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Abstract: The book is a testament to three sons’ love for their parents, Ed and Dorothy. Ed and Dorothy were kind and caring people and raised their family with those values. This book is also a testament to a family’s love of community, the community of Banff National Park.I hope when you read this book, you’ll be immersed in a bygone era that includes the Second World, to the backcountry of Canada’s oldest national park. I hope you will see a way of life that can never be recreated in a place that is ever-changing but will always be home to Ed and Dorothy. (Edited down from Our Family Lines website)

Contents: Foreward; Introduction; Chapter One: Edmond Clarence Carleton; Chapter Two: Calgary Highlanders; Chapter Three: Dorothy Eileen (nee Sweetzer) Fowler; Chapter Four: Exercising War; Chapter Five: Looking Towards the Future; Chapter Six: Mr. and Mrs. Ed Carleton; Chapter Seven: "Home" in Banff; Chapter Eight: This is backcountry living; Chapter Nine: Nature reels; Chapter Ten: Tragedies and changes; Chapter Eleven: A time capsule, royalty and lots of wildlife; Chapter Twelve: A year in the life of a warden and his family; Chapter Thirteen: Conservation and concerns; Chapter Fourteen: Making new memories while remembering the old; Chapter Fifteen: Life moves on; Endnotes; Acknowledgements; Sources

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Responsibility: Junko Tabei and Helen Y. Rolfe, translated by Yumiko Hiraki and Rieko Holtved

Subjects: Mountaineering; Mountaineers Women; Mountaineers, Japanese; Biography

Abstract: "A collection of personal stories and reflections based on the memoirs of Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and the Seven Summits. Honouring High Places is a compelling collection of highlights from Junko Tabei's stirring life that she considered important, inspiring and interesting to mountaineering culture. Until now, her works have been available only in Japanese, and RMB is honoured to be sharing these profound and moving stories with the English-speaking world for the first time. The collection opens on Mount Everest, where the first all-women's expedition is met with disaster but pushes on against all odds. The story then shifts to the early years of Tabei's life and reflects on her countryside childhood as a frail girl with no talent for sport, and cultural expectations that ignored her passion for mountains. With reminiscences of the early days of female climbers on Everest, the deaths of fellow mountaineers, Tabei's pursuit of Mount Tomur, a cancer diagnosis, and efforts to restore a love for nature in the surviving youth of the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in 2011, this beautifully curated collection of essays captures the essence of a notable time and the strength of character of one of the 20th and 21st centuries' female mountaineering pioneers."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Author's note; Introduction by Setsuko Kitamura; Chapter 1 - avalanche!; Chapter 2 - the meaning of mountains; Chapter 3 - Annapurna III; Chapter 4 - Mount Everest; Chapter 5 - to the top ofthe world; Chapter 6 - the route; Chapter 7 - finalists; Chapter 8 - South Col; Chapter 9 - the summit; Chapter 10 - endgame; Chapter 11 - women on Everest; Chapter 12 - Mount Tombur, Pobeda Peak; Chapter 13 - Aconcagua; Chapter 14 - Carstensz Pyramid; Chapter 15 - mountains of later life; About Junko by Masanobu Tabei; A son's tribute by Shinya Tabei; Beyond mountains by Setsuko Kitamura; Life chronology; Glossary; Acknowledgements; References; Index

Notes: Winner of the Mountaineering History category at the 2018 Banff Mountain Book Competition Awards

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