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Everest, the west ridge
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14869
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Hornbein, Thomas Frederic
- Publisher
- Seattle : Mountaineers
- Edition
- fiftieth anniversary edition
- Call Number
- DS486 E8 H58 2013
- Author
- Hornbein, Thomas Frederic
- Responsibility
- Thomas Hornbein, 50th anniversary edition foreward by Jon Krakauer
- Edition
- fiftieth anniversary edition
- Publisher
- Seattle : Mountaineers
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- 303 pages, col. ill.
- Subjects
- Everest, Mount
- Mountaineering
- ISBN
- 9781594857072
- Accession Number
- AC609
- Call Number
- DS486 E8 H58 2013
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Everest, the west ridge, abridged
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15120
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1968
- Author
- Hornbein, Thomas Frederic
- Publisher
- San Francisco : Sierra Club
- Call Number
- DS486 E8 H58 1968
- DS486 E8 H58 1968 Reference Copy
- Author
- Hornbein, Thomas Frederic
- Publisher
- San Francisco : Sierra Club
- Published Date
- 1968
- Physical Description
- 159 pages, col. ills., 23.9cm
- Subjects
- Everest, Mount
- Photography
- Mountaineering
- Contents
- Gestation -- Wilderness -- Bouldering -- At Puijan -- Thyangboche -- Jake -- Icefall -- Reconnaissance -- The lost weekend -- Our turn -- A blusterous day -- Severing the cord -- Promises to keep -- and miles to go -- Before I sleep
- Notes
- Ben Gadd Personal Library
- Accession Number
- AC629
- Call Number
- DS486 E8 H58 1968
- DS486 E8 H58 1968 Reference Copy
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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The evolution of avalanche public safety practices
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12647
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Everts, Christine
- Call Number
- P
- Author
- Everts, Christine
- Physical Description
- p.69-73 : ill
- Notes
- In Avalanche News, vol.70 (Fall 2004). --Installment article of the CAA's oral history project which documents the origins and history of the Canadian avalanche industry with interviews of avalanche pioneers including Hans Gmoser, Willi Pfisterer, Jim Sime, Ron Perla and Herb Bleuer
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Fall of heaven : Whymper's tragic Matterhorn climb
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25031
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Messner, Reinhold (author)
- Bierling, Billi (translator)
- Publisher
- Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books
- Call Number
- G512 F35 M47
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- Publisher
- Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 206 pages
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Whymper, Edward
- Biography
- Matterhorn
- Abstract
- As Fall of Heaven begins, we join professional mountain guide Jean-Antoine Carrel as he tries and fails, again and again, to summit the Matterhorn—one of the most famous and iconic peaks in the Alps. Is it the “Devil’s mountain,” as the locals call it? Should he heed the village priest who warned that its summit was not meant to be climbed? Carrel is undeterred, he just needs capable climbers to join him. Enter Edward Whymper, who in 1861 at the age of 21 decided—unbeknownst to Carrel—that he would be the first to climb the Matterhorn. So the storyline is set, except that where Carrel is captivating, Whymper is utterly unsympathetic as an adventurer. He is mean and disdainful of guides, describing them as little more than porters who eat and drink too much. Despite this attitude, Whymper’s quest leads him inexorably into partnership with Carrel. The story follows their many attempts to find a route to the top of the Matterhorn, but then fate pulls them apart just as Whymper finds the line. His successful summit on July 14, 1865, in which Carrel did not take part, shocked the Victorian world with both awe and revulsion as four members of Whymper’s party died in frightening falls. Famed climber and author Reinhold Messner acknowledges that Whymper was the first man to summit the Matterhorn, the last of the great Alpine peaks to be climbed and representing the beginning of an age of alpinism based on difficulty rather than conquest. But rather than leaving a hero’s legacy, Whymper is revealed as the Captain Ahab of alpinism, a team leader who accepted no responsibility for the deaths of his teammates. Fall of Heaven is an exciting tale and an examination of the different types of men who were caught up in the adventuring spirit of the Victorian age, and the ironic fates that can follow success or failure. (from Mountaineers Books website)
- Notes
- Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019
- ISBN
- 9781680510850
- Accession Number
- AC638
- Call Number
- G512 F35 M47
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on Mountaineers Books website
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Fallen giants : a history of Himalayan mountaineering from the age of empire to the age of extremes
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14842
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2008
- Author
- Isserman, Maurice
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press
- Call Number
- DS485 I87
- Author
- Isserman, Maurice
- Responsibility
- Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver with maps and peak sketches by Dee Molenaar
- Publisher
- New Haven : Yale University Press
- Published Date
- 2008
- Physical Description
- xii, 579 p. : ill.
- Subjects
- Himalaya Mountains
- Nepal
- Mountaineering
- ISBN
- 9780300164206
- Accession Number
- AC609
- Call Number
- DS485 I87
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Fiva : an adventure that went wrong
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14896
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Stainforth, Gordon
- Publisher
- Seattle : Mountaineers Books
- Call Number
- G530 S73
- Author
- Stainforth, Gordon
- Publisher
- Seattle : Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- xi, 210 pages : illustrations, maps
- Subjects
- Norway
- Great Britain
- Mountaineering
- ISBN
- 9781594858468
- Accession Number
- AC609
- Call Number
- G530 S73
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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F.M.C.B.C. training manual I: introduction
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13699
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Vancouver: Safety and Education Committee of the Federation of Mountain Clubs of British Columbia
- Call Number
- G510 M36 1986 I
- Responsibility
- Prepared by the Safety and Education Committee of the Federation of Mountain Clubs of British Columbia, December, 1986
- Publisher
- Vancouver: Safety and Education Committee of the Federation of Mountain Clubs of British Columbia
- Published Date
- 1986
- Physical Description
- iii, 25p.
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Guide
- Call Number
- G510 M36 1986 I
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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F.M.C.B.C. training manual II : backpacking & mountaineering
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13700
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Safety and Education Committee of the Federation of Mountain Clubs of British Columbia
- Call Number
- G510 M36 1986 II
- Responsibility
- Prepared by the Safety and Education Committee of the Federation of Mountain Clubs of British Columbia, December, 1986
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Safety and Education Committee of the Federation of Mountain Clubs of British Columbia
- Published Date
- 1986
- Physical Description
- 15p.
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Guide
- Call Number
- G510 M36 1986 II
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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F.M.C.B.C. training manual III : map & compass
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13701
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Safety and Education Committee of the Federation of Mountain Clubs of British Columbia
- Call Number
- G510 M36 1986 III
- Responsibility
- Prepared by the Safety and Education Committee of the Federation of Mountain Clubs of British Columbia, December, 1986
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Safety and Education Committee of the Federation of Mountain Clubs of British Columbia
- Published Date
- 1986
- Physical Description
- 18p. : map
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Guide
- Call Number
- G510 M36 1986 III
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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F.M.C.B.C. training manual IV : basic rock climbing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13703
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1986
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Safety and Education Committee of the Federation of Mountain Clubs of British Columbia
- Call Number
- G510 M36 1986 IV
- Responsibility
- Prepared by the Safety and Education Committee of the Federation of Mountain Clubs of British Columbia, December, 1986
- Publisher
- Vancouver : Safety and Education Committee of the Federation of Mountain Clubs of British Columbia
- Published Date
- 1986
- Physical Description
- 33p. : ill.
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Guide
- Call Number
- G510 M36 1986 IV
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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