Bernadette McDonald (born 1951) is a Canadian-born author of several non-fiction books, primarily on mountain culture topics.
Sherpas, Baltis, and the Triumph of Local Climbers in the Greater Ranges.. McDonald was born in 1951, in Biggar, Saskatchewan, the daughter of Lester and Erna Kelly.
She resigned from her position of vice president, Mountain Culture in 2006 to concentrate on writing.
She has a number of honors, including the Alberta Order of Excellence,[4] the Summit of Excellence Award,[5] the King Albert Award and several mountain literary prizes such as the 2011 and the 2017 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.
[6] She lives with her husband Alan McDonald in Banff, Alberta and in Naramata, British Columbia.