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All that glitters : a climber's journey through addiction and depression

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25498
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Author
Talbot, Margo
Publisher
Victoria, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
Call Number
01.4 T14a c.1
01.4 T14a c.2
01.4 T14a c.3
Author
Talbot, Margo
Publisher
Victoria, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
186 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Biography
Talbot, Margo
Abstract
Born and raised in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Margo Talbot grew up with a distant mother who “ruled the household with her eyes”; a father who opted to spend much of his time away from home; and four siblings struggling to deal with their particular domestic situation. As a result of her family’s dysfunction and her own growing mental illness, young Margo rarely smiled, had difficulty connecting with others, and was plagued with a black wave of anger and sadness that overshadowed much of the world around her. In time, drugs, alcohol, sex, and violence became her primary ways to connect with herself and others. From the depths of suicidal depression and a conversation with Death, Talbot eventually found solace and redemption in both the healing power of nature and the glory of climbing frozen landscapes in some of the world’s most pristine and challenging environments. Heartbreaking, honest, energizing, and inspiring All That Glitters is a remarkable memoir that shines a fresh light of hope on mental illness.-- From back cover
ISBN
9781771604338
Accession Number
70,000 12-07-16
P2015-03-31
P2022.01
Call Number
01.4 T14a c.1
01.4 T14a c.2
01.4 T14a c.3
Collection
Archives Library
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The ascent of Everest

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14629
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1953
Author
Hunt, John
Publisher
London : Hodder & Stoughton
Edition
The companion book club edtion
Call Number
01.1 H91a
Author
Hunt, John
Responsibility
John Hunt
Edition
The companion book club edtion
Publisher
London : Hodder & Stoughton
Published Date
1953
Physical Description
320 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Biography
Everest, Mount
Mount Everest Expedition 1953
Notes
Includes index
Accession Number
2015.8535
Call Number
01.1 H91a
Collection
Archives Library
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The ascent of Everest

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15133
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1956
Author
Hunt, John
Publisher
London : Hodder & Stoughton
Edition
The companion book club edtion
Call Number
DS486 H86
Author
Hunt, John
Responsibility
John Hunt
Edition
The companion book club edtion
Publisher
London : Hodder & Stoughton
Published Date
1956
Physical Description
300 pages : illustrations ; maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Biography
Everest, Mount
Mount Everest Expedition 1953
Notes
Includes index
Accession Number
AC629
Call Number
DS486 H86
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Camp 4 : recollections of a Yosemite rockclimber

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25739
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2021
Author
Roper, Steve
Publisher
Seattle : Mountaineers
Call Number
02.8 R68c
Author
Roper, Steve
Publisher
Seattle : Mountaineers
Published Date
2021
Physical Description
255 pages : illustrations, color map ; 24 cm
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Climbing
Yosemite Valley
United States of America
History
Biography
Abstract
In the 1960s, California's Yosemite Valley was the center of the rock climbing universe. Young nonconformists -- many of them the finest rock climbers in the world -- channeled their energy toward the largely untouched walls and cracks. Soon climbers from around the globe were coming to Camp 4 -- gathering spot for the creators of the "Golden Age" of Yosemite climbing -- to see whgat all the fuss is about. -- From the back cover
Notes
Winner of the 1994 Banff Mountain Book Festival for Mountain Literature
ISBN
9780898863819
Accession Number
P2023.19
Call Number
02.8 R68c
Collection
Archives Library
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Les conquerants de l'inutile : des Alpes a l'Annapurna

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19925
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1961
Author
Terray, Lionel
Publisher
France : Gallimard
Edition
1st
Call Number
G512 T47 L47
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Author
Terray, Lionel
Responsibility
Lionel Terray
Edition
1st
Publisher
France : Gallimard
Published Date
1961
Physical Description
560 p. ; 88 illus. ; maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mountaineering
Terray, Lionel
Biography
Alps
Eiger
Himalaya Mountains
Abstract
"All these faces that appear in close-up in the news or in the press are also men. The name of Lionel Terray, one of the most famous living mountaineers, comes back periodically in conversations, because he participated in a rescue or because he helped to conquer a great world summit like Annapurna or the Makalu. In The Conquerors of the Useless , it is the whole mountain and its secrets that it reveals to us without emphasis and especially without pretension. We see how a little boy can already sense his vocation and soon to live only for the mountain; how this passion led him from the Alps to the Himalayas, from Canada to Peru. Each story of his prodigious ascensions will fascinate those who know the mountain only through the cable car. Indeed, this book that Lionel Terray wrote entirely himself using notes and stories in which he fixed his memories throughout his career, was written for them. The Conquerors of the Useless is an indispensable book for anyone interested in the heroic fate of the last survivors of the Knights race. " (from publisher's website)
Contents
Decouverte de la montagne
Premieres conquetes
La guerre des Alpes
Je rencontre Lachenal
La face nord de l'Eiger
Guide de grandes courses
L'Annapurna
Sur les sommets du monde
Notes
EVE-DELACROIX PRIZE OF THE FRENCH ACADEMY 1962
French edition signed by Lionel Terray
Newsclipping tucked inside entitled "La mort de Lionel Terray a stufefie les membres du Ski Club"
ISBN
2070262146
Accession Number
AC636
Call Number
G512 T47 L47
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
URL Notes
Publication information on publisher's website
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Ed and Dorothy : Rocky Mountain romance

