Royal Robbins

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Personal Info

Known for

Acting

From

West Virginia, USA

Born

2/3/1935

Age

90

Credit(s)

5

Biography

Royal Robbins is one of the pioneers of American rock climbing. After learning to climb at Tahquitz he went on to make first ascents of many big wall routes in Yosemite. As an early proponent of boltless, pitonlessclean climbing, he, along with Yvon Chouinard, was instrumental in changing the climbing culture of the late 1960s and early 1970s by en ...Show More