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The 1978 climber's guide to the Banff Townsite

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

Published Date: 2020

Author: van Schaik, Bob; Burgess, C.L.

Publisher: Edmonton, Alberta

Edition: Second

Call Number: 02.8 Sc1t

Author: van Schaik, Bob; Burgess, C.L.

Responsibility: Bob van Schaik (concept and photography); C.L. Burgess (design and layout)

Edition: Second

Publisher: Edmonton, Alberta

Published Date: 2020

Physical Description: 16 pages ; b&w illustrations

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

Subjects: Banff; Banff (townsite); Rock climbing

Abstract: Pertains to sites to climb within the Banff townsite

Contents: Southwest wall of Donald Cameron Hall; The spectrum traverse; Book & Art Den; Cascade Tavern; Bud depot; King Edward Hotel; Credit Union; Liquor Store; Banff Park Lodge; Post Office; Bridge on Banff Avenue; Banff Springs Hotel; Notes; About the climber

Notes: First Limited edition Banff, Alberta 1978; Second edition, Edmonton, Alberta 2020

Accession Number: 2021.08

Call Number: 02.8 Sc1t

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Kenora rock climbs

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

Published Date: 2019

Author: Brown, Mike; Munro, Ryan

Publisher: Kenora, Ontario : Kenora Rock Climbs

Edition: 2nd

Call Number: F1059 B76 K46

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Author: Brown, Mike; Munro, Ryan

Edition: 2nd

Publisher: Kenora, Ontario : Kenora Rock Climbs

Published Date: 2019

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

Subjects: Rock climbing; Guidebook; Guidebooks; Ontario

Abstract: Northwestern Ontario hosts some of the oldest and hardest granite cliffs in North America, surrounded by beautiful clean lakes. KENORA ROCK CLIMBS is the most complete guide to this pristine region stretching from the Whiteshell Provincial Park to just east of Kenora, Ontario. Most of the climbing is located less than three hours from Winnipeg and is frequented by climbers for day trips and weekend adventures.This book covers eight main popular areas, over 400 sport, trad, aid, and bouldering routes, useful tips (and less useful tips), original writing, drawings, and maps, sweet photos of a few people who love this as much as we do. This one’s for the gear heads, the noobs, the pebble wrestlers, the crushers, and the dirtbags. (Kenora Rock Climbs website)

Contents: Introduction; Local beta:; Kenora; The weather; Choosing a cliff; Camping; Enjoying the great outdoors; Route development and ethics; How to use this book; Rock climbs:; Lily Pond; Roadside; Gooseneck; Cave Cliff; South Cliff; Jones; Jones Bouldering; Echo; Panorama; Whiskeyjacks; Route index; Rest day material:; So many stories / game changer; Berry picking; Climbing timeline; Eagle's nest; Wildlife; Rebolting initiative; Profits over people

Notes: Banff Mountail Film and Book Festival 2019

ISBN: 978199954170

Accession Number: AC638

Call Number: F1059 B76 K46

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Kenora Rock Climbs website

Websites

http://www.kenorarockclimbs.com/index.html

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Some stories : lessons from the edge of business and sport

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

Published Date: 2019

Author: Chouinard, Yvon

Publisher: Ventura, CA : Patagonia Books

Call Number: SK S66 C46

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Author: Chouinard, Yvon

Publisher: Ventura, CA : Patagonia Books

Published Date: 2019

Physical Description: 464 pages : illustrations (chiefly color)

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

Subjects: Autobiography; Essays; Environment; Environmental conservation; Equipment; Businesses; Rock climbing

Abstract: This collection of stories, articles, reflections and more offers insight into the life of an iconoclastic business leader and itinerant adventurer. Like sitting around the campfire, sharing a bottle of wine while telling stories, Some Stories is an eclectic portrait of a unique life well lived. (from Patagonia website)

Contents: North America Wall, Yosemite Valley -- Cathedral Rocks, Yosemite Valley -- Yosemite Valley, California -- Patagonia -- Doug Tompkins -- Flamingos, Patagonia -- Sandhill cranes, Nebraska -- Fiordo de las Montan~as, Chile -- Headwaters of Lago Inexplorado, Chile -- Bonefishing in the Bahamas -- Hatchery fish being released into San Francisco Bay -- Coastal wolves, British Columbia -- 12,000 young voters, Washington, DC.

