topic:"Himalaya Mountains" found 40 records - Research Collections

Fallen giants : a history of Himalayan mountaineering from the age of empire to the age of extremes

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

Published Date: 2008

Author: Isserman, Maurice

Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press

Call Number: DS485 I87

Author: Isserman, Maurice

Responsibility: Maurice Isserman and Stewart Weaver with maps and peak sketches by Dee Molenaar

Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press

Published Date: 2008

Physical Description: xii, 579 p. : ill.

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

Subjects: Himalaya Mountains; Nepal; Mountaineering

ISBN: 9780300164206

Accession Number: AC609

Call Number: DS485 I87

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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False summit : gender in mountaineering nonfiction

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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

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

Subjects: Mountaineering; Mountaineers Women; Gender; Expeditions; Himalaya Mountains; Sexism; Feminism

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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Helvellyn to Himalaya : including an account of the first ascent of Chomolhari

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

Published Date: 1940

Author: Chapman, Frederick Spencer

Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus

Call Number: DS785 C4 1940

Author: Chapman, Frederick Spencer

Publisher: London : Chatto & Windus

Published Date: 1940

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

Subjects: Greenland; Himalaya Mountains

Call Number: DS785 C4 1940

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Himalaya : mountains of life

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

Published Date: 2013

Author: Bawa, Kamal

Publisher: Bangalore, India : Ashoka Trust for Research in Education and the Environment

Call Number: DS485 B39 Oversize D

Author: Bawa, Kamal

Responsibility: Kamal Bawa and Sandesh Kadur

Publisher: Bangalore, India : Ashoka Trust for Research in Education and the Environment

Published Date: 2013

Physical Description: 305 pages, ill., maps

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

Subjects: Himalaya Mountains; Photography

ISBN: 9781615845125

Accession Number: AC610

Call Number: DS485 B39 Oversize D

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Himalaya : the exploration and conquest of the greatest mountains on earth

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

Published Date: 2013

Publisher: London : Conway

Call Number: DS485 H55

Responsibility: General editor Philip Parker

Publisher: London : Conway

Published Date: 2013

Physical Description: 192 pages, col. ill., ports., maps

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

Subjects: Himalaya Mountains; Everest, Mount; Tibet; Nepal; History

ISBN: 9781844862214

Accession Number: AC610

Call Number: DS485 H55

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Himalaya - the tribulations of mick & vic

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

Published Date: 2017

Author: Fowler, Mick; Saunders, Victor

Publisher: LULU.COM

Call Number: G512 H56 F69

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Author: Fowler, Mick; Saunders, Victor

Publisher: LULU.COM

Published Date: 2017

Physical Description: 267 pages : ill.

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

Subjects: Mountaineering; Mountaineers, British; Himalaya Mountains; Biography

Abstract: Mick Fowler and Victor Saunders, famed British alpinists learned to know each other while winter climbing in Scotland, in all kind of weather, mostly bad: an ideal stepping stone for great Himalayan adventures. They shared three expeditions in Pakistan: The ascents of Bojohagur (7329m), Spantik (7027m) and Ultar (7388m). The tales of these selected adventures, published separately over three of their books (rewarded several times - Banff festival, Boardman Tasker), have been assembled in a new book: HIMALAYA - Mick and Vic' Tribulations. The two pals' tales are intertwined and offer two visions sometimes similar, sometimes different of the same events, with a caustic humour at the turn of every single line. This refreshing, compelling text full of funny and uncommon anecdotes is also the story of their strong friendship. Besides the amateurs of mountaineering tales, this book should please the amateurs of unconventional atmospheres. (from Lulu website)

Contents: Forward; Prelude; Part One - in Great-Britain; Part Two - Bojohaghur, 1984; Part Three - Spantik, 1987; Part Four - Ultar, 1991; Apologue; Twenty Nine Years After