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Edward Feuz Jr. : a story of enchantment
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25535
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Stephen, D. L.
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 08.3 Stem4e
- Author
- Stephen, D. L.
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 318 pages
- Subjects
- Feuz, Edward
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers, Swiss
- Guide
- Swiss Guides Village, Edelweiss, B.C.
- Tourism
- History-Canada
- Rocky Mountains
- Abstract
- As a young Swiss boy, Edward Feuz Jr. (1884–1981) developed an insatiable passion for climbing. In time, he traded his Lausbub reputation for that of a responsible Swiss guide and was eventually drawn to Canada in the footsteps of his father, Edward Feuz Sr. (1859–1944), who was one of the first Swiss guides hired by the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1898 to develop the alpinism in western Canada. Handsome and charismatic, Edward (while still in training for his trade) was instantly smitten with the Canadian landscape — and so were his guests. They raved about the young man who showed such exceptional skills. He guided them all — professors, women of independent means, students, newspaper people, a Hindu holy man, and even “Sherlock Holmes” — through untrailed forests, across roaring streams, up icy glaciers, and to the tops of rocky summits. Young and old, they were all enchanted, and so they returned time and again — to the mountains and to their friend Edward. -- From back cover
- Contents
- Pilgrims ; Edward ; How it All Began ; How we came to Share the Enchantment ; Feuz Haus ; How They Did It ; Reading the Signs ; Snapshots ; Life with Edward ; Edward's Girls
- ISBN
- 9781771605090
- Accession Number
- 2021.41
- Call Number
- 08.3 Stem4e
- Location
- Reading Room
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Mount assiniboine : the story
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25540
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Publisher
- Banff, A.B. : Assiniboine Publishing
- Edition
- First
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sco3m
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Banff, A.B. : Assiniboine Publishing
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 336 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (chiefly colour), portraits (some colour) ; 32 cm
- Subjects
- Assiniboine, Mount
- Tourism
- History-Canada
- Mountaineering
- Climbing
- Hiking
- Camping
- Backcountry
- Travel
- Abstract
- This book tells the story of the history of Mount Assiniboine and the surrounding area. Mount Assiniboine is a beautiful mountain located in Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park in south eastern British Columbia. -- Provided by publisher
- Contents
- First Nations History at Mount Assiniboine ; Part One: The Discovery of Mount Assiniboine (1800-1910) ; Part Two: The Wheeler Years (1913-1927) ; Part Three: Strom's Half-century: Part I (1928-1950) ; Part Four: Strom's Half-century: Part 2 (1950-1983) ; Part Five: The Renner Years (1983-2010) ; Part Six: A New Generation Takes Over
- ISBN
- 9780981105932
- Accession Number
- P2022.06
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sco3m
- Collection
- 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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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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Structured chaos : the unusual life of a climber
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25689
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Saunders, Victor
- Publisher
- Sheffield : Vertebrate Publishing
- Call Number
- 01.1 S8s
- Author
- Saunders, Victor
- Publisher
- Sheffield : Vertebrate Publishing
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 192 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- Structured Chaos is Victor Saunders' follow-up to Elusive Summits (winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize in 1990), No Place to Fall and Himalaya: The Tribulations of Vic & Mick. He reflects on his early childhood in Malaya and his first experiences of climbing as a student, and describes his progression from scaling canal-side walls in Camden to expeditions in the Himalaya and Karakoram. Following climbs on K2 and Nanga Parbat, he leaves his career as an architect and moves to Chamonix to become a mountain guide. He later makes the first ascent of Chamshen in the Saser Kangri massif, and reunites with old friend Mick Fowler to climb the north face of Sersank. This is not just a tale of mountaineering triumphs, but also an account of rescues, tragedies and failures. Telling his story with humour and warmth, Saunders spans the decades from youthful awkwardness to concerns about age-related forgetfulness, ranging from 'Where did I put my keys?' to 'Is this the right mountain?' Structured Chaos is a testament to the value of friendship and the things that really matter in life: being in the right place at the right time with the right people, and making the most of the view. -- Provided by Publisher
- Contents
- Pekan (1954-1961) -- Schooldays (1961-1969) -- Sex and drugs and rock climbing (1970-1972) -- Ship Ahoy! (1973) -- London calling (1973-1979) -- Reasons to be fearful (1979) -- Seconds out (1986) -- K2 (1993) -- The dark couloir (1996) -- Guiding lights (1996-2012) -- Hanging on a telephone (2013) -- Treppenwitz -- The Sersank Redemption (2016) -- Epilogue.
- Notes
- Winner of the Banff Mountain Book Festival, Mountain Literature (Non-Fiction), The Jon Whyte Award 2021.
- ISBN
- 9781912560660
- Accession Number
- P2023.05
- Call Number
- 01.1 S8s
- Collection
- Archives Library
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False summit : gender in mountaineering nonfiction
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26216
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Rak, Julie
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Call Number
- 01.1 R14f
- Author
- Rak, Julie
- Publisher
- Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- xii, 268 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
- Abstract
- Exploring the role of gender politics in narratives about high-altitude mountaineering in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. The race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere on a global scale. But as a metaphor for the pinnacle of human achievement, mountaineering remains the preserve of traditional white male heroism. False Summit unpacks gender politics in the expedition narratives and memoirs of mountaineers in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. Why are women still a minority in the world's highest places? Julie Rak proposes that the genre has itself reached a "false summit"--a peak that proves not to be the pinnacle--and that mountaineering is not ready to welcome other ways of climbing or other kinds of climbers. For more than two centuries mountaineering, as an activity and as an ideal, has helped shape how the self is understood within the context of conquest, adventure, and proximity to risk. As climbing shows signs of becoming more diverse, Rak asks why change is so hard to achieve and why gender bias and other inequities exist in climbing at all. Exploring classic and lesser-known expedition accounts from Everest, K2, and Annapurna, False Summit helps us understand why mountaineering remains one of the most important ways to articulate gender identities and politics. -- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Leadership and Gender on Annapurna -- K2: The Gendered Rope -- Everest and Authenticity -- Everest: Gender Politics and the 1996 Disaster.
- ISBN
- 9780228006268
- Accession Number
- P2024.01
- Call Number
- 01.1 R14f
- 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
- Collection
- Archives Library
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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
- Collection
- Archives Library
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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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