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Hearts of our people : Native women artists
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24946
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Ahlberg Yohe, Jill and Teri Greeves
- Publisher
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Minneapolis Institute of Art in association with the University of Washington Press
- Call Number
- 06.1 A1h O.S.
1 website
- Responsibility
- Jill Ahlberg Yohe (author)
- Teri Greeves (author)
- Laura Silver (editor)
- Publisher
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : Minneapolis Institute of Art in association with the University of Washington Press
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 343 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (some color), maps
- Subjects
- Art
- Women
- North America
- First Nations
- Catalogues
- Exhibitions
- Abstract
- Women have long been the creative force behind Native art. Presented in close cooperation with top Native women artists and scholars, this first major exhibition of artwork by Native women honors the achievements of over 115 artists from the United States and Canada spanning over 1,000 years. Their triumphs—from pottery, textiles, and painting, to photographic portraits, to a gleaming El Camino—show astonishing innovation and technical mastery. (from website)
- Contents
- Introduction -- In Focus: Mi'kmaw Chair / Dakota Hoska -- In Focus: St. Lawrence Iroquoian Pot / Moira McCaffrey -- Making Our World: Thoughts on Native Feminine Aesthetics / heather ahtone -- "Encircles Everything": A Transformative History of Native Women's Arts / Janet Catherine Berlo and Ruth B. Phillips -- Legacy. Those Naranjo Women: Daughters of the Earth / Tessie Naranjo -- In Focus: 'Maria', Rose, Empowerment, and Indigenous Women Rollin' Hard / Dyani White Hawk -- "Carrying On": Gender and Innovation in Historic Pueblo Pottery Nampeyo, Maria Martinez, and Arroh-A-Och / Lea S. McChesney -- In Focus: Edmonia Lewis: 'The Old Arrow Maker' / America Meredith -- The Women Were Busy Abstracting the World / Teri Greeves -- Mary Sully: Ahead of Her Time / Jill Ahlberg Yohe -- In Focus: Christi Belcourt: 'The Wisdom of the Universe' / Dakota Hoska -- The Unsuccessful Indigenous Erasure: A Conversation with Delina White and Juanita Espinosa / Graci Horne -- In Focus: Jennie Ross Cobb: 'Cherokee Female Seminary Graduating Class, 1902' / America Meredith -- The Scientist and the Polymath: Tlingit Weavers Teri Rofkar and Clarissa Rizal / Aldona Jonaitis -- In Focus: Shelley Niro: 'Thinking Caps' / Ruth B. Phillips -- In Focus: Poemeo: 'It Was Cloudy' / Heid E. Erdrich -- Generations of Odawa Quill Art / Adriana Greci Green -- Early Native American Women Painters of Oklahoma / America Meredith -- In Focus: The Elk-tooth dress / Wendy Red Star -- In Focus: Lakota Young Man's Vest / Jessa Rae Growing Thunder -- Native Culture Endures: Basketry of the Columbia Plateau / Pat Courtney Gold and Bridget Johnson -- Relationships. In Focus: Dakota Cradleboard / Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow -- Mohawk Women of Kahnawake / Carla Hemlock -- Art as a Container for Culture / Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi -- In Focus: Slavey (Dene´) Dog Blanket / Heather Everheart -- In Focus: The Story of the Two Miniature Pomo Beaded Baskets / Susan Billy -- Animate Matters: Thoughts on Native American Art Theory, Curation, and Practice / Jill Ahlberg Yohe -- In Focus: Cheyenne Pipe Bag / Heather Levi -- Memory Threads / Anita Fields -- In Focus: Hupa Girl's Dance Skirt / Susan Billy -- In Focus: Stepping Out: A Jingle Dress Moves Out in the World / Dakota Hoska -- In Focus: Blackfoot Man's Shirt / Jessa Rae Growing Thunder -- Nellie Two Bear Gates: Chronicling History through Beadwork / Susan Power -- In Focus: Weaving Materials, Cedar and Spruce Root / Lisa Telford -- Descendants of This Moment: From Paint to Beads / Teri Greeves -- In Focus: Kiowa Cradleboard / Teri Greeves -- In Focus: Faye HeavyShiled: 'Aapaskaiyaawa (They Are Dancing)' / Heather Everhart -- In Focus: Mary Anne Barkhouse: 'Sovereign' / Heather Everhart -- Beadwork Conversations: Dyani White Hawk and Graci Horne / Teri Greeves -- In Focus: Ramona Sakiestewa: 'Nebula 22 & 23' / Lea S. McChesney -- Literary Arts: Native American Women Writers / Heid E. Erdrich -- Power. In Focus: Otiianehshon Ronwatiiatanhirats (The Women Raise Them Up): Women's Nomination Belt / Iakonikohnrio Tonia Loran-Gablan -- A Native Feminist Ethics in Contemporary Indigenous Art / Jennifer McLerran -- In Focus: Carla Hemlock: 'Walking Through Time' / Jennifer McLerran -- In Focus: Stacks of Generational Wisdom: Marie Watt / Dyani White Hawk -- In Focus: The Mystery Surrounding a Lakho´ta Dress / Dakota Hoska -- In Focus: Armor against the Enemy: An Otoe Faw Faw Coat / Christina E. Burke -- Acknowledging Women in Navajo Society: Leaders and Weavers / D. Y. Begay -- In Focus: D. Y. Begay: 'Na´hooko sji´ Hai (Winter in the North)/Biboon Giiwedinong (It Is Winter in the North) / Jennifer McLerran -- In Focus: Mary Kawennatakie Adams: "Pope Basket" / Carla Hemlock -- In Focus: Child's Ribbon Work Blankets / Anita Fields -- In Focus: Qingi: Robe of Wealth / Evelyn Vanderhoop -- Working to Change the Tide: Women Artists on the Northwest Coast / Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse and Megan A. Smetzer -- In Focus: 'Nacarrluk': Beaded Headdress / Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi -- In Focus: Mrs. Toussaint: Cox Leggings / Adriana Greci Green -- Seneca-style Beaded Women's Clothing / Wahsontiio Cross -- Two Early Masters / Adriana Greci Greene -- In Focus: Beaded Diplomacy: Houston-Jackson Bandolier Bag / America Meredith -- In Focus: Rosalie Favell: 'The Collector/The Artist in Her Museum' / Ruth B. Phillips -- Seven Sisters: Native Women Painters Connected through Time by Medium / Dakota Hoska -- In Focus: Light, Memory, and Belonging: