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Crack climbing : the definitive guide

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25207
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2020
Author
Whittaker, Pete
Publisher
Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books
Edition
First
Call Number
02.8 W58c
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Author
Whittaker, Pete
Responsibility
Pete Whittaker
Edition
First
Publisher
Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books
Published Date
2020
Physical Description
302 pages : illustrations (some color)
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Rock climbing
Travel
Guidebook
Abstract
Crack climbing is a highly technical form of movement in which climbers position their hands, feet, and even their entire body in cracks to make upward progress on rock. An advocate for the sport’s aesthetic lines, physicality, and technical know-how, author Pete Whittaker teaches more than sixty Crack School Masterclasses each year and was featured in the popular climbing film Wide Boyz. This detailed and comprehensive guide teaches step-by-step techniques and tips, including for: Jamming (finger, hand, fist, foot, arm, leg, body) Crack types (chimneys, liebacks, underclings, roof cracks) How to safely lead and place protection Efficient positioning and movement Strength recovery while climbing (From Mountaineers Books website)
Contents
Preface
A Note
Before We Begin: Key Terms
Key to Illustrations
Chapter 1 - Five Rules of Crack Climbing
Chapter 2 - Finger Cracks
Chapter 3 - Hand Cracks
Chater 4 - Fist Cracks
Chapter 5 - Offwidth Cracks
Chapter 6 - Squeeze Chimneys
Chapter 7 - Chimneys
Chapter 8 - Stemming
Chapter 9 - Roof Cracks
Chapter 10 - Placing Gear
Chapter 11 - Equipment
Chapter 12 - Taping
Acknowledgements
Index
Notes
2020 Banff Mountain Book Competition Winner - Guidebook 2020 National Outdoor Book Awards Honorable Mention - Instructional
ISBN
9781680512151
Accession Number
P2020.07
Call Number
02.8 W58c
Collection
Archives Library
URL Notes
Mountaineers Books website
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End of the rope : mountains, marriage, and motherhood

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25047
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2018
Author
Redford, Jan
Publisher
Berkeley, California : Counterpoint Press
Call Number
G512 E53 R43
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Author
Redford, Jan
Publisher
Berkeley, California : Counterpoint Press
Published Date
2018
Physical Description
x, 303 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Rock climbing
Mountaineering
Women
Biography
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
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Kenora rock climbs

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25025
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
Brown, Mike
Munro, Ryan
Publisher
Kenora, Ontario : Kenora Rock Climbs
Edition
2nd
Call Number
F1059 B76 K46
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Author
Brown, Mike
Munro, Ryan
Edition
2nd
Publisher
Kenora, Ontario : Kenora Rock Climbs
Published Date
2019
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Rock climbing
Guidebook
Guidebooks
Ontario
Abstract
Northwestern Ontario hosts some of the oldest and hardest granite cliffs in North America, surrounded by beautiful clean lakes. KENORA ROCK CLIMBS is the most complete guide to this pristine region stretching from the Whiteshell Provincial Park to just east of Kenora, Ontario. Most of the climbing is located less than three hours from Winnipeg and is frequented by climbers for day trips and weekend adventures.This book covers eight main popular areas, over 400 sport, trad, aid, and bouldering routes, useful tips (and less useful tips), original writing, drawings, and maps, sweet photos of a few people who love this as much as we do. This one’s for the gear heads, the noobs, the pebble wrestlers, the crushers, and the dirtbags. (Kenora Rock Climbs website)
Contents
Introduction
Local beta:
Kenora
The weather
Choosing a cliff
Camping
Enjoying the great outdoors
Route development and ethics
How to use this book
Rock climbs:
Lily Pond
Roadside
Gooseneck
Cave Cliff
South Cliff
Jones
Jones Bouldering
Echo
Panorama
Whiskeyjacks
Route index
Rest day material:
So many stories / game changer
Berry picking
Climbing timeline
Eagle's nest
Wildlife
Rebolting initiative
Profits over people
Notes
Banff Mountail Film and Book Festival 2019
ISBN
978199954170
Accession Number
AC638
Call Number
F1059 B76 K46
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
URL Notes
Kenora Rock Climbs website
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Mo' beta : rock climbs of Missouri

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25034
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
Collins, Jeremy
Publisher
Jefferson City, MO : Modern Litho.
Call Number
A17 M63 C65
  1 website  
Author
Collins, Jeremy
Publisher
Jefferson City, MO : Modern Litho.
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
272 pages : color illustrations, color maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Guidebook
Guidebooks
Rock climbing
Abstract
Comprehensive guide to climbing in Missouri with over 500 routes
Contents
Acknowledgements
Forward
Preface
How to use this guide
How to be a climber
Map of Contents
Chapter 1 - Kansas City
Chapter 2 - Truman Lake
Chapter 3 - Boone County
Chapter 4 - Somo
Chater 5 - Elephant Rocks
Chapter 6 - Capital Crags
Route Index
Notes
Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019
Accession Number
AC638
Call Number
A17 M63 C65
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
URL Notes
Publication website with interactive map showing climb locations
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Okanagan bouldering guidebook

