Publishing quality Mountaineering Literature since 1985.

In addition to general mountaineering and travel books, we are one of the foremost publishers of mountaineering history with acclaimed biographies of significant climbers such as Menlove Edwards, Colin Kirkus, John Cunningham and Jock Nimlin.

Three books we have published have won the coveted Boardman Tasker Award for outstanding mountaineering literature. We are a sponsor of the Bretton Hall Mountain Literature Festival (held at Bretton Hall, Yorkshire until 2005 – now removed to the Kendal Mountain Festival) where we enjoy meeting authors and readers from around the world. At the Banff Mountain Literature Festival , Roger Hubank’s novels have won two awards, Hazard’s Way taking the Grand Prix.

A collaboration with Jack Baines in 1985, established on the basis of one meeting, saw the facsimile copy of ‘20 Years on Ben Nevis’ by William Thomas Kilgour and the beginning of The Ernest Press. First published in 1907, the book is a fascinating account of the life, work, and experiences of the observers at the highest meteorological station in the British Isles. The book had been out of print for 80 years and almost unavailable.

We are the UK's most prominent publisher of mountain bike guides with 19 guides in print covering most of the British Isles.Our first mountain bike guide was written by Jeremy Ashcroft in 1989 (The Lake District the Howgills and the Yorkshire Dales) and has been reprinted four times.

As publishers, we are committed to recording the lives of significant figures in mountaineering and in producing well researched and valid guides for off-road bikers.