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Fall of heaven : Whymper's tragic Matterhorn climb
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25031
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Messner, Reinhold (author)
- Bierling, Billi (translator)
- Publisher
- Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books
- Call Number
- G512 F35 M47
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- Publisher
- Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 206 pages
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Whymper, Edward
- Biography
- Matterhorn
- Abstract
- As Fall of Heaven begins, we join professional mountain guide Jean-Antoine Carrel as he tries and fails, again and again, to summit the Matterhorn—one of the most famous and iconic peaks in the Alps. Is it the “Devil’s mountain,” as the locals call it? Should he heed the village priest who warned that its summit was not meant to be climbed? Carrel is undeterred, he just needs capable climbers to join him. Enter Edward Whymper, who in 1861 at the age of 21 decided—unbeknownst to Carrel—that he would be the first to climb the Matterhorn. So the storyline is set, except that where Carrel is captivating, Whymper is utterly unsympathetic as an adventurer. He is mean and disdainful of guides, describing them as little more than porters who eat and drink too much. Despite this attitude, Whymper’s quest leads him inexorably into partnership with Carrel. The story follows their many attempts to find a route to the top of the Matterhorn, but then fate pulls them apart just as Whymper finds the line. His successful summit on July 14, 1865, in which Carrel did not take part, shocked the Victorian world with both awe and revulsion as four members of Whymper’s party died in frightening falls. Famed climber and author Reinhold Messner acknowledges that Whymper was the first man to summit the Matterhorn, the last of the great Alpine peaks to be climbed and representing the beginning of an age of alpinism based on difficulty rather than conquest. But rather than leaving a hero’s legacy, Whymper is revealed as the Captain Ahab of alpinism, a team leader who accepted no responsibility for the deaths of his teammates. Fall of Heaven is an exciting tale and an examination of the different types of men who were caught up in the adventuring spirit of the Victorian age, and the ironic fates that can follow success or failure. (from Mountaineers Books website)
- Notes
- Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019
- ISBN
- 9781680510850
- Accession Number
- AC638
- Call Number
- G512 F35 M47
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on Mountaineers Books website
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Diari delle montagne: testimonianza d'alpinismo
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14083
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Brunati, Paolo
- Publisher
- Scarmagno (Torino) : Priuli & Verlucca
- Call Number
- 06 Au2d
- Author
- Brunati, Paolo
- Responsibility
- a cura di Paolo Brunati
- Publisher
- Scarmagno (Torino) : Priuli & Verlucca
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 207 pp
- Series
- Babelis turris
- Notes
- At head of title: Raccolte di documentazione del Museo nazionale della montagna.
- Text in Italian and English.
- The fourth book in the series is devoted to the registers kept by mountain huts and hotels, and to the Fuhrerbuchs, or 'testimonials', kept by mountain guides, diaries written in a spontaneous and informal hand that conserve the tales of great mountaineers, simple hikers or day-trippers and that stand witness to a climb or holiday. (from back cover)
- ISBN
- 9788880685371
- Accession Number
- 8216
- Call Number
- 06 Au2d
- Collection
- Archives Library
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When the Alps cast their spell : mountaineers of the Alpine Golden Age
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12597
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2004
- Author
- Braham, Trevor
- Publisher
- Glasgow : Neil Wilson Publishing
- Call Number
- 01.2 B73w
- Author
- Braham, Trevor
- Publisher
- Glasgow : Neil Wilson Publishing
- Published Date
- 2004
- Physical Description
- 314p. : ill
- Subjects
- Whymper, Edward
- Notes
- Includes bibliography and index
- ISBN
- 1903238749
- Accession Number
- 7542
- Call Number
- 01.2 B73w
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Mountain men : a history of the remarkable climbers and determined eccentrics who first scaled the world's most famous peaks
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12636
