Steve Roper

Fifty Classic Climbs Of North America is a climbing guidebook and history written by Steve Roper and Allen Steck. It is considered a definitive 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 …

Leads the backpacker along a 195-mile wilderness route through the rocky country above the forested slopes of the Sierra Nevadas, blazed by the author as an alternative to the more frequented John Muir trail