Bernadette McDonald, A.O.E. was the founder of The Banff Centre for Mountain Culture and has authored eleven books on mountaineering. She has been published in sixteen countries and has received many awards, including the Banff Grand Prize, Boardman Tasker, and the American Alpine Club Award. She has received the Alberta Order of Excellence and the King Albert Award, is an honorary member of the Himalayan Club and Polish Mountaineering Association, and is a fellow of the Explorers Club.

Eva Holland is a freelance writer based in Whitehorse, Yukon. She is a correspondent for Outside magazine, and her work has also appeared in the New York Times, WIRED, The Walrus, Grantland, Smithsonian, and many other publications. Two of her stories have been included in The Best American Science and Nature Writing anthologies. Nerve is her first book. 

Ed Douglas is an award-winning writer who has reported from the Himalaya for over twenty-five years, covering the Maoist insurgency in Nepal and the occupation of Tibet. The author of a dozen books, including a biography of Tenzing Norgay, he is also a modest but enthusiastic climber with first ascents in the Himalaya and edits the Alpine Journal. He lives in Sheffield, UK.

Marni Jackson has won numerous National Magazine Awards for her journalism, which has appeared in Explore, Outside, Maclean’s, The Globe & Mail, The London Sunday Times, Rolling Stone, Brick magazine, Hazlitt.com and other publications. The author of three nonfiction books, and a collection short fiction, Marni is passionate about the kind of writing that life in the mountains has inspired.