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Ascent : the mountaineering experience in word and image
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1980
- Author
- Steck, Allen (ed)
- Publisher
- San Francisco : Sierra Club
- Call Number
- G510 A83 1980
- Author
- Steck, Allen (ed)
- Responsibility
- edited by Allen Steck, Steve Roper and David Harris
- Publisher
- San Francisco : Sierra Club
- Published Date
- 1980
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Fiction
- Art
- ISBN
- 0-87156-240-5
- Call Number
- G510 A83 1980
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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In the western mountains : early mountaineering in British Columbia
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1980
- Author
- Leslie, Susan. (ed.)
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Aural History Program
- Call Number
- F1089 L47
- F1089 L47 Copy 2
- Author
- Leslie, Susan. (ed.)
- Responsibility
- compiled and edited by Susan Leslie
- Publisher
- Victoria, B.C. : Aural History Program
- Published Date
- 1980
- Physical Description
- iv, 76p. : ill. , map
- Series
- Vol 8, No. 4 of Sound Heritage
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- British Columbia
- Robson, Mount
- Mountaineers, Women
- Munday, Phyllis
- McQueen, Kate
- Kain, Conrad
- Alpine Club of Canada
- British Columbia Mountaineering Club
- Accession Number
- AC598
- Call Number
- F1089 L47
- F1089 L47 Copy 2
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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Premier Peter Lougheed
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- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 32 b&w prints of former Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed and his family being guided up Mount Lougheed in Kananaskis Country as part of the 75 anniversary of Alberta joining Canadian Confederation. Also includes 3 copies of a clipping from the front page of the August 30, 1980 editio…
- Date Range
- 1980
- Reference Code
- V190 / VI / P / vii / PA - 01 to PA - 32
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Photograph
8 images
- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M323 / S40 / V190
- Series
- VI : Retained file, P : Alphabetical order
- Sous-Fonds
- V190
- Sub-Series
- vii : Premier Peter Lougheed
- Accession Number
- 7436
- Reference Code
- V190 / VI / P / vii / PA - 01 to PA - 32
- GMD
- Photograph
- Date Range
- 1980
- Physical Description
- 32 photographs : b&w ; 25.2 x 20.2 cm or smaller
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 32 b&w prints of former Alberta Premier Peter Lougheed and his family being guided up Mount Lougheed in Kananaskis Country as part of the 75 anniversary of Alberta joining Canadian Confederation. Also includes 3 copies of a clipping from the front page of the August 30, 1980 edition of The Weekend Herald featuring a photograph of the Lougheeds and their guides on the mountain peak, as well as a clipping from a July 1997 Kananskis newspaper featuring an interview with Lougheed.
- Name Access
- Engler, Bruno
- Lougheed, Peter
- Schiesser, Bernie
- Subject Access
- Anniversary
- Ceremony
- Climbing
- Family
- Guides
- Helicopters
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers
- Mountains
- Personal and Professional Life
- Portrait
- Geographic Access
- Kananaskis Country
- Alberta
- Language
- English
- Related Material
- V190 / VI / P / vii / NA - 01 to NA - 03
- Creator
- Engler, Bruno
- Title Source
- Original title kept
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Avalanche Probe
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- Date
- 1980
- Material
- leather; metal; cable
- Catalogue Number
- 108.04.0059
- Description
- A dark grey metal avalanche probe held in a bright orange leather pouch with a metal clasp. The avalanche probe features 7 pieces connected via a cable that runs throughout the probe. One end of the probe has a lighter silver knob with tap near it. The other end has a brass-coloured metal end. The …
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- Title
- Avalanche Probe
- Date
- 1980
- Material
- leather; metal; cable
- Dimensions
- 2.5 x 7.5 x 53.9 cm
- Description
- A dark grey metal avalanche probe held in a bright orange leather pouch with a metal clasp. The avalanche probe features 7 pieces connected via a cable that runs throughout the probe. One end of the probe has a lighter silver knob with tap near it. The other end has a brass-coloured metal end. The orange leather pouch features text along the middle on one side which reads “Lindenmann Lawinen-Sonde” and text at the top of the pouch which reads “SCOTT” in handwriting.
- Subject
- ski
- skiing
- winter
- avalanche
- safety
- Chic Scott
- mountaineering
- Credit
- Gift of Charles (Chic) Scott, Cochrane, 2003
- Catalogue Number
- 108.04.0059
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Quest for adventure
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20157
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1981
- Author
- Bonington, Chris
- Publisher
- New York : Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.
