Climbers

Arizona-based big wall free climber and climbing coach.

Foster’s routes remain legendary for their ferocious crimps and uncompromising boldness.

Ton Snelder once wrote of Roland Foster: 'Had Foster been climbing new routes on Himalayan peaks in an equivalently up-to-date style, and if rock climbing was as respected as that noble pursuit, he may well by now have been Sir Roland.'

Natalie Looyer:

The most elite of the new group of rock climbers at Whanganui Bay was Roland Foster, who began developing new routes while still in his teens in the early 1980s[1]

References

[1] https://openaccess.wgtn.ac.nz/articles/thesis/Rock_Climbing_in_Aotearoa_New_Zealand_From_Novel_Activity_to_Popular_Sport_c_1965-2024/29954927?file=57327896

Along with Joe Brown and Don Whillans, the prime mover of the early Rock and Ice club. A commercial artist who retired and distanced himself from the climbing world after a 10 year career.