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Above all : Mount Whitney and California's highest peaks
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14843
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Berkeley : Heyday Books
- Call Number
- F856-870 W55
- Responsibility
- photographs by David Stark Wilson, text by Steve Roper, foreward by Kenneth Brower
- Publisher
- Berkeley : Heyday Books
- Published Date
- 2008
- Physical Description
- 1 v. (unpaged) : chiefly col. ill.
- Subjects
- Whitney, Mount
- Mountaineering
- Rock climbing
- ISBN
- 9781597141079
- Accession Number
- AC610
- Call Number
- F856-870 W55
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Alpine exposures
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14844
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Griffith, Jon
- Publisher
- Sheffield, U.K. : Vertebrate Publishing
- Call Number
- TR G75 Oversize I
- Author
- Griffith, Jon
- Publisher
- Sheffield, U.K. : Vertebrate Publishing
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- 280 pages, ill.
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Alps
- Rock climbing
- Skiing
- Photography
- ISBN
- 9781910240137
- Accession Number
- AC609
- Call Number
- TR G75 Oversize I
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Breaking trail : Chic Scott's story
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15199
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Croston, Joanna
- Publisher
- Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada
- Call Number
- G512 S36 B74 Pam
- Author
- Croston, Joanna
- Publisher
- Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 40 pages, illustrations [colour]
- Subjects
- Canada
- Mountaineering
- Rock climbing
- Skiing
- ISBN
- 9780920330654
- Accession Number
- AC631
- Call Number
- G512 S36 B74 Pam
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Breaking trail : Chic Scott's story
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20168
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Croston, Joanna
- Publisher
- Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada
- Call Number
- G512 S36 B74 Pam copy 2 (reference room)
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- Author
- Croston, Joanna
- Responsibility
- Joanna Croston
- Publisher
- Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 40 pages, illustrations [colour]
- Series
- Summit Series #22
- Subjects
- Canada
- Mountaineering
- Rock climbing
- Skiing
- Abstract
- Chic Scott is a man of unconventional firsts. The first Canadian to summit a Himalayan peak, the first Canadian to guide in the European Alps, and he was part of the first team to climb Mount Assiniboine in winter. He is also a local mentor, historian and ski pioneer who has spent his whole life touching the lives of all those who call the Rockies home. Chic is perhaps known best for the ambitious grand ski traverses he achieved; in essence he has broken the trail for an entire generation of adventure skiers who follow. His writing and books have reached mountain communities further afield, spreading the rich history of Canadian mountaineering to outdoor enthusiasts across Canada and around the globe. This booklet celebrates the life of Chic Scott with his most memorable contributions to mountain life and tales told by his close friends. (from Alpine Club of Canada website)
- Contents
- A Man of Many Firsts
- Early Years
- The Grand Ski Traverse
- The Alps
- Bigger, Higher, Colder
- The Stars Align
- Love Affari with the Yukon
- The Alpine Club of Canada
- The Calgary Climbers Festival
- Legacy
- On the World Stage
- Golden Years in Banff
- References & Bibliography
- Notes
- Signed by Chic Scott - addressed to Margaret Gmoser
- ISBN
- 9780920330654
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- G512 S36 B74 Pam copy 2 (reference room)
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Link to Alpine Club of Canada's website re: Summit Series
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The Bugaboos : an alpine history
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20178
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1987
- Author
- Garden, J. F.
- Publisher
- Revelstoke : Footprint Publishing
- Call Number
- F1089 B8 G3 reference
- Author
- Garden, J. F.
- Responsibility
- J.F. Garden (author)
- Fred Becky (introduction)
- Publisher
- Revelstoke : Footprint Publishing
- Published Date
- 1987
- Physical Description
- 156 pages : illustrations (some color)
- Subjects
- Bugaboos
- Mountaineering
- History
- Kain, Conrad
- Wheeler, Arthur Oliver
- Harmon, Byron
- Rock climbing
- Contents
- Pt. 1. Conrad Kain -- 1. The Nunataks -- 2. A veritable Bugaboo -- 3. The outfitter -- Pt. II. The hard men -- 4. A Bugaboo no longer -- 5. The last Bugaboo -- 6. Fred Beckey arrives -- 7. High angle climbing -- 8. An exceptional summer, 1959 -- 9. Cooper's east faces -- 10. Patagonia -- 11. Beckey returns -- 12. Traverse -- Pt. III. New standards -- 13. Old and new faces -- 14. Pushing the limits -- 15. What's next? -- Winter ascent: south Howser Tower -- 17. Granite.