Some Thoughts on the Recent Landscapes of Emma Whitehorse / Iris Colburn -- In Focus: Joan Hill: 'Women's Voices at the Council' / America Meredith -- Sustaining Traditions / Cherish Parrish and Kelly Church -- In Focus: Maria Tallchief: The Star that Danced over the Earth / Welana A. Queton -- Tuscarora Raised Beadwork and Raised Consciousness / Jolene Rickard -- Bearing Witness / Teri Greeves -- In Focus: Bax'w´ana'tsi: the Container for Souls / Marianne Nicolson. Contributors (with biographical sketches on pages 333-336): Jill Ahlberg Yohe -- heather ahtone -- D.Y. Begay -- Janet Catherine Berlo -- Susan Billy -- Kathryn Bunn-Marcuse -- Christina E. Burke -- Kelly Church -- Iris Colburn -- Pat Courtney Gold -- Wahsontiio Cross -- Heid E. Erdrich -- Heather Everhart -- Anita Fields -- Adriana Greci Green -- Teri Greeves -- Jessa Rae Growing Thunder -- Carla Hemlock -- Hapistinna -- Dakota Hoska -- Nadia Jackinsky-Sethi -- Bridget Johnson -- Aldona Jonaitis -- Heather Levi -- lakonikohnrio Tonia Loran-Galban -- Moira McCaffrey -- Lea S. McChesney -- Jennifer McLerran -- America Meredith -- Alexandra Kahsenni:io Nahwegahbow -- Tessie Naranjo -- Marianne Nicolson -- Cherish Parrish -- Ruth B. Phillips -- Susan Power -- Welana Queton -- Wendy Red Star -- Jolene Rickard -- Megan A. Smetzer -- Lisa Telford -- Evelyn Vanderhoop -- Dyani White Hawk. Contemporary women artists in Hearts of Our People exhibition, list provided by the Minneapolis Institute of Art: Keri Ataumbi, Kiowa/Comanche, born 1971 -- Mary Anne Barkhouse, Nimpkish band of Kwakiutl First Nation, born 1961 -- D.Y. Begay, Navajo, born 1953 -- Christi Belcourt, Michif, born 1966 -- Rebecca Belmore, Anishinaabe, born 1960 -- Susan Billy, Hopland Band of Pomo Indians, born 1951 -- Julie Buffalohead, Ponca, born 1972 -- Andrea Carlson, Ojibwe, born 1979 -- Kelly Church, Odawa and Pottawatomi, born 1967 -- Dana Claxton, Hunkpapa Lakota, Canadian, born 1959 -- Heid Erdrich, Ojibwe, Turtle Mountain, born 1963 -- Rosalie Favell, Me´tis (Cree/English), born 1958 -- Anita Fields, Osage, born 1951 -- Jody Folwell, Santa Clara Pueblo, born 1942 -- Pat Courtney Gold, Wasco, born 1939 -- Shan Goshorn, Cherokee, 1957-2018 -- Dorothy Grant, Haida, born 1955 -- Jessa Rae Growing Thunder, Dakota/Nakoda, born 1989 -- Joyce Growing Thunder Fogarty, Dakota/Nakoda, born 1950 -- Juanita Growing Thunder Fogarty, Dakota/Nakoda, born 1969 -- Faye HeavyShield, Ka´i´nawa (Blood) Nation of the Blackfoot Confederacy, Canadian, born 1953 -- Carla Hemlock, Kanienkeha´ka, born 1961 -- Joan Hill, Muskogee Creek and Cherokee, born 1930 -- Sonya Kelliher-Combs, In~upiaq/Athabaskan, born 1969 -- Yvonne Walker Keshick (Binaakwiikwe, Falling Leaves Woman), Anishinaabe/Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians of Michigan, born 1946 -- Heather Levi, Southern Cheyenne/Kiowa, born 1971 -- Iakonikohnrio Tonia Loran-Galban, Mohawk, Bear clan Akwesasne, born 1965 -- Maxine Matilpi, Kwakwa_ka_'wakw, born 1956 -- Christine McHorse, Navajo, born 1948 -- America Meredith, Cherokee, born 1972 -- Nora Naranjo Morse, Santa Clara Pueblo, born 1953 -- Lou-ann Neel, Kwakwa_ka_'wakw, born 1963 -- Marianne Nicolson, Kwakwa_ka_'wakw, Dzawada_'enux_w First Nations, born 1969 -- Shelley Niro, Bay of Quinte Mohawk, Six Nations Turtle clan, born 1954 -- Jamie Okuma, Luisen~o/Shoshone-Bannock, born 1977 -- Cherish Parrish, Odawa and Pottawatomi, born 1989 -- Wendy Red Star, Apsa´alooke (Crow), born 1981 -- Jolene Rickard, Tuscarora, born 1956 -- Cara Romero, Chemehuevi, born 1977 -- Ramona Sakiestewa, Hopi, born 1948 -- Tanis S'eiltin, Tlingit, born 1951 -- Rose B. Simpson, Santa Clara Pueblo, born 1983 -- Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Salish and Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Indian Nation, born 1940 -- C. Maxx Stevens, Seminole/Muscogee Nation of Oklahoma, born 1951 -- Roxanne Swentzell, Santa Clara Pueblo, born 1962 -- Lisa Telford, Haida, born 1957 -- Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie, Taskigi, Bear clan/Dine´, Tsinajinnie clan, born 1954 -- Zoe Urness, Tlingit, born 1984 -- Evelyn Vanderhoop (Kujuuhl), Haida, Gawaa Git'ans Gitanee of Massett, British Columbia, born 1953 -- Kay WalkingStick, Cherokee, born 1935 -- Marie Watt, Seneca Nation of Indians, born 1967 -- Delina White, Leech Lake Anishinaabe, born 1964 -- Dyani White Hawk, Sic ha´ gu Lakho´ta (Brule´), born 1976 -- Emmi Whitehorse, Navajo, born 1957 -- Amelia Winger-Bearskin, Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) of the Seneca-Cayuga Nation of Oklahoma, Deer Clan, born 1979. Historic women artists in Hearts of Our People exhibition, list provided by the Minneapolis Institute of Art: Mary Kawennatakie Adams, Akwesasne Mohawk, Wolf clan, 1917-1999 -- Elsie Allen, Pomo, 1899-1990 -- Arroh-a-och, Laguna Pueblo, c. 1830-1900 -- Susie Santiago Billy, Pomo, 1884-1968 -- Mrs. Tall Woman (Hanska Winyan) Charging Thunder, Sihasapa (Blackfeet) Lakota, 1844-? -- Jennie Ross Cobb, Cherokee, 1881-1959 -- Mrs. Touissant Cox, Delaware, 19th century; Clara Darden, Chitimacha, 1828-1910, Louisiana -- Angel De Cora, Ho Chunk/Winnebago, 1871-1919 -- Freda Diesing, Haida, 1925-2003 -- Isabella Edenshaw, Haida, 1858-1926 -- Nellie Two Bear Gates (Mahpiya Boga Win, Gathering of Clouds Woman), Iha´ kthu wa na Dakho´ta, Standing Rock Reservation, 1854-? -- Elizabeth Hickox, Wiyot, 1872-1947; Louisa Keyser ("Dat so la lee"), Washoe, 1829-1925 -- Earth Woman, Mrs. Kipp, Mandan, c. 1810-1910 -- Edmonia Lewis, Mississauga and African American, c. 1844-1907 -- Lucy Martin Lewis, Acoma Pueblo, 1890-1992 -- Maria Martinez, San Ildefonso Pueblo, 1887-1980 -- Nampeyo, Hopi/Tewa, 1859-1942 -- Ellen Neel, Kwakwa_ka_'wakw, 1916-1966 -- Daphne Odjig, Odawa/Pottawatomi, 1919-2016 -- Jessie Oonark, Inuit, 1906-1985 -- Gahano, Caroline Parker Mt. Pleasant, Tonawanda Seneca, 1824-1892 -- Mary Sully (Susan Deloria), Dakota, 1896-1963 -- Maria Tallchief, Osage, 1925-2013.
