Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Steve Roper

Born: 1941 (age 84)
Bio: 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.
Known for:
- Fifty Classic Climbs of North America (1979)
- The Sierra High Route (1997)
- The Climber's Guide to the High Sierra (1976)
- Yosemite Valley Free Climbs: Supertopos (2003)