Fonds consists of interviews, research notes,manuscripts, printed and digital photographs, and other materials produced and collected by Chic Scott between 1982 and 2021. Content pertains to Chic's various publications and research projects, the Canadian Himalayan Foundation, the Canadian '82 Evere…
Sound recordings: 224 audio tape cassettes, 7 audio tape reels. -- 78 CD-ROM. with digital files -- Moving images: 148 videocassettes: 133 Hi8, 15 VHS. ; 149 DVDs -- 4.2 m textual records
History / Biographical
Charles (Chic) C. Scott, b.1945, is a mountaineer, mountain guide and writer based in Banff, Alberta, Canada. Scott climbed extensively in the western Canada and the Himalayas until the mid-1970s. He guided extensively in the European Alps for five seasons, ca.1970, and worked as a climber for "The Eiger Sanction," a Hollywood movie starring Clint Eastwood. Scott resumed climbing in 1988, after a period working at the University of Calgary. His publications include "Alpinism," editor, "Ski Trails in the Canadian Rockies," "The History of the Calgary Mountain Club", "Summits and Icefields", "Pushing the Limits: the Story of Canadian Mountaineering", "Powder Pioneers : Ski Stories from the Canadian Rockies and Columbia Mountains", and "Deep Powder and Steep Rock : the Life of Mountain Guide Hans Gmoser".
Scope & Content
Fonds consists of interviews, research notes,manuscripts, printed and digital photographs, and other materials produced and collected by Chic Scott between 1982 and 2021. Content pertains to Chic's various publications and research projects, the Canadian Himalayan Foundation, the Canadian '82 Everest Expedition, and collected and personal materials. Items in fonds are arranged mostly by individual projects/areas of research.
Notes
Fonds consists of 15 series:
Series I : Pushing the Limits
Series II : Mountain Romantics
Series III : Summits and Icefields
Series IV : Powder Pioneers
Series V : Deep Powder and Steep Rock
Series VI : Ski Trails of the Canadian Rockies
Series VII : Hans Gmoser Film Collection
Series VIII : The Canadian Himalayan Foundation
Series IX : The Book of Mortimer
Series X : Tommy and Lawrence
Series XI : The Yam
Series XII :Calgary Mountain Club
Series XIII : Young at Heart
Series XIV : Chic Scott personal records
Series XV : A LIFE IN THE WILD: The Story of Mountain Explorer John Baldwin
Access to interviews limited to VHS reference compilations.
File consists of 22 sound recordings produced and/or collected by Maryalice Harvey Stewart. Content pertains to interviews conducted by Maryalice with various members of the Banff community and mountaineers. Includes several interviews with Maryalice's father, Ralph S. Harvey.
22 sound recordings : 19 cassettes, 2 film reels -- 0.2 cm textual records
Scope & Content
File consists of 22 sound recordings produced and/or collected by Maryalice Harvey Stewart. Content pertains to interviews conducted by Maryalice with various members of the Banff community and mountaineers. Includes several interviews with Maryalice's father, Ralph S. Harvey.
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Contents of recordings in file:
S13 / I / B / 15 : "Banff - June 21 /93 George Vaux + MHS"
S13 / I / B / 16 - 17 : "Joe Halstonson"
S13 / I / B / 18 : "Orville Thomas - Oct 24 /93 New Denver"
S13 / I / B / 19 - 20 : "Thomas L. Wood July 21 /78" Tape I and Tape II
S13 / I / B / 21 : "Kitty Bagley July 1976", Verda Mignon Bagley
S13 / I / B / 22 : "Ralph S. Harvey May 3 /78"
S13 / I / B / 23 : "Norman Brice - July 7 1979 MHS"
S13 / I / B / 24 : "Mt. Royal [Ranch]", Marjorie Spicer (n.d.)
S13 / I / B / 25 : "Ralp[h] Harvey Dec 1978 Harvey Locke + Sunshine [Ski Area]"
S13 / I / B / 26 : "Ralph [Harvey], May 3" [copy by Ted Hart], 1978
S13 / I / B / 27 : "Ralph S. Harvey Feb 25 /84"
S13 / I / B / 28 - 29 : "Ralph S. Harvey 1973 with MHS" Tapes I and II
S13 / I / B / 30 : "Aunt Alice Harvey Mitchell July 20 1978 at Ralphine's - Calgary" [Ralphine Locke]
S13 / I / B / 31 : "Ralph Harvey, May 1 /78" [rec. at Victoria General Hospital by E.J. Hart; childhood, Brewster Transport, motor mechanics course in Calgary]
S13 / I / B / 32 : "Geo[rge] Vaux June 21 /93 Reopening of Whyte Museum on 25th Ann[iversary]George Vaux at ribbon[?] [Ribbon Creek?] with Eleanor Luxton - talk"
S13 / I / B / 33 : "Lecture - Noel Odell" about Everest 1924 expedition (n.d.)
S13 / I / B / 34 : Test recording - Maryalice reading brief excerpt of Rockies prehistory from untitled book (n.d.), approx.10 min long; side B is blank
S13 / I / B / 35 - 36 : "Marjorie (Crosby) Dye Interviewed by Maryalice Stewart" (Nov. 27, 1981), tapes #1 and #2
File consists of two recordings produced by Maryalice Harvey Stewart for use by the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. File includes one interview of Noel Odell led by Maryalice, pertaining to the Everest 1924 expedition, World War II and other aspects of Noel's life; and one recording of a 1977…
Noel Odell (1890 - 1987) was a geologist and mountaineer. Noel was born and educated in England, and became an avid climber in the United Kingdom, joining the Alpine Club in 1916. Noel is known primarily for his involvement in the 1924 Everest expedition, during which two climbers, Andrew Irvine and George Mallory, died during their summit attempt. In 1936, Noel and fellow climber Bill Tilman summited Nanda Devi in India, which at the time was the highest completed summit in the world.
Noel served with the Royal Engineers in World War I and II, worked as a petroleum and mining consultant, and taught geology at various universities around the world.
Scope & Content
File consists of two recordings produced by Maryalice Harvey Stewart for use by the Whyte Museum of the Canadian Rockies. File includes one interview of Noel Odell led by Maryalice, pertaining to the Everest 1924 expedition, World War II and other aspects of Noel's life; and one recording of a 1977 lecture presented by Maryalice at a conference about log structures.
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Contents in file:
S13 / I / B / 13 : "Trip with Noel Odell Banff - Jasper - Edmonton Airport"
S13 / I / B / 14 : "Tuesday October 25, 1977 conference on log structures (Tour of mountain sites)"