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The 9th grade : 150 years of free climbing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15369
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Chambre, David
- Publisher
- Les Editions du Mont-Blanc
- Call Number
- G510 C43 N56
- Author
- Chambre, David
- Publisher
- Les Editions du Mont-Blanc
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 297 pages, illustrations (colour)
- Subjects
- France
- History
- Mont Blanc
- Rock climbing
- Yosemite Valley
- ISBN
- 9782365450225
- Accession Number
- AC633
- Call Number
- G510 C43 N56
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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50 percent of mountaineering is uphill : the life of Canadian mountain rescue pioneer Willi Pfisterer
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15361
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Pfisterer, Susanna
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Newest Press
- Call Number
- G512 P45 F54
- Author
- Pfisterer, Susanna
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Newest Press
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 310 pages, illustrations
- Subjects
- Austria
- Jasper
- Rocky Mountains, Canada
- Safety
- ISBN
- 9781926455600
- Accession Number
- AC633
- Call Number
- G512 P45 F54
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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50 years of alpinism
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue628
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1981
- Author
- Cassin, Riccardo
- Publisher
- London : Diadem; Seattle : Mountaineers
- Call Number
- G512 C3
- Author
- Cassin, Riccardo
- Publisher
- London : Diadem; Seattle : Mountaineers
- Published Date
- 1981
- Subjects
- Mountaineers, Italian
- Call Number
- G512 C3
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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103 hikes in Southwestern British Columbia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1627
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1983
- Author
- Macaree, Mary
- Publisher
- Seattle : Mountaineers
- Edition
- 2d ed
- Call Number
- F1089 B7 1983
- Author
- Macaree, Mary
- Edition
- 2d ed
- Publisher
- Seattle : Mountaineers
- Published Date
- 1983
- Call Number
- F1089 B7 1983
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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The 1927-1928 Peruvian expedition of the American Geographical Society
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1770
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1929
- Author
- Miller, O.M
- Publisher
- New York : Geographical Review
- Call Number
- F3423 M54
- Author
- Miller, O.M
- Publisher
- New York : Geographical Review
- Published Date
- 1929
- Notes
- From Geographical Review, vol.19
- Call Number
- F3423 M54
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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1978-80 survey of the Athabasca and Saskatchewan glaciers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue597
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1982
- Author
- Water Survey of Canada
- Publisher
- Calgary : The Survey
- Call Number
- QE576 W36 1978-80 Pam
- Author
- Water Survey of Canada
- Publisher
- Calgary : The Survey
- Published Date
- 1982
- Subjects
- Rocky Mountains, Canada
- Call Number
- QE576 W36 1978-80 Pam
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- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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8000 metres : climbing the world's highest mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14862
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Hinkes, Alan
- Publisher
- Cumbria, U.K. : Cicerone Press
- Call Number
- G530 H56
- Author
- Hinkes, Alan
- Publisher
- Cumbria, U.K. : Cicerone Press
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- xii, 189 pages, col. ill., maps
- ISBN
- 9781852845483
- Accession Number
- AC610
- Call Number
- G530 H56
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- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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- Date
- 1920 – 1933
- Material
- wood; metal; grass
- Catalogue Number
- 104.15.0001
- Description
- A dark brown wooden frame with thirteen horiztonal reed rods, two replaced with copper rods, each holding seven counting beads of black wood. The seven beads on each rod are divided into two sections by a vertical piece of wood the height of the frame, each section containing two and five beads. Co…
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- Title
- Abacus
- Date
- 1920 – 1933
- Material
- wood; metal; grass
- Dimensions
- 36.9 x 3.0 x 17.4 cm
- Description
- A dark brown wooden frame with thirteen horiztonal reed rods, two replaced with copper rods, each holding seven counting beads of black wood. The seven beads on each rod are divided into two sections by a vertical piece of wood the height of the frame, each section containing two and five beads. Corners of frame are braced with brass plates, two flat wooden braces horizontally across back.
