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Alpine rising : Sherpas, Baltis, and the triumph of local climbers in the great ranges
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26251
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2024
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
- Call Number
- 01.1 M14a
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2024
- Physical Description
- 269 pages
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers
- Mountains
- Climbing
- Himalaya Mountains
- Sherpa
- Sherpa-history
- Nepal
- Abstract
- The story of the often unheralded and unrecognized stars of climbing in the Himalaya and the Karakoram: the local inhabitants of the mountainous regions of Pakistan, Tibet, India, and Nepal who have been support staff--porters, cooks, sirdars, and unacknowledged guides--for Western climbers for generations. ALPINE RISING focuses on the experiences and accomplishments of these Sherpas, Baltis, Ladakhis, Hunzas, Astoris, Magars, Bhotias, Rais, and Gurangs. Highlighted climbers range from Raghubir Thapa and Goman Singh who climbed with Albert Mummery in 1895, Ang Tharkay who climbed with Eric Shipton and Maurice Herzog, and Tenzing Norgay who, along with Edmund Hillary, was the first to summit Everest, to today's superstars, Ali Sadpara, Mingma G, Kama Rita, and others -- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN
- 9781680515787
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 01.1 M14a
- Location
- Reading Room
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- c1973
- Author
- MacInnes, Hamish
- Call Number
- 02.7 M18
- Author
- MacInnes, Hamish
- Published Date
- c1973
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Search and rescue
- Call Number
- 02.7 M18
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Canadian Rockies trail guide : a hiker's guide
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26511
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Patton, Brian
- Publisher
- Banff : Summerthought Publishing
- Edition
- 10th
- Call Number
- 02.6 P27 2022
- Author
- Patton, Brian
- Responsibility
- Brian Patton and Bart Robinson
- Edition
- 10th
- Publisher
- Banff : Summerthought Publishing
- Published Date
- 2022
- Subjects
- Guidebooks
- Hiking
- Mountaineers
- Mountaineering
- ISBN
- 9781926983530
- Accession Number
- P2022.14
- Call Number
- 02.6 P27 2022
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- Archives Library
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Capturing the summit : Hamilton Mack Laing and the Mount Logan expedition of 1925
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26275
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Hughes, Trevor Marc
- Publisher
- Vancouver, B.C., Canada : Ronsdale Press
- Call Number
- 01.4 H87c
- Author
- Hughes, Trevor Marc
- Publisher
- Vancouver, B.C., Canada : Ronsdale Press
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 268 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Mount Logan Expedition (1925)
- Mount Logan, Alaska
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineering--Yukon Territory
- Hamilton Mack Laing
- Abstract
- A remarkable account of the grueling journey to the summit of Mount Logan. Naturalist and cinematographer, Hamilton Mack Laing, marched into the Alaskan wilderness alongside weathered guides and hardened, experienced mountaineers. From Laing's diaries, we learn how capturing the summit pits the daring adventurers in a struggle with nature, changing them irrevocably as they became part of the environment that tested them. -- Provided by publisher.
- Notes
- Whyte Museum related research materials utilized.
- Dedication to Whyte Museum staff from author inside.
