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Abstract: "A collection of personal stories and reflections based on the memoirs of Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and the Seven Summits. Honouring High Places is a compelling collection of highlights from Junko Tabei's stirring life that she considered important, inspiring and interesting to mountaineering culture. Until now, her works have been available only in Japanese, and RMB is honoured to be sharing these profound and moving stories with the English-speaking world for the first time. The collection opens on Mount Everest, where the first all-women's expedition is met with disaster but pushes on against all odds. The story then shifts to the early years of Tabei's life and reflects on her countryside childhood as a frail girl with no talent for sport, and cultural expectations that ignored her passion for mountains. With reminiscences of the early days of female climbers on Everest, the deaths of fellow mountaineers, Tabei's pursuit of Mount Tomur, a cancer diagnosis, and efforts to restore a love for nature in the surviving youth of the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in 2011, this beautifully curated collection of essays captures the essence of a notable time and the strength of character of one of the 20th and 21st centuries' female mountaineering pioneers."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Author's note; Introduction by Setsuko Kitamura; Chapter 1 - avalanche!; Chapter 2 - the meaning of mountains; Chapter 3 - Annapurna III; Chapter 4 - Mount Everest; Chapter 5 - to the top ofthe world; Chapter 6 - the route; Chapter 7 - finalists; Chapter 8 - South Col; Chapter 9 - the summit; Chapter 10 - endgame; Chapter 11 - women on Everest; Chapter 12 - Mount Tombur, Pobeda Peak; Chapter 13 - Aconcagua; Chapter 14 - Carstensz Pyramid; Chapter 15 - mountains of later life; About Junko by Masanobu Tabei; A son's tribute by Shinya Tabei; Beyond mountains by Setsuko Kitamura; Life chronology; Glossary; Acknowledgements; References; Index

Notes: Winner of the Mountaineering History category at the 2018 Banff Mountain Book Competition Awards

ISBN: 9780771602167

Accession Number: AC634

Call Number: G512 T33 H66

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: 2018 Banff Mountain Book Competition Awards website

Websites

https://www.banffcentre.ca/2018-banff-mountain-book-competition-awards

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Norton of Everest : the biography of E.F. Norton, soldier and mountaineer

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

Published Date: 2017

Author: Norton, Hugh

Publisher: Sheffield, England : Vertebrate Publishing

Call Number: G512 N67 N67

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Author: Norton, Hugh

Publisher: Sheffield, England : Vertebrate Publishing

Published Date: 2017

Physical Description: 208 p.

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

Subjects: Biography; Mountaineering; World War I; Everest, Mount

Abstract: E.F. Norton lived a life of distinction in the declining years of the British Empire. Born into an accomplished, well-travelled family, he followed his heart and enlisted for a professional career as a soldier. A distinguished military career followed, punctuated with indulgences in his passion for exploration and mountaineering. The British Empire was starting to crumble, and Norton would be called upon more than once to rise to a variety of challenges.Norton’s gift for leadership was first demonstrated via his rapid progression through the ranks in the First World War, which paved the way for future leadership appointments, having earned the confidence and respect of those under his command. Events in the Second World War followed suit, when Norton was abruptly assigned the post of acting governor of Hong Kong, entrusted to save the civilian population from imminent Japanese invasion. The 1924 Everest expedition also exemplifies the pattern of having had leadership thrust upon him – in this case when General Charles Bruce was struck down by malaria on the approach march. Leading from the front, Norton set an altitude record for climbing on Everest without supplementary oxygen – a record only bettered in 1978 when Reinhold Messner and Peter Habeler made the first ascent of Everest without oxygen. Yet tragedy would follow Norton’s achievement, when George Mallory and Andrew Irvine disappeared high on the mountain. In Norton of Everest, Hugh Norton has written sensitively and knowledgably about his father’s remarkable life as mountaineer, soldier, naturalist, artist and family man. As on Everest, the real story is not only the death of the gallant, but also the heroics of the quiet survivors like E.F. Norton. (from publisher's website)

Contents: Foreward by Wade Davis; Preface; Chapter 1 - The early years; Chapter 2 - Soldiering; Chapter 3 - A pen portrait; Chapter 4 - Mountaineering; Chapter 5 - The middle years; Chapter 6 - Acting governor of Hong Kong; Chapter 7 - Retirement; Appendices; Acknowledgements

ISBN: 9781910240922

Accession Number: AC635

Call Number: G512 N67 N67

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Publisher's website

Websites

https://www.v-publishing.co.uk/books/categories/biographies/norton-of-everest.html

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