Guardians of the Peaks

Author: Kathy Calvert
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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 189476580X

Guardians of the Peaks: Mountain Rescue in the Canadian Rockies and Columbia Mountains

Mountain rescue in western Canada developed through the Canadian Pacific Railway's use of Swiss guides to enhance the climbing experience in the early 1900s. Download Guardians of the Peaks: Mountain Rescue in the Canadian Rockies and Columbia Mountains from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. These guides brought their knowledge of mountain rescue to the Canadian Rockies. As climbing gained in popularity with the emerging middle classes after the Second World War, tragic accidents became more common. Two accidents in 1954-55 (the deaths of a group of female climbers from Mexico on Mt. Victoria and a group of Philadelphia schoolboys on Mt. Temple) forced the government to develop a professional mountain rescue team through the Park Warden Service under the tutelage of Walter Perren (a Swiss guide and the father of mountain rescue in Canada). Perren essentially turned cowboys Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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