topic:"climbing" found 75 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

Mountain climbing

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

Published Date: 1897

Publisher: London : Charles Scribner's Sons

Call Number: 01 W69m

Responsibility: Edward L. Wilson, Edwin Lord Weeks, A. F. Jaccaci, W. Martin-Conway, Mark Brickell Kerr, William Williams, and H. F. B. Lynch

Publisher: London : Charles Scribner's Sons

Published Date: 1897

Physical Description: 358 pages

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

Subjects: Mountaineering; St. Elias; Alps; Climbing; Glaciers

Contents: I. Mount Washington in winter / Edward L. Wilson -- II. Some episodes of mountaineering by a cause amateur / Edwin Lord Weeks -- III. Ascent of Mount Aetna / A. F. Jaccaci -- IV. Ascent of Mount Ararat / H. F. B. Lynch -- V. Climbing Mount St. Elias / William Williams -- VI. Mount St. Elias and its glaciers / Mark Brickell Kerr -- VII. One thousand miles through the Alps / Sir. W. Martin Conway

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 01 W69m

Collection: Archives Library

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Climbing the Chamonix Aiguilles : some difficult ascents in the shadow of Mount Blanc

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

Published Date: 1906

Author: Abraham, George Dixon

Call Number: 04.2 H39

Author: Abraham, George Dixon

Published Date: 1906

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

Subjects: Alps; Mountaineering; Rock climbing

Notes: In Canadian magazine, v.XXVII, no.3, July 1906

Call Number: 04.2 H39

Collection: Archives Library

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High adventure : mountain photography by Bob and Ira Spring

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

Published Date: 1951

Author: Spring, Bob and Ira

Publisher: Seattle : Superior

Edition: 1st ed

Call Number: 01.3 Sp8

Author: Spring, Bob and Ira

Responsibility: text by Norma and Patricia Spring

Edition: 1st ed

Publisher: Seattle : Superior

Published Date: 1951

Physical Description: 115 p. : ill., ports

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

Subjects: Rock climbing

Accession Number: 2455

Call Number: 01.3 Sp8

Collection: Archives Library

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Belaying the leader : an omnibus on climbing safety

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

Published Date: 1956

Author: Leonard, Richard M

Publisher: San Francisco : Sierra Club

Call Number: 01 L55

Author: Leonard, Richard M

Responsibility: by Richard H. Leonard and others

Publisher: San Francisco : Sierra Club

Published Date: 1956

Physical Description: 85p. : ill

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

Subjects: Rock climbing

Accession Number: 353

Call Number: 01 L55

Collection: Archives Library

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Mountaineering : the freedom of the hills

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

Published Date: 1960

Author: The Mountaineers, Seattle

Publisher: Seattle : The Mountaineers

Edition: 1st ed.

Call Number: 01 M86 1963

Author: The Mountaineers, Seattle

Responsibility: planned by the Climbing Committee of the Mountaineers; Harvey Manning, chairman of editors; editorial committee: John R. Hazle and others; illus: Donna Balch Cook and Robert Cram

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: Seattle : The Mountaineers

Published Date: 1960

Physical Description: x, 430p. : ill

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

Subjects: Mountaineering; Manuals; Equipment; Camping; Travel; Rock climbing; Snow; Ice; Ice climbing; First aid; Geology

Abstract: Pertains to how to safely mountaineer with a focus on North America as per the Mountaineers Climbing Committee

Contents: Preface; Part One - Approaching the Peaks; Equipment; Camping and Sleeping; Alpine Cuisine; Wilderness Travel; Navigation in the Hills; Part Two - Rock Climbing; Routefinding on Rock; Balance; Counterforce; Roped Climbing; Belaying; Pitoncraft and Rappels; Part Three - Snow and Ice Climbing; Snow; Ice; Glaciers; Arrests and Belays; Part Four - Safe Climbing; The Climbing Party and its Leadership; Climbing Dangers; First Aid; Alpine Rescue; Part Five - The Climbing Environment; Mountain Geology; The Cycle of Snow; Mountain Weather; Appendix - Food Requirements for Climbers