse = | partner = | children = | parents = | relatives = }}
'''Steve Roper''' is a noted climber and historian of the Sierra Nevada in the United States. He along with Allen Steck are the founding editors of the Sierra Club journal ''Ascent''.
Roper is the winner of the Sierra Club's Francis P. Farquhar Mountaineering Award for 1983.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.sierraclub.org/awards/downloads/award_sr.pdf|title=Sierra Club Awards - List by Award|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407072520/http://www.sierraclub.org/awards/downloads/award_sr.pdf|archive-date=7 April 2014}}</ref> He is also, with Allen Steck, the recipient of the American Alpine Club's Literary Award (1995).
==Publications== * "A Climber's Guide to Yosemite Valley" (1964) LCC # 63-21911 * ''A Climber's Guide to Pinnacles National Monument'' (1966), {{ISBN|0-934641-89-7}} * "Climber's Guide to Yosemite Valley" (1971), {{ISBN|0-87156-048-8}} * ''The Climber's Guide to the High Sierra,'' (1976), {{ISBN|0-87156-147-6}} * ''Fifty Classic Climbs of North America'', (1979), {{ISBN|0-87156-292-8}} * "Timberline Country: The Sierra High Route" (1982) {{ISBN|0-87156-298-7}} * ''Sierra High Route: Traversing Timberline Country'' (1997), {{ISBN|0-89886-506-9}} * {{Cite book | last = Roper | first = Steve | title = Camp 4: Recollections of a Yosemite Rockclimber | publisher = The Mountaineers Books | date = 2004 |orig-year=1994 | location = Seattle, WA, USA | isbn = 0-89886-587-5 }}
==Publications as editor== * {{Cite book |editor-last=Roper |editor-first=Steve |editor2=Allen Steck | title = Ascent, Volume V | publisher = Sierra Club Books | year = 1989 | location = San Francisco, CA, USA | isbn = 0-87156-701-6 }} * {{Cite book | last = Roper | first = Steve | title = Ordeal by Piton - Writings from the Golden Age of Yosemite Climbing | publisher = Stanford University Libraries | year = 2003 | location = Stanford, CA, USA | isbn = 0-911221-26-3 }}
==Notable ascents==
* 1959 ''North Face'' of Middle Cathedral Rock, Yosemite Valley, CA (VI 5.9 A4), with Bob Kamps and Chuck Pratt.<ref> {{Cite book | last = Jones | first = Chris | title = Climbing in North America | publisher = University of California Press | year = 1976 | location = Berkeley, CA, USA | pages = [https://archive.org/details/climbinginnortha0000jone/page/273 273–274] | url = https://archive.org/details/climbinginnortha0000jone/page/273 | isbn = 0-520-02976-3 }}</ref> * 1963, first free ascent of the Kor-Ingalls Route on Castleton Tower near Moab, Utah, with Chuck Pratt.<ref>{{Fifty Classic Climbs|pages=219}}</ref> * 1963 ''West Buttress'', El Capitan, Yosemite Valley, California. (VI 5.10 A3+) FA with Layton Kor.<ref>{{cite journal | last = Kor | first = Layton | title = El Capitan's West Buttress | journal = American Alpine Journal | volume = 22 | issue = 53 | pages = 79 | publisher = American Alpine Club | location = New York, NY, USA | year = 1964 | asin = B000FLCQEM }}</ref> * 1963 Third ascent of the ''El Cap Nose'', with Glen Denny and Layton Kor. * 1966 First one-day ascent of the NW face of Half Dome, with Jeff Foott. * 1966 Third ascent of the Salathe Wall on El Cap, with Dick Long and Allen Steck.
== See also == * Sierra High Route
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20100507103222/http://www.gorp.com/parks-guide/travel-ta-inyo-national-forest-yosemite-bishop-sierra-nevada-mountains-sidwcmdev_054016.html The Sierra High Route: A Journey at Timberline], Roper's account of how he forged the Sierra High Route
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