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Abstract: In the 1960s, California's Yosemite Valley was the center of the rock climbing universe. Young nonconformists -- many of them the finest rock climbers in the world -- channeled their energy toward the largely untouched walls and cracks. Soon climbers from around the globe were coming to Camp 4 -- gathering spot for the creators of the "Golden Age" of Yosemite climbing -- to see whgat all the fuss is about. -- From the back cover

Notes: Winner of the 1994 Banff Mountain Book Festival for Mountain Literature

ISBN: 9780898863819

Accession Number: P2023.19

Call Number: 02.8 R68c

Collection: Archives Library

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Mountains and desire : climbing vs. the end of the world

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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

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

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

Collection: Archives Library

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Crack climbing : the definitive guide

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

Published Date: 2020

Author: Whittaker, Pete

Publisher: Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books

Edition: First

Call Number: 02.8 W58c

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Author: Whittaker, Pete

Responsibility: Pete Whittaker

Edition: First

Publisher: Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books

Published Date: 2020

Physical Description: 302 pages : illustrations (some color)

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

Subjects: Rock climbing; Travel; Guidebook

Abstract: Crack climbing is a highly technical form of movement in which climbers position their hands, feet, and even their entire body in cracks to make upward progress on rock. An advocate for the sport’s aesthetic lines, physicality, and technical know-how, author Pete Whittaker teaches more than sixty Crack School Masterclasses each year and was featured in the popular climbing film Wide Boyz. This detailed and comprehensive guide teaches step-by-step techniques and tips, including for: Jamming (finger, hand, fist, foot, arm, leg, body) Crack types (chimneys, liebacks, underclings, roof cracks) How to safely lead and place protection Efficient positioning and movement Strength recovery while climbing (From Mountaineers Books website)

Contents: Preface; A Note; Before We Begin: Key Terms; Key to Illustrations; Chapter 1 - Five Rules of Crack Climbing; Chapter 2 - Finger Cracks; Chapter 3 - Hand Cracks; Chater 4 - Fist Cracks; Chapter 5 - Offwidth Cracks; Chapter 6 - Squeeze Chimneys; Chapter 7 - Chimneys; Chapter 8 - Stemming; Chapter 9 - Roof Cracks; Chapter 10 - Placing Gear; Chapter 11 - Equipment; Chapter 12 - Taping; Acknowledgements; Index

Notes: 2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Winner - Guidebook 2020 National Outdoor Book Awards Honorable Mention - Instructional

ISBN: 9781680512151

Accession Number: P2020.07

Call Number: 02.8 W58c

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Mountaineers Books website

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Trout tracks : essays on fly fishing

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

Published Date: 2022

Author: McLennan, Jim

Publisher: Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: 02.8 M22t

Author: McLennan, Jim

Responsibility: Illustrations by Lynda McLennan

Publisher: Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2022

Physical Description: 235 pages ; 20 cm

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

Subjects: Fly fishing; Fishing; Recreation; Sport; Water; Fish; Wildlife

Abstract: A new collection of outdoor writing from one of fly fishing’s most popular essayists. Drawn from 55 years of excessive obsession with trout, water, streams, and flies, this collection of essays from Canada’s most widely read fly-fishing author since Roderick Haig-Brown reveals the depth of engagement that this sport engenders. Poised and polished words reveal the flaws and virtues of humanity, the strength of Mother Nature, the beautiful mystery that is a wild trout, and the obsessed’s inexplicable need to outsmart a creature with a brain the size of a pea. Fly fishing is considered perhaps the most reflective and graceful of outdoor pursuits, and author Jim McLennan agrees – for the most part. Trout Tracks includes pieces on fly-fishing people and fly-fishing places, plus stories of quiet successes and loud failures, in sum revealing the soul of “the quiet sport.” You won’t learn from this book how to cast farther or tie a knot faster, but if you’ve ever fly fished – or if you want to – you’ll smile and understand more clearly the seduction of wild trout in wild places. -- From publisher

Contents: 1. Places -- 2. Bugs, real and fake -- 3. How -- 4. Navel gazing -- 5. The silly side -- 6. At the water -- 7. People 8. Aging (gracefully, more or less).

ISBN: 9781771603652

Accession Number: P2023.25

Call Number: 02.8 M22t

Collection: Archives Library

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