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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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Ascent : the mountaineering experience in word and image

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

Published Date: 1980

Author: Steck, Allen (ed)

Publisher: San Francisco : Sierra Club

Call Number: G510 A83 1980

Author: Steck, Allen (ed)

Responsibility: edited by Allen Steck, Steve Roper and David Harris

Publisher: San Francisco : Sierra Club

Published Date: 1980

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

Subjects: Mountaineering; Fiction; Art

ISBN: 0-87156-240-5

Call Number: G510 A83 1980

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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The Bugaboos : an alpine history

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

Published Date: 1987

Author: Garden, J. F.

Publisher: Revelstoke : Footprint Publishing

Call Number: F1089 B8 G3 reference

Author: Garden, J. F.

Responsibility: J.F. Garden (author); Fred Becky (introduction)

Publisher: Revelstoke : Footprint Publishing

Published Date: 1987

Physical Description: 156 pages : illustrations (some color)

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

Subjects: Bugaboos; Mountaineering; History; Kain, Conrad; Wheeler, Arthur Oliver; Harmon, Byron; Rock climbing

Contents: Pt. 1. Conrad Kain -- 1. The Nunataks -- 2. A veritable Bugaboo -- 3. The outfitter -- Pt. II. The hard men -- 4. A Bugaboo no longer -- 5. The last Bugaboo -- 6. Fred Beckey arrives -- 7. High angle climbing -- 8. An exceptional summer, 1959 -- 9. Cooper's east faces -- 10. Patagonia -- 11. Beckey returns -- 12. Traverse -- Pt. III. New standards -- 13. Old and new faces -- 14. Pushing the limits -- 15. What's next? -- Winter ascent: south Howser Tower -- 17. Granite.

Notes: Includes photographs by Glen Boles, Ed Cooper, Scott Flavelle, J.F. Garden, Byron Harmon (Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Archives & Library), Daryl Hatten, Roger W. Laurilla, James B. Maitre, Rob Rohn, John Simpson, Uldis Veideman, Jim Weston; Signed by author - addressed to Margaret and Hans Gmoser

ISBN: 0-9691621-1-1

Accession Number: AC637

Call Number: F1089 B8 G3 reference

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