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Mountain climbing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26175
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1897
- Publisher
- London : Charles Scribner's Sons
- Call Number
- 01 W69m
- Responsibility
- Edward L. Wilson, Edwin Lord Weeks, A. F. Jaccaci, W. Martin-Conway, Mark Brickell Kerr, William Williams, and H. F. B. Lynch
- Publisher
- London : Charles Scribner's Sons
- Published Date
- 1897
- Physical Description
- 358 pages
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- St. Elias
- Alps
- Climbing
- Glaciers
- Contents
- I. Mount Washington in winter / Edward L. Wilson -- II. Some episodes of mountaineering by a cause amateur / Edwin Lord Weeks -- III. Ascent of Mount Aetna / A. F. Jaccaci -- IV. Ascent of Mount Ararat / H. F. B. Lynch -- V. Climbing Mount St. Elias / William Williams -- VI. Mount St. Elias and its glaciers / Mark Brickell Kerr -- VII. One thousand miles through the Alps / Sir. W. Martin Conway
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01 W69m
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Old Swiss Guides - negatives
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions57410
- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 4 b&w negatives of a commemorative plaque for Swiss Guides mounted on a rock with guide pins posed below it.
- Date Range
- 1901-1963
- Reference Code
- V190 / VI / O / v / NA - 01 to NA - 04
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Film
- Negative
- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M323 / S40 / V190
- Series
- VI : Retained file, O : Alphabetical order
- Sous-Fonds
- V190
- Sub-Series
- v : Old Swiss Guides
- Accession Number
- 7436
- Reference Code
- V190 / VI / O / v / NA - 01 to NA - 04
- Date Range
- 1901-1963
- Physical Description
- 4 photographs : b&w negatives ; 6.5 x 7.6 cm
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 4 b&w negatives of a commemorative plaque for Swiss Guides mounted on a rock with guide pins posed below it.
- Name Access
- Aemmer, Rudolf
- Feuz, Edmund
- Feuz, Edward
- Feuz, Edward, Jr.
- Feuz, Ernest
- Kaufmann, Christian
- Hasler, Christian
- Subject Access
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Climbing
- Films and film making
- Guides
- Guiding
- Mountains
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers
- Portrait
- Swiss Guides
- Geographic Access
- Lake Louise
- Banff National Park
- Language
- English
- Related Material
- V190 / VI / O / v / PA - 01 to PA - 19
- Creator
- Engler, Bruno
- Title Source
- Original title kept
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Life and limb : a true story of tragedy and survival against the odds
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25738
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2004
- Author
- Andrew, Jamie
- Publisher
- London : Portrait, an imprint of Judy Piatkus Limited
- Call Number
- 01.2 An2l
- Author
- Andrew, Jamie
- Publisher
- London : Portrait, an imprint of Judy Piatkus Limited
- Published Date
- 2004
- Physical Description
- 306 pages
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers
- Accidents
- Survival
- Abstract
- The weather looked perfect when Jamie Andrew and his closest friend, Jamie Fisher set off to climb the formidable North Face of Les Droites in the French Alps in 1999. But a sudden and ferocious storm hit them 10,000 feet up the mountain. They were trapped on a narrow ridge in temperatures of -30C, battered by winds so strong the rescue helicopters could not reach them. After five nightmarish nights doggedly clinging to life, Jamie Andrew was finally rescued; but his friend Jamie Fisher had died beside him on the last night. -- From inside cover
- ISBN
- 0749950072
- Accession Number
- P2023.19
- Call Number
- 01.2 An2l
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Mountain Guides - negatives
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions57199
- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 18 strips of b&w film consisting of 36 photographs.Includes individual portraits of Association of Canadian Mountain Guides, scenic views, and the Conrad Kain Hut in Bugaboos Provincial Park. NA - 09 also has a proof positive print of the negative strip.
