About the Author and Photographer

David Stark Wilson, born in Berkeley, California, is an award-winning building designer and has been a photographer since the age of seventeen. He is the author of Structures of Utility, published by Heyday in 2003. An avid mountaineer, he began to photograph mountain landscapes at an early age. He lives in Berkeley with his wife, Stacia Cronin, and children, Chase and Kai.

Steve Roper has been writing about mountains for forty-five years. Growing up in Berkeley, California, he started climbing in his early teens and wrote the first-ever climbing guide to Yosemite Valley at the age of twenty-three. He has written extensively about the High Sierra, his favorite place on the planet. He lives in Oakland, California, with his wife, Kathy, and still climbs modest hills.