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Everest, the west ridge
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14869
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Hornbein, Thomas Frederic
- Publisher
- Seattle : Mountaineers
- Edition
- fiftieth anniversary edition
- Call Number
- DS486 E8 H58 2013
- Author
- Hornbein, Thomas Frederic
- Responsibility
- Thomas Hornbein, 50th anniversary edition foreward by Jon Krakauer
- Edition
- fiftieth anniversary edition
- Publisher
- Seattle : Mountaineers
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- 303 pages, col. ill.
- Subjects
- Everest, Mount
- Mountaineering
- ISBN
- 9781594857072
- Accession Number
- AC609
- Call Number
- DS486 E8 H58 2013
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Fall of heaven : Whymper's tragic Matterhorn climb
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25031
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Messner, Reinhold (author)
- Bierling, Billi (translator)
- Publisher
- Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books
- Call Number
- G512 F35 M47
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- Publisher
- Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 206 pages
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Whymper, Edward
- Biography
- Matterhorn
- Abstract
- As Fall of Heaven begins, we join professional mountain guide Jean-Antoine Carrel as he tries and fails, again and again, to summit the Matterhorn—one of the most famous and iconic peaks in the Alps. Is it the “Devil’s mountain,” as the locals call it? Should he heed the village priest who warned that its summit was not meant to be climbed? Carrel is undeterred, he just needs capable climbers to join him. Enter Edward Whymper, who in 1861 at the age of 21 decided—unbeknownst to Carrel—that he would be the first to climb the Matterhorn. So the storyline is set, except that where Carrel is captivating, Whymper is utterly unsympathetic as an adventurer. He is mean and disdainful of guides, describing them as little more than porters who eat and drink too much. Despite this attitude, Whymper’s quest leads him inexorably into partnership with Carrel. The story follows their many attempts to find a route to the top of the Matterhorn, but then fate pulls them apart just as Whymper finds the line. His successful summit on July 14, 1865, in which Carrel did not take part, shocked the Victorian world with both awe and revulsion as four members of Whymper’s party died in frightening falls. Famed climber and author Reinhold Messner acknowledges that Whymper was the first man to summit the Matterhorn, the last of the great Alpine peaks to be climbed and representing the beginning of an age of alpinism based on difficulty rather than conquest. But rather than leaving a hero’s legacy, Whymper is revealed as the Captain Ahab of alpinism, a team leader who accepted no responsibility for the deaths of his teammates. Fall of Heaven is an exciting tale and an examination of the different types of men who were caught up in the adventuring spirit of the Victorian age, and the ironic fates that can follow success or failure. (from Mountaineers Books website)
- Notes
- Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019
- ISBN
- 9781680510850
- Accession Number
- AC638
- Call Number
- G512 F35 M47
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on Mountaineers Books website
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Fiva : an adventure that went wrong
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14896
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Stainforth, Gordon
- Publisher
- Seattle : Mountaineers Books
- Call Number
- G530 S73
- Author
- Stainforth, Gordon
- Publisher
- Seattle : Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- xi, 210 pages : illustrations, maps
- Subjects
- Norway
- Great Britain
- Mountaineering
- ISBN
- 9781594858468
- Accession Number
- AC609
- Call Number
- G530 S73
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Going up is easy : the first woman to ascend Everest without oxygen
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14847
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Bradey, Lydia
- Publisher
- New Zealand : Penguin Random House
- Call Number
- G512 B73 G65
- Author
- Bradey, Lydia
- Responsibility
- Lydia Bradey with Laurence Fearnley
- Publisher
- New Zealand : Penguin Random House
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 272 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Everest, Mount
- ISBN
- 9780143573234
- Accession Number
- AC609
- Call Number
- G512 B73 G65
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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A golden mountain tale : the lucky life of Syd Feuz
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14917
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Martel, Lynn
- Publisher
- Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada
- Call Number
- G512 F48 Pam
- Author
- Martel, Lynn
- Publisher
- Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- 23 pages, ill.
