The 2025 Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature goes to Iain Perers for The Corridor.

Congratulations Iain!

In his memoir, Iain Peters recounts his life as a climber and teacher, revealing how his passion for wild places and adventure served as a means of survival and a form of recovery from childhood sexual abuse. He candidly explores the long-term impact of this trauma on his psyche and relationships, finding strength in the mountains in the emotional journey of healing. The book is a powerful story of hope, resilience, and the creation of a life fulfilled despite an early, horrific trauma.

Iain was introduced to climbing, aged 4 by his grandfather on the granite tors of Dartmoor and the sea cliffs of Land’s End. He’s been climbing ever since, as an instructor, pioneer of hundreds of new routes in the Southwest over five decades and mountaineering in the Cordillera Darwin of Tierra del Fuego.

His first published work was The Climbers’ Club Guide to North Devon and Cornwall in 1988. Iain then lived with his wife and children in Cumbria, working as the Lake District National Park Authority’s freelance writer where he created and wrote Rocky Rambler’s Wild Walks, in collaboration with the cartoonist and illustrator Colin Shelbourn, the first walking guide to the Lake District for children, which won the Hunter Davies Prize at The Lake District Book of The Year Awards in 1992.