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Boardman Tasker Prize
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Boardman Tasker prize was established to honour the lives Peter
Boardman and Joe Tasker who died on Everest attempting the West
Ridge. They made significant contributions to mountaineering and
literature. They pioneered Alpine style ascents of Himalayan peaks,
and wrote literary books about their efforts. The prize is awarded
in October each year. |
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2003
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| Simon
Mawer encompasses a great swathe of British mountaineering from
rock climbing in North Wales, to Himalayan expeditions and alpine
ascents such as the Eiger North Face. The book succeeds where most
climbing novels fail. The Fall works as an investigation into what
constitutes love, friendship and betrayal, and as an authentic account
of what it is like to climb and what it is like to be a climber.
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2002
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riveting examination of the 1976 Indian/American Nanda Devi expedition
led by mountaineering legend, Willi Unsoeld. It deals frankly with
the troubled expedition, the deep philosophical issues that develop
between the two stars, Willi Unsoeld and John Roskelly, and with
the death of Nanda Devi Unsoeld on her namesake mountain. |
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| In
this evocation of the Golden Age of Lakeland climbing Roger Hubank's
new novel probes the compelling mythologies of mountaineering to
uncover those illusions of heart and mind from which spring the
tragedies of human nature. This
book also won the Grand Priz at Banff |
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A
biography of George Mallory, the Everest mountaineer.
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| Describes
author Paul Pritchard's recovery from a climbing accident on the
Totem Pole in Tasmania. This is Pritchard's second Boardman Tasker
award. |
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1998
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| A
biography of the British mountaineer Eric Shipton |
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1997
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| A
collection of Paul Pritchard's articles for UK climbing magazines
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| The
prize was awarded from 1984 onwards |
