topic:"mountaineering" found 32 records - Research Collections

1990 Everest Environmental Expedition : post-expedition report

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

Published Date: 1990

Author: Everest Environmental Expedition

Publisher: Colorado Springs : Everest Environmental Expedition

Call Number: DS486 E8 E5

Author: Everest Environmental Expedition

Publisher: Colorado Springs : Everest Environmental Expedition

Published Date: 1990

Physical Description: 64 p. : ill., maps

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

Subjects: Garbage; Mountaineering; Pollution

Notes: Bob McConnell and Liz Nichol, Expedition Co-Leaders

Call Number: DS486 E8 E5

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Alpine huts in the Rockies, Selkirks and Purcells...

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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

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

Subjects: Architecture; Cabins; Cabins and shelters; Huts; Mountaineering; History

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

Collection: Archives Library

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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

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

Subjects: Mountaineering; Fiction; Art

ISBN: 0-87156-240-5

Call Number: G510 A83 1980

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Ascent of dog : working dogs in the West

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

Published Date: 1998

Author: Bush, Wendy

Publisher: Calgary : Detselig Enterprises

Call Number: 08.2 B96

Author: Bush, Wendy

Publisher: Calgary : Detselig Enterprises

Published Date: 1998

Physical Description: 192 p. : ill. (some col.), map

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

Subjects: Dogsledding; Indians; Film making; Mountaineering; Postal services; Schaffer, Mary; Search and rescue; Thompson David

Notes: Includes bibliographic references and index; Signed by author and dog Bart Muldoon; Tipped in photograph of author and Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies' librarian Mary Andrews

ISBN: 1-55059-174-6

Accession Number: 7144

Call Number: 08.2 B96

Collection: Archives Library

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Beyond Nootka : a historical perspective of Vancouver Island mountains

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

Published Date: 1996

Author: Elms, Lindsay J

Publisher: Courtenay (B.C.) : Misthorn Press

Call Number: 01.4 E6b

Author: Elms, Lindsay J

Responsibility: by Lindsay J. Elms; introduction by Sandy Briggs

Publisher: Courtenay (B.C.) : Misthorn Press

Published Date: 1996

Physical Description: 128p. : ill. (some col.), ports., maps (1 col.)

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

Subjects: British Columbia; Mountaineering; Vancouver Island

Notes: Bibliography : p.123; Includes index

ISBN: 0-9680159-0-5

Accession Number: 2016.8602

Call Number: 01.4 E6b

Collection: Archives Library

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The Bugaboos : an alpine history

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

Published Date: 1987

Author: Garden, J. F.

Publisher: Revelstoke : Footprint Publishing

Call Number: F1089 B8 G3 reference

Author: Garden, J. F.

Responsibility: J.F. Garden (author); Fred Becky (introduction)

Publisher: Revelstoke : Footprint Publishing

Published Date: 1987

Physical Description: 156 pages : illustrations (some color)

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

Subjects: Bugaboos; Mountaineering; History; Kain, Conrad; Wheeler, Arthur Oliver; Harmon, Byron; Rock climbing

Contents: Pt. 1. Conrad Kain -- 1. The Nunataks -- 2. A veritable Bugaboo -- 3. The outfitter -- Pt. II. The hard men -- 4. A Bugaboo no longer -- 5. The last Bugaboo -- 6. Fred Beckey arrives -- 7. High angle climbing -- 8. An exceptional summer, 1959 -- 9. Cooper's east faces -- 10. Patagonia -- 11. Beckey returns -- 12. Traverse -- Pt. III. New standards -- 13. Old and new faces -- 14. Pushing the limits -- 15. What's next? -- Winter ascent: south Howser Tower -- 17. Granite.

Notes: Includes photographs by Glen Boles, Ed Cooper, Scott Flavelle, J.F. Garden, Byron Harmon (Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies Archives & Library), Daryl Hatten, Roger W. Laurilla, James B. Maitre, Rob Rohn, John Simpson, Uldis Veideman, Jim Weston; Signed by author - addressed to Margaret and Hans Gmoser