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2001
- Author
- Conefrey, Mick
- Publisher
- [Cambridge, MA] : Da Capo Press
- Call Number
- 01 C75m
- Author
- Conefrey, Mick
- Responsibility
- Mick Conefrey and Tim Jordan
- Publisher
- [Cambridge, MA] : Da Capo Press
- Published Date
- 2001
- Physical Description
- 281p. : ill
- Subjects
- Whymper, Edward
- Notes
- Autobiography of mountaineers who made first ascents of the Matterhorn, Mount McKinley, Mount Everest and K2
- ISBN
- 0306811294
- Accession Number
- 37000
- Call Number
- 01 C75m
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Whymper : le fou du Cervin
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue636
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1986
- Author
- Chamson, Max
- Publisher
- Paris : Perrin
- Call Number
- G512 W48 C4
- Author
- Chamson, Max
- Publisher
- Paris : Perrin
- Published Date
- 1986
- Subjects
- Whymper, Edward
- Call Number
- G512 W48 C4
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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The day the rope broke : the story of the first ascent of the Matterhorn
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue665
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1965
- Author
- Clark, Ronald William
- Publisher
- New York : Harcourt, Brace & World
- Edition
- 1st American ed
- Call Number
- DQ841 M4 C53
- Author
- Clark, Ronald William
- Edition
- 1st American ed
- Publisher
- New York : Harcourt, Brace & World
- Published Date
- 1965
- Subjects
- Whymper, Edward
- Call Number
- DQ841 M4 C53
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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I would do it again : reminiscences of the Rockies
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6092
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1959
- Author
- Campbell, Robert E
- Publisher
- Toronto : Ryerson
- Call Number
- 08.3 C15
- Author
- Campbell, Robert E
- Responsibility
- foreword by T.U. "Tommy" Primrose
- Publisher
- Toronto : Ryerson
- Published Date
- 1959
- Physical Description
- ix, 204p. : ill., port
- Accession Number
- 103
- 492
- Call Number
- 08.3 C15
- Collection
- Archives Library
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First ascent of the Matterhorn
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue167
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1947
- Author
- Allen, Frederick Lewis
- Publisher
- New York : Life
- Call Number
- DQ841 M4 A4 Pam Oversize C
- Author
- Allen, Frederick Lewis
- Publisher
- New York : Life
- Published Date
- 1947
- Subjects
- Whymper, Edward
- Notes
- In Life magazine, vol.23, no.6, August 11, 1947
- Call Number
- DQ841 M4 A4 Pam Oversize C
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Adventures of an alpine guide
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26177
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1932
- Author
- Klucker, Christian
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Edition
- 1st (English)
- Call Number
- 01.2 K71a
- Author
- Klucker, Christian
- Responsibility
- Translation by Erwin and Pleasaunce Von Gaisberg. Edited with additional chapters by H. E. G. Tyndale
- Edition
- 1st (English)
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Published Date
- 1932
- Physical Description
- 329 pages
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01.2 K71a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Mountaineering
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14139
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1892
- Author
- Dent, Clinton Thomas
- Publisher
- London, Longmans, Green
- Call Number
- 01.2 D41m
- Author
- Dent, Clinton Thomas
- Responsibility
- by C. T. Dent, Illustrations by H.G. Willink et. al.
- Publisher
- London, Longmans, Green
- Published Date
- 1892
- Physical Description
- xx, 439 p. illus., ports., diagrs.
- Series
- The Badminton library of sports and pastimes, ed. by his Grace the Duke of Beaufort K.G. assisted by A.E.T. Watson
- Subjects
- Women
- Mountaineering
- Whymper, Edward
- Notes
- By C. T. Dent with contributions by W. M. Conway, D. W. Freshfield, C. E. Mathews, C. Pilkington, Sir F. Pollock, H. G. Willink, and an introduction by Mr. Justice Wills
- This book was used by Walter Wilcox, Sam Allen, and other members of the Yale "Lake Louise" Club in 1893. It was printed in 1892 and considered very up-to-date.
- Includes discussion of 'Climbing outfits for ladies' p. 50-52
- Accession Number
- 7979
- Call Number
- 01.2 D41m
- Collection
- Archives Library
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