- ISBN
- 9780295745794
- Accession Number
- P2019-29
- Call Number
- 06.1 A1h O.S.
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Hearts of Our People - Native Women Artists website via Minneapolis Institute of Art
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A life in the wild : the story of mountain explorer John Baldwin
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25238
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Publisher
- Canmore, Alberta : The Alpine Club of Canada
- Edition
- Summit Series 2019
- Call Number
- 01.4 Sc3a
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- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Responsibility
- Chic Scott
- Edition
- Summit Series 2019
- Publisher
- Canmore, Alberta : The Alpine Club of Canada
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 43 pages : illustrations
- Subjects
- Skiing
- Mountaineering
- Travel
- Biography
- Abstract
- Known affectionately to his friends as the King of the Coast Range, John Baldwin has spent his life in a quest to experience the west coast wilderness. Since his teenage years he has explored the rugged Coast Mountain Range, climbing 700 peaks, many of them first ascents, and making perhaps one hundred multi-week, long-distance forays across the icefields and along the ridges of what is one of the last true wilderness areas on earth. Shunning the easy path, John has forged his own way through some of the toughest geography on the planet. He is a mountaineer and explorer of the first order (from Alpine Club of Canada)
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One - an idyllic childhood
- Chapter Two - the Varsity Outdoor Club
- Chapter Three - a world of snow and ice
- Chapter Four - adventures with John Clark
- Chapter Five - the mountains of the coast
- Chapter Six - soul of wilderness
- Chapter Seven - a life dedicated to mountains
- ISBN
- 9780920330777
- Accession Number
- 2021.08
- Call Number
- 01.4 Sc3a
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Available to order via Alpine Club of Canada
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Rising : becoming the first Canadian woman to summit Everest : a memoir
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25250
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Wood, Sharon
- Publisher
- Madeira Park, BC : Douglas & MacIntyre
- Edition
- 1st
- Call Number
- 01.1 W85r
1 website
- Author
- Wood, Sharon
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Madeira Park, BC : Douglas & MacIntyre
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- xi, 228 pages : colour illustrations
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Biography
- Women
- Everest, Mount
- Abstract
- In 1986, as part of a Canadian team, Sharon Wood became the first woman from the Americas to summit Mount Everest—and the first woman in the world to do so via the West Ridge from Tibet and without Sherpa support. But it’s how she got there that is truly compelling. In Rising, the personal motivation that drove Wood to reach further and further heights are detailed through the years leading up to the career-defining climb. Often the only woman on expeditions, Wood was an outlier in a predominantly male bastion of high altitude alpine climbing. Against the backdrop of the stunning Himalayan mountains in the days before Everest became as commercialized as it is today, Wood explores the camaraderie and rivalry, the relatable challenges of falling in and out of love, and how she kept her drive to persevere. Subsequently, she recounts how she struggled with unexpected acclaim and expectations following her ascent of Everest, but ultimately found fulfilment and her place in the world. As she tells her story today, her perspective is steeped in six decades of life experience rich with adrenalin, change, reflection and humility. It is a tale that still feels poignantly relevant—a testament to the strength of the human spirit to overcome all obstacles, whether mountain peaks, social expectations or self-imposed barriers. (from Douglas & McIntyre website)
- Contents
- Preface -- Part 1. 1. The promise -- 2. Neighbours -- 3. Friends, nomads and spirits -- 4. Rescue -- 5. Weight -- 6. The power of story -- 7. Redemption -- 8. One hundred trips -- 9. Proving grounds -- 10. Mentors and muses -- 11. Shit, grin and yin -- 12. Ya gotta want it -- 13. Small plans -- 14. The meeting -- 15. Glory or death -- 16. Commitment -- 17. Summit day -- Part 2. 18. Into the dark -- 19. Coming down -- 20. Lost -- 21. On stage, off stage -- 22. Reunion.
- Notes
- Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019 finalist for Mountain Literature (non-fiction)
- ISBN
- 9781771622257
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 01.1 W85r
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on Douglas & McIntyre website
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Honouring the strength of Indian women : plays, stories, poetry
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25710
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Manuel, Vera
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
- Call Number
- 07.2 M31h
- Author
- Manuel, Vera
- Responsibility
- Vera Manuel = Kulilu Pal ki, Edited by Michelle Coupal, Deanna Reder, Joanne Arnott, and Emalene A. Manuel ; introduction by Emalene A. Manuel ; afterwords by Michelle Coupal, Deanna Reder, and Joanne Arnott.
