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Nature's heritage : Canada's National Parks

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

Published Date: 1967

Author: Baird, David M

Publisher: Scarborough : Prentice Hall

Call Number: SB484 C3 B3

Author: Baird, David M

Publisher: Scarborough : Prentice Hall

Published Date: 1967

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

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

Accession Number: AC596

Call Number: SB484 C3 B3

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Ropes, knots & slings for climbers

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

Published Date: 1967

Author: Wheelock, Walt

Publisher: Glendale, CA : La Siesta Press

Edition: Rev. ed

Call Number: VM533 W4 1967 Pam

Author: Wheelock, Walt

Responsibility: by Walt Wheelock revision by Royal Robbins

Edition: Rev. ed

Publisher: Glendale, CA : La Siesta Press

Published Date: 1967

Physical Description: 36p. : ill

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

Call Number: VM533 W4 1967 Pam

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Waddington Range

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

Published Date: 1964

Author: Woodsworth, R.

Call Number: A12.13

Author: Woodsworth, R.

Published Date: 1964

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

Accession Number: AC629

Call Number: A12.13

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"