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... et la Montagne conquit l'Homme : histoire du developpement de l'alpinisme

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

Published Date: 1931

Author: Schwartz, Myrtil

Publisher: Paris : Fischbacher

Call Number: G510 S383

Author: Schwartz, Myrtil

Publisher: Paris : Fischbacher

Published Date: 1931

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

Call Number: G510 S383

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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The 9th grade : 150 years of free climbing

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

Published Date: 2015

Author: Chambre, David

Publisher: Les Editions du Mont-Blanc

Call Number: G510 C43 N56

Author: Chambre, David

Publisher: Les Editions du Mont-Blanc

Published Date: 2015

Physical Description: 297 pages, illustrations (colour)

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

Subjects: France; History; Mont Blanc; Rock climbing; Yosemite Valley

ISBN: 9782365450225

Accession Number: AC633

Call Number: G510 C43 N56

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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The 11,000ers of the Canadian Rockies

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

Published Date: 2004

Author: Corbett, Bill

Publisher: Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: F1090 C67 2004

Author: Corbett, Bill

Publisher: Calgary : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2004

Physical Description: 224p. : ill., maps

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

Subjects: Guidebooks

ISBN: 1 894765 43 5

Call Number: F1090 C67 2004

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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50 percent of mountaineering is uphill : the life of Canadian mountain rescue pioneer Willi Pfisterer

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

Published Date: 2016

Author: Pfisterer, Susanna

Publisher: Edmonton : Newest Press

Call Number: G512 P45 F54

Author: Pfisterer, Susanna

Publisher: Edmonton : Newest Press

Published Date: 2016

Physical Description: 310 pages, illustrations

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

Subjects: Austria; Jasper; Rocky Mountains, Canada; Safety

ISBN: 9781926455600

Accession Number: AC633

Call Number: G512 P45 F54

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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150 of the best photographs of the lakes, Wales, Scotland and the Alps from the F.R.C.C. Abraham collection

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

Published Date: 2006

Publisher: Fell & Rock Climbing Club

Call Number: G505 F45 P46 DVD

Responsibility: edited by Iain Whitmey, Fell & Rock Climbing Club

Publisher: Fell & Rock Climbing Club

Published Date: 2006

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

Subjects: Rock climbing; Great Britain; Wales; Scotland

Notes: 1 disc

Call Number: G505 F45 P46 DVD

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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8000 metres : climbing the world's highest mountains

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

Published Date: 2013

Author: Hinkes, Alan

Publisher: Cumbria, U.K. : Cicerone Press

Call Number: G530 H56

Author: Hinkes, Alan

Publisher: Cumbria, U.K. : Cicerone Press

Published Date: 2013

Physical Description: xii, 189 pages, col. ill., maps

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

Subjects: Himalaya Mountains; Karakorum Mountains; K2; Nanga Parbat; Everest, Mount

ISBN: 9781852845483

Accession Number: AC610

Call Number: G530 H56

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Abandoned in the Arctic : Adolphus W. Greely and the Lady Franklin Bay expedition, 1881 - 1884

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

Published Date: 2007

Author: Clark, Geoffrey E.

Publisher: Portsmouth Athenaeum

Call Number: G670 C53 A23

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Author: Clark, Geoffrey E.

Responsibility: Geoffrey E. Clark

Publisher: Portsmouth Athenaeum

Published Date: 2007

Physical Description: 81 pages : illustrations, maps

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

Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Regions; Research; Survival; Film making; Films; American

Abstract: In August, 1881 Lieutenant Adolphus W. Greely and a team of 25 determined men set out as part of the First International Polar Year to build a research station on Ellesmere Island, 450 miles from the North Pole. The Lady Franklin Bay Expedition began as the most ambitious arctic expedition in United States history, but was destined to descend into a three year journey through a frozen hell - a voyage of forced retreaat, starvation, brewing mutiny and cannibalism. Against all odds, six men survived and returned to Portsmouth, New Hampshire as American heros. (from back of book)

Contents: Introduction; Adolphus W. Greely and the Lady Franklin Bay Expedition; The Beginning; Research and Exploration; The Retreat; The Rescue; Greely's Later Years; The Making of the Flim - Abandoned in the Arctic; List of Illustrations; Bibliography

Notes: DVD of associated film included with publication; Robson Gmoser was a member of the 2004 expedition team which also included Bob Saunders, Scott Simper, Julia Szucs, Tom Stere, Jeff Clark, Steve Smith, James Shedd, Gino Ded Guercio

ISBN: 0974089524

Accession Number: AC637

Call Number: G670 C53 A23

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Above all : Mount Whitney and California's highest peaks

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

Published Date: 2008

Publisher: Berkeley : Heyday Books

Call Number: F856-870 W55

Responsibility: photographs by David Stark Wilson, text by Steve Roper, foreward by Kenneth Brower

Publisher: Berkeley : Heyday Books

Published Date: 2008

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill.

