Banff Mountain Book Award Winners
Banff Centre Mountain Film and Book Festival celebrates mountain literature, film, and photography, bringing together filmmakers, writers, publishers, editors, photographers, athletes, adventurers, and - of course - readers. Featuring film screenings, guest speakers, readings, seminars and book signings, the Festival offers a wide spectrum of experiences for the mountain film and book-loving audience.
Valley of Giants: Stories from Women at the Heart of Yosemite Climbing
Anthology featuring both untold and famous stories from the female trailblazers of Yosemite climbing
Unraveled: A Climber's Journey through Darkness and Back
A stirring, brutally honest memoir from one of America’s most beloved female climbers
The Villain: A Portrait of Don Whillans
Brawling, hard-drinking, hellman-Don Whillans' reputation was as wide as the Yosemite big walls and as high as the Himalayan peaks he risked his life to scale.
The Packraft Handbook: An Instructional Guide for the Curious
"It is both approachable for newcomers and deep enough to satisfy experts." – Joseph Bell, President, American Packrafting Association
The Climbers
“Jim Herrington’s wonderful new folio volume of portraits, titled simply The Climbers, aims at a lofty plateau. Herrington seeks to crystallize his own Golden Age…he tries not only to document the visages of his heroes in their older years, but also to plumb those faces for keys to the character beneath. It is as if Richard Avedon had photographed mountaineers rather than movie stars, minus the props and gimmicks.” - David Roberts, Sierra Magazine
The Bond: Survival on Denali and Mount Huntington
Friendship, sacrifice, and a fight for survival on the two most dangerous mountains in North America
Raven's Witness: The Alaska Life of Richard K. Nelson
An inspirational biography set against the backdrop of Alaska’s wilderness, Native cultures, the writing life, and friendships rooted in nature
Headstrap: Legends and Lore from the Climbing Sherpas of Darjeeling
A culturally rich and evocative narrative about the historic emergence of Darjeeling’s Sherpa climbing community
Going Higher: Oxygen, Man, and Mountains, 5th Edition
The seminal work on how the body responds to high altitude, including the current science science in this edition
Freedom Climbers: The Golden Age of Polish Climbing
"One of the most important mountaineering books to be written for many years." —Boardman-Tasker Prize
Crack Climbing: The Definitive Guide
Locate crack in rock face. Jam in fingers, hands, fists, elbows, knees, thighs. Pull body up. Experience pain and fear. Go read Pete Whittaker’s book.
Being Caribou
A research project to the Arctic National Wildlfe Preserve slowly becomes much more as the author and his wife learn to hear the earth, pay attention to their dreams and slowly change, beyond their expectations, into being caribou.
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land
Exquisite photography of the life in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, along with essays by writers such as Peter Matthiessen and David Allen Sibley
Alpine Rising: Sherpas, Baltis, and the Triumph of Local Climbers in the Greater Ranges
A long overdue accounting of the extraordinary contributions and leadership of Sherpa, Balti, and other local climbers in the Himalayas and Karakorams