Notes: Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019

ISBN: 9781938340826

Accession Number: AC638

Call Number: SK S66 C46

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Summary on Patagonia website

Websites

https://www.patagonia.com/product/some-stories-lessons-from-the-edge-of-business-and-sport-by-yvon-chouinard-hardcover-book-published-by-patagonia/BK805.html

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Okanagan bouldering guidebook

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

Published Date: 2019

Author: White, Andy

Publisher: Gniess Guy Publishing

Call Number: F1087 O53 W45

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Author: White, Andy

Publisher: Gniess Guy Publishing

Published Date: 2019

Physical Description: 544 pages

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

Subjects: Rock climbing; Okanagan, British Columbia; Guidebook; Guidebooks

Abstract: Okanagan Bouldering is the comprehensive bouldering guidebook to 1800 problems in 9 locations throughout BC's beautiful Okanagan Valley. From lakeside granite to high elevation gneiss boulder fields, this book is loaded with quality problems to blow the lid off the bouldering in the Okanagan. (from Gneiss Guy Publishing website)

Contents: Introduction; Central Okanagan bouldering:; The Boulderfields:; The Southwest fields; The East fields; The Central fields; The North fields; The Ruins; Pebble Beach; North Okanagan bouldering:; Cougar Canyon; Ellision Provincial Park; South Okanagan bouldering:; The Slayers; The Sunstone; Skaha Provincial Park; The Winter Pig Hotel; In memorial; Index of problems by nature

Notes: Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019

ISBN: 9781775371908

Accession Number: AC638

Call Number: F1087 O53 W45

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Summary on Gneiss Guy Publishing website

Websites

https://gneissguypublishing.com/products/okanagan-bouldering-guidebook

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Mo' beta : rock climbs of Missouri

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

Published Date: 2019

Author: Collins, Jeremy

Publisher: Jefferson City, MO : Modern Litho.

Call Number: A17 M63 C65

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Author: Collins, Jeremy

Publisher: Jefferson City, MO : Modern Litho.

Published Date: 2019

Physical Description: 272 pages : color illustrations, color maps

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

Subjects: Guidebook; Guidebooks; Rock climbing

Abstract: Comprehensive guide to climbing in Missouri with over 500 routes

Contents: Acknowledgements; Forward; Preface; How to use this guide; How to be a climber; Map of Contents; Chapter 1 - Kansas City; Chapter 2 - Truman Lake; Chapter 3 - Boone County; Chapter 4 - Somo; Chater 5 - Elephant Rocks; Chapter 6 - Capital Crags; Route Index

Notes: Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019

Accession Number: AC638

Call Number: A17 M63 C65

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Publication website with interactive map showing climb locations

Websites

http://mo-beta.com/

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Hangdog days : conflict, change, and the race for 5.14

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

Published Date: 2019

Author: Smoot, Jeff

Publisher: Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books

Call Number: G513 H35 S66

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Author: Smoot, Jeff

Publisher: Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books

Published Date: 2019

Physical Description: 302 pages : illustrations

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

Subjects: Rock climbing; History

Abstract: Hangdog Days vividly chronicles the era when rock climbing exploded in popularity, attracting a new generation of talented climbers eager to reach new heights via harder routes and faster ascents. This contentious, often entertaining period gave rise to sport climbing, climbing gyms, and competitive climbing--indelibly transforming the sport. Jeff Smoot was one of those brash young climbers, and here he traces the development of traditional climbing "rules," enforced first through peer pressure, then later through intimidation and sabotage. In the late '70s, several climbers began introducing new tactics including "hangdogging," hanging on gear to practice moves, that the old guard considered cheating. As more climbers broke ranks with traditional style, the new gymnastic approach pushed the limits of climbing from 5.12 to 5.13. When French climber Jean-Baptiste Tribout ascended To Bolt or Not to Be, 5.14a, at Smith Rock in 1986, he cracked a barrier many people had considered impenetrable. In his lively, fast-paced history enriched with insightful firsthand experience, Smoot focuses on the climbing achievements of three of the era's superstars: John Bachar, Todd Skinner, and Alan Watts, while not neglecting the likes of Ray Jardine, Lynn Hill, Mark Hudon, Tony Yaniro, and Peter Croft. He deftly brings to life the characters and events of this raucous, revolutionary time in rock climbing, exploring, as he says, "what happened and why it mattered, not only to me but to the people involved and those who have followed" (from Mountaineers Books website)

Contents: Part One. The hangdog days -- Part Two. If not now, when? -- Part Three. The renegade -- Part Four. The godforsaken rock -- Part Five. That accursed crack -- Part Six. Churning in the wake.