- Series
- Summit Series #16
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Biography
- ISBN
- 9780920330517
- Accession Number
- AC611 duplicate copy transfer to ARC Library
- Call Number
- G512 F48 Pam
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Grasping for heaven : interviews with North American mountaineers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14797
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Hartemann, Frederic V.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co.
- Call Number
- G510 H37
- Author
- Hartemann, Frederic V.
- Responsibility
- Hartemann, Frederic V., Hauptman, Robert
- Publisher
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co.
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- vii, 224 p. : ill., (some col.), photographs
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- North America
- ISBN
- 9780786442027
- Call Number
- G510 H37
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Helen Sovdat : guide, mentor, friend
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14913
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Robinson, Zac
- Publisher
- Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada
- Call Number
- G512 S68 Pam
- Author
- Robinson, Zac
- Publisher
- Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 32 pages, col. ill.
- Series
- Summit Series #21
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Biography
- ISBN
- 9780920330616
- Accession Number
- AC611 duplicate copy transfer to ARC Library
- Call Number
- G512 S68 Pam
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Higher love : skiing the seven summits
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14858
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Deslauriers, Kit
- Publisher
- New York : Archer Publication
- Call Number
- G512 D47
- Author
- Deslauriers, Kit
- Publisher
- New York : Archer Publication
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 479 pages, colour plates
- ISBN
- 9781941729014
- Accession Number
- AC609
- Call Number
- G512 D47
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Himalaya - the tribulations of mick & vic
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25045
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Fowler, Mick
- Saunders, Victor
- Publisher
- LULU.COM
- Call Number
- G512 H56 F69
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- Author
- Fowler, Mick
- Saunders, Victor
- Publisher
- LULU.COM
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 267 pages : ill.
- Abstract
- Mick Fowler and Victor Saunders, famed British alpinists learned to know each other while winter climbing in Scotland, in all kind of weather, mostly bad: an ideal stepping stone for great Himalayan adventures. They shared three expeditions in Pakistan: The ascents of Bojohagur (7329m), Spantik (7027m) and Ultar (7388m). The tales of these selected adventures, published separately over three of their books (rewarded several times - Banff festival, Boardman Tasker), have been assembled in a new book: HIMALAYA - Mick and Vic' Tribulations. The two pals' tales are intertwined and offer two visions sometimes similar, sometimes different of the same events, with a caustic humour at the turn of every single line. This refreshing, compelling text full of funny and uncommon anecdotes is also the story of their strong friendship. Besides the amateurs of mountaineering tales, this book should please the amateurs of unconventional atmospheres. (from Lulu website)
- Contents
- Forward
- Prelude
- Part One - in Great-Britain
- Part Two - Bojohaghur, 1984
- Part Three - Spantik, 1987
- Part Four - Ultar, 1991
- Apologue
- Twenty Nine Years After
- ISBN
- 9781326804817
- Accession Number
- AC639
- Call Number
- G512 H56 F69
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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- Summary on LULU website
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Honouring high places : the mountain life of Junko Tabei
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19852
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Tabei, Junko
- Rolfe, Helen Y.
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Call Number
- G512 T33 H66
1 website
- Author
- Tabei, Junko
- Rolfe, Helen Y.
- Responsibility
- Junko Tabei and Helen Y. Rolfe, translated by Yumiko Hiraki and Rieko Holtved
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 376 pages
- Abstract
- "A collection of personal stories and reflections based on the memoirs of Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and the Seven Summits. Honouring High Places is a compelling collection of highlights from Junko Tabei's stirring life that she considered important, inspiring and interesting to mountaineering culture. Until now, her works have been available only in Japanese, and RMB is honoured to be sharing these profound and moving stories with the English-speaking world for the first time. The collection opens on Mount Everest, where the first all-women's expedition is met with disaster but pushes on against all odds. The story then shifts to the early years of Tabei's life and reflects on her countryside childhood as a frail girl with no talent for sport, and cultural expectations that ignored her passion for mountains. With reminiscences of the early days of female climbers on Everest, the deaths of fellow mountaineers, Tabei's pursuit of Mount Tomur, a cancer diagnosis, and efforts to restore a love for nature in the surviving youth of the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in 2011, this beautifully curated collection of essays captures the essence of a notable time and the strength of character of one of the 20th and 21st centuries' female mountaineering pioneers."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Author's note
- Introduction by Setsuko Kitamura
- Chapter 1 - avalanche!
