Sports & Recreation Mountaineering
A Passion for Mountains
The Lives of Don and Phyllis Munday
- Publisher
- RMB | Rocky Mountain Books
- Initial publish date
- Aug 2006
- Category
- Mountaineering, Historical
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781894765695
- Publish Date
- Aug 2006
- List Price
- $9.95
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Description
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.
About the author
Kathryn Bridge, PhD, is an archivist and historian who has curated exhibitions and written about Emily Carr for several decades. Her research is focused on the body of Carr's art and writings held in the BC Archives collections. Exhibitions include Emily Carr: Artist, Author, Eccentric Genius (2001) and The Other Emily (2010) at the Royal BC Museum, Victoria; and Intimate Glimpses: The Early Life of Emily Carr (2011) at the Wing Sang Gallery, Vancouver. Writings include the introduction to Carr's Klee Wyck (2004) and the forewords to Wildflowers by Emily Carr (2003) and Sister and I: From Victoria to London, an illustrated manuscript journal by Carr published in 2011. Bridge's Emily Carr in England is to be published by the Royal BC Museum in 2014.
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