- Date Range
- 1968-1994
- Reference Code
- V190 / VI / M / v / NA - 01 to NA - 18
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Film
- Negative
- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M323 / S40 / V190
- Series
- VI : Retained file, M : Alphabetical order
- Sous-Fonds
- V190
- Sub-Series
- v : Mountain Guides
- Accession Number
- 7436
- Reference Code
- V190 / VI / M / v / NA - 01 to NA - 18
- Date Range
- 1968-1994
- Physical Description
- 36 photographs : b&w negatives ; 18.2 x 6.1 cm or smaller
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 18 strips of b&w film consisting of 36 photographs.Includes individual portraits of Association of Canadian Mountain Guides, scenic views, and the Conrad Kain Hut in Bugaboos Provincial Park. NA - 09 also has a proof positive print of the negative strip.
- Name Access
- Auger, Tim
- Renner, Sep
- Subject Access
- ACMG
- Association of Canadian Mountain Guides
- Climbing
- Conrad Kain Hut
- Guides
- Guiding
- Huts
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers
- Mountains
- Portrait
- Swiss Guides
- Geographic Access
- Banff National Park
- Alberta
- Bugaboos
- British Columbia
- Language
- English
- Related Material
- V190 / VI / M / v / PA - 01 to PA - 52
- Creator
- Engler, Bruno
- Title Source
- Original title kept
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Banff Park Warden Ice Climbing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions57618
- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Scope & Content
- Item consists of one 16 mm motion picture pertaining to Parks Canada Wardens ice climbing and rescue training on Victoria Glacier above Lake Louise. Includes shots of them hiking up, detailed shots of warden's putting on their crampons and tying knots, cutting steps in the glacier, and practicing c…
- Date Range
- 1956
- Reference Code
- V190 / VI / NF - 38
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- GMD
- Film
- Motion picture
1 image
- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Description Level
- 6 / Item
- Fonds Number
- M323 / S40 / V190
- Series
- VI : Retained file
- Sous-Fonds
- V190
- Accession Number
- 7436
- Reference Code
- V190 / VI / NF - 38
- GMD
- Film
- Motion picture
- Date Range
- 1956
- Physical Description
- 1 motion picture (1 film reel: 380'): 16 mm, original, b&w, silent
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- Item consists of one 16 mm motion picture pertaining to Parks Canada Wardens ice climbing and rescue training on Victoria Glacier above Lake Louise. Includes shots of them hiking up, detailed shots of warden's putting on their crampons and tying knots, cutting steps in the glacier, and practicing crevasse rescues. The original label on the case reads "Title: Banff Park Warden Ice Climbing, Camera: B. Engler, Date: 1956, Footage 380ft."
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Climbing
- Glaciers
- Lake Louise
- Mountains
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers
- Parks Canada
- Parks Canada Warden
- Victoria Glacier
- Winter
- Geographic Access
- Lake Louise
- Banff National Park
- Alberta
- Language
- English
- Creator
- Bruno Engler
- Title Source
- Original title kept
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Mont Blanc lines
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26253
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Buisse, Alex
- Publisher
- London : Vertebrate Publishing
- Edition
- First English Edition
- Call Number
- 01.2 B87m o.s.
- Author
- Buisse, Alex
- Responsibility
- Translated by Natalie Berry
- Edition
- First English Edition
- Publisher
- London : Vertebrate Publishing
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 176 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 32 cm
- Subjects
- Mont Blanc
- Switzerland
- France
- Italy
- Alps
- Eiger
- Mountaineering
- Guidebook
- Photography
- Photography, Aerial
- Abstract
- In Mont Blanc Lines, photographer and alpinist Alex Buisse has travelled the Mont Blanc massif to capture images of all the major mountain faces and to trace the classic climbing and skiing lines. As well as Mont Blanc itself, also featured are other Alpine icons, including the north faces of the Grandes Jorasses and the Froites, Aiguille du Midi, and the Grand Capucin. Whether on the ground in crampons or on skis, or in the air by ultralight or paraglider, he has captured the majesty of the range so that he can tell the story of the classic lines and present them to us in the most stunning way possible. Mont Blanc Lines features images taken during over a decade of mountaineering while Alex worked as a professional photographer based in Chamonix. Alex Buisse's story of these iconic mountain faces is mixed with the stories of climbers who have experienced great moments there. As a bonus feature, also included are the legendary faces of the Matterhorn and the Eiger North Face in Switzerland. -- From back cover.