- Chapter 2 - the meaning of mountains
- Chapter 3 - Annapurna III
- Chapter 4 - Mount Everest
- Chapter 5 - to the top ofthe world
- Chapter 6 - the route
- Chapter 7 - finalists
- Chapter 8 - South Col
- Chapter 9 - the summit
- Chapter 10 - endgame
- Chapter 11 - women on Everest
- Chapter 12 - Mount Tombur, Pobeda Peak
- Chapter 13 - Aconcagua
- Chapter 14 - Carstensz Pyramid
- Chapter 15 - mountains of later life
- About Junko by Masanobu Tabei
- A son's tribute by Shinya Tabei
- Beyond mountains by Setsuko Kitamura
- Life chronology
- Glossary
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Index
- Notes
- Winner of the Mountaineering History category at the 2018 Banff Mountain Book Competition Awards
- ISBN
- 9780771602167
- Accession Number
- AC634
- Call Number
- G512 T33 H66
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- 2018 Banff Mountain Book Competition Awards website
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John Clarke : explorer of the Coast Mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14792
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Baile, Lisa
- Publisher
- Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing
- Edition
- Betty Keller
- Call Number
- G512 C53
- Author
- Baile, Lisa
- Responsibility
- foreward by Wade Davis
- Edition
- Betty Keller
- Publisher
- Madeira Park, BC : Harbour Publishing
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 287 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps (1 colour), portraits (some colour)
- ISBN
- 9781550175837
- Accession Number
- AC609 copy 2 to ARC Library
- Call Number
- G512 C53
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Karakoram : climbing through the Kashmir conflict
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19903
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Swenson, Steve
- Publisher
- Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books
- Call Number
- DS485 S94 K37
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- Author
- Swenson, Steve
- Responsibility
- Steven Swenson
- Publisher
- Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 315 p. : illustrations (some colour)
- Subjects
- Kashmir
- Mountaineering
- Karakoram Range
- Karakorum Mountains
- Pakistan
- Everest, Mount
- Biography
- Abstract
- Pertains to the climbs attempted by Steven Swenson from 1980 to 2015 in the Karakoram range as they related to the Kashmir conflict
- Contents
- Foreward by Greg Child
- Author's note
- Preface
- Map legend
- Map of the Karakoram region
- Chapter 1 - to Pakistan
- Chapter 2 - elusive summits
- Chapter 3 - K2 at last
- Chapter 4 - life and death
- Chapter 5 - Everest
- Chapter 6 - one more try
- Chapter 7 - after 9/11
- Chapter 8 - the killer mountain
- Chapter 9 - the world's hardest mountains
- Chapter 10 - the risk of regret
- Chapter 11 - attack
- Chapter 12 - passing the torch
- Sources
- Acknoledgements
- Index
- ISBN
- 9780594859731
- Accession Number
- AC634
- Call Number
- DS485 S94 K37
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- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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- American Alpine Club article
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Letters from Chamonix : stories and a novella
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14895
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Stevenson, David
- Publisher
- Canmore: Imaginary Mountain Surveyors
- Call Number
- P S74
- Author
- Stevenson, David
- Publisher
- Canmore: Imaginary Mountain Surveyors
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- 230 pages
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Chamonix
- Mountaineering
- Notes
- Won the 2014 Award for Mountain Fiction and Poetry at the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival.
- Book signed by the author
- ISBN
- 9780991807635
- Accession Number
- AC609
- Call Number
- P S74
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Lure of the mountains : the life of Bentley Beetham, 1924 Everest expedition mountaineer
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14872
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Lowes, Michael D.
- Publisher
- Sheffield, U.K. : Vertebrate Publishing
- Call Number
- G512 B44
- Author
- Lowes, Michael D.
- Publisher
- Sheffield, U.K. : Vertebrate Publishing
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- 155 pages, ill.
