Books
- Blum 1980, Annapurna: A Woman’s Place
- Blum 2007, Breaking Trail
- Boardman 2016, The Shining Mountain
- Bonatti 2010, The Mountains of My Life
- Calvert and Portman 2006, Guardians of the Peaks
- Davidson 2013, Minus 148 Degrees
- Davis 2011, The Sacred Headwaters
- Ehle 1964, The Land Breakers
- Gonzales 2017, Deep Survival
- Herzog 2010, Annapurna
- House 2012, Beyond the Mountain
- Houston and Bates 2008, K2: The Savage Mountain
- Hornbein 2013, Everest: The West Ridge
- Kagge 2017, Silence: In the Age of Noise
- Krakauer 1999, Into Thin Air
- Krakauer 2009, Eiger Dreams
- McCartney 2016, The Bond
- McDonald 2017, Art of Freedom
- Messner 1998, The Crystal Horizon
- Porter 2016, One Day as a Tiger
- Pritchard 1997, Deep Play
- Rébuffat 1968, Starlight and Storm
- Roberts 2012, The Mountain of my Fear
- Roberts 2018, Limits of the Known
- Robinson 2022, The High Sierra
- Simpson 1998, Touching the Void
- Steck 2018, My Life in Climbing
- Zuckerman and Amanda Paddan 2013, Buried in the Sky
Guides
- Burrows, Davenport, and Newhard 2010, Fifty Classic Ski Descents of North America
- Corbett 2016, The 11,000ers of the Canadian Rockies
- Hamill 2012, Climbing the Seven Summits
- House and Johnston 2014, Training for the New Alpinism
- House, Johnston, and Jornet 2019, Training for the Uphill Athlete
- The Mountaineers 2017, The Freedom of the Hills
- Scott and Klassen 2011, Alpine Ski Tours in the Canadian Rockies
- Twight 1999, Extreme Alpinism
Prize Winners
Recipients of the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature
- 2022 Brian Hall, High Risk and Helen Mort, A Line Above the Sky
- 2021 David Smart, Emilio Comici: Angel of the Dolomites
- 2020 Jessica J. Lee, Two Trees Make a Forest
- 2019 Kate Harris, Lands of Lost Borders
- 2018 David Roberts, Limits of the Known
- 2017 Bernadette McDonald, Art of Freedom
- 2016 Simon McCartney, The Bond
- 2015 Barry Blanchard, The Calling
- 2014 Jules Lines, Tears of the Dawn
- 2013 Harriet Tuckey, Everest – The First Ascent
- 2012 Andy Kirkpatrick, Cold Wars
- 2011 Bernadette McDonald, Freedom Climbers
- 2010 Ed Douglas, Rock Athlete
- 2009 Steve House, Beyond the Mountain
- 2008 Andy Kirkpatrick, Psychovertical
- 2007 Robert Macfarlane, The Wild Places
- 2006 Charles Lind, An Afterclap of Fate
- 2005 Andy Cave, Learning to Breathe
- 2005 Jim Perrin, The Villain
- 2004 Trevor Braham, When the Alps Cast Their Spell
- 2003 Simon Mawer, The Fall
- 2002 Robert Roper, Fatal Mountaineer
- 2001 Roger Hubank, Hazard’s Way
- 2000 Peter Gillman and Leni Gillman, The Wildest Dream
- 1999 Paul Pritchard, The Totem Pole
- 1998 Peter Steele, Eric Shipton
- 1997 Paul Pritchard, Deep Play
- 1996 Audrey Salkeld, A Portrait of Leni Riefenstahl
- 1995 Alan Hankinson, Geoffrey Winthrop Young
- 1994 Dermot Somers, At the Rising of the Moon
- 1993 Jeff Long, The Ascent
- 1992 Will McLewin, In Monte Viso’s Horizon
- 1991 Alison Fell, Mer de Glace
- 1991 Dave Brown and Ian Mitchell, A View from the Ridge
- 1990 Victor Saunders, Elusive Summits
- 1989 M. John Harrison, Climbers
- 1988 Joe Simpson, Touching the Void
- 1987 Roger Mear and Robert Swan, In the Footsteps of Scott
- 1986 Stephen Venables, Painted Mountains
- 1985 Jim Perrin, Menlove
- 1984 Linda Gill, Living High
- 1984 Doug Scott and Alex MacIntyre, The Shishapangma Expedition
Recipients of the Banff Mountain Book Festival Grand Prize
- 2020 Hank Lentfer, Raven’s Witness
- 2019 Bryce Andrews, The Life and Death of a Grizzly Bear
- 2018 Paolo Cognetti, The Eight Mountains
- 2017 Jim Herrington, The Climbers
- 2016 Jean McNeil, Ice Diaries
- 2015 Richard Wagamese, Medicine Walk
- 2014 John Porter, One Day as a Tiger
- 2013 Tim Cope, On the Trail of Genghis Khan
- 2012 Philip Connors, Fire Season
- 2011 Bernadette McDonald, Freedom Climbers
- 2010 John Long, The Stonemasters
- 2009 Niall Grimes, Jerry Moffatt
- 2008 Sid Marty, The Black Grizzly of Whiskey Creek
- 2007 James M. Tabor, Forever on the Mountain
- 2006 Jeff Long, The Wall
- 2005 Karsten Heuer, Being Caribou
- 2004 Chris Duff, Southern Exposure
- 2003 David Roberts, Escape from Lucania
- 2002 W. H. Murray, The Evidence of Things Not Seen
- 2001 Roger Hubank, Hazard’s Way
- 2000 Bradford Washburn, Bradford Washburn
- 1999 Paul Pritchard, The Totem Pole
- 1998 Audrey Salkeld, World Mountaineering
- 1997 Stefano Ardito, Mont Blanc
- 1996 Stephen Venables, Himalaya Alpine-Style
- 1995 Thomas Wharton, Icefields
- 1994 Chris Bonington and Audrey Saukeld, Heroic Climbs