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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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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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Honouring high places : the mountain life of Junko Tabei
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19852
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Tabei, Junko
- Rolfe, Helen Y.
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Call Number
- G512 T33 H66
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- Author
- Tabei, Junko
- Rolfe, Helen Y.
- Responsibility
- Junko Tabei and Helen Y. Rolfe, translated by Yumiko Hiraki and Rieko Holtved
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Publisher
- Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 376 pages
- Abstract
- "A collection of personal stories and reflections based on the memoirs of Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and the Seven Summits. Honouring High Places is a compelling collection of highlights from Junko Tabei's stirring life that she considered important, inspiring and interesting to mountaineering culture. Until now, her works have been available only in Japanese, and RMB is honoured to be sharing these profound and moving stories with the English-speaking world for the first time. The collection opens on Mount Everest, where the first all-women's expedition is met with disaster but pushes on against all odds. The story then shifts to the early years of Tabei's life and reflects on her countryside childhood as a frail girl with no talent for sport, and cultural expectations that ignored her passion for mountains. With reminiscences of the early days of female climbers on Everest, the deaths of fellow mountaineers, Tabei's pursuit of Mount Tomur, a cancer diagnosis, and efforts to restore a love for nature in the surviving youth of the Fukushima earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan in 2011, this beautifully curated collection of essays captures the essence of a notable time and the strength of character of one of the 20th and 21st centuries' female mountaineering pioneers."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Author's note
- Introduction by Setsuko Kitamura
- Chapter 1 - avalanche!
- Chapter 2 - the meaning of mountains
- Chapter 3 - Annapurna III
- Chapter 4 - Mount Everest
- Chapter 5 - to the top ofthe world
- Chapter 6 - the route
- Chapter 7 - finalists
- Chapter 8 - South Col
- Chapter 9 - the summit
- Chapter 10 - endgame
- Chapter 11 - women on Everest
- Chapter 12 - Mount Tombur, Pobeda Peak
- Chapter 13 - Aconcagua
- Chapter 14 - Carstensz Pyramid
- Chapter 15 - mountains of later life
- About Junko by Masanobu Tabei
- A son's tribute by Shinya Tabei
- Beyond mountains by Setsuko Kitamura
- Life chronology
- Glossary
- Acknowledgements
- References
- Index
- Notes
- Winner of the Mountaineering History category at the 2018 Banff Mountain Book Competition Awards
- ISBN
- 9780771602167
- Accession Number
- AC634
- Call Number
- G512 T33 H66
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- 2018 Banff Mountain Book Competition Awards website
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Art of freedom : the life and climbs of Voytek Kurtyka
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19901
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Call Number
- G512 M16 A78
- Author
- McDonald, Bernadette
- Responsibility
- Bernadette McDonald
- Publisher
- Victoria, British Columbia : Rocky Mountain Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 326 pages : photographs ; 24 cm
- Abstract
- "A profound and moving biography of one of the international climbing world's most respected, complicated and reclusive mountaineers. Voytek Kurtyka remains one of the greatest alpinists of all time. Born in 1947, he was one of the leading lights of the Polish golden age of Himalayan climbing. His visionary approach to climbing resulted in many renowned ascents, such as the complete Broad Peak traverse, the "night naked" speed climbs of Cho Oyu and Shishapangma and, above all, the alpine-style ascent of the West Face of Gasherbrum IV. Dubbed the "climb of the century," his route on G IV, as of 2016, has yet to be repeated. His most frequent climbing partners were alpine legends of their time: Polish Himalayan climber Jerzy Kukuczka, Swiss mountain guide Erhard Loretan and British alpinist Alex MacIntyre. After repeated requests to accept the Piolet d'Or lifetime achievement award (the Academy Award of the climbing world), Kurtyka finally accepted the honour in the spring of 2016. A fiercely private individual, he continues to decline countless invitations for interviews, lectures and festival appearances, but has agreed to co-operate with internationally renowned and award winning Canadian author Bernadette McDonald on this long-awaited biography."-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents
