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Alpine odyssey : the mountaineering life of Lloyd "Kiwi" Gallagher
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13650
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2007
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Publisher
- Canmore Alberta : Alpine Club of Canada
- Call Number
- 01.4 Sa5g Pam
- 01.4 Sa5g Pam Copy 2
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Responsibility
- by R.W. Sandford
- Publisher
- Canmore Alberta : Alpine Club of Canada
- Published Date
- 2007
- Physical Description
- 28p. : ill
- Subjects
- Biography
- Mountaineers, Canadian
- ISBN
- 0920330568
- Accession Number
- 40500 08-01-09
- Copy 2 from ACCN 2017.8637
- Call Number
- 01.4 Sa5g Pam
- 01.4 Sa5g Pam Copy 2
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Alpine odyssey : the mountaineering life of Lloyd "Kiwi" Gallagher
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14912
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2007
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Publisher
- Canmore Alberta : Alpine Club of Canada
- Call Number
- G512 G35 Pam
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Responsibility
- by R.W. Sandford
- Publisher
- Canmore Alberta : Alpine Club of Canada
- Published Date
- 2007
- Physical Description
- 28p. : ill
- Series
- Summit Series #9
- Subjects
- Biography
- Mountaineers, Canadian
- ISBN
- 0920330568
- Call Number
- G512 G35 Pam
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Among the great hills : three generations of Wheelers and their contribution to the mapping of the mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13264
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2006
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Publisher
- Canmore Alberta : Alpine Club of Canada
- Call Number
- 01.4 Sa5w Pam
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Responsibility
- R.W. Sandford
- Publisher
- Canmore Alberta : Alpine Club of Canada
- Published Date
- 2006
- Physical Description
- 32 p. : ill., ports
- Series
- Summit Series #8
- Subjects
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Biography
- Geological Survey of Canada
- Mountaineers, Canadian
- Surveyors
- ISBN
- 0-920330-54-1
- Accession Number
- 7806
- 40500 08-01-09
- Call Number
- 01.4 Sa5w Pam
- Collection
- Archives 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
1 website
- 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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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
1 website
- 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
- URL Notes
- Summary on LULU website
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John Clarke : explorer of the Coast Mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15201
- 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
- 01.4 C55e
- 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
- 2016.8602
- Call Number
- 01.4 C55e
- Collection
- Archives Library
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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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Johnny Boychuk : packing history in the Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12954
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sa5j Pam
- Author
- Sandford, Robert W
- Physical Description
- p.20-23 : ill., ports
- Notes
- In Canadian Cowboy Country, vol.9, no.4 (December 2005 / January 2006)
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sa5j Pam
- Collection
- Archives 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
1 website
- 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
- URL Notes
- Summary on Vertebrate Publishing website
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On thin ice : alpine climbs in the Americas, Asia and the Himalaya
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13064
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2005
- Author
- Fowler, Mick
- Publisher
- London : Baton Wicks
- Call Number
- G510 F69 O4
- Author
- Fowler, Mick
- Responsibility
- Mick Fowler
- foreword by Chris Bonington
- Publisher
- London : Baton Wicks
- Published Date
- 2005
- Physical Description
- 223 p. : ill., maps
- Subjects
- Biography
- Notes
- Winner of 2005 Jon Whyte Award for Mountain Literature
- ISBN
- 1-898573-58-1
- Call Number
- G510 F69 O4
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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