About Us
About Us
Starry Summit Mountain Adventures and Media Ltd is based in Jasper, Alberta, Canada in the heart of the Canadian Rockies. We are owned and operated by Jasper-local Ben Nearingburg. Ben is an ACMG Hiking Guide, avalanche forecaster, photographer, videographer, guidebook author, and also holds a PhD in Materials Engineering. Check out Ben's scrambling book A Peakbagger’s Guide to the Canadian Rockies: North (May 2017) and forthcoming day-hiking book Popular Day Hikes: Jasper, Mount Robson, Valemount, and the Yellowhead Highway (May 2024).
More About Ben
Our lead guide Ben Nearingburg has rambled far and wide across the mountains in western Canada. He has climbed all of the 56 peaks in the Canadian Rockies over 11000 ft (or 3353 m for metric-folks) and visited all of the 39 backcountry warden cabins across Jasper National Park. In addition to these feats, Ben has rambled around every nook and cranny of Jasper and Mount Robson Provincial Park’s, and has many tales to tell.
Life In Jasper
You might wonder what it is like to live in a National Park. It is a great privilege to be based in Jasper. Surrounded by mountains, grizzly bears, forests (and unfortunately mosquitoes), there are always things to do and a lifetime of terrain to explore. The summer season is Jasper is bustling with activity with upwards of 2 million people visiting the park each summer. Thankfully, the backcountry of Jasper, where our company operates, still remains a wild land with calm lakes and serene starry skies overhead. Winter in Jasper is a different world and it almost seems as if the townsite is hibernating (along with the grizzly bears).
Recommended Reading:
There are many books, both fanciful fiction and illuminating histories that visitors to the Canadian Rockies may find useful. Below is a short selection of tomes that you might want to read before your adventure.
Jasper Resources:
Tourism Jasper, https://www.jasper.travel/
Jasper National Park, https://parks.canada.ca/pn-np/ab/jasper
Mount Robson Provincial Park, https://bcparks.ca/mount-robson-park/
Alberta Highway Conditions, https://511.alberta.ca/
BC Highway Conditions, https://drivebc.ca/
Starry Summit Mountain Adventures and Media Ltd is based in Jasper, Alberta, Canada in the heart of the Canadian Rockies. We are owned and operated by Jasper-local Ben Nearingburg. Ben is an ACMG Hiking Guide, avalanche forecaster, photographer, videographer, guidebook author, and also holds a PhD in Materials Engineering. Check out Ben's book
and forthcoming day-hiking book Popular Day Hikes: Jasper, Mount Robson, Valemount, and the Yellowhead Highway (May 2024).
More About Ben
Our lead guide Ben Nearingburg has rambled far and wide across the mountains in western Canada. He has climbed all of the 56 peaks in the Canadian Rockies over 11000 ft (or 3353 m for metric-folks) and visited all of the 39 backcountry warden cabins across Jasper National Park. In addition to these feats, Ben has rambled around every nook and cranny of Jasper and Mount Robson Provincial Park’s, and has many tales to tell.
Life In Jasper
You might wonder what it is like to live in a National Park. It is a great privilege to be based in Jasper. Surrounded by mountains, grizzly bears, forests (and unfortunately mosquitoes), there are always things to do and a lifetime of terrain to explore. The summer season is Jasper is bustling with activity with upwards of 2 million people visiting the park each summer. Thankfully, the backcountry of Jasper, where our company operates, still remains a wild land with calm lakes and serene starry skies overhead. Winter in Jasper is a different world and it almost seems as if the townsite is hibernating (along with the grizzly bears).
Recommended Reading:
There are many books, both fanciful fiction and illuminating histories that visitors to the Canadian Rockies may find useful. Below is a short selection of tomes that you might want to read before your adventure.
Handbook of the Canadian Rockies (Ben Gadd)
Bears Without Fear (Kevin Van Tighem)
Glittering Mountains of Canada (J.M. Thorington)
Where the Cloud Can Go (Conrad Kain)
Jasper Resources:
Tourism Jasper, https://www.jasper.travel/
Jasper National Park, https://parks.canada.ca/pn-np/ab/jasper
Mount Robson Provincial Park, https://bcparks.ca/mount-robson-park/
Alberta Highway Conditions, https://511.alberta.ca/
BC Highway Conditions, https://drivebc.ca/