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Les conquerants de l'inutile : des Alpes a l'Annapurna
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19925
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1961
- Author
- Terray, Lionel
- Publisher
- France : Gallimard
- Edition
- 1st
- Call Number
- G512 T47 L47
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- Author
- Terray, Lionel
- Responsibility
- Lionel Terray
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- France : Gallimard
- Published Date
- 1961
- Physical Description
- 560 p. ; 88 illus. ; maps
- Abstract
- "All these faces that appear in close-up in the news or in the press are also men. The name of Lionel Terray, one of the most famous living mountaineers, comes back periodically in conversations, because he participated in a rescue or because he helped to conquer a great world summit like Annapurna or the Makalu. In The Conquerors of the Useless , it is the whole mountain and its secrets that it reveals to us without emphasis and especially without pretension. We see how a little boy can already sense his vocation and soon to live only for the mountain; how this passion led him from the Alps to the Himalayas, from Canada to Peru. Each story of his prodigious ascensions will fascinate those who know the mountain only through the cable car. Indeed, this book that Lionel Terray wrote entirely himself using notes and stories in which he fixed his memories throughout his career, was written for them. The Conquerors of the Useless is an indispensable book for anyone interested in the heroic fate of the last survivors of the Knights race. " (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Decouverte de la montagne
- Premieres conquetes
- La guerre des Alpes
- Je rencontre Lachenal
- La face nord de l'Eiger
- Guide de grandes courses
- L'Annapurna
- Sur les sommets du monde
- Notes
- EVE-DELACROIX PRIZE OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY 1962
- French edition signed by Lionel Terray
- Newsclipping tucked inside entitled "La mort de Lionel Terray a stufefie les membres du Ski Club"
- ISBN
- 2070262146
- Accession Number
- AC636
- Call Number
- G512 T47 L47
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Publication information on publisher's website
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Everest, the west ridge, abridged
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15120
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1968
- Author
- Hornbein, Thomas Frederic
- Publisher
- San Francisco : Sierra Club
- Call Number
- DS486 E8 H58 1968
- DS486 E8 H58 1968 Reference Copy
- Author
- Hornbein, Thomas Frederic
- Publisher
- San Francisco : Sierra Club
- Published Date
- 1968
- Physical Description
- 159 pages, col. ills., 23.9cm
- Subjects
- Everest, Mount
- Photography
- Mountaineering
- Contents
- Gestation -- Wilderness -- Bouldering -- At Puijan -- Thyangboche -- Jake -- Icefall -- Reconnaissance -- The lost weekend -- Our turn -- A blusterous day -- Severing the cord -- Promises to keep -- and miles to go -- Before I sleep
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- Accession Number
- AC629
- Call Number
- DS486 E8 H58 1968
- DS486 E8 H58 1968 Reference Copy
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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High in the thin cold air : the story of the Himalayan Expedition led by Sir Edmund Hillary ...
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1325
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1962
- Author
- Hillary, Sir Edmund
- Publisher
- Garden City : Doubleday
- Call Number
- DS485 H6 H55
- Author
- Hillary, Sir Edmund
- Responsibility
- by Edmund Hillary and Desmond Doig
- Publisher
- Garden City : Doubleday
- Published Date
- 1962
- Call Number
- DS485 H6 H55
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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