- ISBN
- 9781839811678
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 01.2 B87m o.s.
- Location
- ARC O.S.
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Above the snow line : mountaineering sketches between 1870 and 1880
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26173
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1885
- Author
- Dent, Clinton
- Publisher
- London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Call Number
- 01.2 D43a
- Author
- Dent, Clinton
- Publisher
- London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
- Published Date
- 1885
- Physical Description
- 327 pages
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01.2 D43a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Mt. Michener - negatives
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions57202
- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 19 strips of 35mm colour film containing 78 photographs. Includes Roland Michener being led by Lloyd "Kiwi" Gallagher and accompanied by Bruno Engler as they summit the mountain named after Michener in the spring of 1982.
- Date Range
- 1982
- Reference Code
- V190 / VI / M / vii / NA - 01 to NA - 19
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Film
- Negative
- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M323 / S40 / V190
- Series
- VI : Retained file, M : Alphabetical order
- Sous-Fonds
- V190
- Sub-Series
- vii : Mt. Michener
- Accession Number
- 7436
- Reference Code
- V190 / VI / M / vii / NA - 01 to NA - 19
- Date Range
- 1982
- Physical Description
- 78 photographs : col. negatives ; 35 mm
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 19 strips of 35mm colour film containing 78 photographs. Includes Roland Michener being led by Lloyd "Kiwi" Gallagher and accompanied by Bruno Engler as they summit the mountain named after Michener in the spring of 1982.
- Name Access
- Gallagher, Lloyd (Kiwi)
- Engler, Bruno
- Michener, Roland
- Subject Access
- Climbing
- Helicopters
- Mountaineers
- Mountaineering
- Mountains
- Portrait
- Geographic Access
- Alberta
- Language
- English
- Related Material
- V190 / VI / M / vii / PA - 01 to PA - 85
- Creator
- Engler, Bruno
- Title Source
- Original title kept
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Pierre Elliot Trudeau - negatives
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions57419
- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 27 colour negatives of the Trudeau family visiting the Canadian Rockies and Bugaboos in 1972. Includes shots of Pierre and Margaret canoeing, posed portraits of Pierre and Margaret on a river bank, and hiking with Hans Gmoser.
- Date Range
- 1972
- Reference Code
- V190 / VI / P / iv / NA - 01 to NA - 03
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Film
- Negative
- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M323 / S40 / V190
- Series
- VI : Retained file, P : Alphabetical order
- Sous-Fonds
- V190
- Sub-Series
- iv : Pierre Elliot Trudeau
- Accession Number
- 7436
- Reference Code
- V190 / VI / P / iv / NA - 01 to NA - 03
- Date Range
- 1972
- Physical Description
- 27 photographs : col. negatives ; 6.5 x 7.6 cm
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 27 colour negatives of the Trudeau family visiting the Canadian Rockies and Bugaboos in 1972. Includes shots of Pierre and Margaret canoeing, posed portraits of Pierre and Margaret on a river bank, and hiking with Hans Gmoser.