Notes: Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019 finalist for Mountain Literature

ISBN: 9781680512328

Accession Number: AC639

Call Number: G513 H35 S66

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Summary on Mountaineers Books website

Websites

https://www.mountaineers.org/books/books/hangdog-days-conflict-change-and-the-race-for-5.14

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Paul Preuss, lord of the abyss : life and death at the birth of free-climbing

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

Published Date: 2019

Author: Smart, David

Publisher: Toronto : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: G513 P38 S63

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Author: Smart, David

Publisher: Toronto : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2019

Physical Description: 248 pages : illus.

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

Subjects: Rock climbing; History; Biography

Abstract: In the months before his death in 1913, from falling more than 300 metres during an attempt to make the first free solo ascent of the North Ridge of the Mandlkogel, Paul Preuss’s public presentations on his climbing adventures filled concert halls in Austria, Italy, and Germany. George Mallory, the famed English mountaineer who died on Mount Everest in 1924, said “no one will ever equal Preuss.“ Reinhold Messner, the first climber to ascend all fourteen 8000 metre peaks, was so impressed by the young Austrian’s achievements that he built a mountaineering museum around Preuss’s piton hammer, wrote two books (in German) about him and instituted a foundation in Preuss’s name. Alex Honnold, the first and only person to free solo El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, has thought about Preuss’ untimely and surprising death and imagined it to have likely been “the worst four seconds” of Preuss’ life. Although he died at only 27 years old, modern climbing may never have developed the ethical, existential core that it has today if not for Preuss’s bold style. Even the most trenchant traditionalists remain unsure about whether to add him to their pantheon or dismiss him as at worst a lunatic or at best an indelicate subject better left ignored. Smart’s biography is the first English language volume to be published and is certain to bring the remarkable story of Paul Preuss to a whole new generation of climbers. (from Rocky Mountain Books website)

Contents: Introduction : Paul Preuss; The boy who loved flowers and mountains; The student mountaineer : Vienna, 1907-1910; Schneid : Planspitze, Matterhorn, 1908; Jesus of the Dorotheergasse, 1909; Dolomites : the Devil's Lair, Summer 1910; In Munich, the city of climbers; Allein : five days that changed climbing, summer 1911; A crazy notion : the great dispute, 1911-12; Doctor Preuss presents; Life as a trifle : the Kaisergebirge, Northern Limestone and the Western Alps, 1912-13; Valhalla : Mandlkogel North Face, October 1913; The sleeper of Altaussee; Acknowledgements; Selected bibliography; Notes; Index

Notes: Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019 shortlist for Mountain Literature

ISBN: 9781771603232

Accession Number: AC639

Call Number: G513 P38 S63

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Summary on Rocky Mountain Books website

Websites

https://rmbooks.com/book/paul-preuss-lord-of-the-abyss/

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Southern Pisgah rock & ice : a climber's guide to North Carolina's Looking Glass Rock, Cedar Rock, John Rock and more

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

Published Date: 2018

Author: Reardon, Mike

Publisher: Asheville, N.C. : Ground Up Publishing

Call Number: F254 R43 S68

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Author: Reardon, Mike

Responsibility: Harrison Shull; Laura Boggess; Anthony Love; Marci Spencer; Heath Alexander