- Call Number
- 02.1 B64q
- Author
- Bonington, Chris
- Responsibility
- Chris Bonington
- Publisher
- New York : Clarkson N. Potter, Inc.
- Published Date
- 1981
- Physical Description
- 448 pages : illustrations (some color), maps, portraits (some color)
- Subjects
- Travel
- History
- Sailing
- Mountaineering
- Hiking
- Abstract
- Pertains to the travels of Thor Heyerdahl, John Ridgeway, Chay Blyth, John Fairfax, Sylvia Cook, Francis Chichester, Robin Knox-Johnston, David Lewis, Wilfred Thesiger, John Blashford-Snell, Mike Jones, Maurice Herzog, John Hunt, Herbert Tichy, Walter Bonatti, Hermann Buhl, Reinhold Messner, Vivian Fuchs, Edmund Hillary, Wally Herbert, Naomie Uemura, Max Anderson, Ben Abruzzo, Larry Newman, Neil Armstrong, Geoff Yeadon, Oliver Statham
- Contents
- Introduction
- Oceans:
- 1) Kon-tiki
- 2) Rowing the Atlantic
- 3) Across Two Oceans
- 4) The Man Who Raced Himself
- 5) Golden Globe
- 6) Ice Bird
- Deserts:
- 7) The Empty Quarter
- Rivers:
- 8) The Blue Nile
- Mountains:
- 9) Annapurna, the First 1800
- 10) The Challenge of Everest
- 11) Cho Oyu
- 12) The Bonatti Pillar
- 13) Board Peak
- 14) Annapurna, South Face
- 15) Diamir - Messner on Nanga Parbat
- The Poles:
- 16) The Crossing of Antarctica
- 17) The Last Great Polar Journey
- 18) Solo to the Pole
- Air:
- 19) Double Eagle
- Space:
- 20) First on the Moon
- Beneath the Earth:
- 21) Dead Man's Handshake
- Facets of Adventure
- A Chronology of Adventure since 1945
- Glossary
- Select Bibliography
- Picture Credits
- Index
- Notes
- Addressed to Hans Gmoser from Philippe Delesalle - dated 1983
- ISBN
- 0517546965
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- 02.1 B64q
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Lake Louise : a diamond in the wilderness
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1982
- Author
- Whyte, Jon
- Publisher
- Banff : Altitude
- Call Number
- 08.3 L14w
- Author
- Whyte, Jon
- Responsibility
- text by Jon Whyte
- photographs compiled and edited by Carole Harmon
- Publisher
- Banff : Altitude
- Published Date
- 1982
- Physical Description
- 128p. : ill., ports., facsim
- Subjects
- Chateau Lake Louise
- Mountaineering
- ISBN
- 0-919381-06-5
- Accession Number
- 3544
- 16000
- 7504
- Call Number
- 08.3 L14w
- Collection
- Archives Library
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The Great Glacier and its house : the story of the first center of alpinism in North America, 1885-1925
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- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1982
- Author
- Putnam, William Lowell
- Publisher
- New York : American Alpine Club
- Call Number
- 01.4 P98t reference
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- Author
- Putnam, William Lowell
- Responsibility
- Willaim Lowell Putnam
- Publisher
- New York : American Alpine Club
- Published Date
- 1982
- Physical Description
- 23 pages : illustrations, portraits, map
- Subjects
- Glacier House
- Illecillewaet Glacier
- Selkirk Mountains
- Railway routes
- Railway stations
- Railways
- Tourism
- Mountaineering
- American Alpine Club
- History
- Abstract
- he hotel is gone and the passenger trains, now rarely on time, go by only once daily. The Great Glacier has all but vanished. The motor traffic on the fast, modern highway sweeps past in ignorance that this deep, half-forgotten, Illecillewaet valley of the Selkirk Mountains, with its dark forests and glittering summits, was the cradle of professional North American mountaineering and, for several decades, the principal Canadian attraction for climbers from three continents. Surely the time has long since passed for someone to tell the story of the early days when geologists, scientists, alpinists, guides, tourists and more than a few of our continent’s empire builders stopped in Glacier, British Columbia to explore, study, climb, earn a modest living, admire the scenery or just rest from their labors. It is most appropriate that William L. Putnam, one of America’s outstanding experts on the Selkirks, should have undertaken the task of writing a history of the area. It is even more appropriate that this history should have been published by The American Alpine Club, whose first president, Professor Charles E. Fay, spent many sunny days over several seasons scaling the region’s unclimbed summits and, as we learn from the text, many rainy weeks in the Old Glacier House where at idle moments he amused himself by analyzing the comments in the hotel’s guest register. The author has labored hard and gone to great lengths to obtain original source material and to check facts. As might be expected, his story begins with the construction of the Canadian Pacific track through Roger’s Pass; without it, the central Selkirks and the outstanding Matterhorn-like crest of Mount Sir Donald would no doubt still be little known and less visited. The absence of