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Athletic Patch

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact103.09.1080

Date: 1950 – 1970

Material: fibre

Catalogue Number: 103.09.1080

Description: Round patch, white serrated edge, green border, 2.2 wide has white embroidered lettering "Skyline Hikers Canadian Rockies" within border. Inside ring is the hikers logo of yellow boot and cane, black foreground with hikers on the horizon.

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Title: Athletic Patch

Date: 1950 – 1970

Material: fibre

Description: Round patch, white serrated edge, green border, 2.2 wide has white embroidered lettering "Skyline Hikers Canadian Rockies" within border. Inside ring is the hikers logo of yellow boot and cane, black foreground with hikers on the horizon.

Subject: sports; hiking; Lillian Gest; Skyline Hikers of the Canadian Rockies

Credit: Gift of Lillian Gest, Philadelphia, USA, 1986

Catalogue Number: 103.09.1080

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Ice Ax

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/artifact108.04.1043

Date: 1930 – 1950

Material: wood; metal; skin

Catalogue Number: 108.04.1043

Description: Wooden handled ice axe. Handle inset into steel head, two extra pieces of steel extend 12.3 from head up shaft. Steel pick 15.6 long tapers from 0.5 wide to a point 0.2 wide. Stamped into pick: "Zermatt" and below to the right "Attenhofek, Zurich" . Steel collar and point at other end.

Title: Ice Ax

Date: 1930 – 1950

Material: wood; metal; skin

Dimensions: 29.0 x 88.2 cm

Description: Wooden handled ice axe. Handle inset into steel head, two extra pieces of steel extend 12.3 from head up shaft. Steel pick 15.6 long tapers from 0.5 wide to a point 0.2 wide. Stamped into pick: "Zermatt" and below to the right "Attenhofek, Zurich" . Steel collar and point at other end.

Subject: sports; climbing; Lillian Gest

Credit: Gift of Lillian Gest, Philadelphia, USA, 1986

Catalogue Number: 108.04.1043

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