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1990 Everest Environmental Expedition : post-expedition report

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

Published Date: 1990

Author: Everest Environmental Expedition

Publisher: Colorado Springs : Everest Environmental Expedition

Call Number: DS486 E8 E5

Author: Everest Environmental Expedition

Publisher: Colorado Springs : Everest Environmental Expedition

Published Date: 1990

Physical Description: 64 p. : ill., maps

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

Subjects: Garbage; Mountaineering; Pollution

Notes: Bob McConnell and Liz Nichol, Expedition Co-Leaders

Call Number: DS486 E8 E5

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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Achttausend druber und drunter : mit den Tagebuchern von Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak und Chogolisa

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

Published Date: 2005

Author: Buhl, Hermann

Publisher: Munich, Germany : Piper Verlag GmbH

Call Number: G512 B84

Author: Buhl, Hermann

Responsibility: Hermann Buhl

Publisher: Munich, Germany : Piper Verlag GmbH

Published Date: 2005

Physical Description: 360p. : ill.

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

Subjects: Buhl, Hermann; Nanga Parbat; Mountaineering

Notes: English translation of title : Nanga Parbat pilgrimage : the lonely challenge

ISBN: 978-3-89029-303-5

Accession Number: AC602

Call Number: G512 B84

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Alpenglow : the finest climbs on the 4000m peaks of the Alps

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

Published Date: 2019

Author: Tibbetts, Ben

Publisher: [Hereford] : Ben Tibbetts

Call Number: DQ841 A46 T53 O.S.

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Author: Tibbetts, Ben

Publisher: [Hereford] : Ben Tibbetts

Published Date: 2019

Physical Description: 320 pages : illustrations (color)

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

Subjects: Photography; Alps; Mountaineering; Switzerland; Italy; France; Art

Abstract: Is an inspiring book of photographs, stories and drawings describing The Finest Climbs on the 4000m Peaks of the Alps (from Ben Tibbetts website)

Contents: Introduction; Practicalities; Endnotes; Bernina Alps; Bernese Alps; Pennine Alps; Mont Blanc Massif; Gran Paradiso; Ecrins

Notes: Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival finalist for Mountain Image; Photographs, drawings and text by Ben Tibbetts

ISBN: 9781916123106

Accession Number: AC639

Call Number: DQ841 A46 T53 O.S.

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Author's website

Websites

https://www.bentibbetts.com/alpenglow/

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Alpine artistry : the mountain life of Glen Boles

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

Published Date: 2014

Author: Martel, Lynn

Publisher: Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada

Call Number: G512 B65 Pam

Author: Martel, Lynn

Publisher: Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada

Published Date: 2014

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

Series: Summit Series #19

Subjects: Mountaineering; Biography; Photography; Art

ISBN: 9780920330531

Accession Number: AC611 duplicate copy transfer to ARC Library

Call Number: G512 B65 Pam

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Alpine exposures

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

Published Date: 2014

Author: Griffith, Jon

Publisher: Sheffield, U.K. : Vertebrate Publishing

Call Number: TR G75 Oversize I

Author: Griffith, Jon

Publisher: Sheffield, U.K. : Vertebrate Publishing

Published Date: 2014

Physical Description: 280 pages, ill.

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

Subjects: Mountaineering; Alps; Rock climbing; Skiing; Photography

ISBN: 9781910240137

Accession Number: AC609

Call Number: TR G75 Oversize I

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Alpine journey : Ferdl Taxbock's life on the edge

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

Published Date: 2012

Author: Martel, Lynn

Publisher: Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada

Call Number: G512 T39 Pam

Author: Martel, Lynn

Publisher: Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada

Published Date: 2012

Physical Description: 24 pages, col. ill.

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

Series: Summit Series #15

Subjects: Mountaineering; Biography

ISBN: 9780920330494

Accession Number: AC611 duplicate copy transfer to ARC Library

Call Number: G512 T39 Pam

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Alpine warriors

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

Published Date: 2015

Author: McDonald, Bernadette

Publisher: [Surrey, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: G512 M16

Author: McDonald, Bernadette

Publisher: [Surrey, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2015

Physical Description: 335 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps, portraits

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

Subjects: Slovenia; Mountaineering

Notes: Winner of Banff Mountain Book Competition Mountaineering History Award in 2015.

