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Above the snow line : mountaineering sketches between 1870 and 1880

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26173
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1885
Author
Dent, Clinton
Publisher
London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Call Number
01.2 D43a
Author
Dent, Clinton
Publisher
London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
Published Date
1885
Physical Description
327 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Exploration
Mountaineering
Alpine Club (Great Britain)
Expeditions
Switzerland
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
01.2 D43a
Collection
Archives Library
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The golden years of Canadian mountaineering: asserted ethics, form, and style, 1886-1925

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12933
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Author
Robinson, Zac
Call Number
01.4 R56g Pam
Author
Robinson, Zac
Physical Description
p.1-19
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Alberta, Mount
Alpine Club (Great Britain)
Alpine Club of Canada
American Alpine Club
Logan, Mount
Mountain guides
Mountaineers, British
Mountaineers, Japanese
Tourism
Notes
Scholarly article reprint from Sport History Review, 2004, 35, 1-19
Accession Number
7627
Call Number
01.4 R56g Pam
Collection
Archives Library
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Mont Blanc sideshow : the life and times of Albert Smith

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15300
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1934
Author
Thorington, James Monroe
Publisher
Philadelphia : John C. Winston
Call Number
01.2 T39m
Author
Thorington, James Monroe
Publisher
Philadelphia : John C. Winston
Published Date
1934
Physical Description
xv, 255 pages, illustrations
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Alpine Club (Great Britain)
Biography
Literature
Mont Blanc
Notes
Inscription "James Simpson, Banff, March 25th 1934"
Accession Number
492
Call Number
01.2 T39m
Collection
Archives Library
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The romance of mountaineering

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26157
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
1935
Author
Irving, R. L. G.
Publisher
London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.
Edition
1st edition
Call Number
01 Ir8t
Author
Irving, R. L. G.
Edition
1st edition
Publisher
London : J. M. Dent and Sons Ltd.
Published Date
1935
Physical Description
320 pages ; 40 ill.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Mountaineering
Mountaineers
Masculinity
Alpine Club (Great Britain)
Contents
PART ONE: BIRTH AND EARLY YEARS -- Introductory and personal -- Lux in tenebris -- The winning of Mont Blanc -- The growth of understanding -- The great peaks are won -- PART TWO: SIGNS OF MATURITY -- The extension of the playground -- The old leading-strings are dropped -- Mechanization and the cult of danger -- The highest mountains in the world -- Nationality in mountaineering -- PART THREE: PERPETUAL YOUTH -- Methods of approach -- Mountaineering out of season -- Solidary mountaineering -- Solvitur in excelsis.
Accession Number
2023.47
Call Number
01 Ir8t
Collection
Archives Library
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Storming the heights : Canadian frontier nationalism and the making of manhood in the conquest of Mount Robson, 1906-13

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12932
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Author
Robinson, Zac
Call Number
01.4 R56s Pam
Author
Robinson, Zac
Physical Description
p.415-433
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Alpine Club (Great Britain)
Alpine Club of Canada
American Alpine Club
Appalachian Mountain Club
Coleman, A.P
Exploration
Kain, Conrad
Kinney, George
Phillips, Curly (Donald)
Philosophy
Wheeler, Arthur Oliver
Notes
Scholarly article reprint from The International Journal of the History of Sport, vol.22, no.3, May 2005, 415-433
Accession Number
7627
Call Number
01.4 R56s Pam
Collection
Archives Library
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