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	Peter Boardman - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was subsequently President of the British Association of Mountain Guides and Director of the International School of Mountaineering at Leysin.
		His book about the experience The Shining Mountain is one of the outstanding works of mountaineering literature, and won the 1979 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for literature.
		The Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature was established in memory of him and Joe Tasker, also a gifted writer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Boardman (377 words)

	The Boardman Tasker Prize
		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.
		On 17 May 1982 Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker were last seen on Mount Everest attempting to traverse The Pinnacles on the unclimbed Northe East Ridge at around 8250 metres.
	www.boardmantasker.com (239 words)

	Kendal Mountain Film Festival
		The Boardman Tasker Charitable Trust and the Kendal Mountain Book Festival are pleased to announce that in November 2006 the prestigious Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature will be hosted in Kendal, Cumbria moving from the Alpine Club in London where it has been based since its inception in 1983.
		The Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature was established in 1983.
		The prize of £2,000 commemorates the lives of two of Britain’s leading Himalayan climbers, Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker, who were also gifted writers, and it is given to the author or co-authors of an original work which has made an outstanding contribution to mountain literature.
	www.mountainfilm.co.uk /book-festival/boardman-tasker-award.html (589 words)

	Headlines@Hopkins: Johns Hopkins University News Releases
		Robert Roper, a visiting associate professor in the Writing Seminars at The Johns Hopkins University, has been awarded the 2002 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.
		The Boardman Tasker Award is given each year for an outstanding contribution to mountain literature.
		The prize commemorates the lives of Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker, two of Great Britain's leading mountaineers, who were last seen on May 17, 1982, climbing toward the summit of Mount Everest.
	www.jhu.edu /news_info/news/home02/dec02/roper.html (291 words)

	The Summit Journal: Boardman Tasker Award: Mountain Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Boardman Tasker 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.
		Peter Boardman's first expedition was to Afghanistan in 1972 and in 1975 he was a member of the Everest South West Face Expedition led by Chris Bonington.
		Joe Tasker's early mountaineering was largely spent in the Alps where he climbed a number of demanding routes, including the North Face of the Eiger in the winter of 1974-5.
	www.summitjournal.com /articles/news/boardman_tasker.html (626 words)

	BBC Tees - Voices from the Clarences - Joe Tasker
		Joe Tasker started climbing when he was in Port Clarence boy scouts, and made the sport his career - climbing on Everest and K2.
		The annual Boardman-Tasker prize for mountain literature commemorates Joe and his climbing partner Pete Boardman, who were last seen alive on the previously unattempted east-north-east ridge of Everest on 17 May 1982.
		Tom Tasker remembers that Joe's climbing and literary acquaintances were often surprised his family weren't middle class, but climber Dick Renshaw recalled that Joe enjoyed working as a dustman because his, "forthright nature and ability to communicate with people from all walks of life broke down any barriers."
	www.bbc.co.uk /tees/voices/tasker/index.shtml (832 words)

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		Stephen Venables is one of the best-known mountaineers of his generation and was the first Briton to climb Everest without supplementary oxygen.
		Himalaya Alpine Style was published later that year and won the Grand Prize at the Banff Festival for Mountain Literature.
		His own writing is informed by a love of literature and by his other wide interests, particularly music and gardening, which are his great passions when he is at home between expeditions.
	www.sevale-malvern.freeserve.co.uk /venables.htm (1106 words)

	The Scotsman - Scotland - He nearly died, now he's scaling the literary heights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		A SCOTS mountaineer who lost his hands and feet in a climbing tragedy has been shortlisted for a prestigious literary prize for a book about his experiences.
		Jamie Andrew, 34, is nominated for the Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature for his book, Life and Limb, which chronicles his fateful climb in the notorious Mont Blanc range in 1999 with his friend Jamie Fisher.
		I was always an avid reader of mountain literature, starting with Joe Simpson’s book Touching the Void, but before my accident I never would have thought I would write a book myself.
	thescotsman.scotsman.com /scotland.cfm?id=1114492004 (742 words)

	Guardian \| My Inspiration
		He is also an acclaimed writer: his first book won the Boardman-Tasker prize for mountain literature.
		And just maybe his later passion for the mountains was subconsciously sparked by music.
		The music schools were housed in the former school chapel, which had memorial plaques to Wilfred Noyce and George Mallory on the walls.
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,3970906-103407,00.html (480 words)

	Glasgow's West End: Ian R Mitchell: Writer and Mountaineer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		He has also helped curate an exhibition of mountain art at Aberdeen Art Gallery in 1999 and worked with the establishment of the recently-opened Cuillin mountain heritage centre at Sligachan in Skye in 2003.
		Yet another award was gained in 1998 for 'Scotland's Mountains Before the Mountaineers' (a pre-history of Scottish Mountaineering) which won the Outdoor Writers' Guild Award for Excellence.
		Ian's status as the leading historian of the Scottish mountains was recognised when he was invited to contribute the chapter "Timothy Pont and Scotland's Mountains" to the academic work, The Nation Survey'd in 2001.
	www.glasgowwestend.co.uk /people/Ianmitch (820 words)

	Countrybookshop.co.uk - Longest Climb, The
		It is a moving and unblinkered view of achievement to date and the steep road ahead for a battered climber who refuses to turn his back on the mountains.
		Ironically, it was the prize money which launched him on the climbing tour that ended abruptly on the Totem Pole in Tasmania.
		It won the Boardman Tasker Prize for him a second time and in the same year the Grand Mountain Book Prize at the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival in Canada.
	www.countrybookshop.co.uk /books/index.phtml?whatfor=1841194778 (394 words)

	Kendal Mountain Book Festival
		Welcome to the third Kendal Mountain Book Festival which continues to move on leaps and bounds since its first appearance as part of Kendal Mountain Festivals in 2004.
		It is fast establishing itself as one of the leading festivals in the world focussing on writing based on or around the mountains their landscapes and cultures.
		Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature - we are delighted to announce that we will be hosting the presentation of this prestigious award in 2006 and hope that we will be providing it with a new Northern home for the foreseeable future.
	www.mountainfilm.co.uk /book-festival/index.html (378 words)

	Philosophy of Risk: A Biography of Dougal Haston - PowerBookSearch! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Connor explores Haston's agonizing development: from his working-class background in the small Scottish village of Currie to his antiestablishment years at college and in Scottish climbing circles, to the nearly fatal accident that drove him abroad, his fearsome drinking and womanizing, and, eventually, fulfillment and peace.
		For all those who wonder what motivates men and women to risk their lives in the mountains, this intimate portrait of a driven, tortured personality provides many of the answers.
		He also captured the imagination of the world far beyond that of the climbing fraternity — he had the looks of a young god and was exceptionally talented, egocentric, and obsessed with his chosen sport.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch184195215X.html (480 words)

	TAC 52: A book for the boot boys (Hazard's Way review)
		Not that I'm a big fan of "mountain literature": I found even Joe Simpson's Touching the Void rather clunky, although a radio interview with him telling the same story was totally compulsive listening - some people are just better heard than read.
		Maybe this is what the Boardman Tasker citation describes as his "trying to find himself, shedding illusions about his family, his country, even the dreamy notion of Wasdale as a haven free of discord or intimations of mortality".
		Looking at the list of judges for this year's Boardman Tasker, and the previous winners back to 1984, the predominance of men is striking, if not surprising (only four women winners in 18 years).
	bubl.ac.uk /org/tacit/tac/tac52/abookfor.htm (807 words)

	CoisLife: Dermot Somers
		For 25 years Dermot has been rock-climbing and mountaineering all over the world, from the Alps to the Himalayas.
		He has published two books of short stories: Mountains and Other Ghosts (1990) and At the Rising of the Moon (1994).
		At the Rising of the Moon won the Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature.
	www.coislife.ie /authors/CLauthors/dermotsomers2.htm (176 words)

	Lost Mountains: Two Expeditions to Kashmir - PowerBookSearch! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Lost Mountains (winner of the prestigious Boardman-Tasker prize for mountain literature when originally published as Painted Mountains) is his gripping account of life-and-death climbing and exploration in the remote and war-torn Kashmir region.
		This haunting and fragile mountain paradise -- now a hotspot in the political struggles tearing apart Central Asia -- gave Venables some of the most challenging and satisfying climbing of his life.
		Lost Mountains offers a searing reminder of what is at stake in the current struggle between nations, religions, and civilizations.
	www.powerbooksearch.com /booksearch0641576927.html (159 words)

	The Westmorland Gazette
		The Kendal Mountain Book Festival will this year present the prestigious Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature an award that has been based in London since its inception in 1984.
		The announcement is another feather in the cap for the festival, launched in 2004, which is fast-establishing itself as one of the leading mountain literature events of its kind in the world.
		"We are delighted the Boardman Tasker prize is moving to Kendal the mountain film festival and more recently the book festival have really grown into something excellent and we feel it is right to host the award there," said Pippa Southward, of the Boardman Tasker Charitable Trust.
	www.thisisthelakedistrict.co.uk /display.var.719688.0.0.php (177 words)

	Lakeland Radio - Top Literature Prize A First For Festival
		The Kendal Mountain Book Festival will host a prestigious literature prize for the first time in November.
		The Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature has been based in London since its inception in 1984.
		Along with the mountain film festival, it is now becoming one of the leading events of its kind in the world.
	www.lakelandradio.co.uk /cms/content/view/5998/164 (127 words)

	Peter Boardman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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	encyclopedia.vestigatio.com /Peter_Boardman (457 words)

	Yosemite - Climbing & Climbing Literature - Menasha Ridge Press
		Essays by well-known climbers Warren Harding, Royal Robbins, Jim Bridwell, Mark Chapman, Jerry Moffatt, John Long, Peter Croft, Lynn Hill, Thomas Huber, Dean Potter, and Leo Houlding illustrate the evolution in climbing equipment and varied techniques needed to ascend the rock peaks and amazing walls.
		Nominated to the 2004 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature Shortlist
		The book presents a portrait of Yosemite that is measured yet affectionate, giving a balanced view of the development of climbing in this crucible of excellence over the past fifty years.
	www.menasharidge.com /yosemite.htm (304 words)

