El Capitan
Subtitle: Historic Feats and Radical Routes
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Published: September 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9780811824842
Subjects: Climbing & mountaineering; Sports; Guidebooks; Sports & Recreation; California; Mountaineering; United States - Pacific - California; Sports & Recreation / Mountaineering; El Capitan (Calif.); El Capitan; Rock climbing
First sentence: The first words out of the mouth of Royal Robbins, the grand old man of Yosemite climbing, were about how El Captain has become a kind of lodestone, "because of its plain rock architecture-it's so beautiful in itself, it's so noble, that to have climbed it, to have found your way up it, is to have become more intimate with it and to have become more part of that grandeur, that granite, that strength if you will."