The Boardman Tasker Charitable Trust

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 £3,000 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 North East Ridge at around 8250 metres. Their deaths marked the end of a remarkable era in British mountaineering.

Peter and Joe left two legacies. One was their great endeavour, their climbs on high peaks with bold, lightweight innovative methods which included Dunagiri, Changabang, Kongur, Everest and Kangchenjunga. The second and more lasting achievement were the books they wrote and left behind.

This literary legacy lives on through the Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature set up by family and friends in 1983.

The rules and entry form are available from this website.

 

 

 

 

Judges for 2012

Bernard Newman, chair of the judges, an experienced climber and former editor of Mountain and Climber magazines.

Lindsay Griffin, a mountaineer with world wide experience and a long established mountaineering journalist.

Shannon O'Donoghue,spent 12 years with the Banff Mountain Film and Book Festival, of which four years were as the Festival Director.

 

A shortlist will be announced in September and the winner at a prizegivng ceremony at Kendal in November.

 

 

Trustees

Paul Tasker(Chairman)   Stephen Dean (Secretary)   Martin Henderson (Treasurer)
John Boardman   Sir Chris Bonington CBE   Dr Charles Clarke  Maria Coffey
 Dennis Gray  Dick Renshaw   Hilary Rhodes  
  Pippa Southward  Martin Wragg

REGISTERED CHARITY No. 1053494