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Adventures of an alpine guide
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue26177
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1932
- Author
- Klucker, Christian
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Edition
- 1st (English)
- Call Number
- 01.2 K71a
- Author
- Klucker, Christian
- Responsibility
- Translation by Erwin and Pleasaunce Von Gaisberg. Edited with additional chapters by H. E. G. Tyndale
- Edition
- 1st (English)
- Publisher
- London : John Murray
- Published Date
- 1932
- Physical Description
- 329 pages
- Accession Number
- 2023.47
- Call Number
- 01.2 K71a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Alpine huts in the Rockies, Selkirks and Purcells...
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20181
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1986
- Author
- Kariel, Herbert G.
- Kariel, Pat
- Publisher
- Banff : Alpine Club of Canada
- Call Number
- 06.5 K11a
- Author
- Kariel, Herbert G.
- Kariel, Pat
- Responsibility
- by Herbert G. Kariel and Patricia E. Kariel
- Publisher
- Banff : Alpine Club of Canada
- Published Date
- 1986
- Physical Description
- 183p. : ill., maps, plans, ports
- Abstract
- Pertains to alpine huts in the Rocky Mountains, Selkirk Mountains, and Purcell Mountains - includes photographs, history, and other details.
- Contents
- Prologue
- Rocky Mountains:
- Lake Louise-Yoho Area:
- Abbot Pass Hut
- Elizabeth Parker Hut
- Fay Hut
- Stanley Mitchell Hut
- Halfway/Ptarmigan Hut
- Graham Cooper Hut
- Neil Colgan Hut
- Castle Mountain Hut
- Wapta Icefield Area:
- Balfour Hut
- Peter and Catharine Whyte Hut / Petyto Hut
- Bow Hut
- Banff-Jasper National Park Boundary Areas:
- Saskatchewan Glacier Hut
- Athabasca Glacier Hut
- Lloyd MacKay / Mount Freshfield Hut
- Mount Alberta Hut
- Jasper Area:
- Pocahontas / Disaster Point Hut
- Wates-Gibson-Memorial Hut
- Ralph Forster / Mount Robson Hut
- Mount Colin Centennial Hut
- Fryatt Creek / Sydney Vallance Hut
- Lawrence Grassi / Mount Clemenceau Hut
- Shangri-La and Watchtower Cabins
- Fortress Lake Cabin
- Mount Assiniboine Area:
- Naiset Cabins
- Robin C. Hind / Mount Assiniboine Hut
- Surprise Creek Cabin
- Police Meadows Cabin
- Mitchell River Cabin
- Bryant Creek and Egypt Lake Shelters
- Other Huts in the Rockies:
- CMC Valley / Archie Simpson Hut
- Elk Lake Cabin
- Fish Lake Cabin
- Selkirk Mountains:
- Rogers Pass Area:
- Hermit Hut
- Glacier Circle Hut
- Arthur O. Wheeler Hut
- Sapphine Col Hut
- Balu Pass Hut
- Eva Lake Shelter
- Northern Selkirks:
- Fairy Meadow Hut
- Sir Sandford / Great Cairn Hut
- Kokanee Glacier Area:
- Slocan Chief Cabin
- Silver Spray Cabin
- Woodbury Glacier Cabin
- Enterprise Hut
- Valhalla Ranges:
- Mulvey Basin Hut
- Gwillim Creek Cabin
- Evans Lake Cabin
- Cove Creek Cabin
- Cahill Lake and Beatrice Lake Cabins
- Nemo Creek Cabin
- Sharp Creek Cabins
- Wee Sandy Cabins
- Wragge Creek Cabin
- Other Huts in the Selkirks:
- Echo Basin and Ripple Ridge Cabins
- Purcell Mountains:
- Bugaboo Area:
- Conrad Kain Hut
- Vowell / Mallory Igloo
- McMurdo Creek Cabin
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Index
- ISBN
- 0-920330-18-5
- Accession Number
- AC637
- Call Number
- 06.5 K11a
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- Archives Library
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The ascent of Nanda Devi
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15294
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1937
- Author
- Tilman, Harold William
- Publisher
- New York : Macmillan
- Call Number
- 01.1 T46a
- Author
- Tilman, Harold William
- Publisher
- New York : Macmillan
- Published Date
- 1937
- Physical Description
- xiii, 235 pages, illustrations
- Subjects
- Himalaya Mountains
- Mountaineering
- Nanda Devi
- Sherpa
- Accession Number
- 492
- Call Number
- 01.1 T46a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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A climber's guide to the interior ranges of British Columbia
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19830
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1937
- Author
- Thorington, J. Monroe
- Publisher
- The American Alpine Club
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Call Number
- 01.4 Th39a
- Author
- Thorington, J. Monroe
- Responsibility
- J. Monroe Thorington
- Edition
- 1st ed.
