The most prestigious award in mountaineering literature is the Boardman Tasker Prize, named for Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker, two strong climbers who died on Mount Everest in 1982 while attempting a new route.
The Boardman Tasker Charitable Trust
The trust was established to promote literature by providing an annual award to authors of literary works, the central theme of which is concerned with mountains.
The prize of £2,000 commemorates the lives of Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker and is given to the author or co-authors of an original work which has made an outstanding contribution to mountain literature.
The rules and entry form are available from this website.
http://www.boardmantasker.com/
Most books that have won the prize or been nominated are available from Chessler Books. If they are not listed on our website, please e-mail us to see if we have a copy, some are scarce.
This is a list of all winners from 1984 to 2005:
2005 Andy Cave Learning to Breathe
2005 Jim Perrin The Villain: the Life of Don Whillans
2004 Trevor Braham. When the Alps Cast Their Spell2003 Simon Mawer. The Fall 2002 Robert Roper. Fatal Mountaineer2001 Roger Hubank. Hazard's Way2000 Peter and Leni Gillman. The Wildest Dream1999 Paul Pritchard. The Totem Pole1998 Peter Steele. Eric Shipton, Everest and Beyond1997 Paul Pritchard. Deep Play1996 Audrey Salkeld. A Portrait of Leni Riefenstahl1995 Alan Hankinson. Geoffrey Winthrop Young1994 Dermot Somers. At the Rising of the Moon1993 Jeff Long. The Ascent1992 Will McLewin. In Monte Viso's Horizon1991 Alison Fell. Mer de Glace1991 Dave Brown & Ian Mitchell. A View from the Ridge1990 Victor Saunders. Elusive Summits1989 M John Harrison. Climbers1988 Joe Simpson. Touching the Void1987 Roger Mear & Robert Swan. In the Footsteps of Scott1986 Stephen Venables. Painted Mountains1985 Jim Perrin. Menlove1984 Linda Gill. Living High1984 Doug Scott & Alex MacIntyre. The Shishapangma Expedition.
2002 Robert Roper. Fatal Mountaineer2001 Roger Hubank. Hazard's Way2000 Peter and Leni Gillman. The Wildest Dream