Publisher: Asheville, N.C. : Ground Up Publishing

Published Date: 2018

Physical Description: 408 pages : color illustrations, maps

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

Subjects: Rock climbing; Guidebook; Guidebooks; United States

Abstract: Southern Pisgah Rock & Ice takes you to several classic and obscure climbing destinations throughout Pisgah National Forest's Pisgah Ranger District. The climbs outlined comprise one of the most diverse climbing regions in Eastern America. In Southern Pisgah you will find an endless concentration of moderate multi-pitch options, several ice routes when conditions yield, high end grade IV aid routes, endless traditional routes from 5.2-5.13, roadside crags and backcountry hidden gems, overhung sport routes, dead vertical bullet hard granite, cracks, water grooves, slabs, eye brows, roofs, flakes, dihedrals, and far more. In addition to getting you to the base of the routes, we hope the pages within this guide reveal the color and character of nearly sic decades of NC climbing (from book flap)

Contents: Introduction; Looking Glass Rock; John Rock; Cedar Rock; Cathey's Creek Crag; Area; Pilot Cove / Slate Rock; Big Ivy Region; People and Stories; Index

Notes: Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival; 850 routes included ; 5.2-5.13 ; 60 ice climbs from WI2-WI4+ ; Trad, sport, aid, ice, alpine style routes ; Single pitch, multi-pitch up to 8 pitches ; Hand drawn, detailed topos and maps, GPS coordinates ; Historic accounts, historic photos ; Hundreds of route and action photos ; Access and stewardship information

ISBN: 9781618501301

Accession Number: AC638

Call Number: F254 R43 S68

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Summary on Ground Up Publishing website

Websites

https://grounduppublishing.com/

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The white cliff : epic tales of life and death on the world's best sea cliff

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

Published Date: 2018

Author: Farquhar, Grant (editor)

Publisher: Dundee : Atlantis Publishing

Call Number: DA T44 F37

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Author: Farquhar, Grant (editor)

Publisher: Dundee : Atlantis Publishing

Published Date: 2018

Physical Description: vi, 390 pages : illustrations

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

Subjects: Rock climbing; England; Essays

Abstract: The White Cliff is a collection of writings about the best sea cliff in the world: Gogarth. This book has a historical narrative into which are embedded essays by various protagonists. The book is not just about the place, though. The climbers who have been drawn to touch the stone of Gogarth have often been the best of their generation and have pioneered amazing routes elsewhere. The book is also about their personal stories of life and death. It details the history of the exploration of the cliff in the context of the time period, climbing standards and the development of equipment and techniques. In the process, it touches on a myriad of related issues. The chapters are structured by area. Most of the essays and images are previously unpublished but some have appeared before in books, magazines, or journals. Grant Farquhar has been climbing for over 35 years. Currently resident (and climbing) in Bermuda, he was highly active on Gogarth in the 90s and despite living faraway has retained his affection for the place. The book includes contributions from over 100 Gogarth pioneers including Martin Boysen, Joe Brown, Pete Crew, Henry Barber, Arnis Strapcans, Dave Durkan, Geoff Birtles, John Cleare, Leo Dickinson, Ed Drummond, Richard McHardy, Doug Scott, Smiler Cuthbertson, Mick Fowler, Pat Littlejohn, Ron Fawcett, Geoff Milburn, Jim Moran, John Redhead, Dave Towse, Glenda Huxter, Johnny Dawes, Paul Pritchard, Stevie Haston, Andy Pollitt, Steve Andrews, Twid Turner, Adam Wainwright, George Smith, Glenn Robbins, Tim Emmett, Neil Dickson, Jules Lines, Nick Bullock, Alex Mason, Emma Twyford, James McHaffie and Tom Livingstone. (from Cordee website)

Contents: Introduction; Part 1: The White Cliff; Part 2: The Psychedelic Cliff; Part 3: Aqua-Alpinism; Acknowledgements; Index

Notes: Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival

ISBN: 9781999960001

Accession Number: AC638

Call Number: DA T44 F37

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Summary on Cordee website

Websites

https://www.cordee.co.uk/The-White-Cliff-det-0-0-0-15588.html?utm_content=link1&utm_campaign=gear_id_11097&utm_medium=gear_post&utm_source=ukclimbing

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Snoqualmie rock

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

Published Date: 2018

Author: Hicks, Kurt

Publisher: [Leavenworth, Washington] : Obvious Gully

Edition: 1st

Call Number: F41 S66 W45

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Author: Hicks, Kurt

Edition: 1st

Publisher: [Leavenworth, Washington] : Obvious Gully

Published Date: 2018

Physical Description: xiii, 319 pages : color illustrations, color maps

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

Subjects: Rock climbing; Guidebook; Guidebooks; Washington; Washington, United States

