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Les alpinistes celebres
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue829
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1956
- Publisher
- Paris : Mazenod
- Call Number
- G510 A46
- Responsibility
- publie sous la direction de Henry de Segogne [et al.]
- Publisher
- Paris : Mazenod
- Published Date
- 1956
- Subjects
- Mountaineers
- Call Number
- G510 A46
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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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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Gervasutti's climbs
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1112
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1957
- Author
- Gervasutti, Giusto
- Publisher
- London : Hart-Davis
- Call Number
- G512 G4 A3
- Author
- Gervasutti, Giusto
- Publisher
- London : Hart-Davis
- Published Date
- 1957
- Subjects
- Alps
- Mountaineers, Italian
- Call Number
- G512 G4 A3
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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History of British mountaineering
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1393
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1955
- Author
- Irving, Robert Lock Graham
- Publisher
- London : Batsford
- Call Number
- G510 I78 1955
- Author
- Irving, Robert Lock Graham
- Publisher
- London : Batsford
- Published Date
- 1955
- Subjects
- Mountaineers, British
- Call Number
- G510 I78 1955
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Lonely challenge
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue546
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1956
- Author
- Buhl, Hermann
- Publisher
- New York : Dutton
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Call Number
- G512 B8
- Author
- Buhl, Hermann
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Publisher
- New York : Dutton
- Published Date
- 1956
- Subjects
- Mountaineers, Austrian
- Nanga Parbat
- Call Number
- G512 B8
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Nanga Parbat pilgrimage
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue547
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1956
- Author
- Buhl, Hermann
- Publisher
- London : Hodder & Stoughton
- Call Number
- G512 B8 A3
- Author
- Buhl, Hermann
- Publisher
- London : Hodder & Stoughton
- Published Date
- 1956
- Subjects
- Dolomite Alps
- Mountaineers, Austrian
- Call Number
- G512 B8 A3
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Pioneers of the Alps
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue797
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1888
- Author
- Cunningham, Carus Dunlop
- Publisher
- London : Sampson [et al.]
- Edition
- 2d ed
- Call Number
- G512 A2 C85
- Author
- Cunningham, Carus Dunlop
- Responsibility
- by C.D. Cunningham and W. de W. Abney
- Edition
- 2d ed
- Publisher
- London : Sampson [et al.]
- Published Date
- 1888
- Subjects
- Mountaineers, Swiss
- Notes
- Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library
- Call Number
- G512 A2 C85
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Rocky Mountain naturalists
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12261
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- c.1950
- Author
- Ewan, Joseph
- Publisher
- Denver : University of Denver Press
- Call Number
- R 04 Ew1
- Author
- Ewan, Joseph
- Publisher
- Denver : University of Denver Press
- Published Date
- c.1950
- Physical Description
- xiv, 358p : ill
- Subjects
- Biography
- Mountaineers
- Notes
- Index
- Accession Number
- 5000
- Call Number
- R 04 Ew1
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Summits of adventure : the story of famous mountain climbs and mountain climbers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue870
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1954
- Author
- Douglas, John Scott
- Publisher
- New York : Dodd, Mead
- Call Number
- G510 D68
- Author
- Douglas, John Scott
- Publisher
- New York : Dodd, Mead
- Published Date
- 1954
- Subjects
- Mountaineers
- Call Number
- G510 D68
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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They came to the hills
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue930
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1952
- Author
- Engel, Claire Eliane
- Publisher
- London : Allen & Unwin
- Call Number
- G512 A2 E5
- Author
- Engel, Claire Eliane
- Publisher
- London : Allen & Unwin
- Published Date
- 1952
- Subjects
- Mountaineers
- Notes
- Edward C. Porter Mountaineering Library
- Call Number
- G512 A2 E5
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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