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Everest : mountain without mercy

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

Published Date: 1997

Author: Coburn, Broughton

Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : National Geographic

Call Number: DS486 E8 C63 Oversize D

Author: Coburn, Broughton

Responsibility: introduction by Tim Cahill; afterword by David Beashears

Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : National Geographic

Published Date: 1997

Physical Description: 256p. : col. ill., maps

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

Subjects: Accidents; Mountaineering; Photography

Notes: with IMAX camera images from the motion picture, Everest

ISBN: 0792270142

Call Number: DS486 E8 C63 Oversize D

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Everest : the first ascent : the untold story of Griffith Pugh, the man who made it possible

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

Published Date: 2013

Author: Tuckey, Harriet

Publisher: London : Rider

Call Number: G512 T83

Author: Tuckey, Harriet

Publisher: London : Rider

Published Date: 2013

Physical Description: xxiii, 400 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates

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

Subjects: Everest, Mount; Himalaya Mountains; History; Mount Everest Expedition 1953; Medicine

ISBN: 9781826043499

Accession Number: AC609

Call Number: G512 T83

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Everest : the history of the Himalayan giant

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

Published Date: 1997

Author: Mantovani, Roberto

Publisher: Seattle : The Mountaineers

Call Number: DS486 E8 M34 Oversize D

Author: Mantovani, Roberto

Responsibility: ED

Publisher: Seattle : The Mountaineers

Published Date: 1997

Physical Description: 140p. : col. ill

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

Subjects: Photography

Notes: Introduction by Kurt Diemberger

ISBN: 0898865344

Call Number: DS486 E8 M34 Oversize D

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Everest : the ultimate hump

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

Published Date: 1999

Author: Knight, Tami

Publisher: Birmingham, Ala. : Menasha Ridge Press

Call Number: DS486 E8 K53

Author: Knight, Tami

Responsibility: written and illustrated by T. Knight

Publisher: Birmingham, Ala. : Menasha Ridge Press

Published Date: 1999

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : ill

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

Subjects: Cartoons

ISBN: 0897323925

Call Number: DS486 E8 K53

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Everest, the west ridge

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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.

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

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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Executive Directory of the Alpine Club of Canada

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

Published Date: 1994

Author: Alpine Club of Canada

Publisher: Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada

Call Number: G505 A4 E9 Pam

Author: Alpine Club of Canada

Publisher: Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada

Published Date: 1994

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

Accession Number: AC554

Call Number: G505 A4 E9 Pam

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Explorers' sketchbooks : the art of discovery & adventure

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

Published Date: 2017

Author: Lewis-Jones, Huw; Herbert, Kari

Publisher: San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books

Edition: 1st ed.

Call Number: N L49 E97

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Author: Lewis-Jones, Huw; Herbert, Kari

Responsibility: Huw Lewis-Jones and Kari Herbert

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: San Francisco, California : Chronicle Books

Published Date: 2017

Physical Description: 320 p. : illus. (colour)

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

Subjects: Art; Travel; Maps; Botany; Ecology; Anthropology; Tourism

Abstract: The sketchbook has been the one constant in explorers' kits for centuries of adventure. Often private, they are records of immediate experiences and discoveries, and in their pages we can see what the explorers themselves encountered. This remarkable book showcases 70 such sketchbooks, kept by intrepid men and women as they journeyed perilous and unknown environments—frozen wastelands, high mountains, barren deserts, and dense rainforests—with their senses wide open. Figures such as Charles Darwin and Sir Edmund Hillary are joined here by lesser-known explorers such as Adela Breton, who braved the jungles of Mexico to make a record of Mayan monuments. Here are profiles, expedition details, and the artwork of pioneering explorers and mapmakers, botanists and artists, ecologists and anthropologists, eccentrics and visionaries. Here is the art of discovery. (from publisher's website)

Contents: Foreward; Introduction; The sketchbooks; Biographies; Selected reading; Illustration credits; Acknowledgements; Index

Notes: Signed by Huw Lewis-Jones "Banff 2017"

ISBN: 9780452158273

Accession Number: AC635

Call Number: N L49 E97

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Publisher's website

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Exploring the hidden Himalaya

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

Published Date: 1990

Author: Mehta, Soli

Publisher: London ; Toronto : Hodder & Stoughton

Call Number: DS485 H6 M43

Author: Mehta, Soli

Publisher: London ; Toronto : Hodder & Stoughton

Published Date: 1990

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

Call Number: DS485 H6 M43

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Extreme alpinism : climbing light, fast, and high

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

Published Date: 1999

Author: Twight, Mark

Publisher: Seattle : The Mountaineers

Call Number: G513 T85

Author: Twight, Mark

Responsibility: Mark Twight and James Martin

Publisher: Seattle : The Mountaineers

Published Date: 1999

Physical Description: 238p. : col. ill

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

ISBN: 0898866545

Call Number: G513 T85

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Les faiseurs de montagne : imaginaires politiques et territorialites, XVIIIe-XXIe siècle

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

Published Date: 2010

Author: Debarbieux, Bernard

Publisher: Paris : CNRS

Call Number: GN D43

Author: Debarbieux, Bernard

Responsibility: Bernard Debarbieux and Gilles Rudaz

Publisher: Paris : CNRS

Published Date: 2010

Physical Description: 373 p. : ill., maps

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

Subjects: Mountains; Anthropology

ISBN: 9782271069856

Accession Number: AC624

Call Number: GN D43

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Fall of heaven : Whymper's tragic Matterhorn climb

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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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Author: Messner, Reinhold (author); Bierling, Billi (translator)

Publisher: Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books

Published Date: 2017

Physical Description: 206 pages

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

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)