- Subject
- households
- business
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.15.0001
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The ABC of wilderness travel
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue2260
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1982
- Author
- Saul, Marg
- Publisher
- Calgary : Alta Publishing
- Call Number
- G504 A2 Pam
- Author
- Saul, Marg
- Responsibility
- compiled by Marg Saul, Alf Skraskins, Peter Thompson
- Publisher
- Calgary : Alta Publishing
- Published Date
- 1982
- Call Number
- G504 A2 Pam
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Abode of snow : a history of Himalayan exploration and mountaineering
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1699
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1987
- Author
- Mason, Kenneth
- Publisher
- London : Diadem ; Seattle : Mountaineers
- Call Number
- DS485 H6 M3 1987
- Author
- Mason, Kenneth
- Publisher
- London : Diadem ; Seattle : Mountaineers
- Published Date
- 1987
- Call Number
- DS485 H6 M3 1987
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- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Accessories Violin Accessories
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact104.34.0007%20a-g
- Date
- 1925 – 1950
- Material
- wood; paper; catgut; shell; metal
- Catalogue Number
- 104.34.0007 a-g
- Description
- A collection of violin accessories: (a) tailpiece button (3.2 x 1.7 diam) - hard black wood peg with round button head and small dot of nacre inlaid at middle, stocky shaft. (b) peg (6.7 x 1.1 x 2.4) hard black wood peg with long tapering shaft and flattened, depressed, finger grip at end, small …
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- Title
- Accessories Violin Accessories
- Date
- 1925 – 1950
- Material
- wood; paper; catgut; shell; metal
- Dimensions
- 3.2 cm
- Description
- A collection of violin accessories: (a) tailpiece button (3.2 x 1.7 diam) - hard black wood peg with round button head and small dot of nacre inlaid at middle, stocky shaft. (b) peg (6.7 x 1.1 x 2.4) hard black wood peg with long tapering shaft and flattened, depressed, finger grip at end, small dot of nacre inlaid at middle of end, tiny hole drilled through shaft nearly halfway up. (c) peg (5.9 x .9 x 2.3) as (b) but slightly smaller, hole through shaft lowe. (d) bridge (4.7 x 3.9 x .5) cut out of unfinished wood with scrolled carving at sides around short legs and at middle, arched top with four shallow notches for strings. Marks: on side, "PANPI (TC monogram trademark)" (e) bridge (4.5 x 3.2 x .5) as (d). Marks: on side, "VUILL?TIME", penciled "10" (f) string package (5.5 x 5.4) white paper envelope holding "Muller's Eternelle First violin string" with accompanying product blurb printed in black, holds coiled catgut string with tiny yellow loop at one end (unused) (g) string package (7.3 x 7.2) cellophane envelope with paper label of same size slipped inside with slits cut to hold string, label printed in black with "The Bernhardt String made of silver steel (trademark)/ violin E", contains two coiled strings, 1 broken of catgut, and the other of very fine wire (e string) wrapped with yellow at one end, (unsure if string is original one of envelope, catgut string definitely not).
- Subject
- Whyte home
- households
- entertainment
- pastime
- Annie White
- music
- sound
- song
- musical equipment
- accessories
- Credit
- Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979
- Catalogue Number
- 104.34.0007 a-g
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Aconcagua : cuadernos de alpinismo
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3115
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1982
- Publisher
- Barcelona : Servei General D'Informacio de Muntanya
- Call Number
- F2851 A2 A2 Pam 1982
- Responsibility
- Recopilado por : Carles Capellas Cabanes
- Publisher
- Barcelona : Servei General D'Informacio de Muntanya
- Published Date
- 1982
- Physical Description
- 29p. : ill., maps
- Call Number
- F2851 A2 A2 Pam 1982
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Aconcagua Argentina
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1652
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1981?
- Author
- Magnani, Alfredo Eduardo
- Publisher
- Mendoza (Argentina): Editorial Dhaulagiri
- Call Number
- F2851 M3
- Author
- Magnani, Alfredo Eduardo
- Publisher
- Mendoza (Argentina): Editorial Dhaulagiri
- Published Date
- 1981?
