Of Graeme Pole’s eleven published book titles, nine have been finalists in the Banff Mountain Book Festival.
- The first edition of Classic Hikes in the Canadian Rockies won the Mountain Exposition Award at the inaugural Banff Mountain Book Festival in 1994.
- Gravity, Steam, and Steel received an Honourable Mention Citation in the 2009 BC Historical Federation Writing Awards.
- Graeme has been a runner-up for the Andy Russell Nature Writer’s Award, and has received a Northwest Writer’s Association “Excellence in Craft Award,” and the Teddi Brown Award for nature writing.