- Publisher
- The American Alpine Club
- Published Date
- 1937
- Physical Description
- 149 pages
- Abstract
- Guidebook written by J. Monroe Thorington on behalf the American Alpine Club pertaining to the interior ranges of British Columbia with focus on the Selkirk, Purcell, Caribou, and Monashee (Gold) Ranges
- Contents
- The Selkirk Range
- The Purcell Range
- The Caribou Range
- The Monashee (Gold) Range
- Notes
- Annotated by Ernest Feuz and Fred A. Feuz
- Accession Number
- 2019.43
- Call Number
- 01.4 Th39a
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- Archives Library
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A climber's guide to the Rocky Mountains of Canada
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19847
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1930
- Author
- Palmer, Howard and J. Monroe Thorington
- Publisher
- [Philadelphia] American Alpine Club
- Edition
- second edition
- Call Number
- 01.4 P18a
- Responsibility
- Howard Palmer and J. Monroe Thorington
- Edition
- second edition
- Publisher
- [Philadelphia] American Alpine Club
- Published Date
- 1930
- Physical Description
- [244] pages
- Subjects
- American Alpine Club
- Canadian Rocky Mountains
- Canadian Rockies
- Guide
- Mountain guides
- Canada
- Mountaineering
- Abstract
- Pertains to a comprehensive climbing guide based on the mountains in the Canadian Rockies. The book was likely to be considered an invaluable resource for mountaineers based on the complexity and detail of the information provided. In detail, the guide offers insight into the approximate locations, elevation gains, climbing distances/time, and additional relevant information pertaining to climbing in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.
- Contents
- Part one: international boundary to Kicking Horse pass
- Part two: Kicking Horse pass to Yellowhead pass
- Part three: Yellowhead pass to Jasper pass
- Accession Number
- 2019.48
- Call Number
- 01.4 P18a
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Edward W. D. Holway : a pioneer of the Canadian Alps
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19831
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1931
- Author
- Palmer, Howard
- Publisher
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
- Call Number
- 01.4 Pa18e
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- Author
- Palmer, Howard
- Responsibility
- Howard Palmer
- Publisher
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press
- Published Date
- 1931
- Physical Description
- 81p. : ill., port., map
- Subjects
- Mountaineering
- Canada
- Selkirk Range
- Botany
- Abstract
- Mountaineers will find in this little volume the authentic account of the ascents in the Canadian Rockies and Selkirks which made the name of E. W. D. Holway so well known to the climbing fraternity not many years ago. Readers who may never have seen a mountain will enjoy the book simply as the true tale of a remarkable man whogave up commercial pursuits to become a professor of botany and an explorer of little-known Alpine ranges. The book is composed largely of Mr. Holway’s intimate letters and diaries which tell his story with an engaging touch that continually makes light of the dangers, difficulties and hardships inseparable from pioneer work. The trials and tribulations of “backpacking” are graphically portrayed by the author. The book was designed to cover, as a part of a well-rounded biography, the mountaineering experiences of its subject. We think that the task has been well done and commend the work to the attention of readers interested in the Canadian Alps. Mr. Palmer’s book, with an introduction by the late Professor J. Arthur Harris, former head of the Department of Botany at the University of Minnesota, is enriched with illustrations of many of the peaks referred to in the text. It is very well printed and attractive in format. (From American Alpine Club)
- Contents
- Preface
- A pioneer of the Canadian Alps
- Earliest climbs
- The maturity of mountaineer
- The first expedition into the Cariboos
- Conclusion
- Supplementary letters
- List of ascents and explorations by Edward W.D. Holway
- Mountaineering papers by Edward W.D. Holway
- Notes
- Annotated by Ernest Feuz
- Accession Number
- 2019.43
- Call Number
- 01.4 Pa18e
- Collection
- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Book review as per the American Alpine Club
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The first ski ascent of Mt. Balfour
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue7740
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 1935
- Author
- Moodie, B. G
- Call Number
- 01.5 B19m Pam
- Author
- Moodie, B. G
- Published Date
- 1935
- Physical Description
- p.52-55 : ill
- Subjects
- Ski mountaineering
- Notes
- From Canadian Alpine Journal, 1934/35
- Accession Number
- 5388
- Call Number
- 01.5 B19m Pam
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- 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
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue20180
- 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
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- Archives Library
- URL Notes
- Link to book review on American Alpine Club website
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Lake Louise : a diamond in the wilderness
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue6142
- 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
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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
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