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Vertical reference : the life of legendary mountain helicopter rescue pilot Jim Davies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25228
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2020
- Author
- Calvert, Kathy
- Publisher
- [Canada] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- 08.5 C11v
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- Author
- Calvert, Kathy
- Responsibility
- Kathy Calvert
- Publisher
- [Canada] : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2020
- Physical Description
- xiv, 304 pages : illustrations
- Abstract
- An exciting and heart-pounding look at one of Western Canada’s most adventurous individuals, known as a pioneer pilot of the heli-ski industry and as the first mountain-rescue pilot in the Canadian National Parks system. Jim Davies is an icon of competence and courage as the first heli-skiing pilot in Canada. But it is his groundbreaking work as a helicopter rescue pilot for Parks Canada that made him a legend to all who worked with him. His stellar career as a pilot overshadowed his other talents as a ski racer and artist. Jim received several awards for his work in mountain rescue, including the Helicopter Association International – Pilot Safety Award of Excellence, the Alberta Achievement Award for excellence in helicopter flying, the Summit of Excellence Award at the Banff Film and Book Festival, and the Robert E. Trimble Memorial Award for “distinguished performance in helicopter mountain flying.” He is now retired and living in Banff, pursuing his love of painting and photography. (From Rocky Mountain Books)
- Contents
- Foreward
- Acknowledgements
- Growing up
- A glimpse of the world
- Birth of heli-skiiling in the Bugaboos
- Changes: from Bugaboos to Banff
- Permission or forgiveness
- Development of the public safety program
- Eclectice use of the helicopter
- The contract
- No lack of work
- The coast and home again
- Appendix: public safety in parks today
- Endnotes
- Bibliography
- ISBN
- 9781771604154
- Accession Number
- 2021.05
- Call Number
- 08.5 C11v
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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Eddie Amann interview transcript
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions55259
- Part Of
- Chic Scott fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of a transcript for an interview from 2018 featuring Eddie Amann [1931-?]. Notes pertain to Eddie's experiences growing up in Austria during World War II, his immigration to Canada, his work with Sunshine Village in Banff, and his experiences helicopter skiing in the Canadian Rockies.
- Date Range
- 2018
- Reference Code
- M57 / XIV / A / 5
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Part Of
- Chic Scott fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M57
- S47
- V40
- Series
- M57 / XIV : Chic Scott Personal
- Sous-Fonds
- M57
- Sub-Series
- M57 / XIV / A : Research materials
- Accession Number
- .
- Reference Code
- M57 / XIV / A / 5
- GMD
- Textual record
- Date Range
- 2018
- Physical Description
- 0.2 cm of textual records
- Scope & Content
- File consists of a transcript for an interview from 2018 featuring Eddie Amann [1931-?]. Notes pertain to Eddie's experiences growing up in Austria during World War II, his immigration to Canada, his work with Sunshine Village in Banff, and his experiences helicopter skiing in the Canadian Rockies.
- Notes
- Interview was possibly used as publication material.
- Name Access
- Amann, Eddie
- Subject Access
- Helicopter skiing
- Personal and Professional Life
- Biography
- Research
- World War II
- Skiing
- Recreation
- Winter sports
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Banff
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Austria
- Germany
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Restrictions may apply
- Language
- English
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Deep powder and steep rock : the life of mountain guide Hans Gmoser
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14790
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2015
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Edition
- First Rocky Mountain Books Edition
- Call Number
- G512 S36
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Edition
- First Rocky Mountain Books Edition
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2015
- Physical Description
- 346 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits
- Notes
- Previously published by Assiniboine Publishing in 2009
- Note: Rocky Mountain Books edition has no DVD
- ISBN
- 978-1-77160-112-2 (paperback)
- Accession Number
- AC613
- Call Number
- G512 S36
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Hans Gmoser film collection
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14417
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Banff, Alberta, Canada : Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies ; Canmore, Alberta : Sky Light Pictures
- Call Number
- 01.5 H3 DVD
- 01.5 H3 DVD c.2
- Responsibility
- producer, script writer Hans Gmoser ; executive producers Marge Saul, Chic Scott ; producer, editor, director Will Schmidt; Hans Gmoser original scripts narrated by Michael Hintringer
- Publisher
- Banff, Alberta, Canada : Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies ; Canmore, Alberta : Sky Light Pictures
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- 10 digital video discs : sound, colour ; 12 cm + 1 booklet
- Subjects
- Film making
- Films
- Gmoser, Hans
- Helicopter Skiing
- McKinley, Mount
- Mountaineering
- Robson, Mount
- Wiegele, Mike
- Abstract
- During the 1950s and 60s the late Hans Gmoser produced ten feature length films of ski touring, rock climbing and mountaineering adventures—capturing the alpine magic of the era. Hans Gmoser was one of the greatest mountain filmmakers in North America. Hans Gmoser donated his films to the Whyte Museum Archives in the 1990s. Hans Gmoser passed away in 2006, and in 2009 the Hans Gmoser Film Project was initiated when Chic Scott and Marg Saul, a Calgary Mountaineer, decided to pull the films from the Archives of the Whyte Museum and revive them. This project came with a number of significant challenges. Firstly, the films had to be digitized and then have music and narration added to them. One of the greatest concerns was to make sure these new editions were inline with the original films. Will Schmidt of Sky Light Productions was hired. Hans had originally given live narrations with the films during the original screenings, so his nephew Michael Hintringer, was used to narrate, using Hans' original scripts. Thanks to the tireless work of Chic Scott, Marg Saul, Will Schmidt and multiple donors the Hans Gmoser Film Preservation Project was completed in 2014. The set not only contains the ten films but also new interviews by Chic Scott with some of the stars of the films.