dining cars on the early transcontinental express trains, plus the superb view of what was then the awesome Illecillewaet Glacier, led to the building of a small restaurant-hotel by the track some five miles west of the pass. In time that hotel grew to become the Canadian Pacific’s western show-piece. Tourists, scientists, mountaineers and guides arrived in growing numbers. The peaks were measured and climbed, trails were built, caves explored and an electric generator was constructed to light the premises. A pet bear was even provided on the grounds for the entertainment of guests. Then, slowly, the Great Glacier retreated, the railroad was modernized and rerouted through a five-mile tunnel some distance from the hotel, tourists and climbers alike went off to war on the battlefields of France, and the Canadian Pacific shifted its emphasis to its latter-day attraction at Lake Louise in the nearby Rockies. The old hotel was closed, then torn down, and the valley and its glacier almost forgotten. Such is the skeleton of Putnam’s story. But it is far more. Putnam has labored industriously. He has unearthed, and quoted at length, the original on-the-spot observations of the early visitors in the decades between 1890 and 1920. He has recovered ancient photographs, many excellent, to illustrate the stories and anecdotes he recounts. Thanks to his labor of love, those of us who are familiar only with modern mountaineering now have the opportunity to learn what climbing was like in the good old days around the turn of the century. Despite its deceptive scrapbook style, the work is scholarly. It is also highly nostalgic. The author is at his best with the history of the early climbing. One wishes he had personally said more and quoted less—but, then, many of the quotations are memorable. He might also have omitted, or at least modified, the chapter on distant Mount Sir Sandford, for its story, while essential in any broad account of Selkirk climbing, belongs elsewhere and shifts the focus away from the House and the Glacier at the very moment when the reader has become engrossed in both. But these, however, are minor flaws, overshadowed by good research, an entertaining style, excellent history and magnificent illustrations. Samuel H. Goodhue (from American Alpine Club)
- Contents
- Introduction
- The Railroad Track
- The House
- The Tourists
- First Climbers
- Men of Science
- Alpina Americana
- Britannic Majesty
- Canadians at Last
- Some of the Best
- The Last Big Mountain
- The Rest is Silence
- Appendices
- A: The Guides
- B: Place Names in the Central Selkirks
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes
- Signed by author - addressed to Hans Gmoser
- ISBN
- 0930410130
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- 01.4 P98t reference
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Link to book review on American Alpine Club website
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Mt. Michener - negatives
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- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 19 strips of 35mm colour film containing 78 photographs. Includes Roland Michener being led by Lloyd "Kiwi" Gallagher and accompanied by Bruno Engler as they summit the mountain named after Michener in the spring of 1982.
- Date Range
- 1982
- Reference Code
- V190 / VI / M / vii / NA - 01 to NA - 19
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Film
- Negative
- Part Of
- Bruno Engler fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M323 / S40 / V190
- Series
- VI : Retained file, M : Alphabetical order
- Sous-Fonds
- V190
- Sub-Series
- vii : Mt. Michener
- Accession Number
- 7436
- Reference Code
- V190 / VI / M / vii / NA - 01 to NA - 19
- Date Range
- 1982
- Physical Description
- 78 photographs : col. negatives ; 35 mm
- History / Biographical
- See fonds level description
- Scope & Content
- File pertains to 19 strips of 35mm colour film containing 78 photographs. Includes Roland Michener being led by Lloyd "Kiwi" Gallagher and accompanied by Bruno Engler as they summit the mountain named after Michener in the spring of 1982.
- Name Access
- Gallagher, Lloyd (Kiwi)
- Engler, Bruno
- Michener, Roland
- Subject Access
- Climbing
- Helicopters
- Mountaineers
- Mountaineering
- Mountains
- Portrait
- Geographic Access
- Alberta
- Language
- English
- Related Material
- V190 / VI / M / vii / PA - 01 to PA - 85
- Creator
- Engler, Bruno
- Title Source
- Original title kept
- Processing Status
- Processed
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Mount Deltaform Summit Note
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- Part Of
- Alpine Club of Canada fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of a summit record from Mount Deltaform produced by the Alpine Club of Canada in 1983. Summit note by Hans Fuhrer and David Wilkinson depicting their route to the summit.
