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The high Alps : a natural history of ice and snow
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26164
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1931
- Author
- Tutton, A. E. H.
- Publisher
- London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Call Number
- 03 T89t
- Author
- Tutton, A. E. H.
- Edition
- 2nd edition
- Publisher
- London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.
- Published Date
- 1931
- Physical Description
- 317 pages
- Contents
- PART I -- I. Introduction -- II. The evolution of our knowledge of water and ice -- III. The physical relationships of water and ice -- IV. The crystal structure of ice and snow -- V. Optical, thermal, and electrical properties of ice -- VI. Plasticity, viscosity, and elasticity of ice -- VII. Artificial ice production, river and ground ice, arctic and antarctic ice -- PART II -- VIII. The Alps, the ice and snow mountains of central Europe and their call -- IX. Nature and geological character of the Alps -- X. Situations of the ranges, peaks, and glaciers of the Alps -- XI. Snow-caps and glaciers and their movements -- XII. Crevasses, bergschrunds, and seracs ; dirt-bands and veins ; moraines and glacier lakes -- XIII. How the great summits have been conquered -- PART III -- XIV. Expeditions in the Bernese Oberland -- XV. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps, Monte Rosa -- Matterhorn section -- XVI. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps. Zinai, ferpecle and arolla section -- XVII. Expeditions in the chain of Mont Blanc -- XVIII. The ascent of Mont Blanc. Scientific work on the mountain -- XIX. Expeditions in the Graian and Dauphine Alps -- XX. Expeditions in the Bernina Alps and ortler group.
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 03 T89t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Vertical : Ines Papert, life on the steepest climbs
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14902
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Papert, Ines
- Publisher
- Bielfeld, Germany : Delius Klasing
- Call Number
- G510 P37 S76
- Author
- Papert, Ines
- Responsibility
- Ines Papert and Johanna Stockl
- Publisher
- Bielfeld, Germany : Delius Klasing
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 159 pages, col ill., maps
- Subjects
- Rock climbing
- Ice
- Alps
- United States
- Dolomite Alps
- British Columbia
- Scotland
- Nepal
- Photography
- ISBN
- 9783768835619
- Accession Number
- AC610
- Call Number
- G510 P37 S76
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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