- Notes
- Includes photographs by Glen Boles, Ed Cooper, Scott Flavelle, J.F. Garden, Byron Harmon (Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Archives & Library), Daryl Hatten, Roger W. Laurilla, James B. Maitre, Rob Rohn, John Simpson, Uldis Veideman, Jim Weston
- Signed by author - addressed to Margaret and Hans Gmoser
- ISBN
- 0-9691621-1-1
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- F1089 B8 G3 reference
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Drawn : the art of ascent
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14846
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Collins, Jeremy
- Publisher
- Seattle : Mountaineers Books
- Call Number
- G512 C65
- Author
- Collins, Jeremy
- Publisher
- Seattle : Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 176 unnumbered pages, color illustrations, + 2 postcards (1 perforated sheet)
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Rock climbing
- Graphic art
- ISBN
- 9781594859588
- Accession Number
- AC609
- Call Number
- G512 C65
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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End of the rope : mountains, marriage, and motherhood
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25047
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Redford, Jan
- Publisher
- Berkeley, California : Counterpoint Press
- Call Number
- G512 E53 R43
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- Author
- Redford, Jan
- Publisher
- Berkeley, California : Counterpoint Press
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- x, 303 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates
- Subjects
- Rock climbing
- Mountaineering
- Women
- Biography
- Abstract
- In this funny and gritty debut memoir, praised by Outside, Sierra, Alpinist, and more, Jan Redford grows from a reckless rock climber to a mother who fights to win back her future. As a teenager, she sets her sights on the improbable dream of climbing mountains. By age twenty, she’s a climber with a magnetic attraction to misadventures and the wrong men. Redford finally finds the love of her life, an affable Rockies climber. When he is killed in an avalanche in Alaska, a grieving Redford finds comfort in the arms of another extreme alpinist. Before long, they are married, with a baby on the way. While her husband works as a logger, Redford tackles the traditional role of wife and mother. But soon, she pursues her own dream, one that pits her against her husband. End of the Rope is Redford’s telling of heart-stopping adventures, from being rescued off El Capitan to leading a group of bumbling cadets across a glacier. It is her laughter-filled memoir of friendships with women in that masculine world. Most moving, this is the story of her struggle to make her own way in the mountains and in life. To lead, not follow. (from Counterpoint Press website)
- Contents
- First climb -- On the rocks -- Lion's layback -- The rescue -- Speed ruts -- Learning to roll -- Bugaboo -- World's toughest milkman -- Fragile ice -- We're gathered here today -- Aberdeen -- Show no fear -- Climbing girlfriend -- The final last straw -- The memo -- In the arms of a mountain -- The underwear drawer -- Teetering on the edge -- Pink wedding dress -- The waiting -- Miracles -- Into the shadows -- Back on the sharp end -- Yodel village -- You lead, I'll follow -- Carsick -- Die young, stay pretty -- Grant's lunch -- Fractured -- Playing dead -- Mama spiders -- Remember the lilac -- Power surge -- Leaving Chaba -- Only four years -- One little "non" -- Second chances.
- ISBN
- 9780345812315
- Accession Number
- AC639
- Call Number
- G512 E53 R43
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on Counterpoint Press website
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- Subjects
- Japanese
- Mountaineering
- Rock climbing
- Notes
- Library has 1973-11-317
- Mountaineering magazine with climbing routes, equipment advertisements, photographs, etc...
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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The magician's glass : character and fate : eight essays on climbing and the mountain life
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19918
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Douglas, Ed
- Publisher
- Sheffield, England : Vertbrate Publishing
- Call Number
- G510 D68 M34
1 website
- Author
- Douglas, Ed
- Responsibility
- Ed Douglas
- Publisher
- Sheffield, England : Vertbrate Publishing
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 192 p .
- Subjects
- Essays
- Mountaineering
- Rock climbing
- Abstract
- The Magician’s Glass by award-winning writer Ed Douglas is a collection of eight recent essays on some of the biggest stories and best-known personalities in the world of climbing. In the title essay, he writes about failure on Annapurna III in 1981, one of the boldest attempts in Himalayan mountaineering on one of the most beautiful lines – a line that remains unclimbed to this day. Douglas writes about bitter controversies, like that surrounding Ueli Steck’s disputed solo ascent of the south face of Annapurna, the fate of Toni Egger on Cerro Torre in 1959 – when Cesare Maestri claimed the pair had made the first ascent, and the rise and fall of Slovenian ace Tomaz Humar. There are profiles of two stars of the 1980s: the much-loved German Kurt Albert, the father of the ‘redpoint’, and the enigmatic rock star Patrick Edlinger, a national hero in his native France who lost his way. In Crazy Wisdom, Douglas offers fresh perspectives on the impact mountaineering has on local communities and the role climbers play in the developing world. The final essay explores the relationship between art and alpinism as a way of understanding why it is that people climb mountains. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Foreward by Katie Ives
- The magician's glass
- Stealing Toni Egger
- Searching for Tomaz Humar
- Bit guts
- Crazy wisdom
- What's eating Ueli Steck?
- Lone wolf
- Lines of beauty : the art of climbing
- Acknowledgements
- ISBN
- 9781911342489
- Accession Number
- AC635
- Call Number
- G510 D68 M34
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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Ten years on Yam and a new route
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13343
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Bullan, Brandon
- Call Number
- P
- Author
- Bullan, Brandon
- Physical Description
- p.26-30 : ill
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Rock climbing
- Yamnuska, Mount
- Notes
- In Gripped, vol.9, no.4 (August / September 2007)
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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