	The Johns Hopkins Gazette: December 16, 2002
		Robert Roper, an adjunct associate professor in the Writing Seminars, has won the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.
		The prize, given by the British Alpine Club and supported by the Royal Geographic Society, honors the best work of mountain literature worldwide in a given year.
		Roper's book, Fatal Mountaineer, is an "intellectual biography" of philosophy professor Willi Unsoeld, America's greatest Himalayan climber.
	www.jhu.edu /~gazette/2002/16dec02/16cheers.html (1266 words)

	Karabiner Mountaineering Club: The Black Memorial Lecture 2002
		The Black Memorial Lectures are run by the Karabiner Mountaineering Club in honour of the late Bowden and Millie Black, who were long standing members of the KMC and mountain pioneers of their day.
		His first book won the Boardman-Tasker prize for mountain literature.
		Stephen is not only a mountaineer of vast experience but an acclaimed photographer and prize winning author who recently appeared on TV as Edward Whymper telling the story and re-enacting the first ascent of the Matterhorn.
	www.karabiner.org /lectures/2001-2/black.html (209 words)

	Mercat Press (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		His route traversed the most spectacular landscape in Scotland, linking every portion of wilderness, and was completed in the midst of the harshest winter conditions imaginable.
		Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature.
		In lucid expansive prose, he describes his remarkable ‘hell of a journey’ through the Highlands, battling blizzards and rainstorms.' The Herald
	www.mercatpress.com /BookDetails.asp?ISBN=1841830054&Category=new (332 words)

	book2book forums - Scotland's Wild Land Faces Gravest Threat, Warns Veteran Of Epic Highland Trek
		Shortlisted for the highly respected Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, Hell of a Journey was described as follows by the Chair of Judges, Kathleen Jamie: ‘To walk all the Scottish 1000-metre peaks in winter, and be able to relate the adventures in such a fond and readable manner is admirable indeed.
		I envy Mike the journey, and more than that I envy him the ability to describe another day, and another Scottish hill with an unfailing freshness—he is a marvellously evocative writer; never dull, he even describes the cold with warmth.
		In 1986 he became one of the few people to have traversed all of Scotland’s Munros in a continuous journey.
	forums.booktrade.info /printthread.php?t=149 (501 words)

	Paul Pritchard's Website
		The Totem Pole tells the story of Paul's fateful round-the-world climbing trip which ended in disaster on Friday 13th February 1998.
		The Totem Pole also won the Boardman/Tasker Prize in 1999, along with the Grand Prize at the 1999 Banff mountain book festival.
		Reviewer: A reader from Cambridge, UK This is the story of a man who was at the pinnacle of his career in the morning, and in the afternoon was lapsing in and out of consciousness, fighting for his life on a sea-swept ledge on a remote Tasmanian sea stack.
	www.paulpritchard.com.au /deeppl.htm (406 words)

	Songs of Silence by Patricia Barrie, Published by Honno
		Short listed for the Boardman Tasker prize for mountain literature, this novel is the subtle interweaving of two narrative threads.
		Divided by forty years, Rhodri, a hill farmer and poet, and Owen, a doctor on sick leave from his London practice, are both living on different parts of the same mountain in Wales.
		Each man knows a mute, and each in his own way begin to ponder the vast complexities of language.
	www.honno.co.uk /dangos.php?ISBN=1870206398 (213 words)

	Eildon Tree Magazine competition - Scottish Borders Council (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Appropriately enough, the competition will be judged by a man well used to the ‘Wilderness.’ Living legend Doug Scott, CBE, was not only the first Briton to climb Mount Everest, but has also undertaken 45 expeditions to some of the coldest places on earth.
		He has climbed the seven peaks-the highest mountains on the seven continents of the world.
		He is the author of ‘Himalayan Climber’ and ‘Big Wall Climbing.’ He also co wrote ‘Shisha Pangma’ with the late Alex McIntyre (1984) which was the first winner of the esteemed Boardman-Tasker prize for mountain literature.
	www.scotborders.gov.uk /news/6143.html (324 words)

	Climber magazine
		In fact it’s grown to represent so much more than films that the event is being re-named the Kendal Mountain Festivals to reflect its separate elements – the Film Festival, Book Festival, Arts Festival, Extreme Film School and the World Tour.
		Entries are still being received so more in-depth detail will be released nearer the time, but there are already several premieres in the pipeline including Leo Dickinson’s film ‘Whillans - Myth and Legend’ about the life and times of Don Whillans, which promises to be a festival blockbuster.
		Climber is proud to present the prize for Best Climbing Film at the Festival, always hotly contested, and this year’s big news is that the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature will now be hosted in Kendal.
	www.climber.co.uk /fest/kendalmff.asp (260 words)

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