Narrow Results By
Believe and begin - Mt. Everest has followed Sharon Wood wherever she goes since her historic ascent of the peak in 1986. Over three decades later, her memoir Rising not only chronicles that achievement, but also culminates a writing process as challenging as the climb itself
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25145
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- May 2020
- Author
- Croston, Joanna
- Publisher
- Crowfoot Media
- Call Number
- P
1 website
- Author
- Croston, Joanna
- Responsibility
- Joanna Croston
- Publisher
- Crowfoot Media
- Published Date
- May 2020
- Physical Description
- p.50 - 55
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Women
- Wood, Sharon
- Everest, Mount
- Authors
- Biography
- Abstract
- Pertains to Sharon Woods career as climber and author with focus on her new book "Rising"
- Notes
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, vol.05, May 2020
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Website for Crowfoot Media - publishers of Canadian Rockies Annual
Websites
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Everest : reflections from the top
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12436
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2003
- Author
- Gee, Margaret
- Publisher
- London : Rider
- Call Number
- DS486 E8 G42
- Author
- Gee, Margaret
- Responsibility
- edited by Christine Gee, Garry Weare and Margaret Gee
- foreword by Doug Scott
- Publisher
- London : Rider
- Published Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- 141p. : ill., maps
- Subjects
- Biography
- Wood, Sharon
- Notes
- Includes glossary
- ISBN
- 1844130525
- Call Number
- DS486 E8 G42
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Extraordinary women explorers
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13993
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2005
- Author
- Rooney, Frances
- Publisher
- Toronto : Second Story Press
- Call Number
- 02 R67e
- Author
- Rooney, Frances
- Responsibility
- by Frances Rooney
- Publisher
- Toronto : Second Story Press
- Published Date
- 2005
- Physical Description
- 118 p. : ill., ports
- Series
- The women's hall of fame series
- Subjects
- Wood, Sharon
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references
- ISBN
- 1896764983
- Accession Number
- 60,500 11-11-29
- Call Number
- 02 R67e
- Collection
- Archives Library
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Living mountains
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13014
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Call Number
- 02.5 Al1l Pam oversize
- Physical Description
- p.4-11 : ill
- Subjects
- Authors
- Alberta centennial
- Mountaineers, Canadian
- Outfitters, trail guides, packers
- Photographers
- Richards, Craig
- Sandford, Robert W
- Vinson, Tom
- Wood, Sharon
- Notes
- In Our Alberta : a Calgary Herald magazine series celebrating Alberta's centennial, issue 2
- Call Number
- 02.5 Al1l Pam oversize
- Collection
- Archives Library
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Mountaineers : great tales of bravery and conquest
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14078
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2011
- Author
- Douglas, Ed
- Publisher
- UK: Dorling Kindersley Ltd. in association with Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and The Alpine Club
- Call Number
- 01 M86 uk
- Author
- Douglas, Ed
- Responsibility
- written by Ed Douglas ; additional writing, Richard Gilbert, Philip Parker, Alasdair Macleod
- Publisher
- UK: Dorling Kindersley Ltd. in association with Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) and The Alpine Club
- Published Date
- 2011
- Physical Description
- 360 p. : chiefly col. ill., ports
- Notes
- British edition
- The early mountaineers. Climbing for survival ; What mountains mean ; Mountains and Christianity -- Climbing for science and art. A new frontier ; The cultural heights ; The first summiteers -- The Golden Age of alpinism. A fashion for climbing ; The price of adventure ; "An easy day for a lady" ; Birth of modern alpinism -- Beyond the Alps. The greater ranges ; Climbing in the New World ; Alpinism in Japan -- Slaying the giants. The greatest show on Earth ; Back of an envelope ; The Himalayan Golden Age -- The age of extremes. The North faces ; The unwritten rules ; Women mountaineers ; Fast and light -- Mountain directory. "Celebrating a rich tradition of bravery, thirst for knowledge, and pursuit of glory, Mountaineers tells the stories of the pioneers who first scaled the heights of this planet."--P. [2] of jacket
- ISBN
- 9781405365598
- Accession Number
- 8206
- Call Number
- 01 M86 uk
- Collection
- Archives Library
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Sharon Wood : the Canadian mountain climber talks about her new book and life after summiting Mount Everest
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue24944
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Rosano, Michela
- Publisher
- Canadian Geographic
- Call Number
- P
1 website
- Author
- Rosano, Michela
- Responsibility
- Michela Rosano
- Publisher
- Canadian Geographic
- Published Date
- 2019
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Pertains to mountain climber and author Sharon Wood and her experience as the first North American woman to summit Mount Everest in 1986 as interviewed by Michela Rosano
- Notes
- In Canadian Geographic, Volume 139, No. 5, September-October 2019, p. 15-16
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- October/November 2019 Canadian Geographic magazine
Websites
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
Women explorers : one hundred years of courage and audacity
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12057
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2003
- Author
- Rolfe, Helen Y
- Publisher
- Canmore : Altitude Publishing
- Call Number
- 08.3 R64w
- Author
- Rolfe, Helen Y
- Publisher
- Canmore : Altitude Publishing
- Published Date
- 2003
- Physical Description
- 109 p. : ill., map
- Series
- Amazing stories
- Subjects
- Biography
- Allison, Leanne
- Benham, Gertrude
- Engelhard, Georgia Cromwell
- Hinman, Caroline
- Mountaineers, Women
- Parker, Elizabeth
- Wood, Sharon
- Notes
- Bibliography and index
- ISBN
- 1-55153-873-3
- Accession Number
- 7476
- Call Number
- 08.3 R64w
- Collection
- Archives Library
This material is presented as originally created; it may contain outdated cultural descriptions and
potentially offensive content.
Read more.
