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Alpine Scenes and Work Near Home

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

Published Date: 1890

Author: J.R.

Publisher: Harper's Weekly

Call Number: 02.6 R11a PAM O.S

Author: J.R.

Responsibility: J.R. (author); Frederic Remington (illustrator)

Publisher: Harper's Weekly

Published Date: 1890

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

Subjects: Mountaineering; Mountaineers, British; Mountaineers, Swiss; Sir Donald, Mount; Glacier House; Travel; Tourism; Canadian Pacific Railway; Canadian Pacific Railway Hotels

Abstract: Pertains to Glacier House and the ascent of Sir Donald by Emil Huber and Carl Sulzer from Switzerland and Harry Cooper from England with illustration on page 725

Notes: In Harper's Weekly, Vol. XXXIV No. 1760, September 13, 1890, pp. 723 - 725

Accession Number: 7979

Call Number: 02.6 R11a PAM O.S

Collection: Archives Library

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Tales of western mountaineer : a record of mountain experiences on the Pacific coast

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

Published Date: 1924

Author: Rusk, C. E.

Publisher: Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company

Edition: 1st edition

Call Number: 01.3 R89t

Author: Rusk, C. E.

Edition: 1st edition

Publisher: Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company

Published Date: 1924

Physical Description: 309 pages ; 40 ill.

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

Subjects: Mountaineering; Alpine sport; Glaciers; Avalanches; Crevasses

Abstract: This is a book of cliffs and crags, glaciers and crevasses, rope-work, axe-work, glissading, bergschrunds, arêtes, snow cornices, avalanches, -- everything that goes to make up mountain climbing of the genuine alpine sort. Excerpt from dustjacket.

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 01.3 R89t

Collection: Archives Library

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Mountain climbing

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

Published Date: 1897

Publisher: London : Charles Scribner's Sons

Call Number: 01 W69m

Responsibility: Edward L. Wilson, Edwin Lord Weeks, A. F. Jaccaci, W. Martin-Conway, Mark Brickell Kerr, William Williams, and H. F. B. Lynch

Publisher: London : Charles Scribner's Sons

Published Date: 1897

Physical Description: 358 pages

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

Subjects: Mountaineering; St. Elias; Alps; Climbing; Glaciers

Contents: I. Mount Washington in winter / Edward L. Wilson -- II. Some episodes of mountaineering by a cause amateur / Edwin Lord Weeks -- III. Ascent of Mount Aetna / A. F. Jaccaci -- IV. Ascent of Mount Ararat / H. F. B. Lynch -- V. Climbing Mount St. Elias / William Williams -- VI. Mount St. Elias and its glaciers / Mark Brickell Kerr -- VII. One thousand miles through the Alps / Sir. W. Martin Conway

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 01 W69m

Collection: Archives Library

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My climbs in the Alps and Caucasus

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

Published Date: 1895

Author: Mummery, A. F.

Publisher: London : T. Fisher Unwin

Call Number: 01.2 M92m

Author: Mummery, A. F.

Publisher: London : T. Fisher Unwin

Published Date: 1895

Physical Description: 360 pages

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

Subjects: Mountaineering; Alps; Caucasus; Mummery, A. F.

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 01.2 M92m

Collection: Archives Library

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History of Moraine Lake

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

Published Date: 1970

Author: Gest, Lillian

Call Number: 08.3 M79g Pam

Author: Gest, Lillian

Published Date: 1970

Physical Description: 39p. : ill., map

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

Subjects: Mountaineering; Names, Geographical

Notes: Bibliography

Accession Number: 857; 4083

Call Number: 08.3 M79g Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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What to wear walking, riding, climbing and big game hunting in the Canadian Pacific Rockies

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

Published Date: 1925

Author: Fynn, Val

Publisher: [Montreal] : Canadian Pacific Railway

Edition: [Rev. ed.]

Call Number: 02.7 F99 Pam

Author: Fynn, Val

Edition: [Rev. ed.]

Publisher: [Montreal] : Canadian Pacific Railway

Published Date: 1925

Physical Description: 23p. : ill

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

Subjects: Clothing; Equipment; Mountaineering

Notes: Cover title: What to wear in the Canadian Pacific Rockies

Accession Number: 3206

Call Number: 02.7 F99 Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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What to wear walking, riding, climbing, and big game hunting in the Canadian Pacific Rockies

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

Published Date: 1923

Author: Fynn, Val

Publisher: [Montreal] : Canadian Pacific Railway

Edition: [1st ed.]

Call Number: 02.7 F99 1923 Pam

Author: Fynn, Val

Edition: [1st ed.]

Publisher: [Montreal] : Canadian Pacific Railway

Published Date: 1923

Physical Description: 23p. : ill

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

Subjects: Clothing; Equipment; Mountaineering

Notes: Cover title: What to wear in the Canadian Pacific Rockies

Call Number: 02.7 F99 1923 Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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One man's mountains : Joe Weiss in Jasper

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

Published Date: 1979

Author: Collinson, Helen

Publisher: Edmonton : The University of Alberta Collections

Author: Collinson, Helen

Responsibility: Helen Collinson

Publisher: Edmonton : The University of Alberta Collections

Published Date: 1979

Physical Description: 43 pages : illustrations ; 20 x 23 cm

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

Subjects: Mountaineering; Weiss, Joe; Photography; Jasper; Jasper National Park; Pictorial works; Bibliography; Exhibition catalogue; Alberta; Canadian Rockies; Canadian Rocky Mountains

Accession Number: 2019.64

Collection: Archives Library

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Mount Analogue : a novel of symbolically authentic non-Euclidean adventures in mountain climbing

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

Published Date: c1974; 1959; 1952

Author: Daumal, Rene

Call Number: 05.2 D26

Author: Daumal, Rene

Responsibility: translation and introd. by Roger Shattuck; postface by Vera Daumal

Published Date: c1974; 1959; 1952

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

Subjects: Mountaineering

Call Number: 05.2 D26

Collection: Archives Library

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Solo faces

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

Published Date: c1979

Author: Salter, James

Call Number: 05.2 Sa3

Author: Salter, James

Published Date: c1979

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

Subjects: Mountaineering

Call Number: 05.2 Sa3

Collection: Archives Library

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Mountaineering

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

Published Date: 1892

Author: Dent, Clinton Thomas

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green

Call Number: 01.2 D41m

Author: Dent, Clinton Thomas

Responsibility: by C. T. Dent, Illustrations by H.G. Willink et. al.

Publisher: London, Longmans, Green

Published Date: 1892

Physical Description: xx, 439 p. illus., ports., diagrs.

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

Series: The Badminton library of sports and pastimes, ed. by his Grace the Duke of Beaufort K.G. assisted by A.E.T. Watson

Subjects: Women; Mountaineering; Whymper, Edward

Notes: By C. T. Dent with contributions by W. M. Conway, D. W. Freshfield, C. E. Mathews, C. Pilkington, Sir F. Pollock, H. G. Willink, and an introduction by Mr. Justice Wills; This book was used by Walter Wilcox, Sam Allen, and other members of the Yale "Lake Louise" Club in 1893. It was printed in 1892 and considered very up-to-date.; Includes discussion of 'Climbing outfits for ladies' p. 50-52