- Peter Boardman
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name = Peter Boardman
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birth_date = birth date|1950|12|25|mf=y
birth_place =Stockport ,England
death_date = death date and age|1982|5|17|1950|12|25|mf=y
death_place = The North-East Ridge,Mount Everest ,Tibet
occupation =Mountaineer
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footnotes =Peter Boardman (b.
December 25 ,1950 - d.May 17 ,1982 ) was a British climber, Everest summiteer, and author of several mountaineering books. Born inStockport ,England , he began climbing in his teens, and at the age of 16 made his first visit to theAlps . He quickly became a proficient Alpine climber, and made the first British ascents of the North Face Direct of the Olan, the North Face of the Nesthorn and the North Face Direct of the Lauterbrunnen Breithorn.After
Stockport Grammar School , in which he now has a climbing wall dedicated to his name cite web | title=Stockport Grammar School - an independent school near Manchester, England - Stockport Grammar School pupils reach new heights! | url=http://www.stockportgrammar.co.uk/index.php?content_id=646 | accessdate = 2008-10-02] ,he studied English at theUniversity of Nottingham , where he was President of the Mountaineering Club, here he undertook his first expedition to theHindu Kush ofAfghanistan , climbing the North Face of Koh-I-Khaaik and making the first ascent of Kohi-Mundi. After Nottingham, Peter studied for a diploma in education at theUniversity of Wales, Bangor , where he learnt some Welsh. He became a BritishMountain Guide , and worked for theBritish Mountaineering Council . He was subsequently President of the British Association of Mountain Guides and Director of theInternational School of Mountaineering atLeysin .A number of expeditions followed, and in 1975, he summited Everest via the South West face, as part of the second assault team, on an expedition on which fellow climber
Mick Burke was tragically killed.In 1976 he joined forces with
Joe Tasker and climbed the West Wall ofChangabang , at its time probably the hardest Himalayan climb in the world. His book about the experience "The Shining Mountain" is one of the outstanding works of mountaineering literature, and won the 1979John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for literature.After a failed attempt at
K2 , in which climberNick Estcourt was killed in an avalanche, Boardman successfully climbedKangchenjunga in 1979 via the North Ridge. He returned to K2 in 1980, reaching a height of 7975 metres. He was killed on the North-North East ridge of Everest in 1982, along with his climbing partnerJoe Tasker . In 1992 Boardman's body was found by climbers from Kazakhstan in a sitting position near the Second Pinnacle "looking like he was asleep". Boardman's body was identified through photographs by relatives in the UK.A second book "Sacred Summits", detailing his climbing exploits of 1979, was published posthumously. The
Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature was established in memory of him and Joe Tasker, also a gifted writer.External links
* [http://www.boardmantasker.com/ Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature]
*José Luis Bermúdez, ‘Boardman, Peter David (1950–1982)’, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/62490 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography] , Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006References
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