- Name Access
- Gmoser, Hans
- Trudeau, Pierre
- Trudeau, Margaret
- Subject Access
- Activities
- Canoes and canoeing
- Climbing
- Family
- Helicopters
- Hiking
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers
- Mountains
- Personal and Professional Life
- Politics
- Portrait
- Geographic Access
- Bugaboos
- British Columbia
- Language
- English
- Related Material
- V190 / VI / P / iv / PA - 01 to PA - 50
- Creator
- Engler, Bruno
- Title Source
- Original title kept
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Premier Peter Lougheed - negatives
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions57423
- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 78 b&w & col. negatives on 15 strips of 35mm film of former Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed and his family being guided up Mount Lougheed in Kananaskis Country as part of the 75 anniversary of Alberta joining Canadian Confederation and Lougheed opening the Kananaskis Golf Course in …
- Date Range
- 1980-1983
- Reference Code
- V190 / VI / P / vii / NA - 01 to NA - 03
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Film
- Negative
- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M323 / S40 / V190
- Series
- VI : Retained file, P : Alphabetical order
- Sous-Fonds
- V190
- Sub-Series
- vii : Premier Peter Lougheed
- Accession Number
- 7436
- Reference Code
- V190 / VI / P / vii / NA - 01 to NA - 03
- Date Range
- 1980-1983
- Physical Description
- 78 photographs : b&w and col. negatives ; 35 mm
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 78 b&w & col. negatives on 15 strips of 35mm film of former Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed and his family being guided up Mount Lougheed in Kananaskis Country as part of the 75 anniversary of Alberta joining Canadian Confederation and Lougheed opening the Kananaskis Golf Course in July, 1983.
- Name Access
- Engler, Bruno
- Lougheed, Peter
- Schiesser, Bernie
- Subject Access
- Anniversary
- Ceremony
- Climbing
- Family
- Golf Course
- Golfing
- Guides
- Helicopters
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers
- Mountains
- Personal and Professional Life
- Portrait
- Geographic Access
- Kananaskis Country
- Alberta
- Language
- English
- Related Material
- V190 / VI / P / vii / PA - 01 to PA - 32
- Creator
- Engler, Bruno
- Title Source
- Original title kept
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On thin ice : alpine climbs in the Americas, Asia and the Himalaya
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25740
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2005
- Author
- Fowler, Mick
- Publisher
- London : Baton Works Publications
- Call Number
- 01 F83o
- Author
- Fowler, Mick
- Responsibility
- Foreword by Chris Bonington
- Publisher
- London : Baton Works Publications
- Published Date
- 2005
- Physical Description
- 223 pages
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers
- Climbing
- Travel
- Sports
- Abstract
- Mick Fowler's second set of climbing memoirs, follows Vertical Pleasure (Hodder, 1995). Here the celebrated mountaineer records his expeditions since 1990. Despite work and family commitments he has maintained a regular series of 'big trips' to challending objectives around the world with a sequence of major successes. -- From inside cover
- ISBN
- 1898573581
- Accession Number
- P2023.19
- Call Number
- 01 F83o
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Mountains and desire : climbing vs. the end of the world
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26237
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Grebowicz, Margaret
- Publisher
- London, U.K. : Repeater Books
- Call Number
- 02.8 G81m
- Author
- Grebowicz, Margaret
- Publisher
- London, U.K. : Repeater Books
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 113 pages
- Subjects
- Climbing
- Sport
- Sport climbing
- Mountaineering
- Abstract
- In 1923, a reporter asked George Mallory why he wanted to summit Mount Everest. "Because it's there." Today the question "why do this?" is included in nearly every mountaineering story of interview. Meanwhile, interest in climbing is steadily on the rise, from commerical mountaineering and climbing walls in university gyms to corporate workplaces to the flood of spectacular climbing imagery in advertising, cinema, and social media. [...] Taking the degradation of Everest and the success of Free Solo as its starting point, Mountains and Desire chases after what remains of this pursuit -- marred by its colonial history, coopted by national chauvinism, ableism, and the capitalist compulsion to unlimited growth -- for both climbers and their fans. -- From back cover
- Contents
- 1. The ends of desire -- 2. Who will marry you now? -- 3. Just because someone has done it doesn't mean it's humanly possible -- 4. Everest traffic and the economy of walking -- 5. Climbing technotopia, or: Did free solo really happen? -- 6. Gestures of climbing -- 7. The last problem of the Himalaya.
