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edition:Paperback
category: Sports & Recreation
published: Aug 2006
ISBN:9781894765695
publisher: RMB | Rocky Mountain Books

A Passion for Mountains

The Lives of Don and Phyllis Munday

by Kathryn Bridge

tagged: mountaineering, historical
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, a Victoria-based archivist and historian, knows how to tell a good story. Her award-winning biographies about pioneering personalities rely on original diaries, letters, journals and historical photos to bring her subjects life. Her interest in the mountains began while she was playing in the alpine meadows of Mount Revelstoke as a youngster. Kathryn lives in Victoria, B.C.

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