Series consists of five sound recordings pertaining to A Life in the Wild: The Story of Mountain Explorer John Baldwin. Includes interviews of John Baldwin, Helen Soudat, Ed Amann and "Steve".
A Life in the Wild is a biography of John Baldwin written by Chic Scott. The booklet is the Twenty-fifth in the Alpine Club of Canada's Summit Series which recognizes and celebrates the accomplishments of exceptional individuals who have, through their achievements as explorers, mountaineers, volunteers, outfitters and storytellers, helped define and shape Canada's unique mountain community.
"Since his teenage years John Baldwin has explored the rugged Coast Mountain Range, climbing 700 peaks, many of them first ascents, and making perhaps one-hundred multi-week, long-distance forays across the icefields and along the ridges of what is one of the last true wilderness areas on earth. Shunning the easy path and forging his own way through some of the roughest geography on the planet. He is a mountaineer and explorer of the first order."
- Chic Scott
Scope & Content
Series consists of five sound recordings pertaining to A Life in the Wild: The Story of Mountain Explorer John Baldwin. Includes interviews of John Baldwin, Helen Soudat, Ed Amann and "Steve".
File consists of 126 sound recordings containing interviews used for research and in final publication of book "Pushing the Limits". Includes 126 interviews recorded individually on cassette tapes.
This is the work of a lifetime. It tells the story of Canada’s 200 year mountaineering history from the early pioneers to modern day climbing athletes. Discover the story of Canadian climbing from the crags to the gyms, from Squamish to Val David and from the Yukon to the Rockies.
Read about the Swiss guides hired by Canadian Pacific Hotels who ushered in the glory years of the first ascents. Discover the British and American men of leisure who struggled with the wilderness to reach the summits and unravel the complex geography. Learn about the European immigrants of the 1950s who pushed the limits on the rock walls and the Americans who led the search for frightening new routes on the north faces. Join the British expatriates as they pioneer the exciting new sport of waterfall ice climbing. Then witness the popular growth in sport climbing both on the crags and in the gyms.
Finally discover how home grown Canadian climbers, initially slow to take up the challenge of mountaineering, have become world leaders in the sport.
Scope & Content
File consists of 126 sound recordings containing interviews used for research and in final publication of book "Pushing the Limits". Includes 126 interviews recorded individually on cassette tapes.
Notes
Sound recordings correspond with Hi-8 recordings V40 / I / NF - 1 to 126.
This is the story of climbing on Yamnuska, the prominent wall of yellow limestone rising above the Trans Canada Highway between Calgary and Banff. All the tales of adventure are here, from the first pioneering climbs by Hans Gmoser and his companions in the early 1950s to the new routes of today.
Over the years many of the great climbers of the Rockies have been associated with this cliff: Brian Greenwood, Don Vockeroth, Lloyd MacKay, Billy Davidson, Urs Kallen, John Lauchlan, Dave Cheesmond, Jeff Marshall, Steve DeMaio and Andy Genereux. Also included in the book is a guide to the hike up the back side trail to the summit, detailing the flora and fauna you will see along the way.
Scope & Content
Series consists of sound recordings pertaining to interviews used in the creation and publication of The Yam.
Notes
Series consists of eighteen sound recordings:
S47 / XI / 1 & 2 : Hans Fuhrer and Lilo Fuhrer
S47 / XI / 3 : Leo Gillmair
S47 / XI / 4 : Dick Howe
S47 / XI / 5 & 6 : John Martin
S47 / XI / 7 & 8 : Urs Kallen
S47 / XI / 9 & 10 : Chris Perry
S47 / XI / 11 : Isabel Spreat
S47 / XI / 12 & 13 : Don Vockeroth
S47 / XI / 14 : Tim Auger
S47 / XI / 15 & 16 : Leo Gillmair
S47 / XI / 17 : Klaus Hahn
S47 / XI / 18 : Franze Dopf, K. Pawson, Ken Pawson