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Alpine warriors
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15221
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- [Surrey, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 01.2 M14a
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- [Surrey, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 335 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps, portraits
- Subjects
- Slovenia
- Mountaineering
- Notes
- Winner of Banff Mountain Book Competition Mountaineering History Award in 2015.
- ISBN
- 9781771601092
- Accession Number
- 2016.8602
- Call Number
- 01.2 M14a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Alpine warriors
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14794
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- [Surrey, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- G512 M16
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- [Surrey, British Columbia] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 335 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), maps, portraits
- Subjects
- Slovenia
- Mountaineering
- Notes
- Winner of Banff Mountain Book Competition Mountaineering History Award in 2015.
- ISBN
- 9781771601092
- Accession Number
- AC609
- AC616 copy 2 transferred to ARC Library
- Call Number
- G512 M16
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Art of freedom : the life and climbs of Voytek Kurtyka
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19901
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- G512 M16 A78
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Responsibility
- Bernadette McDonald
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 326 pages : photographs ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- "A profound and moving biography of one of the international climbing world's most respected, complicated and reclusive mountaineers. Voytek Kurtyka remains one of the greatest alpinists of all time. Born in 1947, he was one of the leading lights of the Polish golden age of Himalayan climbing. His visionary approach to climbing resulted in many renowned ascents, such as the complete Broad Peak traverse, the "night naked" speed climbs of Cho Oyu and Shishapangma and, above all, the alpine-style ascent of the West Face of Gasherbrum IV. Dubbed the "climb of the century," his route on G IV, as of 2016, has yet to be repeated. His most frequent climbing partners were alpine legends of their time: Polish Himalayan climber Jerzy Kukuczka, Swiss mountain guide Erhard Loretan and British alpinist Alex MacIntyre. After repeated requests to accept the Piolet d'Or lifetime achievement award (the Academy Award of the climbing world), Kurtyka finally accepted the honour in the spring of 2016. A fiercely private individual, he continues to decline countless invitations for interviews, lectures and festival appearances, but has agreed to co-operate with internationally renowned and award winning Canadian author Bernadette McDonald on this long-awaited biography."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction
- Rock Animal
- Alpinist in Training
- Hindu Kush - Unleashed
- Troll Wall
- Bandaka - The Mordor Beauty
- Hungry for Hunger
- Dancing in the Moment
- Enfant Terrible
- Line against the Sky
- The Shining Wall
- Fork in the Road
- Trango Tower
- Night Naked
- Dance of the Underclings
- Chinese Maharaja
- Metaphysical Think Tank
- The Crux
- Chronology of Selected Climbs
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Sources
- Index
- ISBN
- 9781771602129
- Accession Number
- AC634
- Call Number
- G512 M16 A78
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Art of Freedom : the life and climbs of Voytek Kurtyka
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue2157
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 01 Mc14a
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Responsibility
- Bernadette McDonald
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 326 pages : photographs ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- "A profound and moving biography of one of the international climbing world's most respected, complicated and reclusive mountaineers. Voytek Kurtyka remains one of the greatest alpinists of all time. Born in 1947, he was one of the leading lights of the Polish golden age of Himalayan climbing. His visionary approach to climbing resulted in many renowned ascents, such as the complete Broad Peak traverse, the "night naked" speed climbs of Cho Oyu and Shishapangma and, above all, the alpine-style ascent of the West Face of Gasherbrum IV. Dubbed the "climb of the century," his route on G IV, as of 2016, has yet to be repeated. His most frequent climbing partners were alpine legends of their time: Polish Himalayan climber Jerzy Kukuczka, Swiss mountain guide Erhard Loretan and British alpinist Alex MacIntyre. After repeated requests to accept the Piolet d'Or lifetime achievement award (the Academy Award of the climbing world), Kurtyka finally accepted the honour in the spring of 2016. A fiercely private individual, he continues to decline countless invitations for interviews, lectures and festival appearances, but has agreed to co-operate with internationally renowned and award winning Canadian author Bernadette McDonald on this long-awaited biography."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction
- Rock Animal
- Alpinist in Training
- Hindu Kush - Unleashed
- Troll Wall
- Bandaka - The Mordor Beauty
- Hungry for Hunger
- Dancing in the Moment
- Enfant Terrible
- Line against the Sky
- The Shining Wall
- Fork in the Road
- Trango Tower
- Night Naked
- Dance of the Underclings
- Chinese Maharaja
- Metaphysical Think Tank
- The Crux
- Chronology of Selected Climbs
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Sources
- Index
- ISBN
- 9781771602129
- Accession Number
- 2019.11
- Call Number
- 01 Mc14a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Echoes : one climber's hard road to freedom
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14851
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Bullock, Nick
- Publisher
- Sheffield, United Kingdom : Vertebrate Publishing
- Call Number
- G512 B85 E24
- Author
- Bullock, Nick
- Publisher
- Sheffield, United Kingdom : Vertebrate Publishing
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- xv, 231 pages, plates [colour], ill. [colour]
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Scotland
- Wales
- ISBN
- 9781906148539
- Accession Number
- AC609
- Call Number
- G512 B85 E24
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Freedom climbers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14192
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- Victoria, [B.C.] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 01.1 M14
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Responsibility
- Bernadette McDonald
- Publisher
- Victoria, [B.C.] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 351 p. : ill. (some col.), ports.