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

Subjects: Whitney, Mount; Mountaineering; Rock climbing

ISBN: 9781597141079

Accession Number: AC610

Call Number: F856-870 W55

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Above the snow line : mountaineering sketches between 1870 and 1880

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

Published Date: 1885

Author: Dent, Clinton Thomas

Publisher: London : Longmans, Green

Call Number: G510 D45

Author: Dent, Clinton Thomas

Publisher: London : Longmans, Green

Published Date: 1885

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

Notes: Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library

Call Number: G510 D45

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Accessories Guitar Accessories

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Date: 1930 – 1950

Material: metal; wood; ivory; plastic

Catalogue Number: 104.34.0008 a-m

Description: A collection of odd guitar accessories. (a) finger pick set (3.4 x 2.0 diam) four metal frames that fit over the finger tip,Y-shaped with the arms of the Y forming an adjustable band that fits around finger, and the stem of the Y passing up over the tip of the finger and down the back halfway to t…

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Title: Accessories Guitar Accessories

Date: 1930 – 1950

Material: metal; wood; ivory; plastic

Dimensions: 3.4 cm

Description: A collection of odd guitar accessories. (a) finger pick set (3.4 x 2.0 diam) four metal frames that fit over the finger tip,Y-shaped with the arms of the Y forming an adjustable band that fits around finger, and the stem of the Y passing up over the tip of the finger and down the back halfway to the band, tip is crimped in stiff fold, 3 have solder at the tip to form a longer point. (MFG: Fitrite).(b) finger pick set (2.5 x 1.8 x 2.0) six metal rings that fit over the finger tips, adjustable band has circles cut out along it, flame shaped fingernail rises from band, curling inward slightly, and with cut out circle at middle. (mfg: National) (c) finger pick (2.5 x 1.9 x 2.0) as (b) but without cut out circles (mfg: Artisto) (d) finger picks (3.0 x 1.7 x 1.9) two metal bands that wrap around finger tip, widening near the end, then narrowing to a point that extends off to one side of the finger. (e) finger picks (3.5 x 1.5 x 1.9) two flat ivory bands which curl once around finger tip and extend out to one side in a point. (f) pick (3.2 x 2.3 x .1) small, flat, egg shaped, marbleized, grey plastic, stiff. (mfg: Durro). (g) pick (3.0 x 2.2 x .1) as (f) but brown tortoise shell coloured plastic (mfg: Eureka). (h) pick (2.7 x 1.9 x .1) as (f) but transparent yellowed plastic ?, slightly curled. (i) capo (5.3 x 1.9 x .9) flat metal bar with small hooks at either end to hold tightly coiled spring across the under side, lined underneath bar with cork. (mfg: Elton). j) bridge ? (4.7 x .8 x 1.1) a long, half round, hollow metal bar with six incised rings spaced evenly along the length. (mfg: Kamiki). (k) slides (7.2 x 1.7 diam) two heavy, solid, brass rods (used to slide over strings when playing the guitar Hawaiian style) (1) peg (5.0 x .9 x 2.3) white, cast plastic peg with long shaft and flattened key with finger depression each side, ferrules around top of shaft. (m) bridge (4.7 x 1.4 x 1.9) low, unfinished wood bridge with small dark support perpendicularly across under middle, short legs thicken slightly at base, series of small notches across top, some deliberately cut into wood, some worn in odd places from strings (mfg: Grover).