- Notes
- Disc 1 (75 min.): With skis and rope (1957-1958) ; contains interviews with Renate Belczyk and Leo Grillmair
- Disc 2 (82 min.): Vegabonds of the mountains (1959-1960) ; contains interviews with Renate Belczyk, Karl Ricker, Philippe Deledalle, and Leo Grillmair
- Disc 3 (62 min.): Of skiers and mountains (1961-1962) ;contains interviews with Jim Davies, Philippe Delesalle, and Jim McConkey
- Disc 4 (56 min.): Deep powder and steep rock (1961-1962) ; contains interviews with Franz Dopf, Scott Henderson, and Jim McConkey
- Disc 5 (58 min.): To the forbidden snowfields ; contains interviews with Jim Davies, Jim McConkey, and Mike Wiegele
- Disc 6 (88 min.): Skis over McKinley (1963-1964) ; contains interviews with Linda Crutchfield and Gunti Prinz
- Disc 7 (75 min.): Adventure bound (1964-1965) ; contains interviews with Linda Crutchfield, Lilo Fuhrer, Leo Grillmair, and Scott Henderson
- Disc 8 (82 min.): Roving skiers (1965-1966) ;contains interviews with Jim Davies, Margaret Gmoser, Leo Grillmair, Scott Henderson, and Jim McConkey
- Disc 9 (73 min.): High road to skiing (1966-1967) ;contains interviews with Jim Davies, Lloyd Gallagher, Margaret Gmoser, and Scott Henderson
- Disc 10 (67 min.): Rendezvous in the Selkirks (1967-1968) ;contains interviews with Linda Crutchfield, Lloyd Gallagher, Scott Henderson, and Jim McConkey
- Summary: Hans Gmoser was one of the greatest mountain filmmakers in North America. During the 1950s and 60s he produced 10 feature length films of ski touring, rock climbing and mountaineering adventures, capturing the alpine magic of the era. Now, after 50 years, it is once again possible to view these historic films, complete with classical music soundtrack and narration.
- ISBN
- 9780920608593
- Call Number
- 01.5 H3 DVD
- 01.5 H3 DVD c.2
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Sue Parish Memoirs
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14627
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Kalamazoo, Michigan : Suzanne Upjohn DeLano Parish Trust
- Call Number
- 08 P21s
- Publisher
- Kalamazoo, Michigan : Suzanne Upjohn DeLano Parish Trust
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 169 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm
- Notes
- Pages 82 and 83 contain information and pictures about heli-skiing and Hans Gmoser
- ISBN
- 9780979860812
- Accession Number
- 2015.8552
- Call Number
- 08 P21s
- Collection
- Archives Library
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High times : the adventures of Jim Davies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19946
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2010
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Call Number
- P
1 website
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Responsibility
- Chic Scott
- Published Date
- 2010
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Pertains tot Jim Davies and his career as airplane and helicopter pilot
- Notes
- In Highline Magazine, Vol.2, Iss.1, Summer 2010, p.12-13
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Highline website
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Deep powder and steep rock : the life of mountain guide Hans Gmoser
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13735
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2009
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Publisher
- Banff, Alberta : Assiniboine Publishing
- Call Number
- 01.4 Sco3d
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Publisher
- Banff, Alberta : Assiniboine Publishing
- Published Date
- 2009
- Physical Description
- 346 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), ports. (some col.), maps + 1 DVD
- Notes
- Special hardcover edition with enclosed DVD of three Hans Gmoser films. DVD was originally released as a Banff Mountain Film festival tribute to Hans Gmoser in 2006, titled Retro reels: Hans Gmoser - filmmaker remembered. The DVD archival footage from Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Hans Gmoser fonds (V68).
