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Escape from death
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue1067
- Author
- Fry, John
- Responsibility
- by Jim McConkey
- Physical Description
- p. 10 - 11
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- The story of how Toni Matt saved Jim McConkey from a crevasse in the Athabasca Glacier on June 12, 1948 during filming of "The Shadow of Time"
- Notes
- In Skiing History; vol.30 no.4, July/August 2018
- Language
- English
- Call Number
- P - General
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Into the depths - the terror, luck, and tragedy of crevasse falls
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue923
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2018
- Author
- Martel, Lynn
- Publisher
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, Vol. 3, 2018
- Call Number
- P
- Author
- Martel, Lynn
- Editor
- Ward, Meghan J.
- Publisher
- In Canadian Rockies Annual, Vol. 3, 2018
- Published Date
- 2018
- Physical Description
- p.54-57
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Search and rescue
- Crevasses
- Language
- English
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Outlier : how a Chicago man hampered his own rescue from the Columbia Icefield, and what searchers learned from him
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20018
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Wilson, Niki
- Call Number
- P
1 website
- Author
- Wilson, Niki
- Responsibility
- Niki Wilson
- Published Date
- 2014
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Abstract
- Pertians to the attempted rescue of George Joachim over nine days from the Columbia Icefield and the search and rescue statistical models used by Parks Canada.
- Notes
- In Highline Magazine, Vol. 6, Iss. 1, Winter 2014, p. 32 - 39
- Call Number
- P
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Highline website
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Tales of western mountaineer : a record of mountain experiences on the Pacific coast
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26159
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1924
- Author
- Rusk, C. E.
- Publisher
- Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Call Number
- 01.3 R89t
- Author
- Rusk, C. E.
- Edition
- 1st edition
- Publisher
- Boston ; New York : Houghton Mifflin Company
- Published Date
- 1924
- Physical Description
- 309 pages ; 40 ill.
- Abstract
- This is a book of cliffs and crags, glaciers and crevasses, rope-work, axe-work, glissading, bergschrunds, arêtes, snow cornices, avalanches, -- everything that goes to make up mountain climbing of the genuine alpine sort. Excerpt from dustjacket.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01.3 R89t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Travel and rescue in crevassed areas
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue7989
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1964
- Author
- Schuster, Robert L
- Publisher
- Wilmette (Ill.) : U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- Call Number
- 01 Sch8 Pam
- Author
- Schuster, Robert L
- Publisher
- Wilmette (Ill.) : U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
- Published Date
- 1964
- Physical Description
- 14p. : ill
- Accession Number
- 6000
- Call Number
- 01 Sch8 Pam
- Collection
- Archives Library
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