Narrow Results By
Exploring the southern Selkirks: including the Valhallas and Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25090
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1980
- Author
- Carter, John
- Leighton, Doug
- Publisher
- Vancouver, BC: Douglas & McIntyre
- Call Number
- 02.6 C24e
- Author
- Carter, John
- Leighton, Doug
- Responsibility
- John Carter
- Doug Leighton
- Publisher
- Vancouver, BC: Douglas & McIntyre
- Published Date
- 1980
- Physical Description
- 119 pages: illustrations, maps
- Abstract
- Guidebook for exploring the Southern Selkirk mountains, including photographs, maps and trail descriptions
- Contents
- Preface Introduction The Land The Plant Communities Mammals Birds Fish Man in the Southern Selkirks Winter Activities Wilderness Ethics Trail Descriptions: Kokanee Region Valhalla Region Lardeau Region Bonnington Region The Valhalla Park Proposal Equipment Checklist Information Sources and Resource Agencies Reading List
- ISBN
- 0888942737
- Accession Number
- 2018.9003
- Call Number
- 02.6 C24e
- Collection
- Archives Library
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Quest for adventure
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20157
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1981
- Author
- Bonington, Chris
- Publisher
- New York : Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.
- Call Number
- 02.1 B64q
- Author
- Bonington, Chris
- Responsibility
- Chris Bonington
- Publisher
- New York : Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.
- Published Date
- 1981
- Physical Description
- 448 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits (some color)
- Subjects
- Travel
- History
- Sailing
- Mountaineering
- Hiking
- Abstract
- Pertains to the travels of Thor Heyerdahl, John Ridgeway, Chay Blyth, John Fairfax, Sylvia Cook, Francis Chichester, Robin Knox-Johnston, David Lewis, Wilfred Thesiger, John Blashford-Snell, Mike Jones, Maurice Herzog, John Hunt, Herbert Tichy, Walter Bonatti, Hermann Buhl, Reinhold Messner, Vivian Fuchs, Edmund Hillary, Wally Herbert, Naomie Uemura, Max Anderson, Ben Abruzzo, Larry Newman, Neil Armstrong, Geoff Yeadon, Oliver Statham
- Contents
- Introduction
- Oceans:
- 1) Kon-tiki
- 2) Rowing the Atlantic
- 3) Across Two Oceans
- 4) The Man Who Raced Himself
- 5) Golden Globe
- 6) Ice Bird
- Deserts:
- 7) The Empty Quarter
- Rivers:
- 8) The Blue Nile
- Mountains:
- 9) Annapurna, the First 1800
- 10) The Challenge of Everest
- 11) Cho Oyu
- 12) The Bonatti Pillar
- 13) Board Peak
- 14) Annapurna, South Face
- 15) Diamir - Messner on Nanga Parbat
- The Poles:
- 16) The Crossing of Antarctica
- 17) The Last Great Polar Journey
- 18) Solo to the Pole
- Air:
- 19) Double Eagle
- Space:
- 20) First on the Moon
- Beneath the Earth:
- 21) Dead Man's Handshake
- Facets of Adventure
- A Chronology of Adventure since 1945
- Glossary
- Select Bibliography
- Picture Credits
- Index
- Notes
- Addressed to Hans Gmoser from Philippe Delesalle - dated 1983
- ISBN
- 0517546965
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- 02.1 B64q
- Collection
- Archives Library
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Sitting in the club car and drinking rum and karma-kola
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue3023
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1986
- Author
- Jiles, Paulette
- Publisher
- Winlaw (B.C.) : Polestar Press
- Call Number
- 05.2 J56
- Author
- Jiles, Paulette
- Publisher
- Winlaw (B.C.) : Polestar Press
- Published Date
- 1986
- Physical Description
- 105p. : plan
- Subjects
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Travel
- Notes
- Plan of CPR dome car, p. 3
- ISBN
- 0-919591-13-2
- Accession Number
- 6964
- Call Number
- 05.2 J56
- Collection
- Archives Library
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Where mountains live : twelve great treks of the world
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20156
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1987
- Author
- Le Bon, Leo
- Publisher
- New York, N.Y. : Aperture : Distributed in the U.S. by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Call Number
- G504 W44 L43
- Author
- Le Bon, Leo
- Responsibility
- Leo Le Bon
- Publisher
- New York, N.Y. : Aperture : Distributed in the U.S. by Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Published Date
- 1987
- Physical Description
- 144 pages : color illustrations
- Abstract
- Pertains to trekking in China, Bhutan, Nepal, India, Peru, Chile, Argentina, Tanzania with many photographs and expedition planners for each geographical area.
- Contents
- Foreward by Sir Edmund Hillary
- Introduction
- China:
- Chapter One - The Karakoram Trek to K2
- Chapter Two - Everest: The Kangshung Trek
- Chapter Three - The Minya Konka Trek
- Trekking in China - Expedition Planners
- Bhutan:
- Chapter Four - The Chomolhari Trek
- The Chomolhari Trek - Expedition Planner
- Nepal:
- Chapter Five - Around Annapurna
- Chapter Six - The Kanjiroba Trek
- Trekking in Nepal - Expedition Planners
- India:
- Chapter Seven - The Trans-Himalaya Trek
- Chapter Eight - From Kishtwar to Zanskar
- Trekking in India - Expedition Planners
- Peru:
- Chapter Nine - The Cordillera Blanca Traverse
- Chapter Ten - The Inca Highlands Trail
- Trekking in Peru - Expedition Planners
- Chile and Argentina:
- Chapter Eleven - Trekking in Patagonia
- Trekking in Patagonia - Expedition Planner
- Tanzania:
- Chapter Twelve - The Kilimanjaro Trek
- The Kilimanjaro Trek - Expedition Planner
- Photography Notes
- Acknowledgements
- Bibliography
- Notes
- Signed by author - addressed to Hans Gmoser
- ISBN
- 0893812420
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- G504 W44 L43
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
