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Adventures of an alpine guide

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1932
Author
Klucker, Christian
Publisher
London : John Murray
Edition
1st (English)
Call Number
01.2 K71a
Author
Klucker, Christian
Responsibility
Translation by Erwin and Pleasaunce Von Gaisberg. Edited with additional chapters by H. E. G. Tyndale
Edition
1st (English)
Publisher
London : John Murray
Published Date
1932
Physical Description
329 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Guide
Klucker, Christian
Alps
Whymper, Edward
Canadian Rockies
Mont Blanc
Mountaineering
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
01.2 K71a
Collection
Archives Library
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The high Alps : a natural history of ice and snow

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1931
Author
Tutton, A. E. H.
Publisher
London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.
Edition
2nd edition
Call Number
03 T89t
Author
Tutton, A. E. H.
Edition
2nd edition
Publisher
London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.
Published Date
1931
Physical Description
317 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Water
Ice
Snow
Science
Expeditions
Alps
Contents
PART I -- I. Introduction -- II. The evolution of our knowledge of water and ice -- III. The physical relationships of water and ice -- IV. The crystal structure of ice and snow -- V. Optical, thermal, and electrical properties of ice -- VI. Plasticity, viscosity, and elasticity of ice -- VII. Artificial ice production, river and ground ice, arctic and antarctic ice -- PART II -- VIII. The Alps, the ice and snow mountains of central Europe and their call -- IX. Nature and geological character of the Alps -- X. Situations of the ranges, peaks, and glaciers of the Alps -- XI. Snow-caps and glaciers and their movements -- XII. Crevasses, bergschrunds, and seracs ; dirt-bands and veins ; moraines and glacier lakes -- XIII. How the great summits have been conquered -- PART III -- XIV. Expeditions in the Bernese Oberland -- XV. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps, Monte Rosa -- Matterhorn section -- XVI. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps. Zinai, ferpecle and arolla section -- XVII. Expeditions in the chain of Mont Blanc -- XVIII. The ascent of Mont Blanc. Scientific work on the mountain -- XIX. Expeditions in the Graian and Dauphine Alps -- XX. Expeditions in the Bernina Alps and ortler group.
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
03 T89t
Collection
Archives Library
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Norway and its glaciers, visited in 1851 : followed by journals of excursions in the high Alps

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1853
Author
Forbes, James David
Publisher
Edinburgh : Black
Call Number
DL417 F6
Author
Forbes, James David
Publisher
Edinburgh : Black
Published Date
1853
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Alps
Notes
Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library
Call Number
DL417 F6
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
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