Dolores LaChapelle (née Greenwell) was a mountaineer, skier, Tai Chi teacher, independent scholar, and leader in the Deep ecology movement. She graduated from Denver University in 1947 and then spent three years teaching skiing in Aspen, Colorado. In 1950, she made the first ski ascent of Mount Columbia, the second highest peak in the Canadian Rockies, and also of Snow Dome, the hydrographic apex of the continent. After marrying Edward LaChapelle, she spent a year with him in Davos, Switzerland from 1950–51, and then moved to Alta, Utah in 1952, where her son David was born. She moved to Silverton, Colorado in 1973, where she spent the rest of her life and directed the Way of the Mountain center. LaChapelle died on January 22, 2007.
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Books by Dolores LaChapelle
- First Steps in Faith (1969)
- Earth Festivals: Seasonal Celebrations for Everyone Young and Old (1976)
- Earth Wisdom (1978)
- D.H. Lawrence: Future Primitive (1996)
- Sacred Land, Sacred Sex: Rapture of the Deep (1992)
- Deep Powder Snow: Forty Years of Ecstatic Skiing, Avalanches, and Earth Wisdom (1993)
Quotations
From Sacred Land, Sacred Sex: Rapture of the Deep, p. 24
"Contrary to generally accepted opinions, it was neither Christianity nor the development of agriculture alone which created the split between humans and the rest of nature in our European tradition."
Articles by Dolores LaChapelle
- Ritual is Essential, Art and Ceremony in Sustainable Culture, Spring, 1984, Context Institute, http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo/P981/P0981.html
References
- LaChapelle, Dolores. Deep Powder Snow: Forty Yers of Ecstatic Skiing, Avanlances, and Earth Wisdom, Kivakí Press, June 1993, ISBN 1-882308-21-2.
- LaChapelle, Dolores. D.H. Lawrence: Future Primitive, University of North Texas Press, April 1996, ISBN 1-57441-007-5.
- LaChapelle, Dolores. Earth Festivals: Seasonal Celebrations for Everyone Young and Old, Finn Hill Arts, 1976, ISBN 0-917270-00-2.
- LaChapelle, Dolores. Earth Wisdom (New Natural Philosophy Series) Guild of Tutors Press, 1978, ISBN 0-89615-003-8.
- LaChapelle, Dolores. First Steps in Faith, Herder and Herder, 1969, ASIN: B0006BYRW0.
- LaChapelle, Dolores. Sacred Land, Sacred Sex: Rapture of the Deep: Concerning Deep Ecology and Celebrating Life, Kivakí Press, 1992, ISBN 1-882308-11-5.
External links
- Dolores LaChapelle Photograph Collection, Library of Utah, http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo/P981/P0981.html
- Utah Ski Archives, 2004 Ski Archives Historical Achievement Award, http://www.skiarchives.org/Skiaffairs/skiaffair04.htm
