2015


Winner

The Calling: A Life Rocked by Mountains by Barry Blanchard | Publisher: Patagonia | ISBN 978-1-938340-31-4


Shortlist

One Day as a Tiger by John Porter | Vertebrate Publishing | ISBN 978-1-910240-08-3

Snowblind: Stories of Alpine Obsession by Daniel Arnold | Counterpoint | ISBN 978-1-61902-453-3

In Some Lost Place by Sandy Allan | Vertebrate Publishing | ISBN 9781-1910240-37-3

Cold Feet, Stories of a Middling Climber by David Pagel | Self Published | ISBN 978-0692305560


Entries

Village of Secrets: Defying the Nazis in Vichy France by Caroline Moorhead | Chatto & Windus | ISBN 978-0-701-18641-8

After the Wind 1996 Everest Tragedy One Survivor's Story by Lou Kasischke | Good Hart Publishing LC | ISBN 978-1-9940877-00-6

Denali's Howl by Andy Hall | Transworld | ISBN 978-0-593-07445-9

The Scent of Juniper: Poems of the Himalayas by Dr Mikel Vause | Kelsay Books | ISBN 978-0692328941

Make or Break: Don't Let Climbing Injuries Dictate Your Success by David MacLeod | Rare Breed Productions | ISBN 9780956428134

Statement: The Ben Moon Story by Ed Douglas | Vertebrate Publishing | ISBN 978-1-906148-98-0

The Great Mountain Crags of Scotland by Guy Robertson & Adrian Crofton | Vertebrate Publishing | ISBN 978-1-906148-89-8

Beyond Limits by Steve McClure | Vertebrate Publishing | ISBN 978-1-910240-19-9

Mount Hood: Adventures of the Wy'East Climbers, 1930-1942 by Ric Conrad | Kahuna Books | ISBN 978-0-9887339-2-3

Wilderness Weekends by Phoebe Smith | Bradt Travel Guides | ISBN 978-1-84162-9124

Steps by Mark Goodwin | Longbarrow Press | ISBN 978-1-906175-24-5

The Blind Man of Hoy by Red Szell | Sandstone Press | SBN 978-1-910124-22-2

Becoming a Mountain: Himalayan Journeys in Search of the Sacred and the Sublime by Stephen Alter | Arcade Publishing, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing | ISBN 978-1-62872-510-0

The Tower: A Chronicle of Climbing & Controversy on Cerro Torre by Kelly Cordes | Patagonia | ISBN 978-1-938340-33-8

Everest Revealed: The Private Diaries and Sketches of Edward Norton 1922-24 by Christopher Norton | The History Press | ISBN 978-0-7509-5585-0

The Adventure Game: A Cameraman's Tales from Films at the Edge by Keith Partridge | Sandstone Press | ISBN 978-1-910124-31-4

Wild Nights by Phoebe Smith | Summersdale | ISBN 978-1-84953-699-8

The Sunlit Night by Rebecca Dinerstein | Bloomsbury Publishing | ISBN 978-1-4088-6303-9

Rise by Karen Campbell | Bloomsbury Press | ISBN 978-1-4088-5792-2

Between the Sunset and the Sea by Simon Ingram | William Collins, an imprint of Harper Collins Publishers | ISBN 978-0-00-754540

Going Up is Easy by Lydia Bradley | Penguin NZ | ISBN 978-0-14-357323-4

The Ghosts of K2: The Epic Saga of the First Ascent by Mick Conefrey | OneWorld Publications | ISBN 978-1-78074-595-4

Too Close To God by Jeff Long | Imaginary Mountain Surveyors | ISBN 978-0-9918076-5-9

Abode of the Gods by Kev Reynolds | Cicerone Press Ltd | ISBN 978-1-85284-771-5

A Life on the Edge: Eric Jones by Greg Lewis | Gwasg Carreg Gwalch | ISBN 978-1-84527-549-5

Extreme Eiger by Peter Gillman & Leni Gillman | Simon & Schuster UK Ltd | ISBN 978-1-47113-460-9

Alpine Warriors by Bernadette McDonald | Rocky Mountain Books | ISBN 978-1-771601-09-2

The Naked Mountaineer, Misadventures of an Alpine Traveler by Steve Sieberson | University of Nebraska Press | ISBN 978-0-8032-4879-3

Mountains: Oblique Angles by Alison Ireland | Hour of Writes Ltd | ISBN 978-0-9933659-0-4

Run or Die by Kilian Jornet | Viking, Penguin Random House | ISBN 978-0-241-00485-2

Apprentice to the Masters of the Golden Age by Pat Ament | e-book