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Abstract: In this funny and gritty debut memoir, praised by Outside, Sierra, Alpinist, and more, Jan Redford grows from a reckless rock climber to a mother who fights to win back her future. As a teenager, she sets her sights on the improbable dream of climbing mountains. By age twenty, she’s a climber with a magnetic attraction to misadventures and the wrong men. Redford finally finds the love of her life, an affable Rockies climber. When he is killed in an avalanche in Alaska, a grieving Redford finds comfort in the arms of another extreme alpinist. Before long, they are married, with a baby on the way. While her husband works as a logger, Redford tackles the traditional role of wife and mother. But soon, she pursues her own dream, one that pits her against her husband. End of the Rope is Redford’s telling of heart-stopping adventures, from being rescued off El Capitan to leading a group of bumbling cadets across a glacier. It is her laughter-filled memoir of friendships with women in that masculine world. Most moving, this is the story of her struggle to make her own way in the mountains and in life. To lead, not follow. (from Counterpoint Press website)

Contents: First climb -- On the rocks -- Lion's layback -- The rescue -- Speed ruts -- Learning to roll -- Bugaboo -- World's toughest milkman -- Fragile ice -- We're gathered here today -- Aberdeen -- Show no fear -- Climbing girlfriend -- The final last straw -- The memo -- In the arms of a mountain -- The underwear drawer -- Teetering on the edge -- Pink wedding dress -- The waiting -- Miracles -- Into the shadows -- Back on the sharp end -- Yodel village -- You lead, I'll follow -- Carsick -- Die young, stay pretty -- Grant's lunch -- Fractured -- Playing dead -- Mama spiders -- Remember the lilac -- Power surge -- Leaving Chaba -- Only four years -- One little "non" -- Second chances.

ISBN: 9780345812315

Accession Number: AC639

Call Number: G512 E53 R43

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Summary on Counterpoint Press website

Websites

https://www.counterpointpress.com/dd-product/end-of-the-rope/

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Paul Preuss, lord of the abyss : life and death at the birth of free-climbing

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25054

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

Published Date: 2019

Author: Smart, David

Publisher: Toronto : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: G513 P38 S63

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Author: Smart, David

Publisher: Toronto : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2019

Physical Description: 248 pages : illus.

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

Subjects: Rock climbing; History; Biography

Abstract: In the months before his death in 1913, from falling more than 300 metres during an attempt to make the first free solo ascent of the North Ridge of the Mandlkogel, Paul Preuss’s public presentations on his climbing adventures filled concert halls in Austria, Italy, and Germany. George Mallory, the famed English mountaineer who died on Mount Everest in 1924, said “no one will ever equal Preuss.“ Reinhold Messner, the first climber to ascend all fourteen 8000 metre peaks, was so impressed by the young Austrian’s achievements that he built a mountaineering museum around Preuss’s piton hammer, wrote two books (in German) about him and instituted a foundation in Preuss’s name. Alex Honnold, the first and only person to free solo El Capitan in Yosemite National Park, has thought about Preuss’ untimely and surprising death and imagined it to have likely been “the worst four seconds” of Preuss’ life. Although he died at only 27 years old, modern climbing may never have developed the ethical, existential core that it has today if not for Preuss’s bold style. Even the most trenchant traditionalists remain unsure about whether to add him to their pantheon or dismiss him as at worst a lunatic or at best an indelicate subject better left ignored. Smart’s biography is the first English language volume to be published and is certain to bring the remarkable story of Paul Preuss to a whole new generation of climbers. (from Rocky Mountain Books website)

Contents: Introduction : Paul Preuss; The boy who loved flowers and mountains; The student mountaineer : Vienna, 1907-1910; Schneid : Planspitze, Matterhorn, 1908; Jesus of the Dorotheergasse, 1909; Dolomites : the Devil's Lair, Summer 1910; In Munich, the city of climbers; Allein : five days that changed climbing, summer 1911; A crazy notion : the great dispute, 1911-12; Doctor Preuss presents; Life as a trifle : the Kaisergebirge, Northern Limestone and the Western Alps, 1912-13; Valhalla : Mandlkogel North Face, October 1913; The sleeper of Altaussee; Acknowledgements; Selected bibliography; Notes; Index

Notes: Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019 shortlist for Mountain Literature

ISBN: 9781771603232

Accession Number: AC639

Call Number: G513 P38 S63

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

URL Notes: Summary on Rocky Mountain Books website

Websites

https://rmbooks.com/book/paul-preuss-lord-of-the-abyss/

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Women who dare : North America's most inspiring women climbers

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14885

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

Published Date: 2013

Author: Noble, Chris

Publisher: Guilford, Connecticut : FalconGuides

Call Number: G512 N63

Author: Noble, Chris

Responsibility: Chris Noble ; forewords by Septh Davis and Sasha DiGuilian

Publisher: Guilford, Connecticut : FalconGuides

Published Date: 2013

Physical Description: xiv, 248 pages : colour illustrations

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

Subjects: Rock climbing; Biography; North America

Notes: Featured climbers: Lynn Hill, Sasha DiGiulian, Emily Harrington, Lisa Hathaway, Steph Davis, Kitty Calhoun, Robyn Erbesfield Rouboutou, Alex Puccio, Lisa Rands, Beth Rodden, Angie Payne, Alison Osius, Lauren Lee McCormick, Madaleine Sorkin, Kate Rutherford, Jacinda (JC) Hunter, Nancy Feagin, Brittany Griffith, Elaina Arenz Smith, Dawn Glanc.