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A life in the wild : the story of mountain explorer John Baldwin
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25238
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Publisher
- Canmore, Alberta : The Alpine Club of Canada
- Edition
- Summit Series 2019
- Call Number
- 01.4 Sc3a
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- Author
- Scott, Chic
- Responsibility
- Chic Scott
- Edition
- Summit Series 2019
- Publisher
- Canmore, Alberta : The Alpine Club of Canada
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- 43 pages : illustrations
- Subjects
- Skiing
- Mountaineering
- Travel
- Biography
- Abstract
- Known affectionately to his friends as the King of the Coast Range, John Baldwin has spent his life in a quest to experience the west coast wilderness. Since his teenage years he has explored the rugged Coast Mountain Range, climbing 700 peaks, many of them first ascents, and making perhaps one hundred multi-week, long-distance forays across the icefields and along the ridges of what is one of the last true wilderness areas on earth. Shunning the easy path, John has forged his own way through some of the toughest geography on the planet. He is a mountaineer and explorer of the first order (from Alpine Club of Canada)
- Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One - an idyllic childhood
- Chapter Two - the Varsity Outdoor Club
- Chapter Three - a world of snow and ice
- Chapter Four - adventures with John Clark
- Chapter Five - the mountains of the coast
- Chapter Six - soul of wilderness
- Chapter Seven - a life dedicated to mountains
- ISBN
- 9780920330777
- Accession Number
- 2021.08
- Call Number
- 01.4 Sc3a
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Available to order via Alpine Club of Canada
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Rising : becoming the first Canadian woman to summit Everest : a memoir
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25250
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2019
- Author
- Wood, Sharon
- Publisher
- Madeira Park, BC : Douglas & MacIntyre
- Edition
- 1st
- Call Number
- 01.1 W85r
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- Author
- Wood, Sharon
- Edition
- 1st
- Publisher
- Madeira Park, BC : Douglas & MacIntyre
- Published Date
- 2019
- Physical Description
- xi, 228 pages : colour illustrations
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Biography
- Women
- Everest, Mount
- Abstract
- In 1986, as part of a Canadian team, Sharon Wood became the first woman from the Americas to summit Mount Everest—and the first woman in the world to do so via the West Ridge from Tibet and without Sherpa support. But it’s how she got there that is truly compelling. In Rising, the personal motivation that drove Wood to reach further and further heights are detailed through the years leading up to the career-defining climb. Often the only woman on expeditions, Wood was an outlier in a predominantly male bastion of high altitude alpine climbing. Against the backdrop of the stunning Himalayan mountains in the days before Everest became as commercialized as it is today, Wood explores the camaraderie and rivalry, the relatable challenges of falling in and out of love, and how she kept her drive to persevere. Subsequently, she recounts how she struggled with unexpected acclaim and expectations following her ascent of Everest, but ultimately found fulfilment and her place in the world. As she tells her story today, her perspective is steeped in six decades of life experience rich with adrenalin, change, reflection and humility. It is a tale that still feels poignantly relevant—a testament to the strength of the human spirit to overcome all obstacles, whether mountain peaks, social expectations or self-imposed barriers. (from Douglas & McIntyre website)
- Contents
- Preface -- Part 1. 1. The promise -- 2. Neighbours -- 3. Friends, nomads and spirits -- 4. Rescue -- 5. Weight -- 6. The power of story -- 7. Redemption -- 8. One hundred trips -- 9. Proving grounds -- 10. Mentors and muses -- 11. Shit, grin and yin -- 12. Ya gotta want it -- 13. Small plans -- 14. The meeting -- 15. Glory or death -- 16. Commitment -- 17. Summit day -- Part 2. 18. Into the dark -- 19. Coming down -- 20. Lost -- 21. On stage, off stage -- 22. Reunion.
- Notes
- Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival 2019 finalist for Mountain Literature (non-fiction)
- ISBN
- 9781771622257
- Accession Number
- P2020.07
- Call Number
- 01.1 W85r
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Summary on Douglas & McIntyre website
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No map could show them
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue25489
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2016
- Author
- Mort, Helen
- Publisher
- London : Chatto & Windus
- Call Number
- 05.1 M84n
- Author
- Mort, Helen
- Publisher
- London : Chatto & Windus
- Published Date
- 2016
- Physical Description
- 70 pages ; 22 cm
- Abstract
- A Poetry Book Society Recommendation 2016. 'When we climb alone en cordee feminine, we are magicians of the Alps - we make the routes we follow disappear'. The poems of Helen Mort's second collection offer an unforgettable perspective on the heights we scale and the distances we run, the routes we follow and the paths we make for ourselves. Here are odes to the women who dared to break new ground - from Miss Jemima Morrell, a young Victorian woman from Yorkshire who hiked the Swiss Peaks in her skirts and petticoats, to the modern British mountaineer Alison Hargreaves, who died descending from the summit of K2. Distinctive and courageous, these are poems of passion and precipices, of edges and extremes. No Map Could Show Them confirms Helen Mort's position as one of the finest young poets at work today.