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25229
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
Storry, Lea
Carleton, Brian
Carleton, Mike
Carleton, Terry
Publisher
Alberta : Family Lines Publishing
Call Number
08.3 F21e
  1 website  
Author
Storry, Lea
Carleton, Brian
Carleton, Mike
Carleton, Terry
Responsibility
Lea Storry
Brian Carleton
Mike Carleton
Terry Carleton
Publisher
Alberta : Family Lines Publishing
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
307 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
History
History of Alberta
Biography
Wardens
Banff
Banff (residents)
Abstract
The book is a testament to three sons’ love for their parents, Ed and Dorothy. Ed and Dorothy were kind and caring people and raised their family with those values. This book is also a testament to a family’s love of community, the community of Banff National Park.I hope when you read this book, you’ll be immersed in a bygone era that includes the Second World, to the backcountry of Canada’s oldest national park. I hope you will see a way of life that can never be recreated in a place that is ever-changing but will always be home to Ed and Dorothy. (Edited down from Our Family Lines website)
Contents
Foreward
Introduction
Chapter One: Edmond Clarence Carleton
Chapter Two: Calgary Highlanders
Chapter Three: Dorothy Eileen (nee Sweetzer) Fowler
Chapter Four: Exercising War
Chapter Five: Looking Towards the Future
Chapter Six: Mr. and Mrs. Ed Carleton
Chapter Seven: "Home" in Banff
Chapter Eight: This is backcountry living
Chapter Nine: Nature reels
Chapter Ten: Tragedies and changes
Chapter Eleven: A time capsule, royalty and lots of wildlife
Chapter Twelve: A year in the life of a warden and his family
Chapter Thirteen: Conservation and concerns
Chapter Fourteen: Making new memories while remembering the old
Chapter Fifteen: Life moves on
Endnotes
Acknowledgements
Sources
ISBN
9780991707522
Accession Number
2021.06
Call Number
08.3 F21e
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Publisher's website
Websites
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Fenollosa and his circle

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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1962
Author
Brooks, Van Wyck
Publisher
New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
Call Number
05 B79f
Author
Brooks, Van Wyck
Publisher
New York : E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc.
Published Date
1962
Physical Description
321 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Japanese
Japan
Art
Slavery
Archaeology
Mexico
Mayan
Biography
Abstract
A parade of fascinating personalities -- intellectuals, artists, travelers and explorers -- moves through this rich and colorful book of biographical essays by the author of Makers and Finders. --From dust cover
Contents
Fenollosa and His Circle ; Fanny Wright ; John Lloyd Stephens ; George Catlin ; Charles Wilkes ; Charles Godfrey Leland ; Anecdotes of Maurice Prendergast ; Randolph Bourne
Accession Number
3069A
Call Number
05 B79f
Collection
Archives Library
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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1959
c1958
Author
MacEwan, Grant
Publisher
Saskatoon : Modern Press
Call Number
08.2 M15f
Author
MacEwan, Grant
Responsibility
illustrated by William W. Perehudoff
Publisher
Saskatoon : Modern Press
Published Date
1959
c1958
Physical Description
342p. : ill
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Alberta
Biography
Accession Number
400
Call Number
08.2 M15f
Collection
Archives Library
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Howdy, I'm John Ware : and this is the story of my cowboy life

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25246
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
Clough, Ayesha
Rookwood, Hugh
Publisher
Carstairs, Alberta, Canada : Red Barn Books
Call Number
08.1 C62h
  1 website  
Author
Clough, Ayesha
Rookwood, Hugh
Responsibility
Ayesha Clough (author)
Hugh Rookwood (illustrator)
Publisher
Carstairs, Alberta, Canada : Red Barn Books
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
39 pages : chiefly colour illustrations, colour maps, portraits
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
History
History-Canada
Canada
Racism
Cowboys
Ranching
Horses
Biography
Abstract
Howdy, I’m John Ware is a children's book about Canada's legendary Black cowboy. The story, ideal for ages 6-12, brings the real-life legend to a new generation of kids. Despite experiencing enslavement, war and discrimination, this gifted horseman blazed a trail of kindness, becoming one of Alberta’s most loved and respected pioneer ranchers. (From publisher's website)
ISBN
9781999108786
Accession Number
P2020.07
Call Number
08.1 C62h
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Publisher's website
Websites
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Lest we forget : Banff honour our veterans banner program

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26180
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2022
Publisher
Royal Canadian Legion Col. Moore Branch #26
Call Number
08.3 B22r Pam
Responsibility
families of veterans provided photographs and information, collected and edited by Bruce McTrowe, Bryan Gerrie, and members of the Col. Moore Branch #26 Banff; printed and designed by Bryon Parlo of Pro Image Signs and Printing
Publisher
Royal Canadian Legion Col. Moore Branch #26
Published Date
2022
Physical Description
28p. : ill.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Biography
Boer War
World War, 1914-1918
World War, 1939-1945
Abstract
The "Honour Our Veterans" program honours those from Banff who fought in the South African War, First World War, Second World War and other conflicts
Contents
Includes portraits and short biography of war veterans
Notes
Photographs used in the booklet were provided by family members of the veterans and the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Archives. The biographies were based on family information and military records
Accession Number
2023-54 copy 1
2023-54 ref copy
Call Number
08.3 B22r Pam
Collection
Archives Library
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