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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)
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
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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The Rainbow Mountains : photographs by Byron Harmon, 1911

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19789
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2012
Author
Harmon, Carole (editor), Byron Harmon
Publisher
Vancouver : CH Editions
Edition
1st
Call Number
06.4 H11t
Author
Harmon, Carole (editor), Byron Harmon
Responsibility
Edited by Carole Harmon
Edition
1st
Publisher
Vancouver : CH Editions
Published Date
2012
Physical Description
[26] p. : ill., ports. ; 25 x 36 cm.
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Harmon, Byron
Photography
Alpine Club of Canada
Smithsonian Institute
Mount Robson
Yellowhead Pass
Maligne Lake
History
Abstract
Contains images selected from the 1911 joint expedition by the Alpine Club and the Smithsonian Institute including the first circuit of Mt. Robson and the country around Mt. Robson, Yellowhead Pass, and Maligne Lake.
Contents
Introduction
Portfolio of images
Image captions
Dedication
Notes
Printed in a limited ed. of 200 hand-numbered copies.
ISBN
978-0-9879073-0-1
Accession Number
p2019-19
Call Number
06.4 H11t
Collection
Archives Library
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