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1990 Everest Environmental Expedition : post-expedition report

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

Published Date: 1990

Author: Everest Environmental Expedition

Publisher: Colorado Springs : Everest Environmental Expedition

Call Number: DS486 E8 E5

Author: Everest Environmental Expedition

Publisher: Colorado Springs : Everest Environmental Expedition

Published Date: 1990

Physical Description: 64 p. : ill., maps

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

Subjects: Garbage; Mountaineering; Pollution

Notes: Bob McConnell and Liz Nichol, Expedition Co-Leaders

Call Number: DS486 E8 E5

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Above all : Mount Whitney and California's highest peaks

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

Published Date: 2008

Publisher: Berkeley : Heyday Books

Call Number: F856-870 W55

Responsibility: photographs by David Stark Wilson, text by Steve Roper, foreward by Kenneth Brower

Publisher: Berkeley : Heyday Books

Published Date: 2008

Physical Description: 1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill.

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

Subjects: Whitney, Mount; Mountaineering; Rock climbing

ISBN: 9781597141079

Accession Number: AC610

Call Number: F856-870 W55

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Achttausend druber und drunter : mit den Tagebuchern von Nanga Parbat, Broad Peak und Chogolisa

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

Published Date: 2005

Author: Buhl, Hermann

Publisher: Munich, Germany : Piper Verlag GmbH

Call Number: G512 B84

Author: Buhl, Hermann

Responsibility: Hermann Buhl

Publisher: Munich, Germany : Piper Verlag GmbH

Published Date: 2005

Physical Description: 360p. : ill.

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

Subjects: Buhl, Hermann; Nanga Parbat; Mountaineering

Notes: English translation of title : Nanga Parbat pilgrimage : the lonely challenge

ISBN: 978-3-89029-303-5

Accession Number: AC602

Call Number: G512 B84

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Among the great hills : three generations of Wheelers & their contribution to the mapping of mountains

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

Published Date: 2006

Author: Sandford, R. W

Publisher: Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada

Call Number: G512 W44 Pam Copy 1; G512 W44 Copy 2; G512 W44 Copy 3

Author: Sandford, R. W

Responsibility: by R.W. Sandford

Publisher: Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada

Published Date: 2006

Physical Description: 32p. : ill. , map

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

Series: Summit Series #8

Subjects: Wheeler, Arthur Oliver; Alpine Club of Canada; Mountaineering; Geological Survey of Canada; Selkirk Mountains; Everest, Mount; Maps

ISBN: 0-920330-54-1

Call Number: G512 W44 Pam Copy 1; G512 W44 Copy 2; G512 W44 Copy 3

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Antarctic oasis : under the spell of South Georgia

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

Published Date: 1998

Author: Carr, Pauline; Carr, Tim

Publisher: London ; W.W. Norton & Company

Call Number: G370-480 C37 A58

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Author: Carr, Pauline; Carr, Tim

Responsibility: Tim and Pauline Carr

Publisher: London ; W.W. Norton & Company

Published Date: 1998

Physical Description: 256 pages : illustrations ; maps

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

Subjects: Antarctic Regions; Sailing; Boating; Travel

Abstract: An account of one couple's life on a remote island beyond the Polar Front, a tale to rival the exploits of the great nineteenth-century explorers. After twenty-five years of cruising the world's oceans, renowned blue-water sailors Pauline and Tim Carr found themselves being drawn to the lonely places of the higher latitudes to experience earth's last, scarcely touched regions. Antarctic Oasis records the culmination of those exploits. True adventurers, the Carrs have lived year-round on South Georgia for five years its only civilian inhabitants experiencing a way of life that has all but vanished from our modern world. A center of the Norwegian whaling industry in the last century, today a remnant of the far-flung British Empire, South Georgia is a splendid if forbidding land of towering, glacier-clad mountains and a treacherous, storm-torn coast punctuated by sheltered bays. During its brief polar summer, the island's verdant shoreline offers Antarctic wildlife a place to feed, mate, and rear their young. The only humans on the scene, the Carrs have learned intimate details about the lives of whales, penguins, seals, albatrosses, skuas, and many others. In all seasons the Carrs explore South Georgia's uncompromising coast aboard their yacht Curlew. Their deep fascination with the island, its wildlife, and its history will stir the spirit of adventure and discovery in us all. (from Abe Books)

Contents: Foreward; Preface and Acknowledgements; Chapter I - Ultimate Landfall; Chapter II - Antarctic Outpost; Chapter III - Nine to Five; Chapter IV - Green Antarctic; Chapter V - Kindred Souls; Chapter VI - Shackleton's Shadow; Chapter VII - The Rough with the Smooth; Chapter VIII - Albatross; Chapter IX - Elephantastic; Chapter X - The Mountaineering Dimension; Chapter XI - Just Talking to the Birds; Chapter XII - The Wild Side; Chapter XIII - A Shimmer of Ice; Chapter XIV - A Clean Pair of Heels; Index