- ISBN
- 9781553806806
- Accession Number
- 2024.02
- Call Number
- 01.4 H87c
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The color of everything : a journey to quiet the chaos within
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26566
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2024
- Author
- Richards, Cory
- Publisher
- New York : Random House
- Call Number
- 01 R39t
- Author
- Richards, Cory
- Publisher
- New York : Random House
- Published Date
- 2024
- Physical Description
- 354 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Mountain guides
- Abstract
- "Cory Richards has done it all: he's stood at the top of the world, climbed imposing mountain faces alone in the dark, kayaked 1,000 miles of the Australian coast, and become the only American to summit an 8,000 meter peak in winter. Through the course of a tumultuous life, Richards has learned to expose himself to the most extreme situations in order to quiet the chaos within-to risk his life in order to save it. Growing up in the small ski town of Alta, Utah, Cory was constantly surrounded by the outdoors. His father, a high school teacher and ski patroller, spent years teaching Cory and his brother how to ski, climb, mountaineer, and survive in the wild. However, despite a seemingly idyllic childhood spent in the mountains, the Richards home was fraught with violence, grief, and mental illness. After being diagnosed with bipolar disorder and dropping out of high school, Cory subsumed himself in the worlds of photography and climbing, seeking out the farthest reaches of the world in order to escape the darkness within himself. Suddenly though, in the midst of a wildly successful career in adventure photography, a catastrophic avalanche changed everything, forcing Cory to confront the trauma of his past and learn to rewrite his own story"-- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN
- 9780593596791
- Accession Number
- P2024.06
- Call Number
- 01 R39t
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Counting bones : anatomy of love lost and found
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26569
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2024
- Author
- Anderson Penno, Ellen
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : NeWest Press
- Call Number
- 01 A2c
- Author
- Anderson Penno, Ellen
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta : NeWest Press
- Published Date
- 2024
- Physical Description
- xv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Death
- Medicine
- Abstract
- "When she was twenty-four years old, Ellen Anderson Penno lost her partner in an avalanche while climbing Mount Baker. His body was lost in a crevasse, never to be seen again. She was scheduled to begin medical school in a few weeks time. With the school only granting her a one-year deferment, and still wanting to become a doctor, Ellen found herself deep in her studies, surrounded by death and cadavers and struggling to maintain her way through her turbulent grief and rigorous med school schedule. In this new memoire, Ellen Anderson Penno, structures her story around the human body; a story of grief, loss, despair and ultimately of love."-- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN
- 9781774390924
- Accession Number
- P2024.06
- Call Number
- 01 A2c
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Edward Feuz Jr. : a story of enchantment
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25535
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Stephen, D. L.
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 08.3 Stem4e
- Author
- Stephen, D. L.
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 318 pages
- Subjects
- Feuz, Edward
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers, Swiss
- Guide
- Swiss Guides Village, Edelweiss, B.C.
- Tourism
- History-Canada
- Rocky Mountains
- Abstract
- As a young Swiss boy, Edward Feuz Jr. (1884–1981) developed an insatiable passion for climbing. In time, he traded his Lausbub reputation for that of a responsible Swiss guide and was eventually drawn to Canada in the footsteps of his father, Edward Feuz Sr. (1859–1944), who was one of the first Swiss guides hired by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1898 to develop the alpinism in western Canada. Handsome and charismatic, Edward (while still in training for his trade) was instantly smitten with the Canadian landscape — and so were his guests. They raved about the young man who showed such exceptional skills. He guided them all — professors, women of independent means, students, newspaper people, a Hindu holy man, and even “Sherlock Holmes” — through untrailed forests, across roaring streams, up icy glaciers, and to the tops of rocky summits. Young and old, they were all enchanted, and so they returned time and again — to the mountains and to their friend Edward. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Pilgrims ; Edward ; How it All Began ; How we came to Share the Enchantment ; Feuz Haus ; How They Did It ; Reading the Signs ; Snapshots ; Life with Edward ; Edward's Girls
- ISBN
- 9781771605090
- Accession Number
- 2021.41
- Call Number
- 08.3 Stem4e
- Location
- Reading Room
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Expeditions : the experts' way
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue4016
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1977
- Author
- Blashford-Snell, John, ed
- Publisher
- London : Faber
- Call Number
- 02.7 B61
- Author
- Blashford-Snell, John, ed
- Responsibility
- edited by John Blashford-Snell and Alister Ballantine
- Publisher
- London : Faber
- Published Date
- 1977
- Physical Description
- 256p. : ill., diagr
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Accession Number
- 10000
- Call Number
- 02.7 B61
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- Archives Library
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False summit : gender in mountaineering nonfiction
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26216
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Rak, Julie
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Call Number
- 01.1 R14f
- Author
- Rak, Julie
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- xii, 268 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Abstract
- Exploring the role of gender politics in narratives about high-altitude mountaineering in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. The race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere on a global scale. But as a metaphor for the pinnacle of human achievement, mountaineering remains the preserve of traditional white male heroism. False Summit unpacks gender politics in the expedition narratives and memoirs of mountaineers in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. Why are women still a minority in the world's highest places? Julie Rak proposes that the genre has itself reached a "false summit"--a peak that proves not to be the pinnacle--and that mountaineering is not ready to welcome other ways of climbing or other kinds of climbers. For more than two centuries mountaineering, as an activity and as an ideal, has helped shape how the self is understood within the context of conquest, adventure, and proximity to risk. As climbing shows signs of becoming more diverse, Rak asks why change is so hard to achieve and why gender bias and other inequities exist in climbing at all. Exploring classic and lesser-known expedition accounts from Everest, K2, and Annapurna, False Summit helps us understand why mountaineering remains one of the most important ways to articulate gender identities and politics. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Leadership and Gender on Annapurna -- K2: The Gendered Rope -- Everest and Authenticity -- Everest: Gender Politics and the 1996 Disaster.
