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Breaking trail : Chic Scott's story
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20168
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Croston, Joanna
- Publisher
- Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada
- Call Number
- G512 S36 B74 Pam copy 2 (reference room)
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- Author
- Croston, Joanna
- Responsibility
- Joanna Croston
- Publisher
- Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 40 pages, illustrations [colour]
- Series
- Summit Series #22
- Subjects
- Canada
- Mountaineering
- Rock climbing
- Skiing
- Abstract
- Chic Scott is a man of unconventional firsts. The first Canadian to summit a Himalayan peak, the first Canadian to guide in the European Alps, and he was part of the first team to climb Mount Assiniboine in winter. He is also a local mentor, historian and ski pioneer who has spent his whole life touching the lives of all those who call the Rockies home. Chic is perhaps known best for the ambitious grand ski traverses he achieved; in essence he has broken the trail for an entire generation of adventure skiers who follow. His writing and books have reached mountain communities further afield, spreading the rich history of Canadian mountaineering to outdoor enthusiasts across Canada and around the globe. This booklet celebrates the life of Chic Scott with his most memorable contributions to mountain life and tales told by his close friends. (from Alpine Club of Canada website)
- Contents
- A Man of Many Firsts
- Early Years
- The Grand Ski Traverse
- The Alps
- Bigger, Higher, Colder
- The Stars Align
- Love Affari with the Yukon
- The Alpine Club of Canada
- The Calgary Climbers Festival
- Legacy
- On the World Stage
- Golden Years in Banff
- References & Bibliography
- Notes
- Signed by Chic Scott - addressed to Margaret Gmoser
- ISBN
- 9780920330654
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- G512 S36 B74 Pam copy 2 (reference room)
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Link to Alpine Club of Canada's website re: Summit Series
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Classic front range trad climbs : multi-pitch routes 5.4 - 5.8
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15362
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Leonard, Brendan
- Publisher
- Golden, Colorado : Colorado Mountain Club Press
- Call Number
- G513 L46
- Author
- Leonard, Brendan
- Responsibility
- Brendan Leonard and Lee Smith
- Publisher
- Golden, Colorado : Colorado Mountain Club Press
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 181 pages, illustrations (colour), maps
- Subjects
- Guidebooks
- Rock climbing
- United States
- ISBN
- 9781937052133
- Accession Number
- AC633
- Call Number
- G513 L46
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Climbers' club guides to Pembroke volume 5 : Pembroke Stackpole and Lydstep, Broad Haven to Tenby
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14839
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Alsford, Emma
- Publisher
- Great Britain : The Climbers' Club
- Call Number
- G513 A47
- Author
- Alsford, Emma
- Responsibility
- Emma Alsford and Paul Donnithorne
- Publisher
- Great Britain : The Climbers' Club
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 439 pages, ill., maps
- Subjects
- Rock climbing
- Great Britain
- Notes
- map of Stackpole and Lydstep loose in front cover
- ISBN
- 9780901601933
- Accession Number
- AC610
- Call Number
- G513 A47
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Cold wars : climbing the fine line between rick and reality
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14874
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Kirkpatrick, Andy
- Publisher
- Sheffield, U.K. : Vertebrate Publising
- Call Number
- G512 K57
- Author
- Kirkpatrick, Andy
- Publisher
- Sheffield, U.K. : Vertebrate Publising
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 272 pages, 16 un-numbered pages of plates
- Subjects
- Rock climbing
- Yosemite Valley
- Patagonia
- Alps
- ISBN
- 9781906148256
- Accession Number
- AC610
- Call Number
- G512 K57
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Crack climbing : the definitive guide
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25207
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Whittaker, Pete
- Publisher
- Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books
- Edition
- First
- Call Number
- 02.8 W58c
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- Author
- Whittaker, Pete
- Responsibility
- Pete Whittaker
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 302 pages : illustrations (some color)
