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Honouring high places : the mountain life of Junko Tabei
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19852
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Tabei, Junko
- Rolfe, Helen Y.
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Call Number
- G512 T33 H66
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- Author
- Tabei, Junko
- Rolfe, Helen Y.
- Responsibility
- Junko Tabei and Helen Y. Rolfe, translated by Yumiko Hiraki and Rieko Holtved
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 376 pages
- Abstract
- "A collection of personal stories and reflections based on the memoirs of Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and the Seven Summits. Honouring High Places is a compelling collection of highlights from Junko Tabei's stirring life that she considered important, inspiring and interesting to mountaineering culture. Until now, her works have been available only in Japanese, and RMB is honoured to be sharing these profound and moving stories with the English-speaking world for the first time. The collection opens on Mount Everest, where the first all-women's expedition is met with disaster but pushes on against all odds. The story then shifts to the early years of Tabei's life and reflects on her countryside childhood as a frail girl with no talent for sport, and cultural expectations that ignored her passion for mountains. With reminiscences of the early days of female climbers on Everest, the deaths of fellow mountaineers, Tabei's pursuit of Mount Tomur, a cancer diagnosis, and efforts to restore a love for nature in the surviving youth of the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in 2011, this beautifully curated collection of essays captures the essence of a notable time and the strength of character of one of the 20th and 21st centuries' female mountaineering pioneers."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Author's note
- Introduction by Setsuko Kitamura
- Chapter 1 - avalanche!
- Chapter 2 - the meaning of mountains
- Chapter 3 - Annapurna III
- Chapter 4 - Mount Everest
- Chapter 5 - to the top ofthe world
- Chapter 6 - the route
- Chapter 7 - finalists
- Chapter 8 - South Col
- Chapter 9 - the summit
- Chapter 10 - endgame
- Chapter 11 - women on Everest
- Chapter 12 - Mount Tombur, Pobeda Peak
- Chapter 13 - Aconcagua
- Chapter 14 - Carstensz Pyramid
- Chapter 15 - mountains of later life
- About Junko by Masanobu Tabei
- A son's tribute by Shinya Tabei
- Beyond mountains by Setsuko Kitamura
- Life chronology
- Glossary
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Index
- Notes
- Winner of the Mountaineering History category at the 2018 Banff Mountain Book Competition Awards
- ISBN
- 9780771602167
- Accession Number
- AC634
- Call Number
- G512 T33 H66
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- 2018 Banff Mountain Book Competition Awards website
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Sport climbs in the Canadian Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19898
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Martin, John
- Jones, Jon
- Publisher
- Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
- Edition
- 7th ed.
- Call Number
- F1077 M37 S66
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- Author
- Martin, John
- Jones, Jon
- Edition
- 7th ed.
- Publisher
- Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 560 p. : ill., maps, ports
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Guidebook
- Canadian Rockies
- Abstract
- "Originally published in 1995, Sport Climbs in the Canadian Rockies continues to be the quintessential guidebook that both local and visiting climbers reach for when travelling to Western Canada. Featuring over 23,000 routes located throughout the Bow Valley, including climbs at Banff, Canmore, Lake Louise, Kananaskis Country and the Ghost River region, this comprehensive new edition features 7 new areas, 500 new routes, the latest updates, full-colour photos, maps and over 300 marked topos. All routes are completely indexed, including first ascent information." - from back cover
- Contents
- Introduction
- Key to main climbing areas
- Quaite Valley
- Acephale
- Heart Creek
- McGillivray Slabs
- Ha Ling Peak
- Grassi Lakes
- Old Goat Crag
- Whiteman Crag
- Kanga Crag and Eeor
- Tunnel Mountain
- Spray Slabs
- Rundle Ridge
- Raven Crag
- Sunshine Rock
- Brewster Crag
- Bighorn Crag
- Mount Bourgeau
- Lake Louise
- Paradise Wall
- Grand Sentinel
- Lost Lemon Crag
- Silver City
- Guides Rock
- Cascadia
- Coral Crag
- Black Feather Canyon
- Carrot Creek
- The Stoneworks
- Couger Canyon
- Echo Canyon
- Bataan
- Grotto Canyon
- Steve Canyon
- Kid Goat and Nanny Goat
- The Ghose
- Barrier Mountain
- Mount Baldy Crag
- Porcupine Creek
- Wasootch Slabs
- Cowbell Crag
- Burstall Slabs
- Moose Mountain (Canyon Creek)
- Prairie Creek
- Half Moon Crag
- The White Buddha
- Index showing first ascents
- ISBN
- 9781771601009
- Accession Number
- AC634
- Call Number
- F1077 M37 S66
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Publishers website
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The push: a climbers's journey of endurance, risk, and going beyond limits
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19900
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Caldwell, Tommy
- Publisher
- New York : Viking
- Call Number
- G513 C35 P87
1 website
- Author
- Caldwell, Tommy
- Responsibility
- Tommy Caldwell
- Publisher
- New York : Viking
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 341 p. ; illus.