- Publisher
- Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada : University of Manitoba Press
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- xii, 391 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Subjects
- Indigenous
- Indigenous Culture
- Indigenous Customs
- Indigenous Art
- Indigenous Peoples
- Indigenous Traditions
- Women
- Ktunaxa
- Secwepemc
- Abstract
- This critical edition delivers a unique and comprehensive collection of the works of Ktunaxa-Secwepemc writer and educator Vera Manuel, daughter of prominent Indigenous leaders Marceline Paul and George Manuel. A vibrant force in the burgeoning Indigenous theatre scene, Vera was at the forefront of residential school writing and did groundbreaking work as a dramatherapist and healer. Long before mainstream Canada understood and discussed the impact and devastating legacy of Canada's Indian residential schools, Vera Manuel wrote about it as part of her personal and community healing. She became a grassroots leader addressing the need to bring to light the stories of survivors, their journeys of healing, and the therapeutic value of writing and performing arts. A collaboration by four Indigenous writers and scholars steeped in values of Indigenous ethics and editing practices, the volume features Manuel's most famous play, "Strength of Indian Women"--First performed in 1992 and still one of the most important literary works to deal with the trauma of residential schools-along with an assemblage of plays, written between the late 1980s until Manuel's untimely passing in 2010, that were performed but never before published. The volume also includes three previously unpublished short stories written in 1988, poetry written over three decades in a variety of venues, and a 1987 college essay that draws on family and community interviews on the effects of residential schools. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction / Emalene A. Manuel -- Plays. Strength of Indian women -- Song of the circle -- Journey through the past to the future -- Echoes of our Mothers' past -- Every warrior's song -- Stories. That grey building -- Theresa -- The letter -- The abyss -- Poetry. The storm -- Woman without a tongue -- Ghosts & predators -- L.A. Obsession song -- Addictions -- Lies -- Life abuse of girls -- The woman I could be -- Fools -- Loneliness -- Abused mothers, wounded fathers -- Hunger -- The Catholic Church -- Deadly legacy -- Keeping Secrets -- Forgiveness -- When I first came to know myself -- When my sister & I dance -- The girl who could catch fish with her hands -- Two brothers -- La Guerra -- Keepers in the dark -- Inheritance -- For the child who knew -- Never ever tell -- Ottawa -- The truth about colonization -- Justice -- Beric -- Christmas inside of me -- Spring fever -- Megcenetkwe -- Dying -- Afterwords. Narrative acts of truth and reconciliation: teaching the healing plays of Vera Manuel / by Michelle Coupal -- Embedded teachings: Vera Manuel's recovered short stories / Deanna Reder -- "Through poetry a community is brought together": Vera Manuel's poetry, poetry activism, and poetics / Joanne Arnott -- Appendix. Indians and residential school: a study of the breakdown of a culture / Vera Manuel
- Notes
- The "l " in Vera Manuel's (Kulilu Pal ki's) name on the title page appears as the International Phonetic Alphabet symbol for palatoalveolar click.
- ISBN
- 9780887558368
- Accession Number
- 2023.09
- Call Number
- 07.2 M31h
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Quest into the unknown : my life as a climbing nomad
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25028
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Howard, Tony
- Publisher
- Sheffield (England) : Vertebrate Publishing
- Call Number
- G512 Qu47 H69
1 website
- Author
- Howard, Tony
- Publisher
- Sheffield (England) : Vertebrate Publishing
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- x, 425 pages : color illustrations
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Biography
- Abstract
- Tony Howard rose to fame in 1965 as a member of a group of young climbers from northern England who made the first British ascent of Norway’s Troll Wall; a climb described by Joe Brown as, ‘One of the greatest ever achievements by British rock climbers’. Tony went on to design the modern sit harness, now used universally by every climber in the world. He founded the company Troll Climbing Equipment but never stopped exploring. Quest into the Unknown is his story. Tony has dedicated his life to travelling the world in search of unclimbed rock faces and remote trekking adventures. The scale of his travels is vast: he has visited all of the North African countries, much of the Arab land of the Middle East, the mountainous regions of Scandinavia, Canada and the rocky spine of the Americas, the Himalaya, remote Indian provinces, South East Asia, Madagascar, South Georgia and Antarctica. This book, the last word in adventure travel, takes the reader from Tony’s youth spent developing the crags of the English Peak District, via whaling ships in the Southern Ocean, thousand-mile canoe trips in the Canadian Arctic, living amongst the Bedouin in the rocky mountains of Jordan, to the isolated opium tribes of Thailand. Tony Howard’s Quest into the Unknown is the jaw-dropping account of a life of adventure that is the very definition of true exploration. (from Vertebrate Publishing website)
- Contents
- Precis
- Part One
- Part Two
- Postscript
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019
- ISBN
- 9781911342830
- Accession Number
- AC638
- Call Number
- G512 Qu47 H69
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on Vertebrate Publishing website
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Alpenglow : the finest climbs on the 4000m peaks of the Alps
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25035
- 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.
1 website
- Author
- Tibbetts, Ben
- Publisher
- [Hereford] : Ben Tibbetts
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 320 pages : illustrations (color)
- 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
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Training for the uphill athlete : a manual for mountain runners and ski mountaineers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25036
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Jornet, Kilian
- House, Steve
- Johnston, Scott
- Publisher
- Ventura, CA : Patagonia Books
- Call Number
- GV T73 J67
1 website
- Publisher
- Ventura, CA : Patagonia Books
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 375 pages : color illustrations
- Subjects
- Training
- Sports
- Running
- Skiing
- Mountaineering
- Abstract
- Training for the Uphill Athleete translates theory into methodolgoy to allow you to write your own training plans and coach yourslef to your endurance goals. This is the only book that presents training principles for athletes who regularly partipate in distance running, ski mountaineering, skimo, and other sports that require optimum fitness and customized strength....This book collectes the scientically backed and athelete-tested wisdom and experience of the best uphill athletes and educates outdoor athletes to develop plans to perform their best. (from back cover)
- Contents
- The physiological basis of endurance training -- The methodological basis of endurance training -- Strength and the uphill athlete -- How to train.
- Notes
- Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019 finalist for Guidebooks
- ISBN
- 9781938340840
- Accession Number
- AC639
- Call Number
- GV T73 J67
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Uphill Athlete website with training plans and book summary
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Rising : becoming the first Canadian woman to summit Everest : a memoir
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25043
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Wood, Sharon
- Publisher
- Madeira Park, BC : Douglas & MacIntyre
- Edition
- 1st
- Call Number
- G512 R57 W66
1 website
- Author
- Wood, Sharon
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Madeira Park, BC : Douglas & MacIntyre
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- xi, 228 pages : colour illustrations
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Biography
- Women
- Everest, Mount
- Abstract
- In 1986, as part of a Canadian team, Sharon Wood became the first woman from the Americas to summit Mount Everest—and the first woman in the world to do so via the West Ridge from Tibet and without Sherpa support. But it’s how she got there that is truly compelling. In Rising, the personal motivation that drove Wood to reach further and further heights are detailed through the years leading up to the career-defining climb. Often the only woman on expeditions, Wood was an outlier in a predominantly male bastion of high altitude alpine climbing. Against the backdrop of the stunning Himalayan mountains in the days before Everest became as commercialized as it is today, Wood explores the camaraderie and rivalry, the relatable challenges of falling in and out of love, and how she kept her drive to persevere. Subsequently, she recounts how she struggled with unexpected acclaim and expectations following her ascent of Everest, but ultimately found fulfilment and her place in the world. As she tells her story today, her perspective is steeped in six decades of life experience rich with adrenalin, change, reflection and humility. It is a tale that still feels poignantly relevant—a testament to the strength of the human spirit to overcome all obstacles, whether mountain peaks, social expectations or self-imposed barriers. (from Douglas & McIntyre website)
- Contents
- Preface -- Part 1. 1. The promise -- 2. Neighbours -- 3. Friends, nomads and spirits -- 4. Rescue -- 5. Weight -- 6. The power of story -- 7. Redemption -- 8. One hundred trips -- 9. Proving grounds -- 10. Mentors and muses -- 11. Shit, grin and yin -- 12. Ya gotta want it -- 13. Small plans -- 14. The meeting -- 15. Glory or death -- 16. Commitment -- 17. Summit day -- Part 2. 18. Into the dark -- 19. Coming down -- 20. Lost -- 21. On stage, off stage -- 22. Reunion.