Notes: Ephemra of Margaret Gmoser pertaining to trip removed from book and added to AC637 box of archival materials; Signed by the eleven participants of the September 17-19, 2004 Shackleton Crossing trip; Signed by the authors with greetings addressed to Margaret Gmoser

ISBN: 0393046052

Accession Number: AC637

Call Number: G370-480 C37 A58

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Link to publication on Abe Books

Websites

https://www.abebooks.com/9780393046052/Antarctic-Oasis-Under-Spell-South-0393046052/plp

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Blue Nile : Ethiopia's river of magic and mystery

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

Published Date: 2001

Author: Morell, Virginia

Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic

Call Number: DT390 M6

Author: Morell, Virginia

Publisher: Washington, D.C. : National Geographic

Published Date: 2001

Physical Description: 324p. : col. ill

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

Subjects: Africa; Travel

ISBN: 0792279514

Call Number: DT390 M6

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Canadian mountain place names : the Rockies and Columbia mountains

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

Published Date: 2006

Author: Boles, Glen W.

Publisher: Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: G510 B65

Author: Boles, Glen W.

Responsibility: Glen W. Boles [artwork and photographs], Roger W. Laurilla [photographs], William L. Putnam [text]

Publisher: Surrey, B.C. : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2006

Physical Description: 279p. : ill. , map

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

Subjects: British Columbia; Rocky Mountains, Canada; Guidebooks; Hiking; Mountaineering; Skiing

ISBN: 978-1-894765-79-4

Call Number: G510 B65

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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A Century of American alpinism, 2002

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

Published Date: 2002

Author: Fay, Charles Ernest; Bent, Allen Herbert; Palmer, Howard; Thorington, James Monroe; Kauffman, Andrew John; Putnam, William Lowell

Publisher: Boulder, CO : American Alpine Club,

Call Number: G505 F39 C46

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Author: Fay, Charles Ernest; Bent, Allen Herbert; Palmer, Howard; Thorington, James Monroe; Kauffman, Andrew John; Putnam, William Lowell

Responsibility: Charles Earnest Fay, Allen Herbert Bent, Howard Palmer, James Monroe Thorington, Andrew John Kauffman, William Lowell Putnam

Publisher: Boulder, CO : American Alpine Club,

Published Date: 2002

Physical Description: ix, 196 pages, xxxii pages of plates : illustrations, portraits

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

Subjects: American Alpine Club; History; Mountaineering; Clubs

Abstract: Pertains to a century of American alpinism from 1902 to 2002

Contents: Forward; Preface; I Earliest American Mountaineers; II Pacific Crests; III Later and Farther North; IV Tidewater Alaska; V Early Amerian Ascents in the Alps; VI Appalachian Mountain Club Roots; VII The Social Aspect of Alpinism; VIII To the Top of the Continent; IX Other Mountain Clubs of America; X Momentous Events; XI Afield and at War; XII Changing Mores; XIII Moving West; XIV Not All Sweetness and Light; XV The Study of Mountain Elevations; XVI Exclusiveness or Inclusiveness; XVII Changing Faces; Appendices; Index

Accession Number: AC637

Call Number: G505 F39 C46

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: American Alpine Club link to book

Websites

https://americanalpineclub.myshopify.com/products/a-century-of-american-alpinism

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The climb : tragic ambitions on Everest

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

Published Date: 1997

Author: Boukreev, Anatoli

Publisher: New York : St. Martin's

Call Number: DS486 E8 B65

Author: Boukreev, Anatoli

Responsibility: Anatoli Boukreev and G. Weston DeWalt

Publisher: New York : St. Martin's

Published Date: 1997

Physical Description: xi, 255p. : col. ill., maps

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

Subjects: Accidents; Mountaineering

ISBN: 0312168144

Call Number: DS486 E8 B65

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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The Coast Mountains trilogy : mountain poems 1957-1971

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

Published Date: 2009

Author: Culbert, Dick

Publisher: Vancouver : Tricouni Press

Call Number: P C85

Author: Culbert, Dick

Responsibility: Dick Culbert; Illustrated by Arnold Shives; Edited and with an introduction by Glenn Woodsworth

Publisher: Vancouver : Tricouni Press

Published Date: 2009

Physical Description: 96 p. : ill.