- Date Range
- 1983
- Reference Code
- M200 / V / A / 193
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Organization record
- Part Of
- Alpine Club of Canada fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M200
- V14
- S6
- Series
- M200 / V: Summit Records
- Sous-Fonds
- M200
- Sub-Series
- M200 / V / A: Identified Summit Records
- Accession Number
- accn. 8119
- Reference Code
- M200 / V / A / 193
- Responsibility
- Summit Registers and Notes produced by Alpine Club of Canada
- Date Range
- 1983
- Physical Description
- 0.5 cm of textual record 1 summit note
- History / Biographical
- Mount Deltaform is located in the Valley of the Ten Peaks, along the Continental Divide/Great Divide of the Canadian Rockies. Mount Deltaform is also on the border of Kootenay National Park, BC and Banff National Park, AB. Nearby are Hungabee Mountain, Mount Tuzo, and Mount Whymper.
- Scope & Content
- File consists of a summit record from Mount Deltaform produced by the Alpine Club of Canada in 1983. Summit note by Hans Fuhrer and David Wilkinson depicting their route to the summit.
- Name Access
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Subject Access
- Alberta
- Banff National Park
- British Columbia
- Climbing
- Description and travel
- Environment
- Environment and Nature
- Great Divide
- Hiking
- Mountain
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers
- Mountains
- National parks and reserves
- Record keeping
- Sports and leisure
- Sports and recreation
- Summit
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Rocky Mountains
- Continental Divide
- Great Divide
- Alberta
- British Columbia
- Banff National Park
- Kootenay National Park
- Valley of the Ten Peaks
- Hungabee Mountain
- Mount Whymper
- Mount Tuzo
- Mount Deltaform
- Access Restrictions
- Restrictions may apply
- Language
- English
- Related Material
- M235
- Biographical Source Notes
- Peak Finder: Deltaform Mountain, Canadian Rockies Database: https://cdnrockiesdatabases.ca/peaks/365
- Title Source
- Original title
- Processing Status
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Mt. Wheeler 1984
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- Part Of
- Alpine Club of Canada fonds
- Scope & Content
- File consists of a summit record from Mount Wheeler produced by the Alpine Club of Canada in 1984. Summit record includes entries from visitors to the various summits which pertain to individuals' hiking and climbing trips; details of specific events which occurred while at the summit, wildlife sig…
- Date Range
- 1984
- Reference Code
- M200 / V / A / 181
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- GMD
- Textual record
- Organization record
- Part Of
- Alpine Club of Canada fonds
- Description Level
- 5 / File
- Fonds Number
- M200
- V14
- S6
- Series
- M200 / V: Summit Records
- Sous-Fonds
- M200
- Sub-Series
- M200 / V / A: Identified Summit Records
- Accession Number
- accn. 2023.20
- Reference Code
- M200 / V / A / 181
- Responsibility
- Summit Registers and Notes produced by Alpine Club of Canada
- Date Range
- 1984
- Physical Description
- 1 volume 0.5 cm of textual record
- History / Biographical
- Mount Wheeler is located in Glacier National Park, British Columbia. Arthur Wheeler made the first ascent of the mountain in 1902; the mountain was named in his honour.
- Scope & Content
- File consists of a summit record from Mount Wheeler produced by the Alpine Club of Canada in 1984. Summit record includes entries from visitors to the various summits which pertain to individuals' hiking and climbing trips; details of specific events which occurred while at the summit, wildlife sightings, trail updates, and related topics. File: M200 / V / A / 181: Mt. Wheeler 1984
- Name Access
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Subject Access
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Backpacking
- British Columbia
- Climbing
- Club
- Description and travel
- Environment
- Environment and Nature
- Hiking
- Mountain
- Mountaineering
- Mountaineers
- Mountains
- National parks and reserves
- Record keeping
- Sports and leisure
- Sports and recreation
- Summit
- Geographic Access
- Canada
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Rocky Mountains
- British Columbia
- Selkirks
- Glacier National Park
- Revelstoke
- Golden
- Golden, BC
- Mount Selwyn
- Deville Glacier
- Black Glacier
- Thor Glacier
- Mount Wheeler
- Access Restrictions
- Restrictions may apply
- Language
- English
- Conservation
- Register placed in mylar due to water damage and mold.
- Related Material
- M235
- Title Source
- Original title
- Processing Status
- Processed
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