topic:"Biography" found 12 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Alpine artistry : the mountain life of Glen Boles

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15192

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

Published Date: 2014

Author: Martel, Lynn

Publisher: Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada

Call Number: 01.4 B63a Pam; R 01.4 B63a Pam

Author: Martel, Lynn

Publisher: Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada

Published Date: 2014

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

Series: Summit Series #19

Subjects: Mountaineering; Biography; Photography; Art

ISBN: 9780920330531

Accession Number: 2017.8637

Call Number: 01.4 B63a Pam; R 01.4 B63a Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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Alpine artistry : the mountain life of Glen Boles

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14914

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

Published Date: 2014

Author: Martel, Lynn

Publisher: Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada

Call Number: G512 B65 Pam

Author: Martel, Lynn

Publisher: Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada

Published Date: 2014

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

Series: Summit Series #19

Subjects: Mountaineering; Biography; Photography; Art

ISBN: 9780920330531

Accession Number: AC611 duplicate copy transfer to ARC Library

Call Number: G512 B65 Pam

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Alpine journey : Ferdl Taxbock's life on the edge

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

Published Date: 2012

Author: Martel, Lynn

Publisher: Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada

Call Number: 01.4 T21a Pam; R 01.4 T21a Pam

Author: Martel, Lynn

Publisher: Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada

Published Date: 2012

Physical Description: 24 pages, col. ill.

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

Series: Summit Series #15

Subjects: Mountaineering; Biography

ISBN: 9780920330494

Accession Number: 2017.8637

Call Number: 01.4 T21a Pam; R 01.4 T21a Pam

Collection: Archives Library

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Alpine journey : Ferdl Taxbock's life on the edge

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14918

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

Published Date: 2012

Author: Martel, Lynn

Publisher: Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada

Call Number: G512 T39 Pam

Author: Martel, Lynn

Publisher: Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada

Published Date: 2012

Physical Description: 24 pages, col. ill.

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

Series: Summit Series #15

Subjects: Mountaineering; Biography

ISBN: 9780920330494

Accession Number: AC611 duplicate copy transfer to ARC Library

Call Number: G512 T39 Pam

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Fall of heaven : Whymper's tragic Matterhorn climb

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

Published Date: 2017

Author: Messner, Reinhold (author); Bierling, Billi (translator)

Publisher: Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books

Call Number: G512 F35 M47

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Author: Messner, Reinhold (author); Bierling, Billi (translator)

Publisher: Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books

Published Date: 2017

Physical Description: 206 pages

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

Subjects: Mountaineering; Whymper, Edward; Biography; Matterhorn

Abstract: As Fall of Heaven begins, we join professional mountain guide Jean-Antoine Carrel as he tries and fails, again and again, to summit the Matterhorn—one of the most famous and iconic peaks in the Alps. Is it the “Devil’s mountain,” as the locals call it? Should he heed the village priest who warned that its summit was not meant to be climbed? Carrel is undeterred, he just needs capable climbers to join him. Enter Edward Whymper, who in 1861 at the age of 21 decided—unbeknownst to Carrel—that he would be the first to climb the Matterhorn. So the storyline is set, except that where Carrel is captivating, Whymper is utterly unsympathetic as an adventurer. He is mean and disdainful of guides, describing them as little more than porters who eat and drink too much. Despite this attitude, Whymper’s quest leads him inexorably into partnership with Carrel. The story follows their many attempts to find a route to the top of the Matterhorn, but then fate pulls them apart just as Whymper finds the line. His successful summit on July 14, 1865, in which Carrel did not take part, shocked the Victorian world with both awe and revulsion as four members of Whymper’s party died in frightening falls. Famed climber and author Reinhold Messner acknowledges that Whymper was the first man to summit the Matterhorn, the last of the great Alpine peaks to be climbed and representing the beginning of an age of alpinism based on difficulty rather than conquest. But rather than leaving a hero’s legacy, Whymper is revealed as the Captain Ahab of alpinism, a team leader who accepted no responsibility for the deaths of his teammates. Fall of Heaven is an exciting tale and an examination of the different types of men who were caught up in the adventuring spirit of the Victorian age, and the ironic fates that can follow success or failure. (from Mountaineers Books website)