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25032
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2019
Author
White, Andy
Publisher
Gniess Guy Publishing
Call Number
F1087 O53 W45
  1 website  
Author
White, Andy
Publisher
Gniess Guy Publishing
Published Date
2019
Physical Description
544 pages
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Rock climbing
Okanagan, British Columbia
Guidebook
Guidebooks
Abstract
Okanagan Bouldering is the comprehensive bouldering guidebook to 1800 problems in 9 locations throughout BC's beautiful Okanagan Valley. From lakeside granite to high elevation gneiss boulder fields, this book is loaded with quality problems to blow the lid off the bouldering in the Okanagan. (from Gneiss Guy Publishing website)
Contents
Introduction
Central Okanagan bouldering:
The Boulderfields:
The Southwest fields
The East fields
The Central fields
The North fields
The Ruins
Pebble Beach
North Okanagan bouldering:
Cougar Canyon
Ellision Provincial Park
South Okanagan bouldering:
The Slayers
The Sunstone
Skaha Provincial Park
The Winter Pig Hotel
In memorial
Index of problems by nature
Notes
Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019
ISBN
9781775371908
Accession Number
AC638
Call Number
F1087 O53 W45
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
URL Notes
Summary on Gneiss Guy Publishing website
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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
  1 website  
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
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Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2018
Author
Hicks, Kurt
Publisher
[Leavenworth, Washington] : Obvious Gully
Edition
1st
Call Number
F41 S66 W45
  1 website  
Author
Hicks, Kurt
Edition
1st
Publisher
[Leavenworth, Washington] : Obvious Gully
Published Date
2018
Physical Description
xiii, 319 pages : color illustrations, color maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Rock climbing
Guidebook
Guidebooks
Washington
Washington, United States
Abstract
Featuring over 700 rock climbs in the Snoqualmie Valley, this comprehensive guidebook includes the most popular crags in Washington's Cascade Mountains. Each crag has full-color phots, approach and cliff maps, and detailed route information. (from Mountain Project website)
Contents
Introduction
Little Si
Middle Fork
Mount Washington
Deception Crags
The Far Side
Snoqualmie Pass
Outlying Crags
Resources
Routes by grade
Photography credits
Index
Notes
Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019
ISBN
9780692879276
Accession Number
AC638
Call Number
F41 S66 W45
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
URL Notes
Publication website including preview
Websites
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Southern Pisgah rock & ice : a climber's guide to North Carolina's Looking Glass Rock, Cedar Rock, John Rock and more

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25026
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2018
Author
Reardon, Mike
Publisher
Asheville, N.C. : Ground Up Publishing
Call Number
F254 R43 S68
  1 website  
Author
Reardon, Mike
Responsibility
Harrison Shull
Laura Boggess
Anthony Love
Marci Spencer
Heath Alexander
Publisher
Asheville, N.C. : Ground Up Publishing
Published Date
2018
Physical Description
408 pages : color illustrations, maps
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Rock climbing
Guidebook
Guidebooks
United States
Abstract
Southern Pisgah Rock & Ice takes you to several classic and obscure climbing destinations throughout Pisgah National Forest's Pisgah Ranger District. The climbs outlined comprise one of the most diverse climbing regions in Eastern America. In Southern Pisgah you will find an endless concentration of moderate multi-pitch options, several ice routes when conditions yield, high end grade IV aid routes, endless traditional routes from 5.2-5.13, roadside crags and backcountry hidden gems, overhung sport routes, dead vertical bullet hard granite, cracks, water grooves, slabs, eye brows, roofs, flakes, dihedrals, and far more. In addition to getting you to the base of the routes, we hope the pages within this guide reveal the color and character of nearly sic decades of NC climbing (from book flap)
Contents
Introduction
Looking Glass Rock
John Rock
Cedar Rock
Cathey's Creek Crag
Area
Pilot Cove / Slate Rock
Big Ivy Region
People and Stories
Index
Notes
Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival
850 routes included ; 5.2-5.13 ; 60 ice climbs from WI2-WI4+ ; Trad, sport, aid, ice, alpine style routes ; Single pitch, multi-pitch up to 8 pitches ; Hand drawn, detailed topos and maps, GPS coordinates ; Historic accounts, historic photos ; Hundreds of route and action photos ; Access and stewardship information
ISBN
9781618501301
Accession Number
AC638
Call Number
F254 R43 S68
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
URL Notes
Summary on Ground Up Publishing website
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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.
ISBN
9780762783717
Accession Number
AC610
Call Number
G512 N63
Collection
Alpine Club of Canada Library
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A youth wasted climbing

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15220
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Published Date
2015
Author
Chaundy-Smart, David
Publisher
Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
Call Number
01.4 C39y
Author
Chaundy-Smart, David
Responsibility
foreword by John Kaandorp
Publisher
Victoria, BC : Rocky Mountain Books
Published Date
2015
Physical Description
247 pages, [8] pages of plates (colour)
Medium
Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
Subjects
Biography
Ontario
Rock climbing
ISBN
9781771600675
Accession Number
2016.8602
Call Number
01.4 C39y
Collection
Archives Library
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