He is a hero of mine. When I was a teenager, obsessed with climbing but living in a prairie city 3 hours from the nearest hunk of exposed rock there were 3 books at the public library on climbing and one of them was by Royal Robbins, which I read forwards and backwards.<p><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Rockcraft-Royal-Robbins/dp/0910856567/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1489601549&sr=1-2&keywords=royal+robbins" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Rockcraft-Royal-Robbins/dp/0...</a>