Rmb Rocky Mountain Books: 92 books
Honouring High Places
The Mountain Life of Junko Tabei
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2017
A collection of personal stories and reflections based on the memoirs of Junko Tabei, the first woman to climb Mount Everest and the Seven Summits.
Honouring High Places is a compelling collection of highlights from Junko Tabei’s stirring life that she considered important, inspiring and...
by Erik Bjarnason, Cathi Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
One mountaineer’s harrowing story of survival and recovery after being trapped on the second-highest peak in North America, Mount Logan in the Yukon Territory, during an extratropical cyclone.
In May of 2005, North Shore Rescue put together a 40th Anniversary Expedition to Mount Logan. The...
by Gerry Shea
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Featuring a fresh design and the most current route updates, Popular Day Hikes is a series of bestselling books written for visitors and locals looking to hike scenic trails from well-established staging areas.
Popular Day Hikes: Northern Okanagan details 39 popular day trips amid the stunning,...
The Green Horse
My Early Years in the Canadian Rockies – A Park Warden’s Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
An inspiring, humorous and adventure-packed mountain memoir that takes the reader on a journey into western Canada’s backcountry parks during the raucous 1960s and 1970s.
Born in the west but raised initially in the east, Dale Portman was eight years old when his family headed back to the...
Art of Freedom
The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2017
Winner of the 2017 Banff Mountain Book Award for Mountain Literature (Non Fiction). Winner of the 2017 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. Winner of the National Outdoor Book Awards.
A profound and moving biography of one of the international climbing world's most respected, complicated...
Deep Powder and Steep Rock
The Life of Mountain Guide Hans Gmoser
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Hans Gmoser (1932–2006) was the most influential mountaineer in Canada of the last fifty years. Through innovation, hard work, perseverance and an appetite for adventure, Gmoser evolved from penniless immigrant to mountain guide for kings, queens and prime ministers. He also played a major role...
Ethical Water
Learning to Value What Matters Most
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies.
Fresh water is essential to both the ever-expanding human population and the ever-threatened natural landscapes that surround us. And yet, society seems...
Denying the Source
The Crisis of First Nations Water Rights
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2009
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies.
First Nations are facing some of the worst water crises in Canada and throughout North America. Their widespread lack of access to safe drinking water receives...
by Jane Ross, Daniel Kyba
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
A classic, full-colour guide to one of Alberta’s most spectacular and underrated wilderness areas, The David Thompson Highway Hiking Guide continues to introduce adventurous tourists and locals to the heart of the Canadian Rockies.
Another of RMB’s bestselling hiking books, The David Thompson...
The Earth Manifesto
Saving Nature with Engaged Ecology
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies.
We live in critical times. Choices we make daily now will affect the future of life itself. Years from now children will study our era on the brink and ask...
by Gerry Shea
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
Featuring a fresh design and the most current route updates, Popular Day Hikes is a bestselling series of books written for visitors and locals looking to hike scenic trails from well-established staging areas.
Located in south-central British Columbia and situated between the Cascade and Columbia...
The Glittering Mountains of Canada
A Record of Exploration and Pioneer Ascents in the Canadian Rockies, 1914-1924
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2012
"This then is a book of mountaineering, not presenting the Canadian Rockies in their entirety — no single volume will ever do that — but including many of the finest things. It is also a book of mountain travel, under conditions such as perhaps the European traveller experienced in the Alps...
Through an Unknown Country
The Jarvis-Hanington Winter Expedition through the Northern Rockies, 1874–1875
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Based on previously unpublished reports and journals thought to be lost, Through an Unknown Country provides the reader with a harrowing and riveting account of a 19th century expedition through the northern mountain ranges of western Canada.
In the winter of 1874–75, Edward Worrell Jarvis...
by Chic Scott
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2015
The book that has taken tens of thousands of skiers out onto stunning, backcountry trails is now reborn in full colour for a whole new generation.
Completely revised and updated, the new edition of this bestselling guidebook features over 150 trails, tours and traverses for the nordic skier...