- Subjects
- Rock climbing
- Travel
- Guidebook
- Abstract
- Crack climbing is a highly technical form of movement in which climbers position their hands, feet, and even their entire body in cracks to make upward progress on rock. An advocate for the sport’s aesthetic lines, physicality, and technical know-how, author Pete Whittaker teaches more than sixty Crack School Masterclasses each year and was featured in the popular climbing film Wide Boyz. This detailed and comprehensive guide teaches step-by-step techniques and tips, including for: Jamming (finger, hand, fist, foot, arm, leg, body) Crack types (chimneys, liebacks, underclings, roof cracks) How to safely lead and place protection Efficient positioning and movement Strength recovery while climbing (From Mountaineers Books website)
- Contents
- Preface
- A Note
- Before We Begin: Key Terms
- Key to Illustrations
- Chapter 1 - Five Rules of Crack Climbing
- Chapter 2 - Finger Cracks
- Chapter 3 - Hand Cracks
- Chater 4 - Fist Cracks
- Chapter 5 - Offwidth Cracks
- Chapter 6 - Squeeze Chimneys
- Chapter 7 - Chimneys
- Chapter 8 - Stemming
- Chapter 9 - Roof Cracks
- Chapter 10 - Placing Gear
- Chapter 11 - Equipment
- Chapter 12 - Taping
- Acknowledgements
- Index
- Notes
- 2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Winner - Guidebook 2020 National Outdoor Book Awards Honorable Mention - Instructional
- ISBN
- 9781680512151
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 02.8 W58c
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Mountaineers Books website
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Drawn : the art of ascent
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14846
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Collins, Jeremy
- Publisher
- Seattle : Mountaineers Books
- Call Number
- G512 C65
- Author
- Collins, Jeremy
- Publisher
- Seattle : Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 176 unnumbered pages, color illustrations, + 2 postcards (1 perforated sheet)
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Rock climbing
- Graphic art
- ISBN
- 9781594859588
- Accession Number
- AC609
- Call Number
- G512 C65
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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End of the rope : mountains, marriage, and motherhood
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25047
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Redford, Jan
- Publisher
- Berkeley, California : Counterpoint Press
- Call Number
- G512 E53 R43
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- Author
- Redford, Jan
- Publisher
- Berkeley, California : Counterpoint Press
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- x, 303 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates
- Subjects
- Rock climbing
- Mountaineering
- Women
- Biography
- Abstract
- In this funny and gritty debut memoir, praised by Outside, Sierra, Alpinist, and more, Jan Redford grows from a reckless rock climber to a mother who fights to win back her future. As a teenager, she sets her sights on the improbable dream of climbing mountains. By age twenty, she’s a climber with a magnetic attraction to misadventures and the wrong men. Redford finally finds the love of her life, an affable Rockies climber. When he is killed in an avalanche in Alaska, a grieving Redford finds comfort in the arms of another extreme alpinist. Before long, they are married, with a baby on the way. While her husband works as a logger, Redford tackles the traditional role of wife and mother. But soon, she pursues her own dream, one that pits her against her husband. End of the Rope is Redford’s telling of heart-stopping adventures, from being rescued off El Capitan to leading a group of bumbling cadets across a glacier. It is her laughter-filled memoir of friendships with women in that masculine world. Most moving, this is the story of her struggle to make her own way in the mountains and in life. To lead, not follow. (from Counterpoint Press website)
- Contents
- First climb -- On the rocks -- Lion's layback -- The rescue -- Speed ruts -- Learning to roll -- Bugaboo -- World's toughest milkman -- Fragile ice -- We're gathered here today -- Aberdeen -- Show no fear -- Climbing girlfriend -- The final last straw -- The memo -- In the arms of a mountain -- The underwear drawer -- Teetering on the edge -- Pink wedding dress -- The waiting -- Miracles -- Into the shadows -- Back on the sharp end -- Yodel village -- You lead, I'll follow -- Carsick -- Die young, stay pretty -- Grant's lunch -- Fractured -- Playing dead -- Mama spiders -- Remember the lilac -- Power surge -- Leaving Chaba -- Only four years -- One little "non" -- Second chances.
