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The magician's glass : character and fate : eight essays on climbing and the mountain life
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19918
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Douglas, Ed
- Publisher
- Sheffield, England : Vertbrate Publishing
- Call Number
- G510 D68 M34
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- Author
- Douglas, Ed
- Responsibility
- Ed Douglas
- Publisher
- Sheffield, England : Vertbrate Publishing
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 192 p .
- Subjects
- Essays
- Mountaineering
- Rock climbing
- Abstract
- The Magician’s Glass by award-winning writer Ed Douglas is a collection of eight recent essays on some of the biggest stories and best-known personalities in the world of climbing. In the title essay, he writes about failure on Annapurna III in 1981, one of the boldest attempts in Himalayan mountaineering on one of the most beautiful lines – a line that remains unclimbed to this day. Douglas writes about bitter controversies, like that surrounding Ueli Steck’s disputed solo ascent of the south face of Annapurna, the fate of Toni Egger on Cerro Torre in 1959 – when Cesare Maestri claimed the pair had made the first ascent, and the rise and fall of Slovenian ace Tomaz Humar. There are profiles of two stars of the 1980s: the much-loved German Kurt Albert, the father of the ‘redpoint’, and the enigmatic rock star Patrick Edlinger, a national hero in his native France who lost his way. In Crazy Wisdom, Douglas offers fresh perspectives on the impact mountaineering has on local communities and the role climbers play in the developing world. The final essay explores the relationship between art and alpinism as a way of understanding why it is that people climb mountains. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Foreward by Katie Ives
- The magician's glass
- Stealing Toni Egger
- Searching for Tomaz Humar
- Bit guts
- Crazy wisdom
- What's eating Ueli Steck?
- Lone wolf
- Lines of beauty : the art of climbing
- Acknowledgements
- ISBN
- 9781911342489
- Accession Number
- AC635
- Call Number
- G510 D68 M34
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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Mountaineers : great tales of bravery and conquest
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14078
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Douglas, Ed
- Publisher
- UK: Dorling Kindersley Ltd. in association with Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and The Alpine Club
- Call Number
- 01 M86 uk
- Author
- Douglas, Ed
- Responsibility
- written by Ed Douglas ; additional writing, Richard Gilbert, Philip Parker, Alasdair Macleod
- Publisher
- UK: Dorling Kindersley Ltd. in association with Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and The Alpine Club
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 360 p. : chiefly col. ill., ports
- Notes
- British edition
- The early mountaineers. Climbing for survival ; What mountains mean ; Mountains and Christianity -- Climbing for science and art. A new frontier ; The cultural heights ; The first summiteers -- The Golden Age of alpinism. A fashion for climbing ; The price of adventure ; "An easy day for a lady" ; Birth of modern alpinism -- Beyond the Alps. The greater ranges ; Climbing in the New World ; Alpinism in Japan -- Slaying the giants. The greatest show on Earth ; Back of an envelope ; The Himalayan Golden Age -- The age of extremes. The North faces ; The unwritten rules ; Women mountaineers ; Fast and light -- Mountain directory. "Celebrating a rich tradition of bravery, thirst for knowledge, and pursuit of glory, Mountaineers tells the stories of the pioneers who first scaled the heights of this planet."--P. [2] of jacket
- ISBN
- 9781405365598
- Accession Number
- 8206
- Call Number
- 01 M86 uk
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Tenzing : hero of Everest, a biography of Tenzing Norgay
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15237
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- c2003
- Author
- Douglas, Ed
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : National Geographic
- Call Number
- 01.1 D74t
- Author
- Douglas, Ed
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : National Geographic
- Published Date
- c2003
- Physical Description
- xix, 299 p. : ill. (some col.), maps
- Subjects
- Everest, Mount
- Mountaineering
- Biography
- Sherpa
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- ISBN
- 0792269837
- Accession Number
- 2016.8602
- Call Number
- 01.1 D74t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Tenzing : hero of Everest, a biography of Tenzing Norgay
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12218
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- c2003
- Author
- Douglas, Ed
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : National Geographic
- Call Number
- DS486 E8 D68t
- Author
- Douglas, Ed
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : National Geographic
- Published Date
- c2003
- Physical Description
- xix, 299 p. : ill. (some col.), maps
- Subjects
- Everest, Mount
- Mountaineering
- Biography
- Sherpa
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- ISBN
- 0792269837
- Accession Number
- AC611 copy 2 transferred to ARC
- Call Number
- DS486 E8 D68t
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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We live in a postcard : Banff family histories
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12730
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2005
- Author
- Hare, Douglas, ed.
- Publisher
- Banff : Banff History Book Committee
- Call Number
- 08.3 B22we Ref
- 08.3 B22we oversize
- Author
- Hare, Douglas, ed.
- Responsibility
- Douglas Hare, editor
- Jim Davies, artwork
- Publisher
- Banff : Banff History Book Committee
- Published Date
- 2005
- Subjects
- Banff (residents)
- Biography
- Notes
- Genealogy book of Banffites, with stories submitted primarily by family members. Organized by the Banff History Book Committee. Includes index. Partial contents: Chronology of significant events of Banff National Park by Jon Whelan; Foreword by Eddie Hunter
- Accession Number
- 7586
- Call Number
- 08.3 B22we Ref
- 08.3 B22we oversize
- Collection
- Archives Library
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