Jayme Moye has written more than a thousand stories over a career that’s spanned two decades and counting. She is best known for her award-winning reporting on mountain sports and culture, adventure travel, and conservation. Her work has appeared in National Geographic, Canadian Geographic, and dozens of other publications.
Jayme’s storytelling has taken her around the world, from Afghanistan to Zanzibar, and earned some of the highest honours in travel and outdoor journalism, including the Banff Centre’s Mountaineering Article Award, the Lowell Thomas Award for Adventure Travel Writing, and multiple Travel Media Association of Canada awards. She was named Travel Writer of the Year twice by the North American Travel Journalists Association, and is the first woman to be awarded the Keith Bellows Award for Excellence in Travel Journalism.
Several of Jayme’s stories have been anthologized in The Best Women’s Travel Writing series. She has also co-written three books, most notably, On the Nose: A Lifelong Obsession with Yosemite’s Most Iconic Climb, with rock-climber Hans Florine.
Currently based in the mountains of British Columbia, Jayme holds dual citizenship in Canada and the U.S. She continues to write about wild landscapes and the people who move through them with her signature mix of curiosity, clarity, and heart.