Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature
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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.
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[edit] 2011 shortlist
The five books on the shortlist for the 2011 prize are:
- Desert Towers by Steve Bartlett
- Murder in the Hindu Kush by Tim Hannigan
- Shadow of the Matterhorn by Ian Smith
- Freedom Climbers by Bernadette McDonald
- The Sound of Gravity by Joe Simpson[1]
The winner was announced on 18 November 2011 at the Kendal Mountain Festival.[1]
[edit] Winners
- 2011 Bernadette McDonald, Freedom Climbers
- 2010 Ron Fawcett with Ed Douglas, Ron Fawcett, Rock Athlete
- 2009 Steve House, Beyond the Mountain
- 2008 Andy Kirkpatrick, Psychovertical
- 2007 Robert Macfarlane, The Wild Places
- 2006 Charles Lind, An Afterclap of Fate: Mallory on Everest
- 2005 Andy Cave, Learning to Breathe
- 2005 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 Gillman 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
- 1984 Doug Scott and Alex MacIntyre, The Shishapangma Expedition
[edit] References
- ^ a b Dan Bailey, "Kendal Preview 2011 : Boardman Tasker 2011 Shortlist", ukc.com, 3 October 2011.
