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Climbers behaving badly?
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13154
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Chaundy-Smart, David
- Call Number
- P
- Author
- Chaundy-Smart, David
- Physical Description
- p. 4
- Subjects
- Everest, Mount
- Notes
- Gripped, vol. 4, no.4 (Aug / Sep 2006). Editorial pertains to mountaineering ethics using the example of David Sharp, Lincoln Hall, and Andrew Brash
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- P
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Paul Preuss, lord of the abyss : life and death at the birth of free-climbing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25054
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Smart, David
- Publisher
- Toronto : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- G513 P38 S63
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- Author
- Smart, David
- Publisher
- Toronto : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 248 pages : illus.
- Subjects
- Rock climbing
- History
- Biography
- Abstract
- In the months before his death in 1913, from falling more than 300 metres during an attempt to make the first free solo ascent of the North Ridge of the Mandlkogel, Paul Preuss’s public presentations on his climbing adventures filled concert halls in Austria, Italy, and Germany. George Mallory, the famed English mountaineer who died on Mount Everest in 1924, said “no one will ever equal Preuss.“ Reinhold Messner, the first climber to ascend all fourteen 8000 metre peaks, was so impressed by the young Austrian’s achievements that he built a mountaineering museum around Preuss’s piton hammer, wrote two books (in German) about him and instituted a foundation in Preuss’s name. Alex Honnold, the first and only person to free solo El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, has thought about Preuss’ untimely and surprising death and imagined it to have likely been “the worst four seconds” of Preuss’ life. Although he died at only 27 years old, modern climbing may never have developed the ethical, existential core that it has today if not for Preuss’s bold style. Even the most trenchant traditionalists remain unsure about whether to add him to their pantheon or dismiss him as at worst a lunatic or at best an indelicate subject better left ignored. Smart’s biography is the first English language volume to be published and is certain to bring the remarkable story of Paul Preuss to a whole new generation of climbers. (from Rocky Mountain Books website)
- Contents
- Introduction : Paul Preuss
- The boy who loved flowers and mountains
- The student mountaineer : Vienna, 1907-1910
- Schneid : Planspitze, Matterhorn, 1908
- Jesus of the Dorotheergasse, 1909
- Dolomites : the Devil's Lair, Summer 1910
- In Munich, the city of climbers
- Allein : five days that changed climbing, summer 1911
- A crazy notion : the great dispute, 1911-12
- Doctor Preuss presents
- Life as a trifle : the Kaisergebirge, Northern Limestone and the Western Alps, 1912-13
- Valhalla : Mandlkogel North Face, October 1913
- The sleeper of Altaussee
- Acknowledgements
- Selected bibliography
- Notes
- Index
- Notes
- Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019 shortlist for Mountain Literature
- ISBN
- 9781771603232
- Accession Number
- AC639
- Call Number
- G513 P38 S63
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on Rocky Mountain Books website
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A youth wasted climbing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15220
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Chaundy-Smart, David
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 01.4 C39y
- Author
- Chaundy-Smart, David
- Responsibility
- foreword by John Kaandorp
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 247 pages, [8] pages of plates (colour)
- Subjects
- Biography
- Ontario
- Rock climbing
- ISBN
- 9781771600675
- Accession Number
- 2016.8602
- Call Number
- 01.4 C39y
- Collection
- Archives Library
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A youth wasted climbing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14793
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Chaundy-Smart, David
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- G512 C43
- Author
- Chaundy-Smart, David
- Responsibility
- foreword by John Kaandorp
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 247 pages, [8] pages of plates (colour)
- Subjects
- Biography
- Ontario
- Rock climbing
- ISBN
- 9781771600675
- Accession Number
- AC609
- AC611 copy 2 transferred to ARC
- Call Number
- G512 C43
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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