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The 9th grade : 150 years of free climbing

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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)

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

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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The 11,000ers of the Canadian Rockies

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2004

Author: Corbett, Bill

Publisher: Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: F1090 C67 2004

Author: Corbett, Bill

Publisher: Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2004

Physical Description: 224p. : ill., maps

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Guidebooks

ISBN: 1 894765 43 5

Call Number: F1090 C67 2004

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

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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

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

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

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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

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Mountaineers, Italian

Call Number: G512 C3

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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103 hikes in Southwestern British Columbia

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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

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Call Number: F1089 B7 1983

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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150 of the best photographs of the lakes, Wales, Scotland and the Alps from the F.R.C.C. Abraham collection

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2006

Publisher: Fell & Rock Climbing Club

Call Number: G505 F45 P46 DVD

Responsibility: edited by Iain Whitmey, Fell & Rock Climbing Club

Publisher: Fell & Rock Climbing Club

Published Date: 2006

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Rock climbing; Great Britain; Wales; Scotland

Notes: 1 disc

Call Number: G505 F45 P46 DVD

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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The 1927-1928 Peruvian expedition of the American Geographical Society

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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

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

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

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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

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Rocky Mountains, Canada

Call Number: QE576 W36 1978-80 Pam

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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8000 metres : climbing the world's highest mountains

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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

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Himalaya Mountains; Karakorum Mountains; K2; Nanga Parbat; Everest, Mount

ISBN: 9781852845483

Accession Number: AC610

Call Number: G530 H56

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Abacus

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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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Abandoned in the Arctic : Adolphus W. Greely and the Lady Franklin Bay expedition, 1881 - 1884

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2007

Author: Clark, Geoffrey E.

Publisher: Portsmouth Athenaeum

Call Number: G670 C53 A23

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Author: Clark, Geoffrey E.

Responsibility: Geoffrey E. Clark

Publisher: Portsmouth Athenaeum

Published Date: 2007

Physical Description: 81 pages : illustrations, maps

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Regions; Research; Survival; Film making; Films; American

Abstract: In August, 1881 Lieutenant Adolphus W. Greely and a team of 25 determined men set out as part of the First International Polar Year to build a research station on Ellesmere Island, 450 miles from the North Pole. The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition began as the most ambitious arctic expedition in United States history, but was destined to descend into a three year journey through a frozen hell - a voyage of forced retreaat, starvation, brewing mutiny and cannibalism. Against all odds, six men survived and returned to Portsmouth, New Hampshire as American heros. (from back of book)

Contents: Introduction; Adolphus W. Greely and the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition; The Beginning; Research and Exploration; The Retreat; The Rescue; Greely's Later Years; The Making of the Flim - Abandoned in the Arctic; List of Illustrations; Bibliography

Notes: DVD of associated film included with publication; Robson Gmoser was a member of the 2004 expedition team which also included Bob Saunders, Scott Simper, Julia Szucs, Tom Stere, Jeff Clark, Steve Smith, James Shedd, Gino Ded Guercio

ISBN: 0974089524

Accession Number: AC637

Call Number: G670 C53 A23

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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The ABC of wilderness travel

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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

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

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

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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

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Call Number: DS485 H6 M3 1987

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Above all : Mount Whitney and California's highest peaks

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2008

Publisher: Berkeley : Heyday Books

Call Number: F856-870 W55

Responsibility: photographs by David Stark Wilson, text by Steve Roper, foreward by Kenneth Brower

Publisher: Berkeley : Heyday Books

Published Date: 2008

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Whitney, Mount; Mountaineering; Rock climbing

ISBN: 9781597141079

Accession Number: AC610

Call Number: F856-870 W55

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Accessories Violin Accessories

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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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Account of Shelley's visits to France, Swizterland & Savoy ... 1814 & 1816

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 1894

Author: Elton, Charles Isaac

Publisher: London : Bliss, Sunds & Foster

Call Number: D919 E47

Author: Elton, Charles Isaac

Publisher: London : Bliss, Sunds & Foster

Published Date: 1894

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Call Number: D919 E47

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Achievement Plaque

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Date: 1910

Material: wood; metal

Catalogue Number: 103.09.1031

Description: Silver medals "Banff Regatta" on black wooden shield. Ribbon shape, flat silver with "Banff Regatta" across top. Large molded silver shield shape in centre "Presented by Imperial Bank of Canada 1910". Five shield shape silver medals with names engraved. At bottom circular molded silver 3.5 dia…

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Title: Achievement Plaque

Date: 1910

Material: wood; metal

Dimensions: 25.3 x 33.6 cm

Description: Silver medals "Banff Regatta" on black wooden shield. Ribbon shape, flat silver with "Banff Regatta" across top. Large molded silver shield shape in centre "Presented by Imperial Bank of Canada 1910". Five shield shape silver medals with names engraved. At bottom circular molded silver 3.5 dia. shows 2 people in a canoe, wreath along bottom edge.