- Contents
- An Easy Day for a Lady ; How to Dress ; Miss Jemima's Swiss Journal ; Ode to Bob ; Height ; The Fear ; Scale ; Beryl the Peril ; My Diet ; Difficult ; The Old Dungeon Ghyll ; Hill ; Black Rocks ; Descent ; Prayer ; Kiss ; Solo ; Nordwand ; Home ; At Night ; Above Cromford ; Route ; Dear Alison ; Engineer ; Lethal Roy ; Bloodhound ; Skirt ; Rachel in Attercliffe ; King's Cross ; Ink ; What Will Happen ; Ablation ; Hathersage ; Kalymnos ; Loutro ; Alport Castles ; Eagle Owl ; Royal Mile ; Kinder Scout ; Murmuration ; Big Lil ; Lil's dream ; What the papers said ; Lil's answer ; Lil's last word ; Tom Hulatt's Mile ; Heinrich Harrer's Motorbike ; How Much Can You Carry? ; Everest ; Oxygen ; Beck Weathers ; Sherpa ; Lene Gamelgaard ; First ; Rope
- ISBN
- 9781784740641
- Accession Number
- P2022.01
- Call Number
- 05.1 M84n
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Ecology & wonder in the Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks World Heritage Site
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue13921
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2010
- Author
- Sandford, Robert William
- Publisher
- Edmonton : AU Press
- Call Number
- 13.115 Sa5e c.1
- 13.115 Sa5e c.2
- Author
- Sandford, Robert William
- Responsibility
- Robert Wiliam Sandford
- Publisher
- Edmonton : AU Press
- Published Date
- 2010
- Physical Description
- xxvi, 352 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), maps, ports
- Subjects
- First Nations - (SEE ALSO Indians)
- Geology
- Mountaineering
- Arts
- Tourism
- Bears
- Environmental conservation
- Notes
- A copy is missing as of Aug 14/2017 (kh)
- ISBN
- 9781897425572
- Accession Number
- 60,000 2010-12-17
- Call Number
- 13.115 Sa5e c.1
- 13.115 Sa5e c.2
- Location
- Reading Room
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Raising Kain : "the adventurous life of Conrad Kain, Canada's greatest mountaineer" : a historical novel
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14012
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Powell, Keith G.
- Publisher
- Cranbrook, B.C. : Wild Horse Creek Press
- Call Number
- 05.2 P87r c.1
- 05.2 P87r c.2
- Author
- Powell, Keith G.
- Responsibility
- Keith G. Powell
- Publisher
- Cranbrook, B.C. : Wild Horse Creek Press
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- 238 p. : ill.
- Notes
- Copy 2 is signed by the author
- ISBN
- 9780981214627
- Accession Number
- 70,500
- 13-01-15
- Call Number
- 05.2 P87r c.1
- 05.2 P87r c.2
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- Archives Library
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Above the bush : A century of climbing on Vancouver Island 1912-2012
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14015
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2012
- Author
- Elms, Lindsay
- Publisher
- Comox, B.C. : Misthorn Press
- Call Number
- 01.4 El6a
- Author
- Elms, Lindsay
- Responsibility
- Lindsay Elms
- Publisher
- Comox, B.C. : Misthorn Press
- Published Date
- 2012
- Physical Description
- ii, 165 p. : ill., maps, ports.
- Notes
- Centennial book for Vancouver Island section of ACC
- ISBN
- 978-0-9680159-1-9
- Accession Number
- 8172
- Call Number
- 01.4 El6a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Hans Gmoser film collection
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14417
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Publisher
- Banff, Alberta, Canada : Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies ; Canmore, Alberta : Sky Light Pictures
- Call Number
- 01.5 H3 DVD
- 01.5 H3 DVD c.2
- Responsibility
- producer, script writer Hans Gmoser ; executive producers Marge Saul, Chic Scott ; producer, editor, director Will Schmidt; Hans Gmoser original scripts narrated by Michael Hintringer
- Publisher
- Banff, Alberta, Canada : Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies ; Canmore, Alberta : Sky Light Pictures
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- 10 digital video discs : sound, colour ; 12 cm + 1 booklet
- Subjects
- Film making
- Films
- Gmoser, Hans
- Helicopter Skiing
- McKinley, Mount
- Mountaineering
- Robson, Mount
- Wiegele, Mike
- Abstract
- During the 1950s and 60s the late Hans Gmoser produced ten feature length films of ski touring, rock climbing and mountaineering adventures—capturing the alpine magic of the era. Hans Gmoser was one of the greatest mountain filmmakers in North America. Hans Gmoser donated his films to the Whyte Museum Archives in the 1990s. Hans Gmoser passed away in 2006, and in 2009 the Hans Gmoser Film Project was initiated when Chic Scott and Marg Saul, a Calgary Mountaineer, decided to pull the films from the Archives of the Whyte Museum and revive them. This project came with a number of significant challenges. Firstly, the films had to be digitized and then have music and narration added to them. One of the greatest concerns was to make sure these new editions were inline with the original films. Will Schmidt of Sky Light Productions was hired. Hans had originally given live narrations with the films during the original screenings, so his nephew Michael Hintringer, was used to narrate, using Hans' original scripts. Thanks to the tireless work of Chic Scott, Marg Saul, Will Schmidt and multiple donors the Hans Gmoser Film Preservation Project was completed in 2014. The set not only contains the ten films but also new interviews by Chic Scott with some of the stars of the films.
