The Great Glacier and its House

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Published by The American Alpine Club, New York, 1982, 1st US Edition, small folio, D/w, Fine.  William Lowell Putnam (1924-2014) was an alpinist, author and retired broadcasting executive, who was Trustee Emeritus of the Lowell Observatory and a member of the prominent Lowell family of Massachusetts.  This is a substantial illustrated history of Canadian mountaineering, based on the story of the climber’s hotel, the Glacier House, at Rogers Pass in the Selkirk Mountains of Canada.  Spanning forty years and illustrated by numerous contemporary black-and-white photographs, many published for the first time, it includes first-hand accounts by the climbers from the Glacier House register, known as “The Scrapbook”.  The history is well told in the context of the Canadian Pacific Railway’s drive to connect the country’s East and West coasts through the Rogers Pass, and the early growth of alpine expeditions in North America.