- Abstract
- Pertains the the the nineteen day free climb on Yosemite's Dawn Wall, successfully executed by Tommy Caldwell and Kevin Jorgeson in 2014.
- ISBN
- 9780399562709
- Accession Number
- AC634
- Call Number
- G513 C35 P87
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- American Alpine Club article
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Karakoram : climbing through the Kashmir conflict
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19903
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Swenson, Steve
- Publisher
- Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books
- Call Number
- DS485 S94 K37
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- Author
- Swenson, Steve
- Responsibility
- Steven Swenson
- Publisher
- Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 315 p. : illustrations (some colour)
- Subjects
- Kashmir
- Mountaineering
- Karakoram Range
- Karakorum Mountains
- Pakistan
- Everest, Mount
- Biography
- Abstract
- Pertains to the climbs attempted by Steven Swenson from 1980 to 2015 in the Karakoram range as they related to the Kashmir conflict
- Contents
- Foreward by Greg Child
- Author's note
- Preface
- Map legend
- Map of the Karakoram region
- Chapter 1 - to Pakistan
- Chapter 2 - elusive summits
- Chapter 3 - K2 at last
- Chapter 4 - life and death
- Chapter 5 - Everest
- Chapter 6 - one more try
- Chapter 7 - after 9/11
- Chapter 8 - the killer mountain
- Chapter 9 - the world's hardest mountains
- Chapter 10 - the risk of regret
- Chapter 11 - attack
- Chapter 12 - passing the torch
- Sources
- Acknoledgements
- Index
- ISBN
- 9780594859731
- Accession Number
- AC634
- Call Number
- DS485 S94 K37
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- American Alpine Club article
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A mountaineer's life : Allen Steck
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19905
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Steck, Allen
- Publisher
- Ventura, California : Patagonia Books
- Call Number
- G512 S74 M68
1 website
- Author
- Steck, Allen
- Responsibility
- Allen Steck
- Publisher
- Ventura, California : Patagonia Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 254 p, : illustrations (some colour)
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Biography
- Abstract
- Pertains to the life of Allen Steck, rock climber and alpinist.
