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Alpine rising : Sherpas, Baltis, and the triumph of local climbers in the great ranges
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26251
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2024
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
- Call Number
- 01.1 M14a
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- Seattle, WA : Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2024
- Physical Description
- 269 pages
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers
- Mountains
- Climbing
- Himalaya Mountains
- Sherpa
- Sherpa-history
- Nepal
- Abstract
- The story of the often unheralded and unrecognized stars of climbing in the Himalaya and the Karakoram: the local inhabitants of the mountainous regions of Pakistan, Tibet, India, and Nepal who have been support staff--porters, cooks, sirdars, and unacknowledged guides--for Western climbers for generations. ALPINE RISING focuses on the experiences and accomplishments of these Sherpas, Baltis, Ladakhis, Hunzas, Astoris, Magars, Bhotias, Rais, and Gurangs. Highlighted climbers range from Raghubir Thapa and Goman Singh who climbed with Albert Mummery in 1895, Ang Tharkay who climbed with Eric Shipton and Maurice Herzog, and Tenzing Norgay who, along with Edmund Hillary, was the first to summit Everest, to today's superstars, Ali Sadpara, Mingma G, Kama Rita, and others -- Provided by publisher.
- ISBN
- 9781680515787
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 01.1 M14a
- Collection
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Breaking trail : Chic Scott's story
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15189
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Croston, Joanna
- Publisher
- Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada
- Call Number
- 01.4 Sco3b Pam 01.4 Sco3b Pam c.2 01.4 Sco3b Pam c.3
- Author
- Croston, Joanna
- Publisher
- Canmore : Alpine Club of Canada
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 40 pages, illustrations [colour]
- Subjects
- Canada
- Mountaineering
- Rock climbing
- Skiing
- Notes
- Copies two and three are signed by Chic Scott
- ISBN
- 9780920330654
- Accession Number
- 2017.8637
- Call Number
- 01.4 Sco3b Pam 01.4 Sco3b Pam c.2 01.4 Sco3b Pam c.3
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- Archives Library
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Climber's paradise : making Canada's mountain parks, 1906-1974
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14538
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Reichwein, PearlAnn
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press
- Call Number
- 08.3 R27c
- Author
- Reichwein, PearlAnn
- Responsibility
- PearlAnn Reichwein
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- 402 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
- Series
- Mountain cairns
- Subjects
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Mountaineering
- National parks
- Recreation
- Rocky Mountains, Canada
- Sport climbing
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- ISBN
- 9780888646743
- Accession Number
- 2015-8405
- Call Number
- 08.3 R27c
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Climbing the Chamonix Aiguilles : some difficult ascents in the shadow of Mount Blanc
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6804
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1906
- Author
- Abraham, George Dixon
- Call Number
- 04.2 H39
- Author
- Abraham, George Dixon
- Published Date
- 1906
- Subjects
- Alps
- Mountaineering
- Rock climbing
- Notes
- In Canadian magazine, v.XXVII, no.3, July 1906
- Call Number
- 04.2 H39
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The legacy of Lloyd MacKay
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue639
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Publisher
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, Vol. 3, 2018
- Call Number
- P
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Editor
- Ward, Meghan J.
- Publisher
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, Vol. 3, 2018
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- p.24-25
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Rock climbing
- Mountaineering
- Banff (residents)
- Abstract
- It's been 42 years since Lloyd MacKay's death left a great void in the mountain community. But for Chic Scott, it's never too late to pay tribute to his friend, whose positive presence made as much of an impact as his pioneering climbs
- Language
- English
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Mount assiniboine : the story
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25540
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Publisher
- Banff, A.B. : Assiniboine Publishing
- Edition
- First
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sco3m
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Edition
- First
- Publisher
- Banff, A.B. : Assiniboine Publishing
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- 336 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps (chiefly colour), portraits (some colour) ; 32 cm
- Subjects
- Assiniboine, Mount
- Tourism
- History-Canada
- Mountaineering
- Climbing
- Hiking
- Camping
- Backcountry
- Travel
- Abstract
- This book tells the story of the history of Mount Assiniboine and the surrounding area. Mount Assiniboine is a beautiful mountain located in Mount Assiniboine Provincial Park in south eastern British Columbia. -- Provided by publisher
- Contents
- First Nations History at Mount Assiniboine ; Part One: The Discovery of Mount Assiniboine (1800-1910) ; Part Two: The Wheeler Years (1913-1927) ; Part Three: Strom's Half-century: Part I (1928-1950) ; Part Four: Strom's Half-century: Part 2 (1950-1983) ; Part Five: The Renner Years (1983-2010) ; Part Six: A New Generation Takes Over
- ISBN
- 9780981105932
- Accession Number
- P2022.06
- Call Number
- 08.3 Sco3m
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- Archives Library
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Mountain climbing
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26175
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1897
- Publisher
- London : Charles Scribner's Sons
- Call Number
- 01 W69m
- Responsibility
