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Adventures of an alpine guide

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

Published Date: 1932

Author: Klucker, Christian

Publisher: London : John Murray

Edition: 1st (English)

Call Number: 01.2 K71a

Author: Klucker, Christian

Responsibility: Translation by Erwin and Pleasaunce Von Gaisberg. Edited with additional chapters by H. E. G. Tyndale

Edition: 1st (English)

Publisher: London : John Murray

Published Date: 1932

Physical Description: 329 pages

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

Subjects: Guide; Klucker, Christian; Alps; Whymper, Edward; Canadian Rockies; Mont Blanc; Mountaineering

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 01.2 K71a

Collection: Archives Library

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Ascent of Scawfell Pike : or, a day in the mountains

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

Published Date: 1851

Author: Abbatt, Richard

Publisher: London : Gilpin

Call Number: DA670 L1 A2 Pam

Author: Abbatt, Richard

Publisher: London : Gilpin

Published Date: 1851

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

Subjects: England; Lake District; Scafell Pike

Call Number: DA670 L1 A2 Pam

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Dow Crag Great Langdale and outlying crags

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

Published Date: 1938

Author: Hargreaves, A.T.

Publisher: Lake District : Fell and Rock Climbing Club

Edition: 2nd ed.

Call Number: DA667 F45 1938 IV

Author: Hargreaves, A.T.

Responsibility: A.T. Hargreaves, S.H. Cross, William Clegg, E. Wood-Johnson, and C.J. Astley-Cooper, ed H.M. Kelly, illustrations by W. Heaton Cooper

Edition: 2nd ed.

Publisher: Lake District : Fell and Rock Climbing Club

Published Date: 1938

Physical Description: 176 pages, col. ill.

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

Series: Volume 4 in Fell and Rock Climbing Club's second series of climbing guides

Subjects: Rock climbing; England; Guidebooks

Call Number: DA667 F45 1938 IV

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Great Gable Borrowdale Buttermere

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

Published Date: 1937

Author: Astley-Cooper, C.J.

Publisher: Lake District : Fell and Rock Climbing Club

Edition: 2nd ed.

Call Number: DA667 F45 1937 III

Author: Astley-Cooper, C.J.

Responsibility: C.J. Astley-Cooper, E. Wood-Johnson and L.H. Pollitt, ed H.M. Kelly, illustrations by W. Heaton Cooper

Edition: 2nd ed.

Publisher: Lake District : Fell and Rock Climbing Club

Published Date: 1937

Physical Description: 149 pages, ill.

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

Series: Volume 3 in Fell and Rock Climbing Club's second series of climbing guides

Subjects: Rock climbing; England; Guidebooks

Call Number: DA667 F45 1937 III

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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The high Alps : a natural history of ice and snow

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

Published Date: 1931

Author: Tutton, A. E. H.

Publisher: London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.

Edition: 2nd edition

Call Number: 03 T89t

Author: Tutton, A. E. H.

Edition: 2nd edition

Publisher: London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.

Published Date: 1931

Physical Description: 317 pages

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

Subjects: Water; Ice; Snow; Science; Expeditions; Alps

Contents: PART I -- I. Introduction -- II. The evolution of our knowledge of water and ice -- III. The physical relationships of water and ice -- IV. The crystal structure of ice and snow -- V. Optical, thermal, and electrical properties of ice -- VI. Plasticity, viscosity, and elasticity of ice -- VII. Artificial ice production, river and ground ice, arctic and antarctic ice -- PART II -- VIII. The Alps, the ice and snow mountains of central Europe and their call -- IX. Nature and geological character of the Alps -- X. Situations of the ranges, peaks, and glaciers of the Alps -- XI. Snow-caps and glaciers and their movements -- XII. Crevasses, bergschrunds, and seracs ; dirt-bands and veins ; moraines and glacier lakes -- XIII. How the great summits have been conquered -- PART III -- XIV. Expeditions in the Bernese Oberland -- XV. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps, Monte Rosa -- Matterhorn section -- XVI. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps. Zinai, ferpecle and arolla section -- XVII. Expeditions in the chain of Mont Blanc -- XVIII. The ascent of Mont Blanc. Scientific work on the mountain -- XIX. Expeditions in the Graian and Dauphine Alps -- XX. Expeditions in the Bernina Alps and ortler group.