- ISBN
- 9780228006268
- Accession Number
- P2024.01
- Call Number
- 01.1 R14f
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Hamish MacInnes : the fox of Glencoe
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25653
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- MacInnes, Hamish
- Publisher
- Scotland : Scottish Mountaineering Press
- Call Number
- 01.2 M26h
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- Author
- MacInnes, Hamish
- Responsibility
- Edited by Deziree Wilson
- Publisher
- Scotland : Scottish Mountaineering Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 367 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers
- Scotland
- Biographies
- Abstract
- From a youthful solo of the Matterhorn, through historic first ascents, hunting for treasure, inventing equipment and pioneering mountain rescue, Hamish MacInnes recalls a lifetime of epic adventures in this eclectic selection of tales. His restless curiosity and pragmatic approach to risk and loss are vivdly rendered with wry, elegant style, offering unique insight into the mind of one of the greatest mountaineers of our time. -- From back cover
- ISBN
- 9781907233395
- Accession Number
- P2022.14
- Call Number
- 01.2 M26h
- Collection
- Archives Library
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- Mountain Literature (Non Fiction) The Jon Whyte Award 2022 Winner
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Hidden mountains : survival and reckoning after a climb gone wrong
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26524
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2023
- Author
- Wejchert, Michael
- Publisher
- New York, N.Y. : Ecco
- Edition
- 1st
- Call Number
- 01 W42h
- Author
- Wejchert, Michael
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- New York, N.Y. : Ecco
- Published Date
- 2023
- Physical Description
- 243 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Alaska
- Mountaineering
- Abstract
- "The story of a climbing adventure gone wrong in a remote Alaskan mountain range, the impossible rescue attempt that followed, and the fraught cost of survival"-- Provided by publisher."In 2018, two couples set out on an expedition to Alaska's Hidden Mountains, one of the last wild ranges in North America. A rarity in modern climbing, the peaks were nearly unexplored and untouched, a place where few people had ever visited and granite spires still awaited first ascents. Inspired by generations of daring alpinists before them, the four friends were now compelled to strike out into uncharted territory themselves. This trip to the Hidden Mountains would be the culmination of years of climbing together, promising to test the foursome's skill and dedication to the sport. But as they would soon discover, no amount of preparation can account for the unknowns of true wilderness. As they neared the top of an unclimbed peak, rockfall grievously injured one of the team while he was out of sight, leaving him stranded and in critical condition. Over the course of the next nine hours, the other three climbers worked to reach their companion. What followed was a pulse-pounding rescue attempt by Alaska's elite pararescue jumpers in one of the most remote regions in the country--raising difficult questions about wilderness accessibility, technology's role in outdoor adventure, and what it means to weigh risk against the siren song of the mountains." -- inside front jacket flap.