Subject: Whyte home; households; entertainment; pastime; Annie White; music; accessories; equipment; sound; song

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 104.34.0008 a-m

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Accessories Guitar Accessories

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Date: 1930 – 1950

Material: wood; plastic

Catalogue Number: 104.34.0009 a-e

Description: A collection of odd, stringed instrument accessories. (a) bridge (5.0 x 1.3 x .5) long, squared, wood, with low legs thicker at base, four shallow notches evenly spaced across top, for ukulele?( b) bridge (4.4 x 1.7 x .6) as (a) but taller and not as long. (c) bridge (2.7 x 2.1 x .3) a small, …

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Title: Accessories Guitar Accessories

Date: 1930 – 1950

Material: wood; plastic

Dimensions: 5.0 x 1.3 x 0.5 cm

Description: A collection of odd, stringed instrument accessories. (a) bridge (5.0 x 1.3 x .5) long, squared, wood, with low legs thicker at base, four shallow notches evenly spaced across top, for ukulele?( b) bridge (4.4 x 1.7 x .6) as (a) but taller and not as long. (c) bridge (2.7 x 2.1 x .3) a small, high, yellowed, glass like bridge with arced top, and arch under between legs, curved in at sides, and four shallow notches across top. (d) pegs (15.9 x .9 x 1.9) three plain, wooden tuning pegs with straight, tapering shafts, and simple round flat keys at top with depressions for fingers to grasp, small slit cut across bottom, impressed marks from strings around bottom. (e)pick guard (7.8 x 5.2) small, lyre shaped form cut from a thin sheet of tortoiseshell patterned plastic, two pinholes at stem where broken off from something else (a bracket?).

Subject: Whyte home; households; entertainment; pastime; Annie White; music; accessories; equipment; sound; song;

Credit: Gift of Catharine Robb Whyte, O. C., Banff, 1979

Catalogue Number: 104.34.0009 a-e

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Account of Tibet : the travels of Ippolito Desideri of Pistoia...1712-1727 Edited by Filippo de Filippi

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

Published Date: 1937

Author: Desideri, Ippolito

Publisher: London : Routledge

Edition: Rev. ed

Call Number: DS785 D4

Author: Desideri, Ippolito

Edition: Rev. ed

Publisher: London : Routledge

Published Date: 1937

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

Call Number: DS785 D4

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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

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

Published Date: 2005

Author: Buhl, Hermann

Publisher: Munich, Germany : Piper Verlag GmbH

Call Number: G512 B84

Author: Buhl, Hermann

Responsibility: Hermann Buhl

Publisher: Munich, Germany : Piper Verlag GmbH

Published Date: 2005

Physical Description: 360p. : ill.

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

Subjects: Buhl, Hermann; Nanga Parbat; Mountaineering

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

ISBN: 978-3-89029-303-5

Accession Number: AC602

Call Number: G512 B84

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Across Patagonia

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

Published Date: 1880

Author: Dixie, Lady Florence Caroline (Douglas)

Publisher: London : Bentley

Call Number: F2936 D5

Author: Dixie, Lady Florence Caroline (Douglas)

Publisher: London : Bentley

Published Date: 1880

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

Call Number: F2936 D5

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Advanced rock climbing : expert skills and techniques

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

Published Date: 2016

Author: Donahue, Topher

Publisher: Seatte, Washington : Mountaineers Books

Edition: 1st ed.

Call Number: G513 D66 A38

Author: Donahue, Topher

Responsibility: Topher Donahue

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: Seatte, Washington : Mountaineers Books

Published Date: 2016

Physical Description: 350 p. ; illustrations (colour)

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

Subjects: Rock climbing

Abstract: Advanced Rock Climbing: Expert Skills and Technique is for good climbers who want to get even better, from training to gear, sport climbing to multi-pitch efficiency, and beyond. Each chapter has detailed advice from some of the world's best climbers and guides, Tommy Caldwell, Angela Hawse, Justen Sjong, Steph Davis, Sonny Trotter, Alex Honnold, Lynn Hill, and more. (from WorldCat).

Contents: Foreward; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 - Face climbing; Chapter 2 - Crack climbing; Chapter 3 - Climbing gear; Chapter 4 - Knots and anchoring; Chapter 5 - Traditional gear placement; Chapter 6 - Belaying for mastery; Chapter 7 - Sport climbing; Chapter 8 - Traditional lead climbing; Chapter 9 - Long route efficiency; Chapter 10 - Big wall free climbing; Chapter 11 - Rappelling and descents; Chapter 12 - Bouldering; Chapter 13 - Performance; Chapter 14 - Improvised rescue and epic avoidance; Contributor profiles; Resources; Index