The Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature is an annual prize of £3,000 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 British climbers Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker, both of whom wrote books about their mountaineering expeditions, 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. The prize is announced at the annual Kendal Mountain Festival.
2016 Simon McCartney, The Bond: Two Epic Climbs in Alaska and a Lifetime's Connection Between Climbers2015 Barry Blanchard, The Calling: A Life Rocked by Mountains2014 Jules Lines, Tears of the Dawn2013 Harriet Tuckey, Everest – The First Ascent: The Untold Story of Griffith Pugh, the Man Who Made It Possible2012 Andy Kirkpatrick, Cold Wars: Climbing the Fine Line between Risk and Reality2011 Bernadette McDonald, Freedom Climbers2010 Ron Fawcett with Ed Douglas, Ron Fawcett, Rock Athlete2009 Steve House, Beyond the Mountain2008 Andy Kirkpatrick, Psychovertical2007 Robert Macfarlane, The Wild Places2006 Charles Lind, An Afterclap of Fate: Mallory on Everest2005 Andy Cave, Learning to Breathe2005 Jim Perrin, The Villain: The Life of Don Whillans2004 Trevor Braham, When the Alps Cast Their Spell2003 Simon Mawer, The Fall2002 Robert Roper, Fatal Mountaineer2001 Roger Hubank, Hazard's Way2000 Peter Gillman and Leni Gillman, The Wildest Dream: Mallory – His Life and Conflicting Passions1999 Paul Pritchard, The Totem Pole: And a Whole New Adventure1998 Peter Steele, Eric Shipton: Everest and Beyond1997 Paul Pritchard, Deep Play: A Climber's Odyssey from Llanberis to the Big Walls1996 Audrey Salkeld, A Portrait of Leni Riefenstahl1995 Alan Hankinson, Geoffrey Winthrop Young: Poet, Mountaineer, Educator1994 Dermot Somers, At the Rising of the Moon1993 Jeff Long, The Ascent1992 Will McLewin, In Monte Viso's Horizon: Climbing All the Alpine 4000m Peaks1991 Alison Fell, Mer de Glace1991 Dave Brown and Ian Mitchell, A View from the Ridge1990 Victor Saunders, Elusive Summits1989 M. John Harrison, Climbers1988 Joe Simpson, Touching the Void1987 Roger Mear and Robert Swan, In the Footsteps of Scott1986 Stephen Venables, Painted Mountains: Two Expeditions to Kashmir1985 Jim Perrin, Menlove: The Life of John Menlove Edwards1984 Linda Gill, Living High: A Family Trek in the Himalayas1984 Doug Scott and Alex MacIntyre, The Shishapangma ExpeditionIn 2012, an award for writers aged between 16 and 25 was introduced for works up to 1,500 words in length that must be "original unpublished literary work, whether fiction, non-fiction, drama or poetry, the central theme of which is concerned with the mountain environment". The prize is £250 and publication in Summit magazine.