- ISBN
- 9780063085527
- Accession Number
- 2024.26
- Call Number
- 01 W42h
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History of Moraine Lake
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1970
- Author
- Gest, Lillian
- Call Number
- 08.3 M79g Pam
- Author
- Gest, Lillian
- Published Date
- 1970
- Physical Description
- 39p. : ill., map
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Names, Geographical
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Accession Number
- 857
- 4083
- Call Number
- 08.3 M79g Pam
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Imaginary peaks : the Riesenstein hoax and other mountain dreams
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26283
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Ives, Katie
- Publisher
- Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
- Call Number
- 01 Iv3i
- Author
- Ives, Katie
- Publisher
- Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 301 pages : illustration ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- Using an infamous deception about a fake mountain range in British Columbia as her jumping-off point, Katie Ives examines the lure of blank spaces on the map and the value of the imagination. "Imaginary Peaks" details the mystery of the Riesenstein Hoax within the larger context of cartography, exploration, and climbing history. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- A quest for Riesenstein -- On the Earth, but not of the Earth -- A golden age of imaginary voyages -- Killing and preserving dragons -- Mountains of diamonds and new El Dorados -- The fall of sanctuaries -- Revolts against a disenchanted world -- Recollections of long-vanished uplands -- Go and look behind the ranges -- The ticking of doomsday clocks -- The ascent of the peak formerly known as North Star -- Private mountains free of public logic -- The ascent of No Name Peak -- The door in the cliff -- The land of beyond -- The ascent of Fake Peak -- The search for a transcendent quest -- Imagination is no match for reality -- The secret passage -- The exploration of no place -- What lay over the horizon -- The afterlife of hoaxes -- No to escape the world, but to enter it more deeply -- Selective availability -- The return of Marmot Pass.
- ISBN
- 9781680515411
- Accession Number
- 2024.26
- Call Number
- 01 Iv3i
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Mont Blanc lines
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Buisse, Alex
- Publisher
- London : Vertebrate Publishing
- Edition
- First English Edition
- Call Number
- 01.2 B87m o.s.
- Author
- Buisse, Alex
- Responsibility
- Translated by Natalie Berry
- Edition
- First English Edition
- Publisher
- London : Vertebrate Publishing
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 176 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 32 cm
- Subjects
- Mont Blanc
- Switzerland
- France
- Italy
- Alps
- Eiger
- Mountaineering
- Guidebook
- Photography
- Photography, Aerial
- Abstract
- In Mont Blanc Lines, photographer and alpinist Alex Buisse has travelled the Mont Blanc massif to capture images of all the major mountain faces and to trace the classic climbing and skiing lines. As well as Mont Blanc itself, also featured are other Alpine icons, including the north faces of the Grandes Jorasses and the Froites, Aiguille du Midi, and the Grand Capucin. Whether on the ground in crampons or on skis, or in the air by ultralight or paraglider, he has captured the majesty of the range so that he can tell the story of the classic lines and present them to us in the most stunning way possible. Mont Blanc Lines features images taken during over a decade of mountaineering while Alex worked as a professional photographer based in Chamonix. Alex Buisse's story of these iconic mountain faces is mixed with the stories of climbers who have experienced great moments there. As a bonus feature, also included are the legendary faces of the Matterhorn and the Eiger North Face in Switzerland. -- From back cover.
- ISBN
- 9781839811678
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 01.2 B87m o.s.
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- Reading Room
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Mount Analogue : a novel of symbolically authentic non-Euclidean adventures in mountain climbing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue4281
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- c1974
- 1959
- 1952
- Author
- Daumal, Rene
- Call Number
- 05.2 D26
- Author
- Daumal, Rene
- Responsibility
- translation and introd. by Roger Shattuck
- postface by Vera Daumal
- Published Date
- c1974
- 1959
- 1952
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Call Number
- 05.2 D26
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Mount assiniboine : the story
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25540
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Publisher
- Banff, A.B. : Assiniboine Publishing
- Edition
- First
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sco3m
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Banff, A.B. : Assiniboine Publishing
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 336 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (chiefly colour), portraits (some colour) ; 32 cm
- Subjects
- Assiniboine, Mount
- Tourism
- History-Canada
- Mountaineering
- Climbing
- Hiking
- Camping
- Backcountry
- Travel
- Abstract
- This book tells the story of the history of Mount Assiniboine and the surrounding area. Mount Assiniboine is a beautiful mountain located in Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park in south eastern British Columbia. -- Provided by publisher
