John Roskelley (born December 1, 1948) is an American mountain climber and author.
Roskelley is an alumnus of Washington State University in Pullman, earning a bachelor's degree in 1971 in geology.
[10][11] Roskelley's son Jess (1982–2019) was also a mountain climber; the two successfully summitted Mount Everest together in May 2003.
[12][1] John's father Fenton (1917–2013) was the son of a fly-fishing dentist, lived in rugged central Idaho as a youth (at Challis in Custer County), earned a journalism degree from the University of Idaho in Moscow,[13] and was the longtime outdoor writer for the Spokane Daily Chronicle and The Spokesman-Review newspapers in Spokane.
[14][15][16][17] Fenton was married to Violet (1921–2012) for 67 years; she was from Yorkshire, England, and they met in Cornwall while both served during World War II.