- Contents
- Forward
- Preface
- Formative years
- Big Climbs
- Childhood, family, and business
- Close calls and other adventures
- Perspectives
- ISBN
- 9781938340703
- Accession Number
- AC634
- Call Number
- G512 S74 M68
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- American Alpine Club article
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Herrington, Jim
- Child, Greg
- Honnold, Alex
- Publisher
- Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books
- Call Number
- TR H47 C55 OS
1 website
- Responsibility
- Jim Herrington (photographs), Greg Child (essay), Alex Honnold (foreward)
- Publisher
- Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 191 p.; illus (some colour)
- Subjects
- Photography
- Mountaineers
- Mountaineers Women
- Abstract
- Pertains to climbers including portraits of Glen Dawson, Hamish McInnes, Dinko Bertoncelj, Gwen Moffat, Francois Guillot, Minoru Higeta, Thomas Hornbein, Joe Brown, Bradford Washburn, Robert Gabriel, Sonia Livanos, Martin Boysen, Doug Robinson, Chuck Pratt, Jim Wickwire, Louis Reichardt, Armando Aste, Peter Haan, Serge Coupe, Dee Molenaar, Glen Denny, Royal Robbins, Joe Fitschen, Mark Powell, Junko Tabei, Jim Whittaker, Sir Christian Bonington, Doug Scott, Pertemba Sherpa, Fritz Wintersteller, Kurt Diemberger, Huntley Ingalls, George Hurley, Layton Kor, Cesare Maestri, Jim Bridwell, John Long, Yvon Chouinard, Tom Frost, Allen Steck, Steve Roper, Don Claunch Gordon, Fred Beckey, David Brower, Pierre Mazeaud, Kim Schmitz, John Roskelley, Bonnie Prudden, Henry Barber, Don Lauria, Robert Paragot, Reinhold Messner, Kancha Sherpa, Riccardo Cassin, Glen Exum, John Gill, Dave Rearick, Jules Eichorn, Pat Ament, Jeff Lowe
- Contents
- Foreward
- Preface
- Reflections on the golden age of climbing
- Photographs
- Climber biographies
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Grand Prize - 2017 Banff Book Awards
- Mountaineering History Award - 2017 Banff Book Awards
- ISBN
- 9781680510836
- Accession Number
- AC634
- Call Number
- TR H47 C55 OS
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Website for book with author and publisher information, ordering information, images of inside of publication, reviews, etc.
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Chamonix : a guide to the best rock climbs and mountain routes around Chamonix and Mont Blanc
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19914
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Boscoe, Charlie
- Geldard, Jack
- Publisher
- Rockfax
- Call Number
- DQ841 B67 C43
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- Author
- Boscoe, Charlie
- Geldard, Jack
- Responsibility
- Charlie Boscoe and Jack Geldard
- Publisher
- Rockfax
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 456 p. ; illus (colour)
- Subjects
- Chamonix
- Guidebooks
- Abstract
- Chamonix is the most famous climbing area in Europe. Nowhere else has as much quality rock, spectacular peaks and varied mountaineering history. For most climbers a trip to Chamonix is an integral part of their climbing and mountaineering career. When there you want to try everything; perfect granite rock routes, magnificent long ridges, intimidating north faces and then also have some valley sport climbing for the ‘rest days’. Or maybe you just want to tick Mont Blanc.For the first time ever, all this is available in a single publication from Rockfax with hundreds of routes ranging from short sport ticks to the best multi-day adventures. It is illustrated with some amazing photo-topos, superb maps and with excellent detailed descriptions. For Rockfax this has been one of our most exciting challenges to date. Doing justice to this vast area with it many iconic climbs and mountain routes and great variety of climbing is no small task. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chamonix logistics
- Chamonis climbing
- Glacier du Tour
- Glacier d'Argentiere
- Glacier de Talefre
- Grandes Jorasses
- Envers des Aiguilles
- Plan de l'Aiguille
- Aiguille du Midi
- Helbronner
- Mont Blanc du Tacul
- Mont Blanc
- Tre la Tete
- Aiguilles Rogues - Brevent
- Aiguilles Rogues - Index
- Chamonix Valley sport climbing
- Route index
- Mountain route index and tick list
- Crag general index
- ISBN
- 9781873341575
- Accession Number
- AC635
- Call Number
- DQ841 B67 C43
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Lofoten climbs : rock climbing on Lofoten and Stetind in Arctic Norway
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19915
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Craggs, Chris
- Enevold, Thorbjorn
- Publisher
- Rockfax
- Call Number
- DL C73 L64
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- Author
- Craggs, Chris
- Enevold, Thorbjorn
- Responsibility
- Chris Craggs and Thorbjorn Enevold
- Publisher
