topic:"Mountaineering" found 4 records - Research Collections

Abstract: In No Easy Way, his third volume of climbing memoirs following Vertical Pleasure and On Thin Ice, Fowler recounts a series of expeditions to stunning mountains in China, India, Nepal and Tibet. Alongside partners including Paul Ramsden, Dave Turnbull, Andy Cave and Victor Saunders, he attempts striking, technically challenging unclimbed lines on Shiva, Gave Ding and Mugu Chuli – with a number of ascents winning prestigious Piolets d’Or, the Oscars of the mountaineering world. Written with his customary dry wit and understatement, he manages challenges away – the art of securing a permit for Tibet – and at home – his duties as Alpine Club president – all the while pursuing his passion for exploratory mountaineering. (from Vertebrate Publishing website)

Contents: The competing priorities of life -- Grosvenor: The dangers of cupping -- Kalaqiao: Hands drawn together in prayer -- The Goody Cash: Scottish sea cliffs at their best -- Manamcho: I've never seen a white man before -- Nottingham Castle 1: Challenges close to the office -- Vasuki Parbat: The judgement game -- Fell running: A new mildly eccentric form of exercise? -- Jura success: A passion is born -- Sulamar: The hottest bathtub ever -- The Xiate Trail: Trade routes can be challenging too -- Alpine Club: The establishment beckons -- Mugu Chuli: The bureaucrats go climbing -- Nottingham Castle 2: A brush with the constabulary -- The Prow of Shiva: Are we good enough to do it? -- Kishtwar Kailash: A very special drive and a 12.5-million-view video clip -- Talking about it... -- Hagshu: The bear, the tension, and the climb -- Gave Ding: True adventure -- Sersank: Never too old -- The challenges never end.

ISBN: 9781911342755

Accession Number: AC693

Call Number: G512 N64 F69

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Summary on Vertebrate Publishing website

Websites

https://www.v-publishing.co.uk/books/narratives/no-easy-way/

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The Ogre : biography of a mountain and the dramatic story of the first ascent

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25040

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2017

Author: Scott, Doug

Publisher: Sheffield, U.K. : Vertebrate Publishing

Call Number: G530 T44 S36

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Author: Scott, Doug

Publisher: Sheffield, U.K. : Vertebrate Publishing

Published Date: 2017

Physical Description: xi, 244 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), maps (on lining papers)

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Pakistan; Mountaineering; Accidents; Travel

Abstract: On the afternoon of 13 July 1977, having become the first climbers to reach the summit of the Ogre, Doug Scott and Chris Bonington began their long descent. In the minutes that followed, any feeling of success from their achievement would be overwhelmed by the start of a desperate fight for survival. And things would only get worse. Rising to over 7,000 metres in the centre of the Karakoram, the Ogre – Baintha Brakk – is notorious in mountaineering circles as one of the most difficult mountains to climb. First summited by Scott and Bonington in 1977 – on expedition with Paul ‘Tut’ Braithwaite, Nick Estcourt, Clive Rowland and Mo Anthoine – it waited almost twenty-four years for a second ascent, and a further eleven years for a third. The Ogre, by legendary mountaineer Doug Scott, is a two-part biography of this enigmatic peak: in the first part, Scott has painstakingly researched the geography and history of the mountain; part two is the long overdue and very personal account of his and Bonington’s first ascent and their dramatic week-long descent on which Scott suffered two broken legs and Bonington smashed ribs. Using newly discovered diaries, letters and audio tapes, it tells of the heroic and selfless roles played by Clive Rowland and Mo Anthoine. When the desperate climbers finally made it back to base camp, they were to find it abandoned – and themselves still a long way from safety. The Ogre is undoubtedly one of the greatest adventure stories of all time. (from Vertebrate Publishing website)

Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- PART 1 -- Chapter 1: The Mountain -- Chapter 2: Ancient History of Exploration -- Chapter 3: European Interest in the Region -- Chapter 4: The East India Company -- Chapter 5: Scottish Contribution to Empire -- Chapter 6: The Blanks on the Map -- Chapter 7: Early Mountaineering -- PART 2; Chapter 8: The Climbers -- Chapter 9: March to Base Camp -- Chapter 10: Climbing the Ogre -- Chapter 11: The Epic Descent -- Chapter 12: The Final Stretch -- Afterword -- Acknowledgements -- Further Reading -- The Author -- More books by Doug Scott.