- Notes
- Disc 1 (75 min.): With skis and rope (1957-1958) ; contains interviews with Renate Belczyk and Leo Grillmair
- Disc 2 (82 min.): Vegabonds of the mountains (1959-1960) ; contains interviews with Renate Belczyk, Karl Ricker, Philippe Deledalle, and Leo Grillmair
- Disc 3 (62 min.): Of skiers and mountains (1961-1962) ;contains interviews with Jim Davies, Philippe Delesalle, and Jim McConkey
- Disc 4 (56 min.): Deep powder and steep rock (1961-1962) ; contains interviews with Franz Dopf, Scott Henderson, and Jim McConkey
- Disc 5 (58 min.): To the forbidden snowfields ; contains interviews with Jim Davies, Jim McConkey, and Mike Wiegele
- Disc 6 (88 min.): Skis over McKinley (1963-1964) ; contains interviews with Linda Crutchfield and Gunti Prinz
- Disc 7 (75 min.): Adventure bound (1964-1965) ; contains interviews with Linda Crutchfield, Lilo Fuhrer, Leo Grillmair, and Scott Henderson
- Disc 8 (82 min.): Roving skiers (1965-1966) ;contains interviews with Jim Davies, Margaret Gmoser, Leo Grillmair, Scott Henderson, and Jim McConkey
- Disc 9 (73 min.): High road to skiing (1966-1967) ;contains interviews with Jim Davies, Lloyd Gallagher, Margaret Gmoser, and Scott Henderson
- Disc 10 (67 min.): Rendezvous in the Selkirks (1967-1968) ;contains interviews with Linda Crutchfield, Lloyd Gallagher, Scott Henderson, and Jim McConkey
- Summary: Hans Gmoser was one of the greatest mountain filmmakers in North America. During the 1950s and 60s he produced 10 feature length films of ski touring, rock climbing and mountaineering adventures, capturing the alpine magic of the era. Now, after 50 years, it is once again possible to view these historic films, complete with classical music soundtrack and narration.
- ISBN
- 9780920608593
- Call Number
- 01.5 H3 DVD
- 01.5 H3 DVD c.2
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- Archives Library
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Conrad Kain : letters from a wandering mountain guide, 1906-1933
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14535
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Kain, Conrad
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press
- Call Number
- 01 K12c
- 01 K12c c.2
- 01 K12c c.3
- Author
- Kain, Conrad
- Responsibility
- edited with an introduction by Zac Robinson ; translated by Maria and John Koch
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- 468 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
- Subjects
- Alberta-British Columbia Boundary Commission
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Biography
- Kain, Conrad
- Malek, Amelie
- Mountaineering
- Mountain guides
- Pistor, Dr. Erich
- Wheeler, Arthur Oliver
- Notes
- Partial contents: Foreword : Conrad Kain, guide and mountaineer / Chic Scott; Epilogue: The Kain-Malek correspondence: provenance, 1934-2005 / Don Bourdon
- ISBN
- 9781772120042
- Accession Number
- 2015-8404
- P2015.06.30
- P2015-06-30
- Call Number
- 01 K12c
- 01 K12c c.2
- 01 K12c c.3
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- Archives Library
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Climber's paradise : making Canada's mountain parks, 1906-1974
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14538
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2014
- Author
- Reichwein, PearlAnn
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press
- Call Number
- 08.3 R27c
- Author
- Reichwein, PearlAnn
- Responsibility
- PearlAnn Reichwein
- Publisher
- Edmonton, Alberta, Canada : The University of Alberta Press
- Published Date
- 2014
- Physical Description
- 402 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 26 cm
- Series
- Mountain cairns
- Subjects
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Mountaineering
- National parks
- Recreation
- Rocky Mountains, Canada
- Sport climbing
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- ISBN
- 9780888646743
- Accession Number
- 2015-8405
- Call Number
- 08.3 R27c
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Short peaks : 33 brief mountain tales
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue14541
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2013
- Author
- Auld, Jerry
- Publisher
- Canmore, Alberta : Imaginary Mountain Surveyors
- Call Number
- 05.2 Au5s
- Author
- Auld, Jerry
- Responsibility
- by Jerry Auld
- Publisher
- Canmore, Alberta : Imaginary Mountain Surveyors
- Published Date
- 2013
- Physical Description
- 280 pages ; 21 cm
- Notes
- Contains: The Agony -- Brewer's buttress pointillism -- Entropy -- Walking stick on spiral road -- Mirror Lake
- ISBN
- 9780991807604
- Accession Number
- P2015-03-31
- Call Number
- 05.2 Au5s
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