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The magician's glass : character and fate : eight essays on climbing and the mountain life
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue19918
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- 2017
- Author
- Douglas, Ed
- Publisher
- Sheffield, England : Vertbrate Publishing
- Call Number
- G510 D68 M34
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- Author
- Douglas, Ed
- Responsibility
- Ed Douglas
- Publisher
- Sheffield, England : Vertbrate Publishing
- Published Date
- 2017
- Physical Description
- 192 p .
- Subjects
- Essays
- Mountaineering
- Rock climbing
- Abstract
- The Magician’s Glass by award-winning writer Ed Douglas is a collection of eight recent essays on some of the biggest stories and best-known personalities in the world of climbing. In the title essay, he writes about failure on Annapurna III in 1981, one of the boldest attempts in Himalayan mountaineering on one of the most beautiful lines – a line that remains unclimbed to this day. Douglas writes about bitter controversies, like that surrounding Ueli Steck’s disputed solo ascent of the south face of Annapurna, the fate of Toni Egger on Cerro Torre in 1959 – when Cesare Maestri claimed the pair had made the first ascent, and the rise and fall of Slovenian ace Tomaz Humar. There are profiles of two stars of the 1980s: the much-loved German Kurt Albert, the father of the ‘redpoint’, and the enigmatic rock star Patrick Edlinger, a national hero in his native France who lost his way. In Crazy Wisdom, Douglas offers fresh perspectives on the impact mountaineering has on local communities and the role climbers play in the developing world. The final essay explores the relationship between art and alpinism as a way of understanding why it is that people climb mountains. (from publisher's website)
- Contents
- Foreward by Katie Ives
- The magician's glass
- Stealing Toni Egger
- Searching for Tomaz Humar
- Bit guts
- Crazy wisdom
- What's eating Ueli Steck?
- Lone wolf
- Lines of beauty : the art of climbing
- Acknowledgements
- ISBN
- 9781911342489
- Accession Number
- AC635
- Call Number
- G510 D68 M34
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
- URL Notes
- Publisher's website
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Tenzing : hero of Everest, a biography of Tenzing Norgay
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue15237
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- c2003
- Author
- Douglas, Ed
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : National Geographic
- Call Number
- 01.1 D74t
- Author
- Douglas, Ed
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : National Geographic
- Published Date
- c2003
- Physical Description
- xix, 299 p. : ill. (some col.), maps
- Subjects
- Everest, Mount
- Mountaineering
- Biography
- Sherpa
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- ISBN
- 0792269837
- Accession Number
- 2016.8602
- Call Number
- 01.1 D74t
- Collection
- Archives Library
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Tenzing : hero of Everest, a biography of Tenzing Norgay
https://archives.whyte.org/en/permalink/catalogue12218
- Medium
- Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)
- Published Date
- c2003
- Author
- Douglas, Ed
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : National Geographic
- Call Number
- DS486 E8 D68t
- Author
- Douglas, Ed
- Publisher
- Washington, D.C. : National Geographic
- Published Date
- c2003
- Physical Description
- xix, 299 p. : ill. (some col.), maps
- Subjects
- Everest, Mount
- Mountaineering
- Biography
- Sherpa
- Notes
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- ISBN
- 0792269837
- Accession Number
- AC611 copy 2 transferred to ARC
- Call Number
- DS486 E8 D68t
- Collection
- Alpine Club of Canada Library
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