- ISBN
- 9781913462239
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 02.8 G81m
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- Archives Library
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Native air : a novel
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25656
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2022
- Author
- Howland, Jonathan
- Publisher
- Brattleboro, Vermont : Green Writers Press
- Call Number
- 05.2 H84n
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- Author
- Howland, Jonathan
- Publisher
- Brattleboro, Vermont : Green Writers Press
- Published Date
- 2022
- Physical Description
- 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Fiction
- Mountaineering
- Abstract
- In a debut novel from Green Writers Press by Jonathan Howland, the austere beauty and high exposure of mountain adventure provide the context and the measure for what it means to be alive for climbing partners Joe Holland and Pete Hunter--until one of them isn’t. When the book opens, it’s the mid-80s. Joe Holland, the novel’s narrator, is a climber and a seeker, but mostly he’s Pete Hunter’s shadow. The two meet in college and spend the next ten years living at the base of any rock that appears scalable, most of them near Yosemite and California’s High Sierra. The joys and strains of their friendship comprise the novel’s first half. In the second, the bare bones--obsession, grief, love, and repair--come into stark relief when Pete’s grown son Will calls Joe back into climbing, into the past, and into breathless vitality -- Front dust jacket flap
- ISBN
- 9781950584901
- Accession Number
- P2022.14
- Call Number
- 05.2 H84n
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Banff Mountain Book Competition Grand Prize Winner, 2022
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The romance of mountaineering
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26157
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1935
- Author
- Irving, R. L. G.
- Publisher
- London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Call Number
- 01 Ir8t
- Author
- Irving, R. L. G.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.
- Published Date
- 1935
- Physical Description
- 320 pages ; 40 ill.
- Contents
- PART ONE: BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS -- Introductory and personal -- Lux in tenebris -- The winning of Mont Blanc -- The growth of understanding -- The great peaks are won -- PART TWO: SIGNS OF MATURITY -- The extension of the playground -- The old leading-strings are dropped -- Mechanization and the cult of danger -- The highest mountains in the world -- Nationality in mountaineering -- PART THREE: PERPETUAL YOUTH -- Methods of approach -- Mountaineering out of season -- Solidary mountaineering -- Solvitur in excelsis.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01 Ir8t
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- Archives Library
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Adventures of an alpine guide
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26177
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1932
- Author
- Klucker, Christian
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Edition
- 1st (English)
- Call Number
- 01.2 K71a
- Author
- Klucker, Christian
- Responsibility
- Translation by Erwin and Pleasaunce Von Gaisberg. Edited with additional chapters by H. E. G. Tyndale
- Edition
- 1st (English)
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Published Date
- 1932
- Physical Description
- 329 pages
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01.2 K71a
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- Archives Library
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Hamish MacInnes : the fox of Glencoe
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25653
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- MacInnes, Hamish
- Publisher
- Scotland : Scottish Mountaineering Press
- Call Number
- 01.2 M26h
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- Author
- MacInnes, Hamish
- Responsibility
- Edited by Deziree Wilson
- Publisher
- Scotland : Scottish Mountaineering Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 367 pages : illustrations (some colour), portraits (some colour) ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers
- Scotland
- Biographies
- Abstract
- From a youthful solo of the Matterhorn, through historic first ascents, hunting for treasure, inventing equipment and pioneering mountain rescue, Hamish MacInnes recalls a lifetime of epic adventures in this eclectic selection of tales. His restless curiosity and pragmatic approach to risk and loss are vivdly rendered with wry, elegant style, offering unique insight into the mind of one of the greatest mountaineers of our time. -- From back cover
- ISBN
- 9781907233395
- Accession Number
- P2022.14