- Rockfax
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 384 p. ; illus (colour)
- Subjects
- Norway
- Guidebooks
- Arctic
- Abstract
- The Lofoten archipelago is a magical area - a pearl necklace of granite mountains, deep blue fjords, and tiny wooden fishing villages all squeezed between the mainland and the vastness of the Norwegian Sea, situated 250km north of the Arctic Circle. There is extensive high quality rock climbing here on magnificent granite cliffs, the vast majority of this being traditionally protected. This is the second Rockfax guidebook to this spectacular and beautiful area, the first 2008 volume won the Banff Guidebook of the Year Award and put Lofoten very much on the map. We have updated and expanded the information with a completely new set of crag photographs, plus some fantastic maps and all the new developments from the nine years since the last book was published. For the first time we have also included coverage of the astounding set of peaks around the Stetind area on the mainland, close to Narvik. The Lofoten Climbs Rockfax will continue to be the ‘go to’ volume - the essential companion for travelling climbers visiting this wonderful rock paradise (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Lofoten climbs introduction
- Lofoten logistics
- Lofoten climbing
- The west
- Henningsvaer
- Kalle
- Kabelvag
- Svolvaer
- The Northwest
- Stetind
- Walking Peaks
- Route index
- Crag index
- General index
- ISBN
- 9781873341230
- Accession Number
- AC635
- Call Number
- DL C73 L64
- 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
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19918
- 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 .
- 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
- ISBN
- 9781911342489
- Accession Number
- AC635
- Call Number
- G510 D68 M34
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Norton of Everest : the biography of E.F. Norton, soldier and mountaineer
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19919
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Norton, Hugh
- Publisher
- Sheffield, England : Vertebrate Publishing
- Call Number
- G512 N67 N67
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- Author
- Norton, Hugh
- Publisher
- Sheffield, England : Vertebrate Publishing
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 208 p.
- Subjects
- Biography
- Mountaineering
- World War I
- Everest, Mount
- Abstract
- E.F. Norton lived a life of distinction in the declining years of the British Empire. Born into an accomplished, well-travelled family, he followed his heart and enlisted for a professional career as a soldier. A distinguished military career followed, punctuated with indulgences in his passion for exploration and mountaineering. The British Empire was starting to crumble, and Norton would be called upon more than once to rise to a variety of challenges.Norton’s gift for leadership was first demonstrated via his rapid progression through the ranks in the First World War, which paved the way for future leadership appointments, having earned the confidence and respect of those under his command. Events in the Second World War followed suit, when Norton was abruptly assigned the post of acting governor of Hong Kong, entrusted to save the civilian population from imminent Japanese invasion. The 1924 Everest expedition also exemplifies the pattern of having had leadership thrust upon him – in this case when General Charles Bruce was struck down by malaria on the approach march. Leading from the front, Norton set an altitude record for climbing on Everest without supplementary oxygen – a record only bettered in 1978 when Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler made the first ascent of Everest without oxygen. Yet tragedy would follow Norton’s achievement, when George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared high on the mountain. In Norton of Everest, Hugh Norton has written sensitively and knowledgably about his father’s remarkable life as mountaineer, soldier, naturalist, artist and family man. As on Everest, the real story is not only the death of the gallant, but also the heroics of the quiet survivors like E.F. Norton. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Foreward by Wade Davis
- Preface
- Chapter 1 - The early years
- Chapter 2 - Soldiering
- Chapter 3 - A pen portrait
- Chapter 4 - Mountaineering
- Chapter 5 - The middle years
- Chapter 6 - Acting governor of Hong Kong
- Chapter 7 - Retirement
- Appendices
- Acknowledgements
- ISBN
- 9781910240922
- Accession Number
- AC635
- Call Number
- G512 N67 N67
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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- Publisher's website
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