Interest in the Boardman Tasker (BT) Award for Mountain Literature remains as great as ever and
this year’s competition has resulted in 35 books being submitted, from personal journeys and
adventures, poetry, biographies & autobiographies to novels.
A Celebration of a Life: Ken Wilson
An Easy Day for a Lady
Featured in The Guardian, Helen Mort's poem: An Easy Day for a Lady
Helen Mort’s new poetry collection, No Map Could Show Them (Chatto), is a witty and innovative exploration of women and mountaineering that is seriously playful with history in the assured voice of a modern young woman who also has other lives and other interests (love poems, a missed train, heart surgery, running, the starling murmuration above Middleton Moor, the sauna worker who knows ‘I work in mental health’).
Ken Wilson
With great sadness we report the death of Ken Wilson. A great friend of The Boardman Tasker Mountain Literature Award from the outset. As publisher he had a number of books on the shortlist and was always present at the BT event. Ken was a huge character and will be sadly missed and fondly remembered by all of us. He was awarded the Boardman Tasker Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015.
Ken Wilson 1944-2016
World-leading climbers host Boardman Tasker fundraising event
Barry Blanchard and Sandy Allan join forces to promote the future of mountain literature.
Winner of the 2015 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, Barry Blanchard, and shortlisted author Sandy Allan are hosting a fundraising event at Canmore Library, Alberta, to support the future of the Boardman Tasker Charitable Trust.
Jim Curran
Boardman Tasker Award 2015
Ken Wilson Awarded Lifetime Achievement Award
A friend of the Boardman Tasker Trust from the outset, Ken’s contribution to mountain writing has been outstanding. Initially a climber/photographer, Ken established Mountain Magazine in 1969. Mountain soon acquired a worldwide reputation for excellence and established Ken as a figure in world mountain reporting.