- Contents
- First Nations History at Mount Assiniboine ; Part One: The Discovery of Mount Assiniboine (1800-1910) ; Part Two: The Wheeler Years (1913-1927) ; Part Three: Strom's Half-century: Part I (1928-1950) ; Part Four: Strom's Half-century: Part 2 (1950-1983) ; Part Five: The Renner Years (1983-2010) ; Part Six: A New Generation Takes Over
- ISBN
- 9780981105932
- Accession Number
- P2022.06
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sco3m
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The mountaineers : famous climbers in Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3340
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1979
- Author
- Dowling, Phil
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Hurtig
- Call Number
- 01.4 D75
- 01.4 D75 Reference Copy
- Author
- Dowling, Phil
- Publisher
- Edmonton : Hurtig
- Published Date
- 1979
- Physical Description
- 258 pages, 22.5cm
- Abstract
- Biographies of nine famous Canadian mountaineers including photographs
- Contents
- Charles Fay -- Val Fynn -- Albert MacCarthy -- Conrad Kain -- Ed Feuz -- Phyl Munday -- Fred Beckey -- Hans Gmoser -- Brian Greenwood -- Dick Culbert
- Notes
- Bibliography and index
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- ISBN
- 0888301707
- Accession Number
- 12000
- 13000 - weed
- 2014.8385 - weed 2021.20
- Call Number
- 01.4 D75
- 01.4 D75 Reference Copy
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Mountains and desire : climbing vs. the end of the world
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26237
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Grebowicz, Margaret
- Publisher
- London, U.K. : Repeater Books
- Call Number
- 02.8 G81m
- Author
- Grebowicz, Margaret
- Publisher
- London, U.K. : Repeater Books
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 113 pages
- Subjects
- Climbing
- Sport
- Sport climbing
- Mountaineering
- Abstract
- In 1923, a reporter asked George Mallory why he wanted to summit Mount Everest. "Because it's there." Today the question "why do this?" is included in nearly every mountaineering story of interview. Meanwhile, interest in climbing is steadily on the rise, from commerical mountaineering and climbing walls in university gyms to corporate workplaces to the flood of spectacular climbing imagery in advertising, cinema, and social media. [...] Taking the degradation of Everest and the success of Free Solo as its starting point, Mountains and Desire chases after what remains of this pursuit -- marred by its colonial history, coopted by national chauvinism, ableism, and the capitalist compulsion to unlimited growth -- for both climbers and their fans. -- From back cover
- Contents
- 1. The ends of desire -- 2. Who will marry you now? -- 3. Just because someone has done it doesn't mean it's humanly possible -- 4. Everest traffic and the economy of walking -- 5. Climbing technotopia, or: Did free solo really happen? -- 6. Gestures of climbing -- 7. The last problem of the Himalaya.
- ISBN
- 9781913462239
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 02.8 G81m
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- Reading Room
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Native air : a novel
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25656
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Howland, Jonathan
- Publisher
- Brattleboro, Vermont : Green Writers Press
- Call Number
- 05.2 H84n
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- Author
- Howland, Jonathan
- Publisher
- Brattleboro, Vermont : Green Writers Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Mountaineering
- Abstract
- In a debut novel from Green Writers Press by Jonathan Howland, the austere beauty and high exposure of mountain adventure provide the context and the measure for what it means to be alive for climbing partners Joe Holland and Pete Hunter--until one of them isn’t. When the book opens, it’s the mid-80s. Joe Holland, the novel’s narrator, is a climber and a seeker, but mostly he’s Pete Hunter’s shadow. The two meet in college and spend the next ten years living at the base of any rock that appears scalable, most of them near Yosemite and California’s High Sierra. The joys and strains of their friendship comprise the novel’s first half. In the second, the bare bones--obsession, grief, love, and repair--come into stark relief when Pete’s grown son Will calls Joe back into climbing, into the past, and into breathless vitality -- Front dust jacket flap
- ISBN
- 9781950584901
- Accession Number
- P2022.14
- Call Number
- 05.2 H84n
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- Archives Library
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- Banff Mountain Book Competition Grand Prize Winner, 2022
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One man's mountains : Joe Weiss in Jasper
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19896
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1979
- Author
- Collinson, Helen
- Publisher
- Edmonton : The University of Alberta Collections
- Author
- Collinson, Helen
- Responsibility
- Helen Collinson
- Publisher
- Edmonton : The University of Alberta Collections
- Published Date
- 1979
- Physical Description
- 43 pages : illustrations ; 20 x 23 cm
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Weiss, Joe
- Photography
- Jasper
- Jasper National Park
- Pictorial works
- Bibliography
- Exhibition catalogue
- Alberta
- Canadian Rockies
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Accession Number
- 2019.64
- Collection
- Archives Library
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