Bergverlag Rother is a German publisher with its headquarters in Oberhaching, Upper Bavaria.
[2][3] Rother publish a "famous series of English language guides" covering most of the popular walking destinations in the Alps and Europe.
[4] The company was founded on 16 November 1920 in Munich by Rudolf Rother sen., a bookseller and mountaineer, and is one of the oldest and most important specialist Alpine publishers.
[5] The publishing house was based on Verlag Walter Schmidkunz, which went out of business and in which Rother was a co-owner.
[6] After the firm had sold its in-house mail-order service, the magazine Bergwelt ("Mountain World") and its own printers in the 1980s, the family business was taken over in 1990 by Freytag-Berndt & Artaria.