- Notes
- Bentley Beetham Collection online: http://www.bentleybeetham.org/
- ISBN
- 9781906148942
- Accession Number
- AC610
- Call Number
- G512 B44
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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The magician's glass : character and fate : eight essays on climbing and the mountain life
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19918
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Douglas, Ed
- Publisher
- Sheffield, England : Vertbrate Publishing
- Call Number
- G510 D68 M34
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- Author
- Douglas, Ed
- Responsibility
- Ed Douglas
- Publisher
- Sheffield, England : Vertbrate Publishing
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 192 p .
- Subjects
- Essays
- Mountaineering
- Rock climbing
- Abstract
- The Magician’s Glass by award-winning writer Ed Douglas is a collection of eight recent essays on some of the biggest stories and best-known personalities in the world of climbing. In the title essay, he writes about failure on Annapurna III in 1981, one of the boldest attempts in Himalayan mountaineering on one of the most beautiful lines – a line that remains unclimbed to this day. Douglas writes about bitter controversies, like that surrounding Ueli Steck’s disputed solo ascent of the south face of Annapurna, the fate of Toni Egger on Cerro Torre in 1959 – when Cesare Maestri claimed the pair had made the first ascent, and the rise and fall of Slovenian ace Tomaz Humar. There are profiles of two stars of the 1980s: the much-loved German Kurt Albert, the father of the ‘redpoint’, and the enigmatic rock star Patrick Edlinger, a national hero in his native France who lost his way. In Crazy Wisdom, Douglas offers fresh perspectives on the impact mountaineering has on local communities and the role climbers play in the developing world. The final essay explores the relationship between art and alpinism as a way of understanding why it is that people climb mountains. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Foreward by Katie Ives
- The magician's glass
- Stealing Toni Egger
- Searching for Tomaz Humar
- Bit guts
- Crazy wisdom
- What's eating Ueli Steck?
- Lone wolf
- Lines of beauty : the art of climbing
- Acknowledgements
- ISBN
- 9781911342489
- Accession Number
- AC635
- Call Number
- G510 D68 M34
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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- Publisher's website
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Montagnes extremes : photographies d'Alexandre Buisse
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14848
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Buisse, Alexandre
- Publisher
- Editions Palantines
- Call Number
- TR B85
- Author
- Buisse, Alexandre
- Publisher
- Editions Palantines
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- 203 pages, ill.
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Photography
- ISBN
- 9782356780911
- Accession Number
- AC610
- Call Number
- TR B85
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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A mountaineer's life : Allen Steck
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19905
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Steck, Allen
- Publisher
- Ventura, California : Patagonia Books
- Call Number
- G512 S74 M68
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- Author
- Steck, Allen
- Responsibility
- Allen Steck
- Publisher
- Ventura, California : Patagonia Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 254 p, : illustrations (some colour)
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Biography
- Abstract
- Pertains to the life of Allen Steck, rock climber and alpinist.
- Contents
- Forward
- Preface
- Formative years
- Big Climbs
- Childhood, family, and business
- Close calls and other adventures
- Perspectives
- ISBN
- 9781938340703
- Accession Number
- AC634
- Call Number
- G512 S74 M68
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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- American Alpine Club article
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Mt Hood : climber's guide
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14877
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Mullee, Bill
- Publisher
- Boulder : Sharp End Publishing
- Call Number
- G513 M85
- Author
- Mullee, Bill
- Publisher
- Boulder : Sharp End Publishing
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- 184 pages, col. ill.
