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Author : Sean Melbourne Dougherty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:813564188
Author : Sean Dougherty
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2003-06
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0921102895
Author : Brandon Pullan
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781771601153
Recounts the stories of mountaineers who undertook climbing expeditions in the Canadian Rockies.
Author : John Martin,Jon Jones
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781926855257
Sport Climbscontinues to be the most relevant climbing guide to the Canadian Rockies on the market. Featuring over 2,000 routes located throughout the Bow Valley, including climbs at Banff, Canmore, Lake Louise, Kananaskis Country and the Ghost River area, this edition features three new areas and the latest updates and is illustrated with over 300 topos, along with accompanying maps and photos. All routes include difficulty classifications and are completely indexed, including first-ascent information. With more than 12,000 copies sold to date, Sport Climbs in the Canadian Rockiesis the quintessential guidebook that both local and visiting climbers reach for when travelling to western Canada.
Author : Bill Corbett
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : 1897522401
Winner of the Canadian Rockies Award at the 2005 Banff Mountain Book Festival, this comprehensive climber's guide and history of the 54 11,000-foot peaks in the Canadian Rockies celebrates in words and images these breathtaking summits and the wilderness settings over which they tower. This book uniquely captures and distills the lively and frequently forgotten accounts of the pioneering climbers and their various routes. Each entry provides a vivid description of the peak, an extensive history of the early ascents of it and a detailed description of moderate to intermediate routes, including access and approach information. Now extensively updated, the text is liberally illustrated with route and climbing photos, both contemporary and historical, and includes detailed area maps.
Author : Brandon Pullan
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-18
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 9781771601160
Over the past 100 years, climbers have been pushing standards in the Canadian Rockies. From long alpine ridges to steep north faces, the Rockies are synonymous with cutting-edge ascents. Peaks such as Robson, Chephren, Kitchener, the Twins and Alberta elude the many and reward the few. Many of the big faces were climbed between the 1960s and 1990, the golden age of alpinism in the Rockies. The men and women who first were part of that set high standards. Future alpinists read old journals and guidebooks, hoping to experience what the alpine "pioneers" did. For most, the Rockies require a certain edge that comes with age, humiliation and failure. Perhaps the ones who drink the most whisky, dream of the biggest peaks and sleep with snowballs in their hands are the ones rewarded with the momentary triumph of coming to a draw with one of these mountains. This is not a guidebook. Rather, it is a narrative history by the people who risked life and limb to establish these long, difficult and sometimes scary climbs.
Author : Alan Kane
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781771600972
Annotation Armed with first-hand information, Alan Kane describes over 170 scrambles in a clear, concise format. This includes equipment needed, when to go, how to get there, where to park and what to expect as you work your way to the summit. Photos showing the ascent line complement descriptions that include historical trivia, origins of placenames and summit views. Routes range from off-trail hiking suitable for strong hikers to challenging routes at the low end of technical climbing where use of specific handholds is required on steep, airy terrain.
Author : Chic Scott
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0921102593
Recipient of the Banff Mountain Book Festival's Canadian Rockies Award A book to be read and digested, then sampled, then read and dipped into often...a fine achievement for this dedicated author... Bruce Fairley, Canadian Alpine Journal HOLY SHIT WAAAAAAAAAT A FABBBBBULOUS TOME. Tami Knight, Illustrator/Mountaineer This important new book tells the story of Canada's 200-year mountaineering history. Through the use of stories and pictures, Chic Scott documents the evolution of climbing in Canada. He introduces us to the early mountain pioneers and the modern day climbing athletes; he takes us to the crags and the gyms, from the west coast to Quebec, and from the Yukon to the Rockies. But most importantly, Scott showcases Canadian climbers--the routes that challenged them, the peaks that inspired them, their insatiable desire to climber harder, to push the limits. Begin the trek through Canada's climbing history... Learn about Swiss guides hired by CPR hotels who ushered in the glory years of first ascents. Continue through to the turn of the twentieth century when British and American climbers of leisure found themselves hampered by the difficulties of travel through the Canadian wilderness. Learn about the European immigrants of the 1950s who pushed the limits on the rock walls, and the American superstars who led the search for frightening new routes on the big north faces. Be there when British expatriates pioneer an exciting new trend in world mountaineering--waterfall ice climbing. Witness the popular growth of sport climbing, both on the crags and in the gyms. Finally, enjoy the story of home-grown climbers. Initially slow to take up the challenge, both at home and overseas, they are now leaders in the climbing world.