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

Subjects: Mountaineering; Poetry; Coast Mountains

ISBN: 9780981153605

Call Number: P C85

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Les conquerants de l'inutile : des Alpes a l'Annapurna

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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

Websites

http://www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/Hors-serie-Connaissance/Les-Conquerants-de-l-inutile

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Ellesmere Island year 2000 hiking expedition at the top of the world : a diary, reflections, and images collected by Linda Liestman

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

Published Date: 2000

Author: Liestman, Linda

Call Number: G525 L54 E44

Author: Liestman, Linda

Responsibility: Linda Liestman

Published Date: 2000

Physical Description: 55 p. illustrations

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

Subjects: Travel; Hiking; Expeditions; Tourism; Tours

Abstract: Pertains to a hiking trip to Ellesmere Island in 2000 which included Margaret Gmoser

Contents: Thursday July 6th; Friday July 7th; Saturday July 8th; Sunday July 9th; Monday July 10th; Tuesday July 11th; Wednesday July 12th; Thursday July 13th; Friday July 14th; Saturday July 15th; Sunday July 16th; Monday July 17th; Tuesday July 18th; Wednesday July 19th; Thursday July 20th; Friday July 21st; Saturday July 22nd; Afterthoughts; Research notes and excerpts; Rino's "Dear Camp Counselor" letter to Jayne and Steve

Notes: Not for publication, sale, or reprint

Accession Number: AC637

Call Number: G525 L54 E44

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Everest : mountain without mercy

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

Published Date: 1997

Author: Coburn, Broughton

Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : National Geographic

Call Number: DS486 E8 C63 Oversize D

Author: Coburn, Broughton

Responsibility: introduction by Tim Cahill; afterword by David Beashears

Publisher: [Washington, D.C.] : National Geographic

Published Date: 1997

Physical Description: 256p. : col. ill., maps

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

Subjects: Accidents; Mountaineering; Photography

Notes: with IMAX camera images from the motion picture, Everest

ISBN: 0792270142

Call Number: DS486 E8 C63 Oversize D

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Everest, the west ridge, abridged

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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

Author: Hornbein, Thomas Frederic

Publisher: San Francisco : Sierra Club

Published Date: 1968

Physical Description: 159 pages, col. ills., 23.9cm

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

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

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Exploring South Georgia & the Falklands : M/S Endeavour November 12th - 29th, 2004

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Medium: Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)

Published Date: 2004

Author: Napoli, Jim

Publisher: Lindblad Expeditions

Call Number: G370-480 N27 E97

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Author: Napoli, Jim

Responsibility: Jim Napoli

Publisher: Lindblad Expeditions

Published Date: 2004

Physical Description: 1 videocassette (59 min., 52 sec.) : colour

Medium: Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)

Subjects: Travel; Sailing; Antarctic Regions; Wildlife; Birds; History; Geography

Abstract: Film pertains to a trip aboard the M/S Endeavour from November 12th to November 29th, 2004 of South Georgia and the Falklands which included a trekking party who crossed South Georgia Island following Shakleton's route, led by guides David Hahn, Deirdre Galbraith, James Norton

Notes: Margaret Gmoser was in the trekking party

Accession Number: AC637

Call Number: G370-480 N27 E97

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Daily Expedition Reports from this expedition

Websites

https://www.expeditions.com/daily-expedition-reports/antarctica/ng-endeavour/november-2004/

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Fallen giants : a history of Himalayan mountaineering from the age of empire to the age of extremes

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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.

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

Subjects: Himalaya Mountains; Nepal; Mountaineering

ISBN: 9780300164206

Accession Number: AC609

Call Number: DS485 I87

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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For the love of nature : mammals described and illustrated by the naturalists Gerald E.H., Barrett-Hamilton & Edward Adrian Wilson

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

Published Date: 2008

Author: Hollenberg, Martin J.; Barrett-Hamilton, Gerald E.H.; Wilson, Edward Adrian

Publisher: Vancouver, BC : M.J. Hollenberg

Edition: Limited ed. of 400 copies (55/400)

Call Number: QL H65 F67

Author: Hollenberg, Martin J.; Barrett-Hamilton, Gerald E.H.; Wilson, Edward Adrian

Responsibility: Martin J. Hollenberg, Gerald E.H., Barrett-Hamilton, Edward Adrian Wilson

Edition: Limited ed. of 400 copies (55/400)

Publisher: Vancouver, BC : M.J. Hollenberg

Published Date: 2008

Physical Description: xiii, 187 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps

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

Subjects: Art; Mammals; Zoology; Travel; Naturalists

Contents: The Irish naturalist Gerald E.H. Barrett-Hamilton : his life and contributions to science -- Descriptions of mammals from Barrett-Hamilton's A history of British mammals, paired with drawings and paintings by Edward Adrian Wilson -- Edward Adrian Wilson : his outstanding career as a naturalist and artist -- The naturalists and the advances of science -- Appendix I. Gerald Barrett-Hamilton's South Georgia journal -- Appendix II. Letters from South Georgia from G.E.H. Barrett-Hamilton to Sir Sidney Frederic Harmer -- Appendix III. Selected remembrances.