- Notes
- Text in Spanish
- Call Number
- F2851 M3
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- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Across Asia's snows and deserts
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1819
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1927
- Author
- Morden, William James
- Publisher
- New York : Putnam
- Call Number
- DS785 M67
- Author
- Morden, William James
- Publisher
- New York : Putnam
- Published Date
- 1927
- Notes
- Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library
- Call Number
- DS785 M67
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1986
- Author
- Jenkins, Peter
- Publisher
- New York : William Morrow / Sweet Springs
- Call Number
- DS711 J44
- Author
- Jenkins, Peter
- Publisher
- New York : William Morrow / Sweet Springs
- Published Date
- 1986
- Subjects
- Tibet
- Call Number
- DS711 J44
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- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Advanced avalanche awareness course for the winter recreationist
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue598
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1984
- Author
- Canadian Avalanche Association. Education Committee
- Publisher
- [Canada]: The Association
- Call Number
- QC929 A8 C3 A3
- Publisher
- [Canada]: The Association
- Published Date
- 1984
- Call Number
- QC929 A8 C3 A3
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- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Advanced rock climbing : expert skills and techniques
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19916
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Donahue, Topher
- Publisher
- Seatte, Washington : Mountaineers Books
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Call Number
- G513 D66 A38
- Author
- Donahue, Topher
- Responsibility
- Topher Donahue
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Publisher
- Seatte, Washington : Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 350 p. ; illustrations (colour)
- Subjects
- Rock climbing
- Abstract
- Advanced Rock Climbing: Expert Skills and Technique is for good climbers who want to get even better, from training to gear, sport climbing to multi-pitch efficiency, and beyond. Each chapter has detailed advice from some of the world's best climbers and guides, Tommy Caldwell, Angela Hawse, Justen Sjong, Steph Davis, Sonny Trotter, Alex Honnold, Lynn Hill, and more. (from WorldCat).
- Contents
- Foreward
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 - Face climbing
- Chapter 2 - Crack climbing
- Chapter 3 - Climbing gear
- Chapter 4 - Knots and anchoring
- Chapter 5 - Traditional gear placement
- Chapter 6 - Belaying for mastery
- Chapter 7 - Sport climbing
- Chapter 8 - Traditional lead climbing
- Chapter 9 - Long route efficiency
- Chapter 10 - Big wall free climbing
- Chapter 11 - Rappelling and descents
- Chapter 12 - Bouldering
- Chapter 13 - Performance
- Chapter 14 - Improvised rescue and epic avoidance
- Contributor profiles
- Resources
- Index
- ISBN
- 9781680510126
- Accession Number
- AC635
- Call Number
- G513 D66 A38
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- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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The adventure game : a cameraman's tales from films at the edge
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14886
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Partridge, Keith
- Publisher
- Dingwall, Scotland : Sandstone Press
- Call Number
- G512 P37 A38
- Author
- Partridge, Keith
- Responsibility
- Keith Partridge, foreword by Steve Backshall
- Publisher
- Dingwall, Scotland : Sandstone Press
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 223 pages, col. ill.
- Subjects
- Photography
- Films
- ISBN
- 9781910124314
- Accession Number
- AC609
- Call Number
- G512 P37 A38
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- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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The adventures of a nature guide
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1773
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1920
- Author
- Mills, Enos Abijah
- Publisher
- Garden City (N.Y.): Doubleday, Page
- Call Number
- QH81 M5
- Author
- Mills, Enos Abijah
- Publisher
- Garden City (N.Y.): Doubleday, Page
- Published Date
- 1920
- Call Number
- QH81 M5
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- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Advertising Sign
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact105.01.0022
- Date
- 1920 – 1940
- Material
- MDF; wood
- Catalogue Number
- 105.01.0022
- Description
- Sign depicting the Simpson Sisters figurng skating together. Both sisters have their right leg raised above their head, with their arms stretched out on either side, while their left leg is slightly bent. They are skating on ice. The sign is cut tightly around the two figures, leaving a rounded rec…
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- Title
- Advertising Sign
- Date
- 1920 – 1940
- Material
- MDF; wood
- Dimensions
- 40.5 x 30.0 cm
- Description
- Sign depicting the Simpson Sisters figurng skating together. Both sisters have their right leg raised above their head, with their arms stretched out on either side, while their left leg is slightly bent. They are skating on ice. The sign is cut tightly around the two figures, leaving a rounded rectangle shape at the bottom, where an inscription reads as follows:“SIMPSON SISTERS / “Canada’s Darlings” / With the / “GAY BLADES” / AT THE ARENA / Sat. the 8:30 p.m. ~ Sun. Mat. Dec 19th 2:30 p.m. ~ Sun. Eve. Dec 19th 8:30 p.m.”The sisters are wearing skating costumes that resemble a mountie outfit, along with wide rim hats and white figure skates.
- Credit
- Gift of James (Sr.) Simpson, 1968
- Catalogue Number
- 105.01.0022
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