Author : John Martin,Jon Jones
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781771601016
Sport Climbs in the Canadian Rockies, with over 15,000 copies of previous editions sold, returns with a new, completely revised, updated and redesigned seventh edition. Sport Climbs continues to be the quintessential guidebook that both local and visiting climbers reach for when travelling to Western Canada. Featuring over 2,300 routes located throughout the Bow Valley, including climbs at Banff, Canmore, Lake Louise, Kananaskis Country and the Ghost River area, this new edition features eight new areas, 500 new routes, the latest updates, full-colour maps and photos, and over 300 marked topos. All routes include difficulty classifications and are completely indexed, including first-ascent information.
Author : Derek Galloway
Publisher : Gordon Soules Book Publishers
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-15
Category : Bow River Region (Alta.)
ISBN : 0973259396
This book is a comprehensive guide to the best sport climbing areas of the Bow Valley, Canada's premier summer limestone sport climbing area. The Bow Valley is located along the Trans-Canada Highway 110 km west of Calgary, in the Banff National Park/Canmore area of Alberta. The book includes maps and over 1,000 routes shown on 200 colour photographs. It also includes information about planning a climbing trip to the area.
Author : Hugh E.M. Stutfield
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926855400
First published in 1903, Climbs & Exploration in the Canadian Rockies details the mountaineering adventures of Hugh Stutfield and J. Norman Collie while the two were together during various explorations in the area north of Lake Louise, Alberta. Between 1898 and 1902, Stutfield and Collie journeyed through the mountain towns, valleys and passes of the Rockies, where Collie completed numerous first ascents and discovered fresh views of Lake Louise and the Columbia Icefields.
Author : Brent Peters
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0992039800
Author : Sean Isaac
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Sports & Recreation
ISBN : 0921102968
Covering Waterton to Jasper, this guide provides essential information for eager climbers looking to push their limits.
Author : Conrad Kain
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 564 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781926855141
He brought glamour and imagination into the sport of mountaineering as few guides have done before him. Recalling his personality and amusing stories one should not forget that his approach to mountains was first and foremost an aesthetic one; he saw a peak first as something beautiful—the technical problem was always secondary — and nothing counted beside that vision. Of all the mountain guides who came to Canada in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Conrad Kain is probably the most respected and well known. In this internationally anticipated reissue of Where the Clouds Can Go-first published in 1935, with subsequent editions in 1954 and 1979-Rocky Mountain Books has accentuated the original text with an expanded selection of over 50 archival images that celebrate the accomplishments of Conrad Kain in the diverse mountain landscapes of North America, Europe and New Zealand. The new foreword by acclaimed mountaineer and filmmaker Pat Morrow puts Kain's mountaineering adventures, numerous explorations and devout appreciation of nature into a contemporary context, ensuring that the exploits of this remarkable individual will remain part of international mountain culture for years to come. To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Kain's arrival in Canada, the Conrad Kain Centennial Society was formed in 2008 to celebrate his many achievements and to develop legacy projects in his memory. This expanded edition of Kain's book will help carry his passion for mountaineering to a new generation of readers and adventurers.
Author : Glen W. Boles,William Lowell Putnam,Roger W. Laurilla
Publisher : Rocky Mountain Books Ltd
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1894765796
The towering peaks of the Canadian Rockies and Columbia Mountains rival the European Alps in fame. When travelling or climbing, hiking or skiing in these areas, have you ever wondered where the names of the peaks, rivers and lakes came from, or who named them and why? In Canadian Mountain Place Names, the authors have used their scope of knowledge and expertise, along with many outside sources, to compile an entertaining and informative treatise on the toponymy of this increasingly popular alpine region. Originally published as Place Names of the Canadian Alps, this new edition is completely revised and updated. Illustrated with Glen Boles' and Roger Laurilla's stunning photographs, as well as Boles' intricate line drawings, this book is a must-have not only for avid mountaineers, skiers and hikers, but also for locals and visitors with an interest in these regions. For the authors, this book has been a labour of love: for the mountains, as well as for all those who care about the mountains.
