topic:"expeditions" found 55 records - Research Collections

False summit : gender in mountaineering nonfiction

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

Published Date: 2021

Author: Rak, Julie

Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press

Call Number: 01.1 R14f

Author: Rak, Julie

Publisher: Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press

Published Date: 2021

Physical Description: xii, 268 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm

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

Subjects: Mountaineering; Mountaineers Women; Gender; Expeditions; Himalaya Mountains; Sexism; Feminism

Abstract: Exploring the role of gender politics in narratives about high-altitude mountaineering in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. The race to climb Everest catapulted mountain climbing, with its accompanying images of conquest and sport, into the public sphere on a global scale. But as a metaphor for the pinnacle of human achievement, mountaineering remains the preserve of traditional white male heroism. False Summit unpacks gender politics in the expedition narratives and memoirs of mountaineers in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. Why are women still a minority in the world's highest places? Julie Rak proposes that the genre has itself reached a "false summit"--a peak that proves not to be the pinnacle--and that mountaineering is not ready to welcome other ways of climbing or other kinds of climbers. For more than two centuries mountaineering, as an activity and as an ideal, has helped shape how the self is understood within the context of conquest, adventure, and proximity to risk. As climbing shows signs of becoming more diverse, Rak asks why change is so hard to achieve and why gender bias and other inequities exist in climbing at all. Exploring classic and lesser-known expedition accounts from Everest, K2, and Annapurna, False Summit helps us understand why mountaineering remains one of the most important ways to articulate gender identities and politics. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Leadership and Gender on Annapurna -- K2: The Gendered Rope -- Everest and Authenticity -- Everest: Gender Politics and the 1996 Disaster.

ISBN: 9780228006268

Accession Number: P2024.01

Call Number: 01.1 R14f

Collection: Archives Library

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The McClellan Expedition of 1868

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Medium: Library - Periodical

Published Date: 2019

Author: Dempsey, Hugh A.

Publisher: Calgary : Alberta Records Publication Board, Historical Society of Alberta

Call Number: P

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Author: Dempsey, Hugh A.

Responsibility: Hugh A. Dempsey

Publisher: Calgary : Alberta Records Publication Board, Historical Society of Alberta

Published Date: 2019

Medium: Library - Periodical

Subjects: Expeditions; Gold; Gold rush; Waterton; Banff; Bow River; Minnewanka, Lake

Abstract: Article pertains to an expedition led by John L. McLellan in 1868 from the Missouri River to Rocky Mountain House along the eastern edge of the Rocky Mountains

Notes: In Alberta History, Spring 2019, Volume 67, Number 2, p. 2 - 7

Call Number: P

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Historical Society of Alberta website

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Historic hikes around Lake Louise, Lake O'Hara & The Rockwell

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

Published Date: 2013

Author: Sanford, Emerson

Publisher: Canmore : Alpine Vista Publishers

Call Number: 02.6 Sa5l v.8; 02.6 Sa5l v.8 c. 2

Author: Sanford, Emerson

Responsibility: Emerson Sanford, Janice Sanford Beck

Publisher: Canmore : Alpine Vista Publishers

Published Date: 2013

Physical Description: 189p. : ill., maps

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

Series: Life of the trail 8

Subjects: Expeditions; Exploration; Guidebooks; Hiking; Outfitters, trail guides, packers; Surveyors

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index; Volume 1 to 6 published by Rocky Mountain Books, and Volume 7 and 8 by Alpine Vista Publishers; Volume 8 is the final volume in the series

ISBN: 978-0-9879270-1-9

Accession Number: 8217; 8217 - copy 2 missing, and replaced by author sep 29 2017

Call Number: 02.6 Sa5l v.8; 02.6 Sa5l v.8 c. 2

Collection: Archives Library

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Historic hikes in northern Yoho National Park

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

Published Date: 2011

Author: Sanford, Emerson

Publisher: Vancouver : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: 02.6 Sa5l v.6; 02.6 Sa5l v.6 copy 2 in Reference Room Browser's shelf

Author: Sanford, Emerson

Responsibility: Emerson Sanford, Janice Sanford Beck

Publisher: Vancouver : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2011

Physical Description: 176p. : ill., maps

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

Series: Life of the trail 6

Subjects: Expeditions; Exploration; Guidebooks; Hiking; Outfitters, trail guides, packers; Surveyors

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN: 978-1-926855-24-0

Accession Number: 8217

Call Number: 02.6 Sa5l v.6; 02.6 Sa5l v.6 copy 2 in Reference Room Browser's shelf

Collection: Archives Library

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Historic hikes in northern Yoho National Park

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

Published Date: 2011

Author: Sanford, Emerson

Publisher: Canmore : Alpine Vista Publishers

Call Number: 02.6 Sa5l v.7; 02.6 Sa5l v.7 copy 2 in Reference Room Browser's shelf

Author: Sanford, Emerson

Responsibility: Emerson Sanford, Janice Sanford Beck

Publisher: Canmore : Alpine Vista Publishers

Published Date: 2011

Physical Description: 176p. : ill., maps

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

Series: Life of the trail 7

Subjects: Expeditions; Exploration; Guidebooks; Hiking; Outfitters, trail guides, packers; Surveyors

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index; Volume 1 to 6 published by Rocky Mountain Books, and Volume 7 and 8 by Alpine Vista Publishers; Volume 8 is the final volume in the series

ISBN: 978-0-9879270-0-2

Accession Number: 8217

Call Number: 02.6 Sa5l v.7; 02.6 Sa5l v.7 copy 2 in Reference Room Browser's shelf

Collection: Archives Library

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Historic hikes in northern Yoho National Park

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

Published Date: 2010

Author: Sanford, Emerson

Publisher: Vancouver : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: 02.6 Sa5l v.5; 02.6 Sa5l v.5 copy 2 in Reference Room Browser's shelf

Author: Sanford, Emerson

Responsibility: Emerson Sanford, Janice Sanford Beck

Publisher: Vancouver : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2010

Physical Description: 239p. : ill., maps

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

Series: Life of the trail 5

Subjects: Expeditions; Exploration; Guidebooks; Hiking; Outfitters, trail guides, packers; Surveyors

Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index

ISBN: 978-1-897522-80-6

Accession Number: 8217

Call Number: 02.6 Sa5l v.5; 02.6 Sa5l v.5 copy 2 in Reference Room Browser's shelf

Collection: Archives Library

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The forgotten explorer : Samuel Prescott Fay's 1914 expedition to the northern Rockies

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

Published Date: 2009

Author: Fay, Samuel Prescott

Publisher: Surrey, BC : Rocky Mountain Books

Call Number: 02.6 F29f

Author: Fay, Samuel Prescott

Responsibility: edited by Charles Helm & Mike Murtha

Publisher: Surrey, BC : Rocky Mountain Books

Published Date: 2009

Physical Description: xlix, 292 p. : ill., maps, ports

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

Subjects: Brewster, Fred; Expeditions; Indians; Outfitters, trail guides, packers; Sheep, Mountain

Notes: "Foreword by Robert William Sandford"--Cover. Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-284) and index; Journal pertains to Fay's five month horse trip of 1200 kilometeres from Jasper to Hudson's Hope, collecting and recording wildlife for the US Biological Survey