- ISBN
- 9780981105901
- Accession Number
- 7938 - 2 copies
- Call Number
- 01.4 Sco3d
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Deep powder and steep rock : the life of mountain guide Hans Gmoser
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15128
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2009
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Publisher
- Banff : Assiniboine Publishing
- Edition
- First Rocky Mountain Books Edition
- Call Number
- G512 S36 2009
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Edition
- First Rocky Mountain Books Edition
- Publisher
- Banff : Assiniboine Publishing
- Published Date
- 2009
- Physical Description
- 346 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some colour), maps, portraits
- Notes
- 1 DVD included
- Signed by author
- ISBN
- 9780981105901
- Accession Number
- AC629
- Call Number
- G512 S36 2009
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Deep Powder and Steep Rock - textual
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions55082
- Part Of
- Chic Scott fonds
- Scope & Content
- Series consists of textual records, including notes, manuscripts and other related materials, pertaining to the creation of the book "Deep Powder and Steep Rock".
- Date Range
- 2009
- Reference Code
- M57 / V
- Description Level
- 3 / Series
- GMD
- Textual record
- Map
- Part Of
- Chic Scott fonds
- Description Level
- 3 / Series
- Fonds Number
- M57 / V40 / S47
- Series
- M57 / V : Deep Powder and Steep Rock
- Sous-Fonds
- M57
- Accession Number
- 2014.8295
- 2015.8559
- Reference Code
- M57 / V
- GMD
- Textual record
- Map
- Date Range
- 2009
- Physical Description
- 30 cm of textual records
- History / Biographical
- Hans Gmoser played a major role in creating Canada’s vibrant mountain community. Although known internationally as the father of heli-skiing, he was much more than that: a talented rock climber, tireless expedition leader, a mountain guide, film maker and organizer. Deep Powder and Steep Rock presents an intimate portrait of this charismatic man. Much of the story is told in Gmoser’s own words, gleaned from his diaries, expedition journals, film commentaries and personal correspondence. It is a unique tale of adventure, hard work, perseverance and ultimate success.
- Scope & Content
- Series consists of textual records, including notes, manuscripts and other related materials, pertaining to the creation of the book "Deep Powder and Steep Rock".
- Notes
- Series consists of five sub-series: M57 / V / A: Research files M57 / V / B: Maps M57 / V / C: Interviews M57 / V / D: Photograph notes M57 / V / E: Draft Manuscript
- Name Access
- Scott, Chic
- Gmoser, Hans
- Subject Access
- Biography
- Personal and Professional Life
- Publication
- Research
- Geography
- Map
- Mountaineers
- Mountaineering
- Skiing
- Sports
- Recreation
- Winter sports
- Canadian Mountain Holidays
- Helicopter skiing
- Tourism
- Climbing
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Alberta
- Banff
- Banff National Park
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Language
- English
- Related Material
- S47 / V
- V40 / V
- Biographical Source Notes
- http://chicscott.com/books.htm
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Scanned photographs for book, inventory and research notes
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/descriptions55292
- Part Of
- Chic Scott fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 9 CDs containing digital copies of photographs, and related notes, which Chic Scott used in the creation of the book Deep Powder and Steep Rock. Content pertains to Hans Gmoser's personal life, mountain expeditions and ski trips, and other related subjects.
- Date Range
- 2008
- Reference Code
- V40 / V / DF - 34 to 42
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Digital image
- Photograph
- Textual record
- Part Of
- Chic Scott fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M57
- S47
- V40
- Series
- V40 / V : Deep Powder and Steep Rock
- Sous-Fonds
- V40
- Accession Number
- .
- Reference Code
- V40 / V / DF - 34 to 42
- Date Range
- 2008
- Physical Description
- 9 recording discs with digital files -- 1 cm of textual records
- Scope & Content
- File consists of 9 CDs containing digital copies of photographs, and related notes, which Chic Scott used in the creation of the book Deep Powder and Steep Rock. Content pertains to Hans Gmoser's personal life, mountain expeditions and ski trips, and other related subjects.
- Notes
- Textual and digital materials have been stored together to maintain original context
- Name Access
- Gmoser, Hans
- Subject Access
- Family and personal life
- Research
- Biography
- Publication
- Mountaineering
- Skiing
- Helicopter skiing
- Geographic Access
- Austria
- Canada
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Reproduction Restrictions
- Copyright restrictions may apply
- Language
- English
- Title Source
- Title based on contents of file
- Processing Status
- Processed
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