The Boardman Tasker Prize Long List for 2015

The Boardman Tasker prize is given every year to one outstanding book on mountain literature. This is one of the most prestigious awards a mountain  book can get and this year the list of books are awesome. It would be a very difficult job for the jury to pick a winner from the list below. In the meantime while the jury deliberates and decides,  try to read as many of these great books as you can.

My personal recommendations are :

Alpine Warriors

Bernadette McDonald

ISBN 978-1-771601-09-2

The Ghosts of K2: The epic saga of the first ascent ISBN 978-1-78074-595-4

Mick Conefrey

Becoming a Mountain: Himalayan journeys in search of the sacred and the sublime ISBN 978-1-62872-510-0

Stephen Alter

Everest Revealed: the Private Diaries and sketches of Edward Norton 1922-24 ISBN 978-0-7509-5585-0

Christopher Norton

The long list for 2015 is below: Entries
Village of Secrets Defying the Nazis in Vichy France ISBN 978-0-701-18641-8	Caroline Moorhead	Chatto & Windus
After the Wind 1996 Everest Tragedy One Survivor's Story ISBN 978-1-9940877-00-6	Lou Kasischke	Good Hart Publishing LC
Denali's Howl ISBN 978-0-593-07445-9	Andy Hall	Transworld
The Scent of Juniper:Poems of the Himalayas ISBN 978-0692328941	Dr Mikel Vause	Kelsay Books
Make or Break: Don't Let climbing Injuries Dictate Your Success ISBN 9780956428134	David MacLeod	Rare Breed Productions
Statement: The Ben Moon Story ISBN 978-1-906148-98-0	Ed Douglas	Vertebrate Publishing
The Great mountain Crags of Scotland ISBN 978-1-906148-89-8	Guy Robertson & Adrian Crofton	Vertebrate Publishing
One Day as a Tiger ISBN 978-1-910240-08-3	John Porter	Vertebrate Publishing
Beyond Limits ISBN 978-1-910240-19-9	Steve McClure	Vertebrate Publishing
Mount Hood: Adventures of the Wy'East Climbers, 1930-1942 ISBN 978-0-9887339-2-3	Ric Conrad	Kahuna Books
Wilderness Weekends ISBN 978-1-84162-9124	Phoebe Smith	Bradt Travel Guides
Steps ISBN 978-1-906175-24-5	Mark Goodwin	Longbarrow Press
Snowblind: Tales of Alpine Obsession ISBN 978-1-61902-453-3	Daniel Arnold	Counterpoint
The Blind Man of Hoy ISBN 978-1-910124-22-2	Red Szell	Sandstone Press
Becoming a Mountain: Himalayan journeys in search of the sacred and the sublime ISBN 978-1-62872-510-0	Stephen Alter	Arcade Publishing, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing
The Calling: A Life Rocked ISBN 978-1-938340-31-4	Barry Blanchard	Patagonia
The Tower: A Chronicle of Climbing & Controversy on Cerro Torre ISBN 978-1-938340-33-8	Kelly Cordes	Patagonia
Everest Revealed: the Private Diaries and sketches of Edward Norton 1922-24 ISBN 978-0-7509-5585-0	Christopher Norton	The History Press
The Adventure Game: A Cameraman's Tales from Films at the Edge ISBN 978-1-910124-31-4	Keith Partridge	Sandstone Press
Wild Nights ISBN 978-1-84953-699-8	Phoebe Smith	Summersdale
The Sunlit Night ISBN 978-1-4088-6303-9	Rebecca Dinerstein	Bloomsbury Publishing
Rise ISBN 978-1-4088-5792-2	Karen Campbell	Bloomsbury Press
In Some Lost Place ISBN 9781-1910240-37-3	Sandy Allen	Vertebrate Publishing
Between the Sunset and the Sea ISBN 978-0-00-754540	Simon Ingram	William Collins, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers
Going Up is Easy ISBN 978-0-14-357323-4	Lydia Bradley	Penguin NZ
The Ghosts of K2: The epic saga of the first ascent ISBN 978-1-78074-595-4	Mick Conefrey	OneWorld Publications
Too Close To God ISBN 978-0-9918076-5-9	Jeff Long	Imaginary Mountain Surveyors
Abode of the Gods ISBN 978-1-85284-771-5	Kev Reynolds	Cicerone Press Ltd
A Life on the Edge: Eric Jones ISBN 978-1-84527-549-5	Greg Lewis	Gwasg Carreg Gwalch
Extreme Eiger ISBN 978-1-47113-460-9	Peter Gillman & Leni Gillman	Simon & Schuster UK Ltd
Alpine Warriors ISBN 978-1-771601-09-2	Bernadette McDonald	Rocky Mountain Books
Cold Feet, Stories of a Middling Climber ISBN 978-0692305560	David Pagel	Self published
The Naked Mountaineer, Misadventures of an Alpine Traveler ISBN 978-0-8032-4879-3	Steve Sieberson	University of Nebraska Press
Mountains: Oblique Angles ISBN 978-0-9933659-0-4	Alison Ireland	Hour of Writes Ltd
Run or Die ISBN 978-0-241-00485-2	Kilian Jornet	Viking, Penguin Random House
Apprentice to the Masters of the Golden Age	Pat Ament	e-book

For more details on the prize and winning books of earlier years  do visit www.boardmantasker.com