- Call Number
- 01.2 M26h
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Mountain Literature (Non Fiction) The Jon Whyte Award 2022 Winner
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Alpine rising : Sherpas, Baltis, and the triumph of local climbers in the great ranges
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26251
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2024
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
- Call Number
- 01.1 M14a
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2024
- Physical Description
- 269 pages
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers
- Mountains
- Climbing
- Himalaya Mountains
- Sherpa
- Sherpa-history
- Nepal
- Abstract
- The story of the often unheralded and unrecognized stars of climbing in the Himalaya and the Karakoram: the local inhabitants of the mountainous regions of Pakistan, Tibet, India, and Nepal who have been support staff--porters, cooks, sirdars, and unacknowledged guides--for Western climbers for generations. ALPINE RISING focuses on the experiences and accomplishments of these Sherpas, Baltis, Ladakhis, Hunzas, Astoris, Magars, Bhotias, Rais, and Gurangs. Highlighted climbers range from Raghubir Thapa and Goman Singh who climbed with Albert Mummery in 1895, Ang Tharkay who climbed with Eric Shipton and Maurice Herzog, and Tenzing Norgay who, along with Edmund Hillary, was the first to summit Everest, to today's superstars, Ali Sadpara, Mingma G, Kama Rita, and others -- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN
- 9781680515787
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 01.1 M14a
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1886
- Author
- Michelet, Jules
- Publisher
- London : L. Nelson and Sons
- Call Number
- 01.2 M58t
- Author
- Michelet, Jules
- Publisher
- London : L. Nelson and Sons
- Published Date
- 1886
- Physical Description
- 260 pages
- Subjects
- Switzerland
- Europe
- Alps
- Mountaineering
- Glaciers
- Nature
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01.2 M58t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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No map could show them
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25489
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Mort, Helen
- Publisher
- London : Chatto & Windus
- Call Number
- 05.1 M84n
- Author
- Mort, Helen
- Publisher
- London : Chatto & Windus
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 70 pages ; 22 cm
- Abstract
- A Poetry Book Society Recommendation 2016. 'When we climb alone en cordee feminine, we are magicians of the Alps - we make the routes we follow disappear'. The poems of Helen Mort's second collection offer an unforgettable perspective on the heights we scale and the distances we run, the routes we follow and the paths we make for ourselves. Here are odes to the women who dared to break new ground - from Miss Jemima Morrell, a young Victorian woman from Yorkshire who hiked the Swiss Peaks in her skirts and petticoats, to the modern British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves, who died descending from the summit of K2. Distinctive and courageous, these are poems of passion and precipices, of edges and extremes. No Map Could Show Them confirms Helen Mort's position as one of the finest young poets at work today.
- Contents
- An Easy Day for a Lady ; How to Dress ; Miss Jemima's Swiss Journal ; Ode to Bob ; Height ; The Fear ; Scale ; Beryl the Peril ; My Diet ; Difficult ; The Old Dungeon Ghyll ; Hill ; Black Rocks ; Descent ; Prayer ; Kiss ; Solo ; Nordwand ; Home ; At Night ; Above Cromford ; Route ; Dear Alison ; Engineer ; Lethal Roy ; Bloodhound ; Skirt ; Rachel in Attercliffe ; King's Cross ; Ink ; What Will Happen ; Ablation ; Hathersage ; Kalymnos ; Loutro ; Alport Castles ; Eagle Owl ; Royal Mile ; Kinder Scout ; Murmuration ; Big Lil ; Lil's dream ; What the papers said ; Lil's answer ; Lil's last word ; Tom Hulatt's Mile ; Heinrich Harrer's Motorbike ; How Much Can You Carry? ; Everest ; Oxygen ; Beck Weathers ; Sherpa ; Lene Gamelgaard ; First ; Rope
- ISBN
- 9781784740641
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 05.1 M84n
- Collection
- Archives Library
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My climbs in the Alps and Caucasus
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26179
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1895
- Author
- Mummery, A. F.
- Publisher
- London : T. Fisher Unwin
- Call Number
- 01.2 M92m
- Author
- Mummery, A. F.
- Publisher
- London : T. Fisher Unwin
- Published Date
- 1895
- Physical Description
- 360 pages
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Alps
- Caucasus
- Mummery, A. F.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01.2 M92m
- Collection
- Archives Library
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