Joanna Croston

Joanna has climbed many of the classic 11,000 ft summits in the Canadian Rockies and is an avid backcountry skier having toured throughout North America, The Alps, Japan, Kashmir and the Indian Himalaya. She is a voracious reader of mountain literature and a die-hard film enthusiast. Her writing has appeared in Gripped, The Canadian Alpine Journal, The Canadian Rockies Annual, Mountain Life, Alpinist and Waymaking, an award winning collection of women’s adventure writing published in Autumn 2018. Her new book Mountaineering Women was released in September 2025. She is the Director of Mountain Culture at Banff Centre for Arts & Creativity.