ISBN: 9781771601092

Accession Number: AC609; AC616 copy 2 transferred to ARC Library

Call Number: G512 M16

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Alpinism in the Canadian Rockies : the state of the art

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

Author: Owens, Rob

Call Number: P

Author: Owens, Rob

Physical Description: p.40-46 : ill

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

Subjects: Mountaineering

Notes: In Gripped, vol.9, no.2 (April / May 2007). Article pertains to first ascents from the 1970s to 2000s

Call Number: P

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Among the great hills : three generations of Wheelers & their contribution to the mapping of mountains

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

Published Date: 2006

Author: Sandford, R. W

Publisher: Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada

Call Number: G512 W44 Pam Copy 1; G512 W44 Copy 2; G512 W44 Copy 3

Author: Sandford, R. W

Responsibility: by R.W. Sandford

Publisher: Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada

Published Date: 2006

Physical Description: 32p. : ill. , map

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

Series: Summit Series #8

Subjects: Wheeler, Arthur Oliver; Alpine Club of Canada; Mountaineering; Geological Survey of Canada; Selkirk Mountains; Everest, Mount; Maps

ISBN: 0-920330-54-1

Call Number: G512 W44 Pam Copy 1; G512 W44 Copy 2; G512 W44 Copy 3

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Art of freedom : the life and climbs of Voytek Kurtyka

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

Published Date: 2017

Author: McDonald, Bernadette

Publisher: Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: G512 M16 A78

Author: McDonald, Bernadette

Responsibility: Bernadette McDonald

Publisher: Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2017

Physical Description: 326 pages : photographs ; 24 cm

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

Subjects: Mountaineering; Mountaineers; Mountaineers, Polish; Biography

Abstract: "A profound and moving biography of one of the international climbing world's most respected, complicated and reclusive mountaineers. Voytek Kurtyka remains one of the greatest alpinists of all time. Born in 1947, he was one of the leading lights of the Polish golden age of Himalayan climbing. His visionary approach to climbing resulted in many renowned ascents, such as the complete Broad Peak traverse, the "night naked" speed climbs of Cho Oyu and Shishapangma and, above all, the alpine-style ascent of the West Face of Gasherbrum IV. Dubbed the "climb of the century," his route on G IV, as of 2016, has yet to be repeated. His most frequent climbing partners were alpine legends of their time: Polish Himalayan climber Jerzy Kukuczka, Swiss mountain guide Erhard Loretan and British alpinist Alex MacIntyre. After repeated requests to accept the Piolet d'Or lifetime achievement award (the Academy Award of the climbing world), Kurtyka finally accepted the honour in the spring of 2016. A fiercely private individual, he continues to decline countless invitations for interviews, lectures and festival appearances, but has agreed to co-operate with internationally renowned and award winning Canadian author Bernadette McDonald on this long-awaited biography."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Introduction; Rock Animal; Alpinist in Training; Hindu Kush - Unleashed; Troll Wall; Bandaka - The Mordor Beauty; Hungry for Hunger; Dancing in the Moment; Enfant Terrible; Line against the Sky; The Shining Wall; Fork in the Road; Trango Tower; Night Naked; Dance of the Underclings; Chinese Maharaja; Metaphysical Think Tank; The Crux; Chronology of Selected Climbs; Acknowledgements; Notes; Sources; Index

ISBN: 9781771602129

Accession Number: AC634

Call Number: G512 M16 A78

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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The art of Robert Bateman

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

Published Date: 1981

Author: Derry, Ramsay

Publisher: Markham, Ontario : Allen Lane / Penguin Books

Call Number: N D47 A78 oversize

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Author: Derry, Ramsay

Responsibility: Ramsay Derry (author), Roger Tory Peterson (introduction)

Publisher: Markham, Ontario : Allen Lane / Penguin Books

Published Date: 1981

Physical Description: 178 p. : ill. (some col.)