Abstract: Featuring over 700 rock climbs in the Snoqualmie Valley, this comprehensive guidebook includes the most popular crags in Washington's Cascade Mountains. Each crag has full-color phots, approach and cliff maps, and detailed route information. (from Mountain Project website)

Contents: Introduction; Little Si; Middle Fork; Mount Washington; Deception Crags; The Far Side; Snoqualmie Pass; Outlying Crags; Resources; Routes by grade; Photography credits; Index

Notes: Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019

ISBN: 9780692879276

Accession Number: AC638

Call Number: F41 S66 W45

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Publication website including preview

Websites

https://www.snoqualmierock.com/

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The impossible climb : Alex Honnold, El Capitan, and the climbing life

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

Published Date: 2018

Author: Synnott, Mark

Publisher: [New York, New York] : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC

Call Number: G512 T44 S96

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Author: Synnott, Mark

Publisher: [New York, New York] : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC

Published Date: 2018

Physical Description: viii, 405 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color)

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

Subjects: Rock climbing; Travel

Abstract: In Mark Synnott’s unique window on the ethos of climbing, his friend Alex Honnold’s astonishing free solo ascent of El Capitan’s 3,000 feet of sheer granite is the central act. When Honnold topped out at 9:28 A.M. on June 3, 2017, having spent fewer than four hours on his historic ascent, the world gave a collective gasp. The New York Times described it as “one of the great athletic feats of any kind, ever.” Synnott’s personal history of his own obsession with climbing since he was a teenager—through professional climbing triumphs and defeats, and the dilemmas they render—makes this a deeply reported, enchanting revelation about living life to the fullest. What are we doing if not an impossible climb? Synnott delves into a raggedy culture that emerged decades earlier during Yosemite’s Golden Age, when pioneering climbers like Royal Robbins and Warren Harding invented the sport that Honnold would turn on its ear. Painting an authentic, wry portrait of climbing history and profiling Yosemite heroes and the harlequin tribes of climbers known as the Stonemasters and the Stone Monkeys, Synnott weaves in his own experiences with poignant insight and wit: tensions burst on the mile-high northwest face of Pakistan’s Great Trango Tower; fellow climber Jimmy Chin miraculously persuades an official in the Borneo jungle to allow Honnold’s first foreign expedition, led by Synnott, to continue; armed bandits accost the same trio at the foot of a tower in the Chad desert . . . The Impossible Climb is an emotional drama driven by people exploring the limits of human potential and seeking a perfect, choreographed dance with nature. Honnold dared far beyond the ordinary, beyond any climber in history. But this story of sublime heights is really about all of us. Who doesn’t need to face down fear and make the most of the time we have? (from Penguin Random House website)

Contents: "The Hon is going to freesolo El Cap" -- Crazy kids of America -- A vision of the stonemasters' lightning -- Stone monkey -- Crashing the gravy train on the vertical mile -- The secret weapon, Mr. Safety, and Xiao Pung-- Non-profit -- Secret dawn walls -- Amygdala -- The source -- "Her attitude is awesome" -- Fun.

ISBN: 9781101986646

Accession Number: AC639

Call Number: G512 T44 S96

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Summary on Penguin Random House website

Websites

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/555194/the-impossible-climb-by-mark-synnott/9781101986660

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TIDES : a climber's voyage

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

Published Date: 2018

Author: Bullock, Nick

Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : VERTEBRATE Publishing

Call Number: G512 T53 B85

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Author: Bullock, Nick

Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] : VERTEBRATE Publishing

Published Date: 2018

Physical Description: 1 volume : illustrations (black and white, and colour)