- Subjects
- Everest, Mount
- Pakistan
- Hypothermia
- World War II
- Nepal
- ISBN
- 9781927330128
- Accession Number
- 13-2-1 70,500
- Call Number
- 01.1 M14
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Freedom climbers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14880
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- Victoria, [B.C.] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- G510 M16 F74
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Responsibility
- Bernadette McDonald
- Publisher
- Victoria, [B.C.] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 351 p. : ill. (some col.), ports.
- Subjects
- Everest, Mount
- Poland
- Pakistan
- Hypothermia
- World War II
- Nepal
- ISBN
- 9781927330128
- Accession Number
- AC609
- Call Number
- G510 M16 F74
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Keeper of the mountains : the Elizabeth Hawley story
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14435
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- Victoria, [B.C.] : RMB
- Call Number
- 01.1 M14k
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Responsibility
- Bernadette McDonald ; foreword by Sir Edmund Hillary
- Publisher
- Victoria, [B.C.] : RMB
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 256 pages : illustrations, portraits. ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Everest, Mount
- Nepal
- Notes
- Previously published under the title: I'll call you in Kathmandu
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- ISBN
- 9781927330159
- Accession Number
- P2015-03-31
- Call Number
- 01.1 M14k
- Collection
- Archives Library
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TIDES : a climber's voyage
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25044
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Bullock, Nick
- Publisher
- [Place of publication not identified] : VERTEBRATE Publishing
- Call Number
- G512 T53 B85
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- Author
- Bullock, Nick
- Publisher
- [Place of publication not identified] : VERTEBRATE Publishing
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 1 volume : illustrations (black and white, and colour)
- Subjects
- Rock climbing
- Autobiography
- Travel
- Abstract
- Nick Bullock is a climber who lives in a small green van, flitting between Llanberis, Wales, and Chamonix in the French Alps. Tides, Nick’s second book, is the much-anticipated follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut Echoes. Now retired from the strain of work as a prison officer, Nick is free to climb. A lot. Tides is a treasury of his antics and adventures with some of the world’s leading climbers, including Steve House, Kenton Cool, Nico Favresse, Andy Houseman and James McHaffie. Follow Nick and his partners as they push the limits on some of the world’s most serious routes: The Bells! The Bells! on Gogarth’s North Stack Wall; the Slovak Direct on Denali; Guerdon Grooves on Buachaille Etive Mor; and the north faces of Chang Himal and Mount Alberta, among countless others. Nick’s life can be equated to the rhythm of the sea. At high tide, he climbs, he loves it, he is good at it; he laughs and jokes, scares himself, falls, gets back up and climbs some more. Then the tide goes out and he finds himself alone, exposed, all questions and no answers. Self-doubt, grieving for friends or family, fearful, sometimes opinionated, occasionally angry – his writing more honest and exposed than in any account of a climb. Only when the tide turns is he able to forget once more. Tides is a gripping memoir that captures the very essence of what it means to dedicate one’s life to climbing. (from Vertebrate Publishing website)
- Contents
- Prologue - living scared
- love and hate
- immortal?
- nothing more
- the cutting lap
- the rain
- the emotional tightrope
- bad shit
- deception
- the web
- cravings
- death or glory
- slave to the rhythm?
- bittersweet desire
- strange eden
- how soon is now
- you only live twice
- the cathedral
- trapped
- evening redness in the west
- into the shadow
- similar to a scottish quarry
- best before
- death of paradise
- the pitfalls of a peroni supermodel
- what were his dreams?
- balloons
- that's rowdy, dude
- over the top
- flames
- dreams and screams
- just beneath the surface
- the light of the moon
- the mountain soundtrack
- please queue here
- dawn to dusk to dawn
- threshold shift
- postscript
- acknowledgements
- Notes
- Signed by author
- Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival winner for Mountain Literature (non-fiction) Jon Whyte award
- ISBN
- 9781911342533
- Accession Number
- AC639
- Call Number
- G512 T53 B85
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on Vertebrate Publishing website
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Tides : a climber's voyage
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue2211
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Bullock, Nick
- Publisher
- Vertebrate Publishing
- Call Number
- 01 Bu87t
- Author
- Bullock, Nick
- Responsibility
- Nick Bullock
- Publisher
- Vertebrate Publishing
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 1 volume : illustrations (black and white, and colour) ; 24 cm
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Authors
- Autobiography
- Abstract
- Pertains the climbing career of Nick Bullock as well as Steve House, Kenton Cool, Nico Favresse, Andy Houseman, James McHaffie on routes such as The Bells! The Bells! on Gogarth's North Stack Wall; the Slovak Direct on Denali; Guerdon Grooves on Buachaille Etive Mor; north faces of Chang Himal and Mount Alberta.
- Contents
- Prologue - living scared
- love and hate
- immortal?
- nothing more
- the cutting lap
- the rain
- the emotional tightrope
- bad shit
- deception
- the web
- cravings
- death or glory
- slave to the rhythm?
- bittersweet desire
- strange eden
- how soon is now
- you only live twice
- the cathedral
- trapped
- evening redness in the west
- into the shadow
- similar to a scottish quarry
- best before
- death of paradise
- the pitfalls of a peroni supermodel
- what were his dreams?
- balloons
- that's rowdy, dude
- over the top
- flames
- dreams and screams
- just beneath the surface
- the light of the moon
- the mountain soundtrack
- please queue here
- dawn to dusk to dawn
- threshold shift
- postscript
- acknowledgements
- ISBN
- 978-1-911342-53-3
- Accession Number
- 2019.12
- Call Number
- 01 Bu87t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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