Summit Tales: Exciting Early Adventures In The Canadian Rockies   [Paperback]

Graeme Pole (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: January 1, 2005 | ISBN-10: 1551539373 | ISBN-13: 978-1551539379

Summit Tales recounts the hardships, the adventures, the rivalries, and the accomplishments of mountaineers in the golden age of mountaineering in the Canadian Rockies. From fur traders seeking a better view of the land to government surveyors perfecting the art of phototopography; from university chums on summer vacation to England''s mountaineering elite seeking untrodden peaks; from Swiss guides who would haul just about anyone to the summits around Lake Louise to Gertrude Benham, who left everyone breathless in her wake, Summit Tales brings Canadian mountaineering history to life. Illustrated with one hundred archival images - some never before published - Summit Tales recreates the sense of adventure and the challenge of climbing in the Canadian wilderness when most of the land was unmapped and no guidebooks to the peaks existed.

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Summit Tales recounts the hardships, the adventures, the rivalries, and the accomplishments of mountaineers in the golden age of mountaineering in the Canadian Rockies. From fur traders seeking a better view of the land to government surveyors perfecting the art of phototopography; from university chums on summer vacation to England's mountaineering elite seeking untrodden peaks; from Swiss guides who would haul just about anyone to the summits around Lake Louise to Gertrude Benham, who left everyone breathless in her wake, Summit Tales brings Canadian mountaineering history to life. Illustrated with one hundred archival images - some never before published - Summit Tales recreates the sense of adventure and the challenge of climbing in the Canadian wilderness when most of the land was unmapped and no guidebooks to the peaks existed.

About the Author

Graeme Pole has been writing professionally since 1989. He is the best-selling author and photographer of six non-fiction books that describe the human history and the natural history of western Canada: Canadian Rockies SuperGuide, The Canadian Rockies: A History in Photographs, Walks and Easy Hikes in the Canadian Rockies, Classic Hikes in the Canadian Rockies, The Spiral Tunnels and The Big Hill and David Thompson. He has written and published one novel, Healy Park (1998). His wilderness essays and photography have been widely circulated.

Product Details

• Paperback: 112 pages
• Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books (January 1, 2005)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1551539373
• ISBN-13: 978-1551539379
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 5.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,935,607 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Graeme Pole has been trooping around the Canadian Rockies for almost 30 years, and has been writing about the human history and the natural history of western Canada since 1989. His catalogue includes eleven published books with cumulative sales of more than 300,000 copies. Graeme lives with his family near Hazelton in northwestern BC, where he serves as a paramedic. Hold that thought; there goes the pager....
Visit his website: http://mountainvision.ca