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Climbs in the Canadian Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19938
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1950
- Author
- Smythe, Frank S.
- Publisher
- London : Hodder and Stoughton Ltd.
- Call Number
- 01.4 Sm9c
- Author
- Smythe, Frank S.
- Responsibility
- Frank S. Smythe
- Publisher
- London : Hodder and Stoughton Ltd.
- Published Date
- 1950
- Physical Description
- 260 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers, British
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Mount Assiniboine
- Mount Robson
- Abstract
- Pertains to the personal mountaineering experience of author, Frank S. Smythe. As a prominent English author, photographer, botanist and mountaineer, Smythe invites the reader to delve into a greater understanding of what it means to climb in the Canadian Rocky Mountains. He tells of his successes, failures and lessons learned while scaling some of the most ambitious mountains in the Canadian Rockies. Some of the mountains discussed include, but are not limited to the following, Mount Alberta, Mount Assiniboine, Mount Robson, Mount Glendower and Mount Colin.
- Contents
- Part I : The Canadian Rockies
- I. The Canadian Rocky Mountains (pg. 3)
- II. Training the Lovat Scouts (pg. 19)
- III. Elysium Pass (pg. 37)
- IV. Mountaineering from Lake O'Hara (pg. 47)
- V. Mount Assiniboine (pg. 54)
- VI. Mount Alberta (pg. 67)
- VII. The Beaver (pg. 86)
- VIII. An attempt to climb Mount Brussels (pg. 96)
- IX. The first ascent of Mount Bridgland (pg. 108)
- X. Mount Robson (pg. 121)
- XI. Failure and success on Mount Colin (pg. 142)
- XII. Storm on Mount Louis (pg. 162) Part II : Unmapped and unexplored. An expedition to the LLoyd George Mountains of north-east British Columbia
- XIII. The Lloyd George Mountains (pg. 175)
- XIV. The flight to Haworth Lake (pg. 186)
- XV. The base-camp (pg. 196)
- XVI. Reconnaissance flight (pg. 206)
- XVII. The ascent of Mount Glendower (pg. 213)
- XVIII. The ascent of Mount Lloyd George (pg. 221)
- XIX. Call it a day (pg. 227)
- XX. High-level traverse (pg. 241)
- XXI. Lightning (pg. 251)
- Index (pg. 255)
- Notes
- All photographs used in the publication were taken by the author
- Accession Number
- 2019.71
- Call Number
- 01.4 Sm9c
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Wilderness recreation users : their characteristics, motivations and opinions : a study of three British Columbia provincial parks
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue5269
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- [1971]
- Author
- Thorsell, James Westvick
- Call Number
- 13.126 T39
- Author
- Thorsell, James Westvick
- Published Date
- [1971]
- Physical Description
- 240p
- Subjects
- Mount Robson Provincial Park
- Notes
- Cover has title: Wilderness Use in B.C. Parks
- Ph.D. thesis, University of British Columbia
- Accession Number
- 1324
- Call Number
- 13.126 T39
- Collection
- Archives Library
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