- Subjects
- Hood, Mount
- United States
- Mountaineering
- Skiing
- ISBN
- 9781892540799
- Accession Number
- AC610
- Call Number
- G513 M85
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- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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No easy way : the challenging life of the climbing taxman
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25041
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Fowler, Mick
- Publisher
- Sheffield : Vertebrate Publishing
- Call Number
- G512 N64 F69
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- Author
- Fowler, Mick
- Publisher
- Sheffield : Vertebrate Publishing
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- ix, 241 pages : illustrations
- Subjects
- Biography
- Mountaineering
- Travel
- Abstract
- In No Easy Way, his third volume of climbing memoirs following Vertical Pleasure and On Thin Ice, Fowler recounts a series of expeditions to stunning mountains in China, India, Nepal and Tibet. Alongside partners including Paul Ramsden, Dave Turnbull, Andy Cave and Victor Saunders, he attempts striking, technically challenging unclimbed lines on Shiva, Gave Ding and Mugu Chuli – with a number of ascents winning prestigious Piolets d’Or, the Oscars of the mountaineering world. Written with his customary dry wit and understatement, he manages challenges away – the art of securing a permit for Tibet – and at home – his duties as Alpine Club president – all the while pursuing his passion for exploratory mountaineering. (from Vertebrate Publishing website)
- Contents
- The competing priorities of life -- Grosvenor: The dangers of cupping -- Kalaqiao: Hands drawn together in prayer -- The Goody Cash: Scottish sea cliffs at their best -- Manamcho: I've never seen a white man before -- Nottingham Castle 1: Challenges close to the office -- Vasuki Parbat: The judgement game -- Fell running: A new mildly eccentric form of exercise? -- Jura success: A passion is born -- Sulamar: The hottest bathtub ever -- The Xiate Trail: Trade routes can be challenging too -- Alpine Club: The establishment beckons -- Mugu Chuli: The bureaucrats go climbing -- Nottingham Castle 2: A brush with the constabulary -- The Prow of Shiva: Are we good enough to do it? -- Kishtwar Kailash: A very special drive and a 12.5-million-view video clip -- Talking about it... -- Hagshu: The bear, the tension, and the climb -- Gave Ding: True adventure -- Sersank: Never too old -- The challenges never end.
- ISBN
- 9781911342755
- Accession Number
- AC693
- Call Number
- G512 N64 F69
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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- Summary on Vertebrate Publishing website
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Norton of Everest : the biography of E.F. Norton, soldier and mountaineer
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19919
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Norton, Hugh
- Publisher
- Sheffield, England : Vertebrate Publishing
- Call Number
- G512 N67 N67
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- Author
- Norton, Hugh
- Publisher
- Sheffield, England : Vertebrate Publishing
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 208 p.
- Subjects
- Biography
- Mountaineering
- World War I
- Everest, Mount
- Abstract
- E.F. Norton lived a life of distinction in the declining years of the British Empire. Born into an accomplished, well-travelled family, he followed his heart and enlisted for a professional career as a soldier. A distinguished military career followed, punctuated with indulgences in his passion for exploration and mountaineering. The British Empire was starting to crumble, and Norton would be called upon more than once to rise to a variety of challenges.Norton’s gift for leadership was first demonstrated via his rapid progression through the ranks in the First World War, which paved the way for future leadership appointments, having earned the confidence and respect of those under his command. Events in the Second World War followed suit, when Norton was abruptly assigned the post of acting governor of Hong Kong, entrusted to save the civilian population from imminent Japanese invasion. The 1924 Everest expedition also exemplifies the pattern of having had leadership thrust upon him – in this case when General Charles Bruce was struck down by malaria on the approach march. Leading from the front, Norton set an altitude record for climbing on Everest without supplementary oxygen – a record only bettered in 1978 when Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler made the first ascent of Everest without oxygen. Yet tragedy would follow Norton’s achievement, when George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared high on the mountain. In Norton of Everest, Hugh Norton has written sensitively and knowledgably about his father’s remarkable life as mountaineer, soldier, naturalist, artist and family man. As on Everest, the real story is not only the death of the gallant, but also the heroics of the quiet survivors like E.F. Norton. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Foreward by Wade Davis
- Preface
- Chapter 1 - The early years
- Chapter 2 - Soldiering
- Chapter 3 - A pen portrait
- Chapter 4 - Mountaineering
- Chapter 5 - The middle years
- Chapter 6 - Acting governor of Hong Kong
- Chapter 7 - Retirement
- Appendices
- Acknowledgements
- ISBN
- 9781910240922
- Accession Number
- AC635
- Call Number
- G512 N67 N67
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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