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Colani in Canada in film da Ruedi Bruderer; 2 svizzeri in Canada [DVD video]

https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12899

Medium: Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)

Published Date: 2001

Publisher: Switzerland : Televisiun Rumantscha

Call Number: 01.4 C67c DVD

Publisher: Switzerland : Televisiun Rumantscha

Published Date: 2001

Physical Description: 1 digital video disc : 1 sd., col. with b&w sequences

Medium: Library - Moving image (includes film and digital video - published)

Subjects: Canadian Mountain Holidays; Colani, Jon Rudolf Bezzola; Engler, Bruno; Ethnic groups; Klucker, Christian; Mountain guides; Swiss Guides' Village; Whymper, Edward

Notes: In Romansh and English with French subtitles. -- Features interviews with Edward J. Hart in the Whyte Museum Heritage Gallery, Robert W. Sandford, Syd Feuz and Jean Vaugham-Feuz

Accession Number: 7621

Call Number: 01.4 C67c DVD

Collection: Archives Library

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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

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

Series: Babelis turris

Subjects: Whymper, Edward; Messner Reinhold; Man and nature

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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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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Author: Messner, Reinhold (author); Bierling, Billi (translator)

Publisher: Seattle, Washington : Mountaineers Books

Published Date: 2017

Physical Description: 206 pages

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

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)