- Edward L. Wilson, Edwin Lord Weeks, A. F. Jaccaci, W. Martin-Conway, Mark Brickell Kerr, William Williams, and H. F. B. Lynch
- Publisher
- London : Charles Scribner's Sons
- Published Date
- 1897
- Physical Description
- 358 pages
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- St. Elias
- Alps
- Climbing
- Glaciers
- Contents
- I. Mount Washington in winter / Edward L. Wilson -- II. Some episodes of mountaineering by a cause amateur / Edwin Lord Weeks -- III. Ascent of Mount Aetna / A. F. Jaccaci -- IV. Ascent of Mount Ararat / H. F. B. Lynch -- V. Climbing Mount St. Elias / William Williams -- VI. Mount St. Elias and its glaciers / Mark Brickell Kerr -- VII. One thousand miles through the Alps / Sir. W. Martin Conway
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01 W69m
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- Archives Library
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Mountaineering : the freedom of the hills
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19829
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1960
- Author
- The Mountaineers, Seattle
- Publisher
- Seattle : The Mountaineers
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Call Number
- 01 M86 1963
- Author
- The Mountaineers, Seattle
- Responsibility
- planned by the Climbing Committee of the Mountaineers
- Harvey Manning, chairman of editors
- editorial committee: John R. Hazle and others
- illus: Donna Balch Cook and Robert Cram
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Publisher
- Seattle : The Mountaineers
- Published Date
- 1960
- Physical Description
- x, 430p. : ill
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Manuals
- Equipment
- Camping
- Travel
- Rock climbing
- Snow
- Ice
- Ice climbing
- First aid
- Geology
- Abstract
- Pertains to how to safely mountaineer with a focus on North America as per the Mountaineers Climbing Committee
- Contents
- Preface
- Part One - Approaching the Peaks
- Equipment
- Camping and Sleeping
- Alpine Cuisine
- Wilderness Travel
- Navigation in the Hills
- Part Two - Rock Climbing
- Routefinding on Rock
- Balance
- Counterforce
- Roped Climbing
- Belaying
- Pitoncraft and Rappels
- Part Three - Snow and Ice Climbing
- Snow
- Ice
- Glaciers
- Arrests and Belays
- Part Four - Safe Climbing
- The Climbing Party and its Leadership
- Climbing Dangers
- First Aid
- Alpine Rescue
- Part Five - The Climbing Environment
- Mountain Geology
- The Cycle of Snow
- Mountain Weather
- Appendix - Food Requirements for Climbers
- ISBN
- 0916890015
- Accession Number
- 2019.43
- Call Number
- 01 M86 1963
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Mountains and desire : climbing vs. the end of the world
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26237
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2021
- Author
- Grebowicz, Margaret
- Publisher
- London, U.K. : Repeater Books
- Call Number
- 02.8 G81m
- Author
- Grebowicz, Margaret
- Publisher
- London, U.K. : Repeater Books
- Published Date
- 2021
- Physical Description
- 113 pages
- Subjects
- Climbing
- Sport
- Sport climbing
- Mountaineering
- Abstract
- In 1923, a reporter asked George Mallory why he wanted to summit Mount Everest. "Because it's there." Today the question "why do this?" is included in nearly every mountaineering story of interview. Meanwhile, interest in climbing is steadily on the rise, from commerical mountaineering and climbing walls in university gyms to corporate workplaces to the flood of spectacular climbing imagery in advertising, cinema, and social media. [...] Taking the degradation of Everest and the success of Free Solo as its starting point, Mountains and Desire chases after what remains of this pursuit -- marred by its colonial history, coopted by national chauvinism, ableism, and the capitalist compulsion to unlimited growth -- for both climbers and their fans. -- From back cover
- Contents
- 1. The ends of desire -- 2. Who will marry you now? -- 3. Just because someone has done it doesn't mean it's humanly possible -- 4. Everest traffic and the economy of walking -- 5. Climbing technotopia, or: Did free solo really happen? -- 6. Gestures of climbing -- 7. The last problem of the Himalaya.
- ISBN
- 9781913462239
- Accession Number
- P2024.02
- Call Number
- 02.8 G81m
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No map could show them
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25489
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Mort, Helen
- Publisher
- London : Chatto & Windus
- Call Number
- 05.1 M84n
- Author
- Mort, Helen
- Publisher
- London : Chatto & Windus
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 70 pages ; 22 cm
- Abstract
- A Poetry Book Society Recommendation 2016. 'When we climb alone en cordee feminine, we are magicians of the Alps - we make the routes we follow disappear'. The poems of Helen Mort's second collection offer an unforgettable perspective on the heights we scale and the distances we run, the routes we follow and the paths we make for ourselves. Here are odes to the women who dared to break new ground - from Miss Jemima Morrell, a young Victorian woman from Yorkshire who hiked the Swiss Peaks in her skirts and petticoats, to the modern British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves, who died descending from the summit of K2. Distinctive and courageous, these are poems of passion and precipices, of edges and extremes. No Map Could Show Them confirms Helen Mort's position as one of the finest young poets at work today.
- Contents
- An Easy Day for a Lady ; How to Dress ; Miss Jemima's Swiss Journal ; Ode to Bob ; Height ; The Fear ; Scale ; Beryl the Peril ; My Diet ; Difficult ; The Old Dungeon Ghyll ; Hill ; Black Rocks ; Descent ; Prayer ; Kiss ; Solo ; Nordwand ; Home ; At Night ; Above Cromford ; Route ; Dear Alison ; Engineer ; Lethal Roy ; Bloodhound ; Skirt ; Rachel in Attercliffe ; King's Cross ; Ink ; What Will Happen ; Ablation ; Hathersage ; Kalymnos ; Loutro ; Alport Castles ; Eagle Owl ; Royal Mile ; Kinder Scout ; Murmuration ; Big Lil ; Lil's dream ; What the papers said ; Lil's answer ; Lil's last word ; Tom Hulatt's Mile ; Heinrich Harrer's Motorbike ; How Much Can You Carry? ; Everest ; Oxygen ; Beck Weathers ; Sherpa ; Lene Gamelgaard ; First ; Rope
- ISBN
- 9781784740641
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 05.1 M84n
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