Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature
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The Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature is an annual prize of £2000 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 death on the North East ridge of Mount Everest. 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:
- 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
- 1999 Paul Pritchard The Totem Pole
- 1998 Peter Steele Eric Shipton, Everest and Beyond
- 1997 Paul Pritchard Deep Play
- 1996 Audrey Salkeld A Portrait of Leni Riefenstahl
- 1995 Alan Hankinson Geoffrey Winthrop Young
- 1994 Dermot Somers At the Rising of the Moon
- 1993 Jeff Long The Ascent
- 1992 Will McLewin In Monte Viso's Horizon
- 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
- 1985 Jim Perrin Menlove
- 1984 Linda Gill Living High
- Doug Scott & Alex MacIntyre The Shishapangma Expedition
External links
Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature (http://www.boardmantasker.com/)