With the state of global ice constantly in the news, one mountain journalist examines Canadian glaciers to uncover their secrets and their future. From a mother/daughter duo who spent five months skiing across icefields from Vancouver to Alaska, to scientists discovering biofilms deep inside glacier caverns, to protesters camping for weeks to protect their beloved local glacier, western Canada's glaciers are dynamic, enigmatic, exquisitely beautiful, sometimes dangerous environments where people play, work, run businesses, explore, and create art every single day. Author Lynn Martel is one of them. With gorgeous images by some of the country's best outdoor photographers, Stories of Ice shares the excitement, the mystery, and the wonder of Canada's glaciers and poses questions about their future.
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It is dusk and winter in the mountains. In the foreground is a fence with a willow tree to the right. There is a cat perched on the fence watching the children in the background playing hockey. There is a house with a lighted window to the left. A string of lights from the house across the yard …
It is dusk and winter in the mountains. In the foreground is a fence with a willow tree to the right. There is a cat perched on the fence watching the children in the background playing hockey. There is a house with a lighted window to the left. A string of lights from the house across the yard illuminates the ice rink which dominates the middle right. Three boys are playing hockey and a girl in a yellow snowsuit is sitting on the ice. Trees and mountains are in the background.
A pencil drawing of a castle with battlements topped with various nations’ flags, possibly American, British, and French. At the top is the title ICE PALACE.
A pencil drawing of a castle with battlements topped with various nations’ flags, possibly American, British, and French. At the top is the title ICE PALACE.
A man skating down the ice with a hockey stick and a puck in front of him. At the ice’s edge there are two children looking on. Above the drawing is says “MY PUBLIC -------------” and in the BRC it is signed “Peter Whyte - 28 -”. Below the signature it says “Drawn specially for Russ.”
A man skating down the ice with a hockey stick and a puck in front of him. At the ice’s edge there are two children looking on. Above the drawing is says “MY PUBLIC -------------” and in the BRC it is signed “Peter Whyte - 28 -”. Below the signature it says “Drawn specially for Russ.”
A group of men are out skating and playing hockey. One has fallen over and two of them appear to be falling or about to fall. Behind the figure in the foreground (the one in the air) there are two players that are skating and not having difficult. In the background there is a person standing in the…
A group of men are out skating and playing hockey. One has fallen over and two of them appear to be falling or about to fall. Behind the figure in the foreground (the one in the air) there are two players that are skating and not having difficult. In the background there is a person standing in the goal minding it. Near the TLC it says “THE SIX MINUTE MEN STAGE A LIGHT WORKOUT -----------”, in the BRC it says “Peter Whyte - 28 -”, and “Drawn specially for Russ.”verso: in the TLC it says “[’Russ’ - Russell Robb II CRW’s brother Jon Whyte to 27.2.75”
How to Ice Climb! covers the equipment and techniques that will allow beginners to safely enjoy this sport. It also provides experienced climbers with advanced skills that will make them more efficent. -- Provided by publisher
Contents
The Ice Climbing Game; Equipment; Planning and Preparing; The Approach; Technical Systems; Ice Movement; Leading Ice; Mixed Climbing; Training, by Steve House; Destinations
The Bow Valley, Icefields Parkway and Radium Highway contain many world-class ice and mixed climbs. This guide covers 14 crags with over 200 climbs graded from WI3 to M14+.
Contents
1. Exshaw and Kananaskis -- 2. Grotto Mountain -- 3. Canmore -- 4. Banff -- 5. Kootenay -- 6. The Icefields Parkway -- 7. David Thompson Corridor.
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.
