topic:"Rock climbing" found 9 records - Research Collections

Artificial aids in mountaineering

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

Published Date: 1962

Author: Sutton, Geoffrey

Publisher: London : Nicholas Kaye

Call Number: 01 Su8

Author: Sutton, Geoffrey

Publisher: London : Nicholas Kaye

Published Date: 1962

Physical Description: 64p. : ill

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

Subjects: Equipment; Rock climbing

Accession Number: 641

Call Number: 01 Su8

Collection: Archives Library

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A climber's guide to Oregon

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

Published Date: 1968

Author: Dodge, Nicholas A

Publisher: Beaverton (Ore.): Touchstone Press

Call Number: F874.3 D6 1968

Author: Dodge, Nicholas A

Publisher: Beaverton (Ore.): Touchstone Press

Published Date: 1968

Physical Description: 154 pages

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

Subjects: Guidebooks; Rock climbing

Call Number: F874.3 D6 1968

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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CWM Idwal group

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

Published Date: 1940

Author: Edwards, J.M.

Publisher: The Climber's Club

Edition: 2nd revised ed.

Call Number: DA667 C55 1940 I

Author: Edwards, J.M.

Edition: 2nd revised ed.

Publisher: The Climber's Club

Published Date: 1940

Physical Description: 145 pages, ill.

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

Series: Volume 1 of the Climbers' Club guidebooks series

Subjects: Rock climbing; Guidebooks; Wales

Call Number: DA667 C55 1940 I

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Great Gable Green Gable Kirkfell Yewbarrow Buckbarrow

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

Published Date: 1948

Author: Astley-Cooper, C.J.

Publisher: Lake District : Fell and Rock Climbing Club

Edition: 3rd ed.

Call Number: DA667 F45 1948 I

Author: Astley-Cooper, C.J.

Responsibility: C.J. Astley-Cooper, W. Peascod, and A.P. Rossiter, ed H.M. Kelly, illustrations by W. Heaton Cooper

Edition: 3rd ed.

Publisher: Lake District : Fell and Rock Climbing Club

Published Date: 1948

Physical Description: 127 pages, ill.

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

Series: Volume 1 in Fell and Rock Climbing Club's third series of climbing guides

Subjects: Rock climbing; England; Guidebooks

Notes: Front cover is labelled "Second Series" but is actually 3rd series of climbing guides by the Fell and Rock Climbing Club. See paper "A History of Lake District Climbing Guidebooks" by Stephen Reid.

Call Number: DA667 F45 1948 I

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Mountain Memories - Original

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Part Of: Aileen Harmon fonds

Scope & Content: File consists of 16 typed accounts and recollections by Aileen Harmon of her life, work and travel experiences in the 1930's and 1940's. Content pertains to her early career with Parks Canada, trips throughout the Canadian Rocky Mountains, and personal memories with friends and colleagues.

Date Range: 1929; [ca. 1930 - ca. 1940]; 1931; 1938

Reference Code: M287 / I / 9

Description Level: 5 / File

GMD: Private record; Textual record

Part Of: Aileen Harmon fonds

Description Level: 5 / File

Fonds Number: M287 / V262

Series: M287 / I : Personal records

Sous-Fonds: M287

Accession Number: 2016.8596

Reference Code: M287 / I / 9

GMD: Private record; Textual record

Responsibility: Produced by Aileen Harmon

Date Range: 1929; [ca. 1930 - ca. 1940]; 1931; 1938

Physical Description: 2 cm of textual records

Scope & Content: File consists of 16 typed accounts and recollections by Aileen Harmon of her life, work and travel experiences in the 1930's and 1940's. Content pertains to her early career with Parks Canada, trips throughout the Canadian Rocky Mountains, and personal memories with friends and colleagues.

Notes: Documents may have been used as notes/drafts of published material.; Dates provided for textual records are based on dates given in personal accounts. Date of production of physical notes unknown, but possibly between 1975 - 1990 [estimate by Processing Archivist based on similar documents in fonds]

Name Access: Harmon, Aileen

Subject Access: Parks Canada; Travel; Autobiography; Rock climbing; Family and personal life

Geographic Access: Canada; Alberta; British Columbia

Access Restrictions: Restrictions may apply

Reproduction Restrictions: Reference use only, no reproduction

Language: English

Creator: Aileen Harmon

Category: Family and personal life

Title Source: Title provided prior to processing

Processing Status: Processed

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Mountaineering : the freedom of the hills

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

Published Date: 1960

Author: The Mountaineers, Seattle

Publisher: Seattle : The Mountaineers

Edition: 1st ed.

Call Number: 01 M86 1963

Author: The Mountaineers, Seattle

Responsibility: planned by the Climbing Committee of the Mountaineers; Harvey Manning, chairman of editors; editorial committee: John R. Hazle and others; illus: Donna Balch Cook and Robert Cram

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: Seattle : The Mountaineers

Published Date: 1960

Physical Description: x, 430p. : ill

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

Subjects: Mountaineering; Manuals; Equipment; Camping; Travel; Rock climbing; Snow; Ice; Ice climbing; First aid; Geology

Abstract: Pertains to how to safely mountaineer with a focus on North America as per the Mountaineers Climbing Committee

Contents: Preface; Part One - Approaching the Peaks; Equipment; Camping and Sleeping; Alpine Cuisine; Wilderness Travel; Navigation in the Hills; Part Two - Rock Climbing; Routefinding on Rock; Balance; Counterforce; Roped Climbing; Belaying; Pitoncraft and Rappels; Part Three - Snow and Ice Climbing; Snow; Ice; Glaciers; Arrests and Belays; Part Four - Safe Climbing; The Climbing Party and its Leadership; Climbing Dangers; First Aid; Alpine Rescue; Part Five - The Climbing Environment; Mountain Geology; The Cycle of Snow; Mountain Weather; Appendix - Food Requirements for Climbers