- Notes
- Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019 finalist for Mountain Literature (non-fiction)
- ISBN
- 9781771622257
- Accession Number
- AC639
- Call Number
- G512 R57 W66
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on Douglas & McIntyre website
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Lorenzo Grassi in ' Merica. Un umile eroe falmentino in Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19777
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Costa, Elio and Gabriele Scardellato
- Publisher
- Verbania, Italy : Tarara' Edizioni Associazione Culturale
- Call Number
- 01 Co81l
- Responsibility
- Elio Costa and Gabriele Scardellato
- Publisher
- Verbania, Italy : Tarara' Edizioni Associazione Culturale
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 167 pages : illustrations
- Subjects
- Biography
- Mountaineering
- History
- Canada
- Italy
- Rocky Mountains
- Abstract
- Italian edition of "Lawrence Grassi : from Piedmont to the Rocky Mountains"
- Contents
- Nota Introduttiva
- Prefazione
- Premessa
- Gli Inizi : Falmenta, La Val Cannobina, E L'Emigrazione
- Caro Figlio Scrivimi : Quelli Lasciati Alle Spalle E Vita Nel North Shore
- Lawrence Grassi Sulle Montagne
- Il Tracciatore di Sentieri
- Epilogo : Simbolo e Leggenda Delle Montagne Rocciose Canadesi
- Alcune Lettere da Falmenta
- Ringraziamenti
- ISBN
- 978-88-97795-35-3
- Accession Number
- 2019.22
- Call Number
- 01 Co81l
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Julia : a biography of Julia W. Henshaw
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19805
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Kluckner, Michael
- Publisher
- [Vancouver, British Columbia] : Midtown Press
- Call Number
- 08.3 Kl66j
- Author
- Kluckner, Michael
- Responsibility
- Michael Kluckner
- Publisher
- [Vancouver, British Columbia] : Midtown Press
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 131 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 28 cm
- Abstract
- "A novelist, journalist, socialite, botanist, explorer, and World War I ambulance driver, Julia Henshaw was a unique and colourful personality. This graphic biography follows her extraordinary life from Montreal to Vancouver, from the Rocky Mountains to England, and from the mining towns of BC's Kootenays to the battlefields of France and Belgium. Her strongly expressed views of women's roles and voting rights, of racial and class issues, and of Canada's relationship to Great Britain and the USA are an illuminating contrast with the values of her contemporaries, and with society today."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Prelude
- Mrs. Charles Henshaw
- Julian Durham
- Julia W. Henshaw
- Gwen
- Captain Julia Henshaw
- "Gentle Julia"
- Afterword
- Key players
- Supplementary notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes
- Graphic novel with mention of Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. Signed copy.
- ISBN
- 978-1-988242-20-0
- Accession Number
- p2019-25
- Call Number
- 08.3 Kl66j
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- Archives Library
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Albert Smith : the spectacle of Mont Blanc and other adventures for sale
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19910
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Audisio, Aldo and Veronica Lisino
- Publisher
- Torino, Italy : Museon Nazionale Della Montagna
- Call Number
- 01.2 A2a
- Responsibility
- Aldo Audision and Veronica Lisino
- Publisher
- Torino, Italy : Museon Nazionale Della Montagna
- Published Date
- 2018
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers
- Mont Blanc
- Abstract
- Pertains to the story of Albert Smith, a climber and mountaineer. Passionate about the Alpine Mountains, Smith pursued extravagant adventures only to return to Britain and share his experience with large crowds. He ignited a love of mountaineering, curiosity and adventure in those who heard of his extravagant climbs and visits to Mount Blanc. It is through books as such, that readers are better able to conceptualize mountaineering and adventuring on an international scale. The book offers readers a chance to learn about mountaineering in Britain, thus allowing them to relate it to the experience of mountaineers in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. Additionally, the book helps express the vastness of mountaineering and the ways in which it influenced daily life, internationally.
- Notes
- The book is written in French, Italian and English
- ISBN
- 9788873760702
- Accession Number
- 2019.65
- Call Number
- 01.2 A2a
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- Archives Library
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Summits of my life : daring adventures on the world's greatest peaks
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25020
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Jornet, Kilian
- Publisher
- Boulder, Colorado : VeloPress
- Call Number
- G512 J67 S86
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- Author
- Jornet, Kilian
- Publisher
- Boulder, Colorado : VeloPress
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 201 pages : illustrations
- Subjects
- Travel
- Mountaineering
- Mont Blanc
- Matterhorn
- Elbruz, Mount
- Denali
- Everest, Mount
- Running
- Skiing
- Biography
- Abstract
- Summits of My Life is the personal project of Kilian Jornet, in which for five years he has traveled to some of the most important peaks of the planet to try to establish FKT (fastest known time) of ascent and descent of some of the most emblematic mountains of the world. The project is closely linked to values and a way of understanding the purist and minimalist mountain. The experiences lived in each challenge have been captured in different films. (from author's website)
- Contents
- The project of my life
- The Challenges
- The Mont Blanc Traverse
- Mont Blanc
- The Matterhorn
- Mount Elbrus
- Denali
- Aconcagua
- Mount Everest
- Forged in dreams and emotions
- Notes
- Kilian Jornet ; translated from Catalan by Nathan Douglas.
- Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019
- ISBN
- 9781937715908
- Accession Number
- AC638
- Call Number
- G512 J67 S86
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Author's project website including films related to the ascents and decents in book
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Waymaking : an anthology of women's adventure writing, poetry and art
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25037
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Barnard, Camilla (editor)
- Carter, Claire (editor)
- Dawe, Heather (editor)
- Mort, Helen (editor)
- Publisher
- Sheffield, United Kingdom : Vertebrate Publishing
- Call Number
- P W39 M67
1 website
- Author
- Barnard, Camilla (editor)
- Carter, Claire (editor)
- Dawe, Heather (editor)
- Mort, Helen (editor)
- Publisher
- Sheffield, United Kingdom : Vertebrate Publishing
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 280 pages : illustrations (some colour)
- Subjects
- Poetry
- Writing
- Art
- Literature
- Women
- Abstract
- Waymaking is an anthology of prose, poetry and artwork by women who are inspired by wild places, adventure and landscape.Published in 1961, Gwen Moffat's Space Below My Feet tells the story of a woman who shirked the conventions of society and chose to live a life in the mountains. Some years later in 1977, Nan Shepherd published The Living Mountain, her prose bringing each contour of the Cairngorm mountains to life. These pioneering women set a precedent for a way of writing about wilderness that isn't about conquering landscapes, reaching higher, harder or faster, but instead about living and breathing alongside them, becoming part of a larger adventure. The artists in this inspired collection continue Gwen and Nan's legacies, redressing the balance of gender in outdoor adventure literature. Their creativity urges us to stop and engage our senses: the smell of rain-soaked heather, wind resonating through a col, the touch of cool rock against skin, and most importantly a taste of restoring mind, body and spirit to a former equanimity. With contributions from adventurers including Alpinist magazine editor Katie Ives, multi-award-winning author Bernadette McDonald, adventurers Sarah Outen and Anna McNuff, renowned filmmaker Jen Randall and many more, Waymaking is an inspiring and pivotal work published in an era when wilderness conservation and gender equality are at the fore. (from Vertebrate Publishing website)
- Contents
- A note from the editors -- Introduction / by Melissa Harrison -- VICINITY. Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago / Cath Drake; Lost in the light / Tara Karmer; Iceberg / Deziree Wilson; Steinbock / Anja Konig; [untitled 1] / Krystle Wright; Enchantment larches / Nikki Fumkin; Mountains of the Mourne / Penelope Shuttle; Fairfield from Wansfell / Paula Dunn; Eglwyseg Day / Jean Atkin; Affric / Alison Grant; Walking Moses Trod / Pam Williamson; Murmuration / Dr. Judy Kendall; Signs / Geraldine Green; Brimmerhead farmhouse / Paula Dunn; Last night I dream we walk up to the point again / Imogen Cassels; To reach green before dark / Lilace Mellin Guignard; Excerpts from 'La Fuente', an essay / Kari Nielsen; Titcomb basin / Lizzy Dalton; Cerro Torre / Caroline Eustace; Mountain-guide dog / Tami Knight; She collects wild islands in the wild wild sea / Paula Flach; Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago / Cath Drake-- HEART & SOUL. A child in these hills / Solana Joy; Rewilding / Lee Craigie; Squamish / Jen Randall; Leaving for the edge of the world / Kathleen Jones; This ocean sings / To follow / Claire Carter; Caton Bay / Genevieve Carver; Leaving protection / Maria Coffey; Running by the Quay in Exeter / Evelyn O'Malley; Straggle / Allison Williams; Falling / Joanna Croston; Climber / Hazel Findlay; First peak: a response to climber / Camilla Barnard; No-self / Hazel Findlay; Memory ten / Libby Peter; By the way / Sarah Outen; There is no substance but light / Heather Dawe; When I lived in a small / Alyson Hallett; Ken the cross-dresser / Tami Knight; Oh / Paula Flach -- WATER. Snow / Bernadette McDonald; [untitled 2] / Krystale Wright; Through the snow (Winter 2010) / Judith Brown; Ski tracks / Tami Knight; Counterflow / Jen Benson; Ystradfellte tree reflections / Nick Davies; Aqueous / Mab Jones; [untitled 3] / Krystale Wright; Taking the plunge / Anna Fleming; Waterfall series no.5 / Nick Davies; Diabaig / Jen Randall; Thirsty / Tami Knight; Do you remember me turkey blue? / Sandy Bennett-Haber; She collects the puddles and lakes she swims each year / Paula Flach; Llanerch Wake / Nick Davies; Emergence / Claire Giordano -- UNION. Running on the roof of the world / Lily Dyu; Out there / Ruth Wiggins; She collects all the trees she climbed that summer / Paula Flach; Bouldering / Kathryn Hummel; Bouldering at Ardmair Beach / Deziree Wilson; Snails / Tami Knight; The Grampians / Jen Randall; K'e yil yal tx'i': saying something / Leslie Hsu Oh; [untitled 4] / Krystle Wright; The climb / Helen Mort; Mad hatter's gully in winter / Deziree Wilson; Unmapping / Katie Ives; Unshod to meet the flints / Polly Atkin; She always collects her starter number in stones along the way / Paula Flach; A pattern-maker for memories / Alice Maddicott; The wilderness / Anna McNuff.
- Notes
- Jon Whyte Award winner 2019
- Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019 finalist for Mountain Literature
- ISBN
- 9781910240755
- Accession Number
- AC639
- Call Number
- P W39 M67
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on Vertebrate Publishing website with book preview
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Lands of lost borders : a journey on the Silk Road
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25039
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Harris, Kate
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
- Edition
- First U.S. edition
- Call Number
- G530 L36 H37
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- Author
- Harris, Kate
- Edition
- First U.S. edition
- Publisher
- New York, NY : Dey St., an imprint of William Morrow
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 305 pages : illustrations, map
- Abstract
- As a teenager, Kate Harris realized that the career she most craved—that of a generalist explorer, equal parts swashbuckler and metaphysician—had gone extinct. From her small-town home in Ontario, it seemed as if Marco Polo, Magellan and their like had long ago mapped the whole earth. So she vowed to become a scientist and go to Mars. Well along this path, Harris set off by bicycle down a short section of the fabled Silk Road with her childhood friend Mel Yule. This trip was just a simulacrum of exploration, she thought, not the thing itself—a little adventure to pass the time until she could launch for outer space. But somewhere in between sneaking illegally across Tibet, studying the history of science and exploration at Oxford, and staring down a microscope for a doctorate at MIT, she realized that an explorer, in any day and age, is by definition the kind of person who refuses to live between the lines. Forget charting maps, naming peaks, leaving footprints on another planet: what she yearned for was the feeling of soaring completely out of bounds. And where she'd felt that most intensely was on a bicycle, on a bygone trading route. So Harris quit the laboratory and hit the Silk Road again with Yule, this time determined to bike it from beginning to end. Weaving adventure and deep reflection with the history of science and exploration, Lands of Lost Borders explores the nature of limits and the wildness of a world that, like the self and like the stars, can never be fully mapped. (from Kate Harris' website)
- Contents
- Marco made me do it: North America -- Roof of the world: Tibetan Plateau -- Natural history: England and New England -- Undercurrents: Black Sea -- The cold world awakens: Lesser Caucasus -- Angle of incidence: Greater Caucasus -- Borderlandia: Caspian Sea -- Wilderness/wasteland: Ustyurt Plateau and Aral Sea Basin -- The source of a river: Pamir Knot -- A mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam: Tarim Basin and Tibetan Plateau -- Road's end: Indo-Gangetic Plain and Greater Himalaya.
