RMB | Rocky Mountain Books

07/22/2025

Rob Wood has lived a life full of adventure. He's been a professional architect, pioneering mountaineer, organizer of ocean-to-alpine expeditions, wilderness instructor at Strathcona Park Lodge & Outdoor Education Centre, founding member of the protest group Friends of Strathcona Park, an author, and most recently, the subject of the documentary film The Zone.

In the early 1970s Rob established himself as an impressive climber; completing numerous first ascents on Baffin Island, in Strathcona Park, and in Yosemite, while also pioneering ice climbing in the Canadian Rockies.

You can learn more about Rob in his books At Home in Nature: A Life of Unknown Mountains and Deep Wilderness (2017) and The Zone: Rediscovering Our Natural Self (2022) 🏔🍃📖

07/18/2025

"In a world where outdoor adventure narratives have long been dominated by white male voices, Flow: Women’s Counternarratives from Rivers, Rock, and Sky delivers a long-overdue disruption. Curated by Denisa Krásná and Alena Rainsberry —two women with a deep-rooted love for adventuring—Flow is a powerful collection that carves out space for women, especially those from underrepresented backgrounds, to tell their stories on their own terms."

A big thank you to explore and Dania Rashid for the awesome review of Flow! 😁🥳🙌

Explore the diversity of women’s outdoor sports through narratives that capture empowerment and challenge stereotypes

07/16/2025

Written as a guidebook with 20 species-focused chapters, Wildlife Weekends in Southern British Columbia leads the reader to sites with trails, boardwalks, parking, and restrooms, all within a six-hour drive from Vancouver!

To kick off the summer adventures, author Roy Jantzen spoke with Margaret Gallagher on CBC's North by Northwest to chat about his new guidebook & all it has to offer 🦅🐋🌱 Tune in to the July 5th episode on CBC. ca!

07/16/2025

Written as a guidebook with 20 species-focused chapters, Wildlife Weekends in Southern British Columbia leads the reader to sites with trails, boardwalks, parking, and restrooms, all within a six-hour drive from Vancouver!

To kick off the summer adventures, author Roy Jantzen spoke with Margaret Gallagher on CBC's North by Northwest to chat about his new guidebook & all it has to offer 🦅🐋🌱

https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-43-north-by-northwest/clip/16156375-roy-jantzen-guidebook-wildlife-weekends

07/15/2025

Take a look at the Canadian West Coast through Marcus Paladino's eyes... you won't regret it! 😍

Love this gallery and write up on Surfer. You can find more of Marcus' stunning images in his photography book Cold Comfort – available online and at your favourite local bookstores 📚🌊🏄

07/14/2025

"The combination of epic and grandeur is an apt and poignant way to sum up the rare and unique photographs in The Canadian Rockies: Rediscovered—there can be not a shade of doubt that Paul has certainly rediscovered the Rockies in a way none have yet done and those who sit with this bounty of pure gold photography will, necessarily so, see the Rockies again in a new way..."

The Canadian Rockies: Rediscovered by Paul Zizka – reviewed beautifully by The BC Review 🙌🌄😁 https://thebcreview.ca/2025/07/08/2598-dart-zizka/

07/10/2025

On the latest episode of the True North True Crime podcast, Malcom is Missing author Robert Osborne joins hosts Caitlin and Graeme to talk about the troubling 2018 disappearance of Malcom Madsen.

Apple: https://rb.gy/6smu28
Spotify: https://rb.gy/8t0mbi

Tune in and don't forget to check out Malcom is Missing: A True Story of Murder and a Daughter's Quest for Justice in Mexico 📚🔎

07/09/2025

"High above Squamish, this Canadian woman is walking her way into the highlining record books..."

Awesome excerpt from Mia Noblet's chapter in Flow: Women’s Counternarratives from Rivers, Rock, and Sky, featured by Canadian Geographic 🙌 Check it out!

High above Squamish, this Canadian woman is walking her way into the highlining record books

07/03/2025

Ohhhhh it's giveaway time! 🙌😄🥾📚 Happiest Outdoors Hiking and Adventure Travel is giving away a guidebook to one lucky hiker – winner's choice! Take a look at what you could win and enter here 👉 t.ly/IRdm1

06/30/2025

On Friday, February 13, 1998, Paul Pritchard was seriously injured after being struck by a falling boulder while climbing the iconic Totem Pole in Tasmania. He suffered a traumatic brain injury, resulting in hemiplegia that affects movement on his right side and impacts his speech and memory.

Doctors told Paul he would never climb again. He had to learn how to walk and talk again and was in a wheelchair for nine months. Did that stop him? Nope! Less than 2 years after the accident he tackled a small hill in Wales (this took a few hours). Five years later, he climbed Mt. Kenya, and two years after that, he climbed Kilimanjaro with an all-disabled team. In 2016, he conquered the Totem Pole 🌄

Paul's memoir, The Longest Climb, is available from your local bookstores and online! 👉 www.rmbooks.com/products/the-longest-climb

06/26/2025

S A S K A T C H E W A N.

30 years.

200 images.

Skillfully captured by George Webber, Saskatchewan Book shows us that small prairie towns remain beacons of affection and bastions of memory, all the while succumbing to the enigmatic fate that eventually enfolds all living things 🌾

rmbooks.com/products/saskatchewan-book