Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American mountaineer Steve Roper.
Last updated on December 18, 2024.
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.
Climbers seem to forget that we said in our introduction that there were simply '50 classic routes', not 'the 50 classics'. We chose 50 from a list of about 120. Only a torturer will ever pry loose from our lips the names of those other 70 classics.
I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs.