2010 Boardman-Tasker Award Prize announced

Outdoor headlines

08 September 2010 15:42

The shortlist for the 2010 Boardman-Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature has just been announced. Named in honour for mountaineers and writers Joe
Tasker and Peter Boardman, who died on Everest in 1982, the award has become the benchmark for writing excellence in the outdoor world.
This year’s shortlist is:

GRAHAM BOWLEY No Way Down
A very well researched and well written book which painstakingly pieces together the events of 2008 on K2 through interviews with those who survived and the families and friends of those who did not.

RON FAWCETT with Ed Douglas  Ron Fawcett, Rock Athlete
This is a frank and engaging portrait of an unassuming yet remarkable climber; an inspirational subject and a story shot through with honesty and integrity.
 
LAURENCE FEARNLEY The Hut Builder
This novel is set in the mountains of New Zealand and includes an account of the building of an early hut on Mount Cook and climbing with Edmund Hillary; an ingenious mix of fact and fiction.
 
STEPHEN E. SCHMID, ed.  Climbing Philosophy for Everyone
Climbing Philosophy for Everyone poses some of the questions that climbers are not always anxious to address and numerous contributors engagingly argue and discuss the various issues.

SIMON THOMPSON Unjustifiable Risk?
A wide ranging book charting the history of British climbing and climbers at home and abroad.
 
The winner will be announced at the award presentation on the afternoon of Friday 19 November as part of the Kendal Mountain Festival.
For more information see www.boardmantasker.com