Steve Roper quotes:

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...

Goddamn it ! His parka doesn't fit me !

I strode among giants, friends tell me now, though at the time I felt more like a misfit associating with oddballs.