- Introduction
- Rock Animal
- Alpinist in Training
- Hindu Kush - Unleashed
- Troll Wall
- Bandaka - The Mordor Beauty
- Hungry for Hunger
- Dancing in the Moment
- Enfant Terrible
- Line against the Sky
- The Shining Wall
- Fork in the Road
- Trango Tower
- Night Naked
- Dance of the Underclings
- Chinese Maharaja
- Metaphysical Think Tank
- The Crux
- Chronology of Selected Climbs
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Sources
- Index
- ISBN
- 9781771602129
- Accession Number
- AC634
- Call Number
- G512 M16 A78
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Herrington, Jim
- Child, Greg
- Honnold, Alex
- Publisher
- Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books
- Call Number
- TR H47 C55 OS
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- Responsibility
- Jim Herrington (photographs), Greg Child (essay), Alex Honnold (foreward)
- Publisher
- Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 191 p.; illus (some colour)
- Subjects
- Photography
- Mountaineers
- Mountaineers Women
- Abstract
- Pertains to climbers including portraits of Glen Dawson, Hamish McInnes, Dinko Bertoncelj, Gwen Moffat, Francois Guillot, Minoru Higeta, Thomas Hornbein, Joe Brown, Bradford Washburn, Robert Gabriel, Sonia Livanos, Martin Boysen, Doug Robinson, Chuck Pratt, Jim Wickwire, Louis Reichardt, Armando Aste, Peter Haan, Serge Coupe, Dee Molenaar, Glen Denny, Royal Robbins, Joe Fitschen, Mark Powell, Junko Tabei, Jim Whittaker, Sir Christian Bonington, Doug Scott, Pertemba Sherpa, Fritz Wintersteller, Kurt Diemberger, Huntley Ingalls, George Hurley, Layton Kor, Cesare Maestri, Jim Bridwell, John Long, Yvon Chouinard, Tom Frost, Allen Steck, Steve Roper, Don Claunch Gordon, Fred Beckey, David Brower, Pierre Mazeaud, Kim Schmitz, John Roskelley, Bonnie Prudden, Henry Barber, Don Lauria, Robert Paragot, Reinhold Messner, Kancha Sherpa, Riccardo Cassin, Glen Exum, John Gill, Dave Rearick, Jules Eichorn, Pat Ament, Jeff Lowe
- Contents
- Foreward
- Preface
- Reflections on the golden age of climbing
- Photographs
- Climber biographies
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
- Grand Prize - 2017 Banff Book Awards
- Mountaineering History Award - 2017 Banff Book Awards
- ISBN
- 9781680510836
- Accession Number
- AC634
- Call Number
- TR H47 C55 OS
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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- Website for book with author and publisher information, ordering information, images of inside of publication, reviews, etc.
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Fuhrer Buch : nach der Verordnung vom 2 Mai 1894
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue43
- Responsibility
- Ausgegeben an Herr Alexander Burgener
- Subjects
- Mountaineers, Swiss
- Notes
- Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library
- Call Number
- G512 B87 A3
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Fuhrer Buch : nach der Verordnung vom 2 Mai 1894
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue44
- Responsibility
- Ausgegeben an Herr Joseph Pollinger
- Subjects
- Mountaineers, Swiss
- Call Number
- G512 P64 A3
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Fuhrer Buch. Nach der Verordnung vom 2 Mai 1894
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue45
- Responsibility
- Ausgegeben an Franz Joseph Lochmatter
- Subjects
- Mountaineers, Swiss
- Call Number
- G512 L62 A3
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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The most dangerous work in the world
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue133
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Author
- Abraham, George Dixon
- Call Number
- G510 A273
- Author
- Abraham, George Dixon
- Subjects
- Accidents
- Mountaineers, Swiss
- Notes
- Wide world
- Bound with: The dangers of alpine climbing. [n.d.]
- Call Number
- G510 A273
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Guide aspiring
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue146
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1962
- Author
- Alack, Frank
- Publisher
- Auckland : Oswald-Seely
- Call Number
- G512 A43 A3
- Author
- Alack, Frank
- Publisher
- Auckland : Oswald-Seely
- Published Date
- 1962
- Subjects
- Mountaineers, New Zealand
- Call Number
- G512 A43 A3
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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