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Selected Yosemite Reading List There are hundreds of books to read on Yosemite big walls. What follows is a partial selection of sources I have found especially useful. Ament, Pat, 1992. Royal Robbins: Spirit of the Age. Adventure’s Meaning Press, Lincoln, Nebraska. American Alpine Journal, Golden, Colorado (americanalpineclub.org). Arce, Gary, 1996. Defying Gravity: High Adventure on Yosemite’s Walls. Wilderness Press, Berkeley, California. Climbing Magazine, Carbondale, Colorado. (climbing.com). Duane, Daniel, 1994. Lighting Out: A Vision of California and the Mountains. Graywolf Press, Saint Paul, Minnesota. Duane, Daniel, 1998. Looking for Mo. Washington Square Press, New York. Harding, Warren, 1975. Downward Bound—A Mad Guide to Rock Climbing. Menasha Ridge Press, Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ. Jones, Chris, 1976. Climbing in North America. University of California Press, Berkeley, California. Piana, Paul, 1998. Big Walls: Breakthroughs on the Free-Climbing Frontier. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, California. Rock and Ice, Boulder, Colorado (rockandice.com). Roper, Steve, 1994. Camp 4: Recollections of a Yosemite Rockclimber. The Mountaineers, Seattle, Washington. Roper, Steve and Allen Steck, 1979. Fifty Classic Climbs of North America. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, California. Roper, Steve and Allen Steck, 1999. Ascent: The Climbing Experience in Word and Image. American Alpine Club Press, Golden, Colorado. Roper, Steve, 1971. Climber’s Guide to Yosemite Valley. Sierra Club Books, San Francisco, California. Rowell, Galen, 1974. Vertical World of Yosemite. Wilderness Press, Berkeley, California. Scott, Doug, 1974. Big Wall Climbing. Oxford University Press, New York. Meyers, George, 1979. Yosemite Climber. Diadem Books/Robbins Mountain Letters, Modesto, California. COPYRIGHT © 2000 SUPERTOPO LLC. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. DUPLICATION PROHIBITED.
APPENDIX About the Author Chris McNamara is addicted to El Capitan. He is one of the bestknown climbers on the Yosemite circuit and is the winner of the 1999 Bates Award from the American Alpine Club as the nation’s outstanding young climber/mountaineer. He is also the founder and president of the American Safe Climbing Association and a student at UC Berkeley. Chris’ first El Capitan ascent was at age 15. A year later he and his brother Morgan became the youngest team, at 16 and 13, ever to climb El Cap. By the year 2000, at age 21, Chris had logged more than 54 ascents of El Cap, plus trips to Norway, Baffin Island and Ecuador. Climbing magazine once computed that 3 percent of Chris’ life on earth had been spent on the face of El Cap. His climbs include the first one-day ascents of Lurking Fear (solo), Dihedral Wall, Grape Race, Re-Animator and Muir Wall. He made the first clean ascent of the North America Wall and holds speed records on The Shield, Zodiac and Wet Denim Daydream. Chris has put up first ascents on Half Dome and in Zion, as well as doing the first Girdle Traverse of El Cap, a route that took five days, 75 pitches and 14,000 feet of climbing. Chris founded the ASCA in 1997 during a year he took off between high school and college. The non-profit group has replaced more than 1,500 anchor bolts on routes in Yosemite, Zion, and other climbing areas. Chris has replaced more than 450 himself. In addition to running the ASCA, Chris serves on the board of directors of the Access Fund. He lives in Berkeley, California. Mac proves no sleep, no steep: Recharging for another push up El Cap. Photo by Mike Ousley. FOR CURRENT ROUTE INFORMATION, VISIT SUPERTOPO.COM
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