Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature
- Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature
The Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature is an annual prize of £3000 awarded by the Boardman Tasker Charitable Trust to an author or authors for 'an original work which has made an outstanding contribution to mountain literature.' It was established in memory of Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker after their deaths on the north-east ridge of Mount Everest in 1982. It can be awarded for a piece of fiction or non-fiction, poetry or drama, although the work must have been written in (or translated into) English.
Winners:
*2007 Robert Macfarlane, "The Wild Places"
*2006 Charles Lind, "An Afterclap of Fate: Mallory on Everest"
*2005 Andy Cave, "Learning to Breathe" jointly with Jim Perrin "The Villain: The Life of Don Whillans"
*2004 Trevor Braham, "When the Alps Cast Their Spell"
*2003 Simon Mawer, "The Fall"
*2002 Robert Roper, "Fatal Mountaineer"
*2001 Roger Hubank, "Hazard's Way"
*2000 Peter and Leni Gillman, "The Wildest Dream: Mallory - His Life and Conflicting Passions"
*1999 Paul Pritchard, "The Totem Pole: And a Whole New Adventure"
*1998 Peter Steele, "Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond"
*1997 Paul Pritchard, "Deep Play: A Climber's Odyssey from Llanberis to the Big Walls"
*1996 Audrey Salkeld, "A Portrait of Leni Riefenstahl"
*1995 Alan Hankinson, "Geoffrey Winthrop Young: Poet, Mountaineer, Educator"
*1994 Dermot Somers, "At the Rising of the Moon"
*1993 Jeff Long, "The Ascent"
*1992 Will McLewin, "In Monte Viso's Horizon: Climbing All the Alpine 4000m Peaks"
*1991 Alison Fell, "Mer de Glace"
*1991 Dave Brown & Ian Mitchell, "A View from the Ridge"
*1990 Victor Saunders, "Elusive Summits"
*1989 M. John Harrison, "Climbers"
*1988 Joe Simpson, "Touching the Void"
*1987 Roger Mear & Robert Swan, "In the Footsteps of Scott"
*1986 Stephen Venables, "Painted Mountains: Two Expeditions to Kashmir"
*1985 Jim Perrin, "Menlove: The Life of John Menlove Edwards"
*1984 Linda Gill, "Living High: A Family Trek in the Himalayas" jointly with Doug Scott & Alex MacIntyre, "The Shishapangma Expedition" (joint winners)
External links
* [http://www.boardmantasker.com/ Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature]
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