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

Subjects: Art; Wildlife; Bateman, Robert

Abstract: Pertains to the art of Robert Bateman

Contents: Introduction; Profile; Plates and Commentaries; Sketchbooks; Appendix

Notes: Signed by Ramsay Derry and Robert Bateman

ISBN: 0713914335

Accession Number: AC637

Call Number: N D47 A78 oversize

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Link to artist website

Websites

https://batemancentre.org/robert-bateman/

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As above, so below : a climbing story

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

Published Date: 2018

Author: Kalman, Christ (author); Muderlak, Craig (illustrator)

Publisher: Herndon, VA : Mascot Books

Call Number: P A83 K35

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Author: Kalman, Christ (author); Muderlak, Craig (illustrator)

Publisher: Herndon, VA : Mascot Books

Published Date: 2018

Physical Description: vii, 103 pages : illustrations

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

Subjects: Fiction; Mountaineering; Patagonia

Abstract: As Above, So Below is a 103 page fictional climbing story set in Argentine Patagonia. When something goes wrong high up a mountain, one man is forced to face his inner demons along the way to the summit. This beautiful hardbound book was published in 2018 as a limited edition of 1000 copies. The story was illustrated by the immensely talented Craig Muderlak, and edited and revised at the The Banff Centre’s prestigious Mountain and Wilderness Writing Workshop. As Above, So Below has been described as "Jack London's To Build a Fire for climbing", and reminiscent of James Salter's Solo Faces. In September of 2018, it was nominated for the Mountain Fiction Award at the Banff Mountain Book and Film Festival in Banff, Canada. (from author's website)

Contents: Acknowledgements; Day One; Day Two; Day Three

Notes: Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2018 finalist for Mountain Fiction

ISBN: 9781684019694

Accession Number: AC639

Call Number: P A83 K35

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Summary on author's website

Websites

http://www.chriskalman.com/books/as-above-so-below

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Ascent : the mountaineering experience in word and image

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

Published Date: 1980

Author: Steck, Allen (ed)

Publisher: San Francisco : Sierra Club

Call Number: G510 A83 1980

Author: Steck, Allen (ed)

Responsibility: edited by Allen Steck, Steve Roper and David Harris

Publisher: San Francisco : Sierra Club

Published Date: 1980

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

Subjects: Mountaineering; Fiction; Art

ISBN: 0-87156-240-5

Call Number: G510 A83 1980

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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At home in nature : a life of unknown mountains and deep wilderness

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

Published Date: 2017

Author: Wood, Robert Julian

Publisher: [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.

Call Number: G512 A84 W66

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Author: Wood, Robert Julian

Publisher: [Victoria, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd.

Published Date: 2017

Physical Description: 284 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color)

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

Subjects: Mountaineering; Architecture; Autobiography; Alberta; British Columbia

Abstract: Rob Wood grew up in a village on the edge of the Yorkshire Moors, where he eventually developed a preoccupation with rock climbing. After studying architecture for five years at the Architectural Association School in London, England, he made his way to Montreal and ended up in Calgary. During his time in Calgary, Rob became a pioneer of ice climbing and posted numerous first ascents in the Rockies during the early 1970’s. Eventually, life in corporate Alberta proved unfulfilling and Rob realized that he needed to find a place where he could reconnect with nature, which brought him to the remote reaches of Canada’s West Coast. Settling on Maurelle Island, he and his wife built an off-the-grid homestead and focussed on alternative communities and developing a small house-design practice specializing in organic and wholesome building techniques. At Home in Nature is a gentle and philosophical memoir that focuses on living a life deeply rooted in the natural world, where citizens are connected to the planet and individuals work together to help, enhance and make the world a better — and sustainable — place. (from Rocky Mountain Books website)

Contents: Acknowledgements; Introduction; Leaving the old country; Allegiance to nature; Settling down; Cosmic shack; Back to the land community; Island schooling; Domestic animals; Wild animals; Fiordland boat; Mystery mountain; Deep wilderness; Cancer; Aorta attack; Outer islands community; Off-grib homestead; Organic house; Heavy weather; Flight of the imagination; Legend of Kayak Bill; Whirlpools in the tide