Sharing the rope
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- Author
- Martel, Lynn
- Responsibility
- by Lynn Martel
- Physical Description
- p.1-2 : ill
- Medium
- Library - Periodical
- Subjects
- Alpine Club of Canada
- Canadian Pacific Railway
- Kain, Conrad
- Robson, Mount
- Wheeler, Arthur Oliver
- Notes
- In ACMG (Association of Canadian Mountain Guides) News; vol.25, Summer 2006
- Reprinted with permission from the ACC Gazette
- "Everyone knew in 1906 that mountaineering was dangerous. One of the primary goals of the Alpin Club of Canada was to accelerate the development of local climbing skills so that Canadians could become competent at traveling on their own mountains. Through annual mountaineerin camps, the Alpin club created the first courses in mountaincraft in the country and in so doing established a century-long relationship with professional mountain guides
- Photograph courtesy of the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies
- Call Number
- P - General
- Collection
- Archives Library
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