Don and Phyllis Munday are western Canada's most famous mountaineering couple. Active members of the Alpine Club of Canada, they climbed for almost four decades throughout the Pacific Northwest, as well as in the Selkirks and the Rocky Mountains.
The Mundays were ahead of their time. They are chiefly renowned for their tenacity and environmental awareness, as well as for their scientific contributions in exploring and documenting the little-known Coast Mountains. Their joint climbs from the 1920s through the 1940s included scaling 150-plus mountains; more than 40 were first ascents.
A Passion for Mountains features a broad selection of the Mundays' photographs and incorporates their own words to describe many of their ascents.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 235) and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 796.5220922
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9781894765695 9781459332560
- LCCN
- GV199.92.M86
- LCCN Item number
- B75 2006eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (240 p.)
- Published in
- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)thg00601777 (OCoLC)288058806 (CaOOCEL)420055
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Title proper/short title
- Passion for mountains : the lives of Don and Phyllis Munday
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- The Lives of Don and Phyllis Munday 1
- Chapter One 14
- Early Years and the B.C. Mountaineering Club 14
- Walter Alfred Don Munday 15
- Phyllis Beatrice James 37
- Chapter Two 48
- Wartime 48
- The Home Front 52
- Chapter Three 58
- Recovery and Discovery 58
- Courtship and Climbs 65
- A New Club 75
- The Twosome Becomes a ThreesomeEdith 79
- Chapter Four 90
- Climbing on the Coast 90
- At the Head of Pitt River 91
- Fitzsimmons 95
- 1923 and Big Plans 101
- The Cheam Mountain Range 104
- Grouse Mountain 108
- Treasure-Seeking Climbers 117
- Chapter Five 122
- The Alpine Club of Canada 122
- The Robson Ascent 123
- Into the Cariboo Mountains 135
- Lake OHara Camp 142
- Geikie 148
- Chapter Six 158
- Mystery Mountain Years 158
- A New World 163
- Endless Explorations or A Mountaineers Playground 171
- First Ascent of Mount Munday 182
- Collaboration The Hall Partnership 185
- Chapter Seven 196
- Icefields and Mountains 196
- Skiing Garibaldi 197
- Mount Grenville 201
- Mount Queen Bess 205
- Dons Final First Ascent 207
- Chapter Eight 212
- Later Years 212
- The Legacy 221
- List of Ascents 223
- Endnotes 227
- Selected References 234
- Acknowledgments 235
- Photo Credits 235
- Index 236