- Notes
- Banff Mountain Film Festival 2018 finalist for Adventure Travel
- ISBN
- 9780062839343
- Accession Number
- AC639
- Call Number
- G530 L36 H37
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Kate Harris' website including publication information
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No easy way : the challenging life of the climbing taxman
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25041
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Fowler, Mick
- Publisher
- Sheffield : Vertebrate Publishing
- Call Number
- G512 N64 F69
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- 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
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- Summary on Vertebrate Publishing website
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Unknown pleasures : collected writing on life, death, climbing and everything in between
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25046
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Kirkpatrick, Andy
- Publisher
- Vertebrate Publishing
- Call Number
- P U55 K57
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- Author
- Kirkpatrick, Andy
- Publisher
- Vertebrate Publishing
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 1 volume : illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects
- Essays
- Mountaineering
- Poetry
- Abstract
- Obsessed with climbing and addicted to writing, Kirkpatrick is a master storyteller. Covering subjects as diverse as climbing, relationships, fatherhood, mental health and the media, it is easy to read, sometimes difficult to digest, and impossible to forget. One moment he is attempting a rare solo ascent of Norway’s Troll Wall, the next he is surrounded by the TV circus while climbing Moonlight Buttress with the BBC’s The One Show presenter Alex Jones. Yosemite’s El Capitan is ever-present; he climbs it alone – strung out for weeks, and he climbs it with his thirteen-year-old daughter Ella – her first big wall. His eye for observation and skilled wordcraft make for laugh-out-loud funny moments, while in more hard-hitting pieces he is unflinchingly honest about past and present love and relationships, and pulls no punches with an alternative perspective of our place in the world. (from Vertebrate Publishing website)
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Illustrations
- Climbing, Expeditions and Adventures
- Bad Poetry : The Mountain
- Bad Poetry : Winter
- Bad Poetry : Poly Wall
- Epilogue : What I've Learned
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- ISBN
- 9781911342724
- Accession Number
- AX639
- Call Number
- P U55 K57
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on Vertebrate Publishing website
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End of the rope : mountains, marriage, and motherhood
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25047
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Redford, Jan
- Publisher
- Berkeley, California : Counterpoint Press
- Call Number
- G512 E53 R43
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- Author
- Redford, Jan
- Publisher
- Berkeley, California : Counterpoint Press
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- x, 303 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates
- Subjects
- Rock climbing
- Mountaineering
- Women
- Biography
- Abstract
- In this funny and gritty debut memoir, praised by Outside, Sierra, Alpinist, and more, Jan Redford grows from a reckless rock climber to a mother who fights to win back her future. As a teenager, she sets her sights on the improbable dream of climbing mountains. By age twenty, she’s a climber with a magnetic attraction to misadventures and the wrong men. Redford finally finds the love of her life, an affable Rockies climber. When he is killed in an avalanche in Alaska, a grieving Redford finds comfort in the arms of another extreme alpinist. Before long, they are married, with a baby on the way. While her husband works as a logger, Redford tackles the traditional role of wife and mother. But soon, she pursues her own dream, one that pits her against her husband. End of the Rope is Redford’s telling of heart-stopping adventures, from being rescued off El Capitan to leading a group of bumbling cadets across a glacier. It is her laughter-filled memoir of friendships with women in that masculine world. Most moving, this is the story of her struggle to make her own way in the mountains and in life. To lead, not follow. (from Counterpoint Press website)
- Contents
- First climb -- On the rocks -- Lion's layback -- The rescue -- Speed ruts -- Learning to roll -- Bugaboo -- World's toughest milkman -- Fragile ice -- We're gathered here today -- Aberdeen -- Show no fear -- Climbing girlfriend -- The final last straw -- The memo -- In the arms of a mountain -- The underwear drawer -- Teetering on the edge -- Pink wedding dress -- The waiting -- Miracles -- Into the shadows -- Back on the sharp end -- Yodel village -- You lead, I'll follow -- Carsick -- Die young, stay pretty -- Grant's lunch -- Fractured -- Playing dead -- Mama spiders -- Remember the lilac -- Power surge -- Leaving Chaba -- Only four years -- One little "non" -- Second chances.
- ISBN
- 9780345812315
- Accession Number
- AC639
- Call Number
- G512 E53 R43
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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- Summary on Counterpoint Press website
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As above, so below : a climbing story
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25049
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- 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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- Publisher
- Herndon, VA : Mascot Books
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- vii, 103 pages : illustrations
- 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
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Ueli Steck : my life in climbing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25051
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- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Steck, Ueli (author)
- Steinback, Karin (co-author)
- Bierling, Billi (translator)
- Publisher
- Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books
- Call Number
- G512 U45 S74
1 website
- Publisher
- Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 214 pages : illustrations
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Biography
- Switzerland
- Nepal
- Abstract
- A climber of incredible strength, Ueli Steck set climbing records for speed and endurance that no one had previously thought possible. This deeply personal and revealing memoir, Ueli Steck: My Life in Climbing, is the only one of his books to be published in English. In 2016, Ueli established a new speed record on Eiger’s North Face—beating his own record! That same year he climbed all 82 four-thousand-meter peaks in the Alps within 62 days (traveling between the peaks by bicycle), and summited Annapurna’s south face in 28 hours. But the dramatic events of the previous two years—the internationally reported conflict with Sherpas at Mount Everest, and the discovery of Alex Lowe’s body on Shishapangma—changed him and made him rethink his approach to the mountains. After withdrawing from the sport for a period, Ueli rediscovered his love of climbing, and in this memoir he explains how his perspective changed. While his drive to achieve in the mountains hadn’t diminished, an evaluation of his experiences helped him find a new way to process the emotional and mental challenges that shaped his athletic outlook. Structured around key climbs, Ueli Steck: My Life in Climbing provides the history of each mountain and route, Ueli’s reasons for attempting it, what happened on each climb itself, and what he learned from the experience. It also includes some fascinating insights into his training regimen. Ueli infuses his story with the joy and freedom of climbing and running. He is honest, direct and, at times, exhibits the self-absorption common to many elite athletes. Ultimately, however, his experiences brought him to a place of self-awareness and he was no longer the same climber who first set the speed record on the Eiger’s North Face. Ueli was determined that he would take only acceptable risks. Unfortunately, Ueli’s bar for risk was still very high—he died while on a training climb on the Himalayan peak Nuptse on April 30, 2017. (from Mountaineers Books website)
- Contents
- Everest : when the world suddenly changes -- Annapurna I : first the glory, then the fall from grace -- Shishapangma : a step too far -- All 4000-meter peaks in the Alps : rediscovering the joy of climbing -- Eiger : the fascination of speed -- Afterword by Steve House -- Translator's note.