ISBN: 9781911342793

Accession Number: AC639

Call Number: G530 T44 S36

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Summary on Vertebrate Publishing website

Websites

https://www.v-publishing.co.uk/books/narratives/the-ogre/

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One man's mountains : the autobiography of Wallace Joyce

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19923

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Author: Munro, Kyle; Munro, Bart

Call Number: G512 M86 O54

Author: Munro, Kyle; Munro, Bart

Responsibility: Kyle Munro and Bart Munro

Physical Description: 164 p. : illus

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Mountaineering; Autobiography; Alpine Club of Canada; World War II; Travel

Abstract: Pertains to the life events of Wallace Joyce with specific focus on travel.

Contents: Table of contents; Forward; Prelude; Lineage; Wallace Richard Joyce; The Alpine Club of Canada; Canadian Army overseas; Return to Canada; Photos; Trail Riders in the Canadian Rockies; The Bow River Valley and its tributaries; To Lahore; To Beirut; Damascus; Jerusalem; Cairo; Luxtor; To Athens; 1961 - Ice River; 1961 & 1962 - The Cariboo Expeditions; 1962 - Maligne Lake (Jasper National Park); 1963 - Baffin Island; 1964 - Elk Lake G.M.C.; 1994 - Above Elk Lake : The Petain Glacier G.M.C.; 1965 - Glacier Lake; 1966 - The Swiss Alps - Switzerland; 1967 - Y.A.C.E. The Steele Glacier Camp; 1968 - G.M.C. at Lake O'Hara; 1969 - Mount Waddington; Strathcona Park and Lake Lovely Water; 1971 - Farnham Creek; Eyebrow Peak and Lake of the Hanging Glaciers; ACC Climbing Camp at Vowel Creek; Mount Sir Donald; Mount Assininboine and Mount Lunette; 1973 - Climbing camps in the Coastal Range - Ape Lake; 1974 - The Battle Range; 1975 - The Mount Alberta G.M.C.; 1976 - ACC Climbing Camp - the Cariboo Mountains; 1980 - Mount Clemenceau Climbing Camp; 1981 - Australia, New Zealand, and South Pacific; 1982 - G.M.C. in the Bugaboos; 1983 - The Tellot Glacier; 1984 - The G.M.C. and Glacier Circle; 1985 - G.M.C. at the Wates-Gibson Hut; Toronto Section Camp at the Freshfields; the Chilkoot Trail - to the Klondike; 1987 - G.M.C. at Farnham Creek; 1985 - The Edmonton Section Senior's Camp; 1988,1989, 1990 - G.M.C.'s; 1985 - Again Fryatt Creek; 1989 - Fryatt Creek; 1985 - Return to the Bugaboos; Rescue on Peak 9250; 1990 & 1992 - Roger Wallis' Yukon Trips; 1992 - The Donjek Glacier Camp; 1991 - Great treks on the Great Divide; Walk the Wapta; the "Rockies Panorama"; 1992 - The Scott-Hooker Icefield; 1995 - The Toronto Section camp Great Cairn and Fairy Meados; G.M.C. at Mount Clemenceau; 1996 - G.M.C. at Icefall Brook; 1998 - Mount Alexandra; 2000 A.D. - my final alpine summer; the way west, Vancouver Island and the Queen Charlottes; east on the Yellowhead; Tsar Mountain Camp; the G.M.C. at Fairy Meadows; Rogers Pass; Sorcerer Lake Lodge; 1971 - ACC Climbing camp at Vowell Creek; Appendix A - The Rock Creek Lumber Company; A trip too soon and ho help from Air Canada

Accession Number: AC635

Call Number: G512 M86 O54

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Summits of my life : daring adventures on the world's greatest peaks

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25020

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2018

Author: Jornet, Kilian

Publisher: Boulder, Colorado : VeloPress

Call Number: G512 J67 S86

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Author: Jornet, Kilian

Publisher: Boulder, Colorado : VeloPress

Published Date: 2018

Physical Description: 201 pages : illustrations

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Travel; Mountaineering; Mont Blanc; Matterhorn; Elbruz, Mount; Denali; Everest, Mount; Running; Skiing; Biography

Abstract: Summits of My Life is the personal project of Kilian Jornet, in which for five years he has traveled to some of the most important peaks of the planet to try to establish FKT (fastest known time) of ascent and descent of some of the most emblematic mountains of the world. The project is closely linked to values and a way of understanding the purist and minimalist mountain. The experiences lived in each challenge have been captured in different films. (from author's website)

Contents: The project of my life; The Challenges; The Mont Blanc Traverse; Mont Blanc; The Matterhorn; Mount Elbrus; Denali; Aconcagua; Mount Everest; Forged in dreams and emotions

Notes: Kilian Jornet ; translated from Catalan by Nathan Douglas.; Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019

ISBN: 9781937715908

Accession Number: AC638

Call Number: G512 J67 S86

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Author's project website including films related to the ascents and decents in book

Websites

https://everest.summitsofmylife.com/

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