topic:"snow" found 19 records - Research Collections - Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies

The high Alps : a natural history of ice and snow

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

Published Date: 1931

Author: Tutton, A. E. H.

Publisher: London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.

Edition: 2nd edition

Call Number: 03 T89t

Author: Tutton, A. E. H.

Edition: 2nd edition

Publisher: London : Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd.

Published Date: 1931

Physical Description: 317 pages

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

Subjects: Water; Ice; Snow; Science; Expeditions; Alps

Contents: PART I -- I. Introduction -- II. The evolution of our knowledge of water and ice -- III. The physical relationships of water and ice -- IV. The crystal structure of ice and snow -- V. Optical, thermal, and electrical properties of ice -- VI. Plasticity, viscosity, and elasticity of ice -- VII. Artificial ice production, river and ground ice, arctic and antarctic ice -- PART II -- VIII. The Alps, the ice and snow mountains of central Europe and their call -- IX. Nature and geological character of the Alps -- X. Situations of the ranges, peaks, and glaciers of the Alps -- XI. Snow-caps and glaciers and their movements -- XII. Crevasses, bergschrunds, and seracs ; dirt-bands and veins ; moraines and glacier lakes -- XIII. How the great summits have been conquered -- PART III -- XIV. Expeditions in the Bernese Oberland -- XV. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps, Monte Rosa -- Matterhorn section -- XVI. Expeditions in the Pennine Alps. Zinai, ferpecle and arolla section -- XVII. Expeditions in the chain of Mont Blanc -- XVIII. The ascent of Mont Blanc. Scientific work on the mountain -- XIX. Expeditions in the Graian and Dauphine Alps -- XX. Expeditions in the Bernina Alps and ortler group.

Accession Number: 2023.47

Call Number: 03 T89t

Collection: Archives Library

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Mountaineering : essays on safety and technique

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

Published Date: 1959

Author: Fisher, David R

Publisher: Chicago : s.n

Call Number: G510 A1 F581

Author: Fisher, David R

Publisher: Chicago : s.n

Published Date: 1959

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

Subjects: Snow

Call Number: G510 A1 F581

Collection: Alpine Club of Canada Library

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Mountaineering : the freedom of the hills

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

Published Date: 1960

Author: The Mountaineers, Seattle

Publisher: Seattle : The Mountaineers

Edition: 1st ed.

Call Number: 01 M86 1963

Author: The Mountaineers, Seattle

Responsibility: planned by the Climbing Committee of the Mountaineers; Harvey Manning, chairman of editors; editorial committee: John R. Hazle and others; illus: Donna Balch Cook and Robert Cram

Edition: 1st ed.

Publisher: Seattle : The Mountaineers

Published Date: 1960

Physical Description: x, 430p. : ill

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

Subjects: Mountaineering; Manuals; Equipment; Camping; Travel; Rock climbing; Snow; Ice; Ice climbing; First aid; Geology

Abstract: Pertains to how to safely mountaineer with a focus on North America as per the Mountaineers Climbing Committee

Contents: Preface; Part One - Approaching the Peaks; Equipment; Camping and Sleeping; Alpine Cuisine; Wilderness Travel; Navigation in the Hills; Part Two - Rock Climbing; Routefinding on Rock; Balance; Counterforce; Roped Climbing; Belaying; Pitoncraft and Rappels; Part Three - Snow and Ice Climbing; Snow; Ice; Glaciers; Arrests and Belays; Part Four - Safe Climbing; The Climbing Party and its Leadership; Climbing Dangers; First Aid; Alpine Rescue; Part Five - The Climbing Environment; Mountain Geology; The Cycle of Snow; Mountain Weather; Appendix - Food Requirements for Climbers