- ISBN
- 9781680511321
- Accession Number
- AC639
- Call Number
- G512 U45 S74
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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- Summary on Mountaineers Books website
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Waymaking : an anthology of women's adventure writing, poetry and art
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25116
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Barnard, Camilla (editor)
- Carter, Claire (editor)
- Dawe, Heather (editor)
- Mort, Helen (editor)
- Publisher
- Sheffield, United Kingdom : Vertebrate Publishing
- Call Number
- 05.1 M84w copy 1
- 05.1 M84w copy 2 (reference)
1 website
- Author
- Barnard, Camilla (editor)
- Carter, Claire (editor)
- Dawe, Heather (editor)
- Mort, Helen (editor)
- Publisher
- Sheffield, United Kingdom : Vertebrate Publishing
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 280 pages : illustrations (some colour)
- Subjects
- Poetry
- Writing
- Art
- Literature
- Women
- Abstract
- Waymaking is an anthology of prose, poetry and artwork by women who are inspired by wild places, adventure and landscape.Published in 1961, Gwen Moffat's Space Below My Feet tells the story of a woman who shirked the conventions of society and chose to live a life in the mountains. Some years later in 1977, Nan Shepherd published The Living Mountain, her prose bringing each contour of the Cairngorm mountains to life. These pioneering women set a precedent for a way of writing about wilderness that isn't about conquering landscapes, reaching higher, harder or faster, but instead about living and breathing alongside them, becoming part of a larger adventure. The artists in this inspired collection continue Gwen and Nan's legacies, redressing the balance of gender in outdoor adventure literature. Their creativity urges us to stop and engage our senses: the smell of rain-soaked heather, wind resonating through a col, the touch of cool rock against skin, and most importantly a taste of restoring mind, body and spirit to a former equanimity. With contributions from adventurers including Alpinist magazine editor Katie Ives, multi-award-winning author Bernadette McDonald, adventurers Sarah Outen and Anna McNuff, renowned filmmaker Jen Randall and many more, Waymaking is an inspiring and pivotal work published in an era when wilderness conservation and gender equality are at the fore. (from Vertebrate Publishing website)
- Contents
- A note from the editors -- Introduction / by Melissa Harrison -- VICINITY. Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago / Cath Drake; Lost in the light / Tara Karmer; Iceberg / Deziree Wilson; Steinbock / Anja Konig; [untitled 1] / Krystle Wright; Enchantment larches / Nikki Fumkin; Mountains of the Mourne / Penelope Shuttle; Fairfield from Wansfell / Paula Dunn; Eglwyseg Day / Jean Atkin; Affric / Alison Grant; Walking Moses Trod / Pam Williamson; Murmuration / Dr. Judy Kendall; Signs / Geraldine Green; Brimmerhead farmhouse / Paula Dunn; Last night I dream we walk up to the point again / Imogen Cassels; To reach green before dark / Lilace Mellin Guignard; Excerpts from 'La Fuente', an essay / Kari Nielsen; Titcomb basin / Lizzy Dalton; Cerro Torre / Caroline Eustace; Mountain-guide dog / Tami Knight; She collects wild islands in the wild wild sea / Paula Flach; Snapshots from the Camino de Santiago / Cath Drake-- HEART & SOUL. A child in these hills / Solana Joy; Rewilding / Lee Craigie; Squamish / Jen Randall; Leaving for the edge of the world / Kathleen Jones; This ocean sings / To follow / Claire Carter; Caton Bay / Genevieve Carver; Leaving protection / Maria Coffey; Running by the Quay in Exeter / Evelyn O'Malley; Straggle / Allison Williams; Falling / Joanna Croston; Climber / Hazel Findlay; First peak: a response to climber / Camilla Barnard; No-self / Hazel Findlay; Memory ten / Libby Peter; By the way / Sarah Outen; There is no substance but light / Heather Dawe; When I lived in a small / Alyson Hallett; Ken the cross-dresser / Tami Knight; Oh / Paula Flach -- WATER. Snow / Bernadette McDonald; [untitled 2] / Krystale Wright; Through the snow (Winter 2010) / Judith Brown; Ski tracks / Tami Knight; Counterflow / Jen Benson; Ystradfellte tree reflections / Nick Davies; Aqueous / Mab Jones; [untitled 3] / Krystale Wright; Taking the plunge / Anna Fleming; Waterfall series no.5 / Nick Davies; Diabaig / Jen Randall; Thirsty / Tami Knight; Do you remember me turkey blue? / Sandy Bennett-Haber; She collects the puddles and lakes she swims each year / Paula Flach; Llanerch Wake / Nick Davies; Emergence / Claire Giordano -- UNION. Running on the roof of the world / Lily Dyu; Out there / Ruth Wiggins; She collects all the trees she climbed that summer / Paula Flach; Bouldering / Kathryn Hummel; Bouldering at Ardmair Beach / Deziree Wilson; Snails / Tami Knight; The Grampians / Jen Randall; K'e yil yal tx'i': saying something / Leslie Hsu Oh; [untitled 4] / Krystle Wright; The climb / Helen Mort; Mad hatter's gully in winter / Deziree Wilson; Unmapping / Katie Ives; Unshod to meet the flints / Polly Atkin; She always collects her starter number in stones along the way / Paula Flach; A pattern-maker for memories / Alice Maddicott; The wilderness / Anna McNuff.
- Notes
- Jon Whyte Award winner 2019
- Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019 finalist for Mountain Literature
- ISBN
- 9781910240755
- Accession Number
- P2020-1
- Call Number
- 05.1 M84w copy 1
- 05.1 M84w copy 2 (reference)
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on Vertebrate Publishing website with book preview
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