topic:"Biography" found 97 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Everest, the first ascent : how a champion of science helped to conquer the mountain

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

Published Date: 2013

Author: Tuckey, Harriet

Publisher: Guilford, Connectcut : Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press

Call Number: 01.1 T81e

Author: Tuckey, Harriet

Responsibility: Harriet Tuckey

Publisher: Guilford, Connectcut : Lyons Press, an imprint of Globe Pequot Press

Published Date: 2013

Physical Description: xxi, 402 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

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

Subjects: Biography; Everest, Mount; Mount Everest Expedition 1953

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Already awarded a prize by the Biographer's Club,; Harriet Tuckey's book is both the history of what went into the first successful ascent of Mt. Everest in 1953 and a biography of her father, Dr Griffith Pugh, whose role was absolutely pivotal, yet mostly untold. As the expedition's physiological consultant, Pugh designed almost every aspect of the survival strategy for the expedition, the acclimatization program, the oxygen- and fluid-intake regime, the diet, the clothing and the high altitude boots. Without him and his work, the ascent of Everest would have been impossible.; Winner of the 2013 Jon Whyte Award

ISBN: 9780762791927

Accession Number: 2015.8537

Call Number: 01.1 T81e

Collection: Archives Library

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Faces from history : Canadian profiles and portraits

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

Published Date: 1978

Author: Woodcock, George

Publisher: Edmonton : Hurtig

Call Number: 08.1 W85 oversize

Author: Woodcock, George

Publisher: Edmonton : Hurtig

Published Date: 1978

Physical Description: 254p. : port

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

Subjects: Biography

Accession Number: 11000

Call Number: 08.1 W85 oversize

Collection: Archives Library

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Facing the monumental : Rebecca Belmore

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

Published Date: 2018

Author: Nanibush, Wanda (editor)

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Art Gallery of Ontario ; Fredericton, New Brunswick : Goose Lane Editions

Call Number: 06.1 N11f

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Author: Nanibush, Wanda (editor)

Responsibility: Edited by Wanda Nanibush

Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Art Gallery of Ontario ; Fredericton, New Brunswick : Goose Lane Editions

Published Date: 2018

Physical Description: 132 pages : illustrations (color)

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

Subjects: Art; Artists; Exhibition catalogue; Exhibitions

Subjects: Art; Performing arts - Biography - Canada - Exhibitions; Sculptures - Canada - Exhibitions

Abstract: Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of Ontario from July 12 to October 21, 2018.

Contents: Directors Forward; Facing the Monumental; Works:; artist (No.2); 1181; The Named and Unnamed; Fringe; March 5, 1819; Black Cloud; blood on the snow; X mark; Mixed Blessing; Thin Red Line; Quote, Misquote, Fact; A Pelican Falls; sister; State of Grace; To Rest and to Dream; Biinjiya'iing Onji (From Inside); Wave Sound; Fountain; Rising to the Occasion; Performace:; Creaton or Death: We Will Win; Bury My Heart; Indian Factory; A Simple Truth; Tent City; Victorious; Making Always War; X; Clay on Stone; Work in Progress:; Tower and tarpaulin; Nibi

Notes: One of the cast aluminum sculptures that was a part of the LandMarks 2017 Wave Sound installation is located on the shore of Lake Minnewanka in Banff National Park - refer to pages 84 - 94 - https://www.rebeccabelmore.com/wave-sound/

ISBN: 978-1-988788-04-3

Accession Number: 2019.36

Call Number: 06.1 N11f

Collection: Art Library

URL Notes: Artist's website

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Fall of heaven : Whymper's tragic Matterhorn climb

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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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Author: Messner, Reinhold (author); Bierling, Billi (translator)

Publisher: Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books

Published Date: 2017

Physical Description: 206 pages

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

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)