Royal Robbins

"Royal Robbins had an outsized impact on climbing history. This great new biography by David Smart brings the man behind the famous climbs to life in a way that’s both relatable and inspiring." --Alex Honnold Robbins’s passing in 2017 was covered from the BBC News to NPR to the New York Times, which deemed him the "conscience of rock climbers"Includes never-before-published information drawn from Robbins’s family archives and personal papersInternational interest in the Golden Age of Yosemite on