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

Subjects: Rock climbing; Autobiography; Travel

Abstract: Nick Bullock is a climber who lives in a small green van, flitting between Llanberis, Wales, and Chamonix in the French Alps. Tides, Nick’s second book, is the much-anticipated follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut Echoes. Now retired from the strain of work as a prison officer, Nick is free to climb. A lot. Tides is a treasury of his antics and adventures with some of the world’s leading climbers, including Steve House, Kenton Cool, Nico Favresse, Andy Houseman and James McHaffie. Follow Nick and his partners as they push the limits on some of the world’s most serious routes: The Bells! The Bells! on Gogarth’s North Stack Wall; the Slovak Direct on Denali; Guerdon Grooves on Buachaille Etive Mor; and the north faces of Chang Himal and Mount Alberta, among countless others. Nick’s life can be equated to the rhythm of the sea. At high tide, he climbs, he loves it, he is good at it; he laughs and jokes, scares himself, falls, gets back up and climbs some more. Then the tide goes out and he finds himself alone, exposed, all questions and no answers. Self-doubt, grieving for friends or family, fearful, sometimes opinionated, occasionally angry – his writing more honest and exposed than in any account of a climb. Only when the tide turns is he able to forget once more. Tides is a gripping memoir that captures the very essence of what it means to dedicate one’s life to climbing. (from Vertebrate Publishing website)

Contents: Prologue - living scared; love and hate; immortal?; nothing more; the cutting lap; the rain; the emotional tightrope; bad shit; deception; the web; cravings; death or glory; slave to the rhythm?; bittersweet desire; strange eden; how soon is now; you only live twice; the cathedral; trapped; evening redness in the west; into the shadow; similar to a scottish quarry; best before; death of paradise; the pitfalls of a peroni supermodel; what were his dreams?; balloons; that's rowdy, dude; over the top; flames; dreams and screams; just beneath the surface; the light of the moon; the mountain soundtrack; please queue here; dawn to dusk to dawn; threshold shift; postscript; acknowledgements

Notes: Signed by author; Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival winner for Mountain Literature (non-fiction) Jon Whyte award

ISBN: 9781911342533

Accession Number: AC639

Call Number: G512 T53 B85

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Summary on Vertebrate Publishing website

Websites

https://www.v-publishing.co.uk/books/narratives/tides/

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End of the rope : mountains, marriage, and motherhood

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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

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

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

URL Notes: Summary on Counterpoint Press website

Websites

https://www.counterpointpress.com/dd-product/end-of-the-rope/

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Top rope rock climbing leader field handbook

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

Published Date: 2017

Author: Alpine Club of Canada

Publisher: Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada

Call Number: G513 A47 T67

Author: Alpine Club of Canada

Publisher: Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada

Published Date: 2017

Physical Description: 90 pages

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

Subjects: Alpine Club of Canada; Guidebooks; Rock climbing

ISBN: 9780920330630

Accession Number: AC633

Call Number: G513 A47 T67

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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The magician's glass : character and fate : eight essays on climbing and the mountain life

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

Published Date: 2017

Author: Douglas, Ed

Publisher: Sheffield, England : Vertbrate Publishing

Call Number: G510 D68 M34

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Author: Douglas, Ed

Responsibility: Ed Douglas

Publisher: Sheffield, England : Vertbrate Publishing

Published Date: 2017

Physical Description: 192 p .

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

Subjects: Essays; Mountaineering; Rock climbing

Abstract: The Magician’s Glass by award-winning writer Ed Douglas is a collection of eight recent essays on some of the biggest stories and best-known personalities in the world of climbing. In the title essay, he writes about failure on Annapurna III in 1981, one of the boldest attempts in Himalayan mountaineering on one of the most beautiful lines – a line that remains unclimbed to this day. Douglas writes about bitter controversies, like that surrounding Ueli Steck’s disputed solo ascent of the south face of Annapurna, the fate of Toni Egger on Cerro Torre in 1959 – when Cesare Maestri claimed the pair had made the first ascent, and the rise and fall of Slovenian ace Tomaz Humar. There are profiles of two stars of the 1980s: the much-loved German Kurt Albert, the father of the ‘redpoint’, and the enigmatic rock star Patrick Edlinger, a national hero in his native France who lost his way. In Crazy Wisdom, Douglas offers fresh perspectives on the impact mountaineering has on local communities and the role climbers play in the developing world. The final essay explores the relationship between art and alpinism as a way of understanding why it is that people climb mountains. (from publisher's website)

Contents: Foreward by Katie Ives; The magician's glass; Stealing Toni Egger; Searching for Tomaz Humar; Bit guts; Crazy wisdom; What's eating Ueli Steck?; Lone wolf; Lines of beauty : the art of climbing; Acknowledgements