- ISBN
- 9780345812315
- Accession Number
- AC639
- Call Number
- G512 E53 R43
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on Counterpoint Press website
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Fast and free : Pete Livesey, stories of a rock-climbing legend
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14900
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Lancashire : 2QT Limited
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Call Number
- G512 L58
- Responsibility
- Compiled and produced by: John Sheard and Mark Radtke
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Publisher
- Lancashire : 2QT Limited
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- xvii, 332 pages, 40 pages of unnumbered plates
- Subjects
- Great Britain
- Rock climbing
- Yosemite Valley
- ISBN
- 9781910077016
- Accession Number
- AC610
- Call Number
- G512 L58
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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A feeling for rock
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26291
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Dobner, Sarah-Jane
- Publisher
- [Bristol, England] : Dob Dob Dob
- Call Number
- 05 D65a
- Author
- Dobner, Sarah-Jane
- Publisher
- [Bristol, England] : Dob Dob Dob
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 259 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
- Subjects
- Rock climbing
- Climbing
- Poetry
- Essays
- Nature
- Abstract
- Through a mix of poetry, cartoons, essays, interviews, weavings, photographs and technical tips, A feeling for rock explores being bamboozled by a route, connecting with the landscape or flicking through a guidebook. The book ventures into ethical regions of bias and privilege and questions our relations with each other and the rock. Each chapter is headed by a different feeling - Love, Curiosity, Astonishment, Pain, Lust, Fear, Wonder and so on - conveying the emotional vividness of a climbing life. --Publisher's website.
- ISBN
- 9781838400415
- Accession Number
- 2024.26
- Call Number
- 05 D65a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Hangdog days : conflict, change, and the race for 5.14
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25038
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Smoot, Jeff
- Publisher
- Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books
- Call Number
- G513 H35 S66
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- Author
- Smoot, Jeff
- Publisher
- Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 302 pages : illustrations
- Subjects
- Rock climbing
- History
- Abstract
- Hangdog Days vividly chronicles the era when rock climbing exploded in popularity, attracting a new generation of talented climbers eager to reach new heights via harder routes and faster ascents. This contentious, often entertaining period gave rise to sport climbing, climbing gyms, and competitive climbing--indelibly transforming the sport. Jeff Smoot was one of those brash young climbers, and here he traces the development of traditional climbing "rules," enforced first through peer pressure, then later through intimidation and sabotage. In the late '70s, several climbers began introducing new tactics including "hangdogging," hanging on gear to practice moves, that the old guard considered cheating. As more climbers broke ranks with traditional style, the new gymnastic approach pushed the limits of climbing from 5.12 to 5.13. When French climber Jean-Baptiste Tribout ascended To Bolt or Not to Be, 5.14a, at Smith Rock in 1986, he cracked a barrier many people had considered impenetrable. In his lively, fast-paced history enriched with insightful firsthand experience, Smoot focuses on the climbing achievements of three of the era's superstars: John Bachar, Todd Skinner, and Alan Watts, while not neglecting the likes of Ray Jardine, Lynn Hill, Mark Hudon, Tony Yaniro, and Peter Croft. He deftly brings to life the characters and events of this raucous, revolutionary time in rock climbing, exploring, as he says, "what happened and why it mattered, not only to me but to the people involved and those who have followed" (from Mountaineers Books website)
- Contents
- Part One. The hangdog days -- Part Two. If not now, when? -- Part Three. The renegade -- Part Four. The godforsaken rock -- Part Five. That accursed crack -- Part Six. Churning in the wake.
- Notes
- Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019 finalist for Mountain Literature
- ISBN
- 9781680512328
- Accession Number
- AC639
- Call Number
- G513 H35 S66
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on Mountaineers Books website
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