Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature

Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker were two outstanding British mountaineers who vanished high  on the north ridge of Everest in 1982. In their memory, the Boardman Tasker Award is an annual prize for the best in mountain literature. There are 41 entries this year and choosing a winner would be a tough choice! The jury are also expected to read all the books so that is a difficult call!  For those of you who would like to start reading these books before the award is finalised, here is the list courtesy www.boardmantasker.com . Happy reading!

Entries for 2014 1 Tears of the DawnISBN 978-0-9576817-0-5 Jules Lines Shelterstone 2 THE K2 MAN (AND HIS MOLLUSCS)ISBN 978-1-906000-58-5 Catherine Moorhead NEIL WILSON Publishing 3 A Snow Goose & other utopian fictionsISBN 9781907090929 Jim Perrin Cinnamon Press 4 THE ATHOLL EXPEDITIONISBN 978-1-78407309-1 Alex Roddie Self published, printed by Feed-a-read 5 The Corbett Round, A unique continuous traverse of 219 Scottish mountainsISBN 978-0-9927716-0-7 Manny Gordon Self published 6 GREAT HIMALAYA TRAIL, 1,700 KILOMETRES ACROSS THE ROOF OF THE WORLDISBN 9781898573890 Gerda Pauler Baton Wicks 7 The Everest Files, A MISSING TEENAGER CLIMBER. A TRAIL OF DEADLY CLUES. MYSTERY ON THE WORLD'S HIGHEST PEAKISBN 9781906148928 Matt Dickinson Vertebrate Publishing 8 CLIMBING RAMABANG, One Irish climber's explorations in the Himlaya and his overland trip homeISBN 9781909461031 Gerry Galligan Vertebrate Publishing 9 My Father, Frank, Unresting Spirit of EverestISBN 9781898573876 Tony Smythe Vertebrate Publishing 10 Peak Rock, the history, the routesISBN 9781906148720 Phil Kelly, Graham Hoey, Giles Barker Vertebrate Publishing 11 Among Secret Beauties, A memoir of mountaineering in New Zealand and the HimalayasISBN 978-1-877578-48-9 Brian Wilkins Otago University Press, NZ 12 Fast and Free PETE LIVESEY, STORIES OF A ROCK CLIMBING LEGENDISBN 978-1-910077-01-6 John Sheard and Mark Radtke 2QT Limited Publishing 13 IN SEARCH OF PEAKS, PASSES & GLACIERS IRISH ALPINE PIONEERSISBN 978-1-84889-178-4 Frank Nugent The Collins Press 14 FAR, FAR THE DISTANT PEAK, The Life of Wilfrid Noyce, Mountaineer, Scholar, PoetISBN 978-0-9574043-0-4 Stewart Hawkins Curbans Books in collaboration with Amolibros 15 A PASSION FOR MOUNTAINSISBN 978-0-7198-0719-0 Hannah Burrows-Smith Robert Hale Ltd 16 HIGHER GROUND: A mountain guide's lifeISBN 978-1-908-737-564 Martin Moran Sandstone Press 17 IT'S A HILL, GET OVER IT, FELL RUNNING'S HISTORY AND CHARACTERSISBN 978-1-908-737-571 Steve Chilton Sandstone Press 18 THE SUNLIT SUMMIT, The Life of W.H.Murray ISBN 978-1-908-737-380 Robin Lloyd-Jones Sandstone Press 19 Shackles of Convention, Women Mountaineers before 1914ISBN 978-1-85058-964-8 Malcolm Craig Sigma Press 20 TEMPTING THE THRONE ROOM: Surviving Pakistan's Deadliest climbing Season 2013 ISBN 978-1-494-845-841 John Quillen Amazon Creatspace 21 NANGA PARBAT 1970,Tragedy and ControversyISBN 978-0-9563163-2-5 Richard Sale and Jochen Hemmleb Carreg Ltd 22 Pirates of the Hourglass: Wrong No Beauty  Jeffrey O-Brien Jeffrey 23 ADDICTED TO ADVENTURE, Between Rocks and Cold PlacesISBN 978-1-4729-0586-4 Bob Shepton Bloomsbury Publishing 24 LURE OF THE MOUNTAINS: The Life of Bentley Beetham 1924 Everest Expedition mountaineerISBN 978-1-906148-94-2 Michael D.Lowes Vertebrate Publishing 25 The MantisISBN 978-1-906148-88-1 Philip Temple Vertebrate Publishing 26 THE STEADY RUNNING OF THE HOURISBN 978-0-434-02233-5 Justin Go William Heinemann, Random House 27 CHASING THE PHANTOM, In Pursuit of Myth and Meaning in the Realm of the Snow LeopardISBN 978-184819-172-3 Eduard Fischer Singing Dragon 28 DICK ISCHERWOOD MOUNTAINEERISBN 978-178456-010-2 Anthology Compiled by John Ashburner Fast Print Publishing 29 Letters from ChamonixISBN 978-0-9918076-3-5 David Stevenson Imaginary Mountain Surveyors 30 Clawing for the Stars, A Solo Climber in the Highest AndesISBN 978-1-4582-1323-5 Bob Villareal Abbot Press 31 LAW UNTO HIMSELFISBN 978-0-9875264-1-0 Michael Law Open Spaces Publishing 32 My Father's Keep, A Journey of Forgiveness through the HimalayaISBN 978-1-49436-738-1 Ed Abell Self published 33 HANGING ON A LIFE INSIDE BRITISH CLIMBING'S GOLDEN AGEISBN 9781910240007 Martin Boysen Vertebrate Publishing 34 Doubling Back Ten Paths Trodden in MemoryISBN 978-1-908754-54-7 Linda Cracknell Freight Books 35 8000 metresISBN 978 185284 5483 Alan Hinkes Cicerone Press 36 The Cairngorms: A Secret HistoryISBN 978 1780271880 Patrick Baker Birlinn Limited 37 The Call of the MountainsISBN 9781 908373 70-0 Max Landsberg Luath Press Ltd 38 A Walk in the CloudsISBN 978 185284 726 5 Kev Reynolds Cicerone Press 39 The Alchemy of ActionISBN 978 0 9898551 1 2 Doug Robinson Moving Over Stone 40 The Summit. How Triumph Turned to Tragedy on K2's Deadliest DaysISBN 978 1 84717 643 1 Pat Falvey & Pemba Gyalje Sherpa Co Published by O'Brien Press & beyond endurance publishing 41 Travels in Zanskar-A Journey to a Closed KingdomISBN 978 1 908308 51 1 Mark Boyden The Liffey Press

Entries are shown in order received