Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature

2023

Shortlist
Sherpa: Stories of Life and Death from the Forgotten Guardians of Everest by Pradeep Bashyal & Ankit Babu Adhikari
Unraveled: A Climber’s Journey Through Darkness and Back by Katie Brown
The Hidden Fires: A Cairngorms Journey with Nan Shepherd by Merryn Glover
Closer to the Edge by Leo Houlding
British Mountaineers by Faye Rhiannon Latham

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2022

Winners
High Risk: Climbing to Extinction by Brian Hall
A Line Above the Sky: A Story of Mountains and Motherhood by Helen Mort

Shortlist
Climbing The Walls: Learning to Cope When Your World Crumbles by Kieran Cunningham
Time on Rock: A Climber’s Route into the Mountains by Anna Fleming
Through Dangerous Doors: A Life at Risk by Robert Charles Lee
The Mountain Path: A Climber’s Journey Through Life & Death by Paul Pritchard

2021

Winner
Emilio Comici, Angel of the Dolomites by David Smart

Shortlist
The Moth and The Mountain: A True Story Of Love, War and Everest by Ed Caesar
Himalaya: A Human History by Ed Douglas
Signs Of Life: To The Ends of the World with a Doctor by Stephen Fabes
Never Leave The Dog Behind by Helen Mort
To Live: Fighting For Life on the Killer Mountain by Elisabeth Revol

2020

Winner
Two Trees Make A Forest: On Memory, Migration and Taiwan by Jessica J Lee

Shortlist
The Unremembered Places: Exploring Scotland’S Wild Histories by Patrick Baker
Where There’S A Will: Hope, Grief and Endurance in a Cycle Race Across A Continent by Emily Chappell
The Uncrowned King of Mont Blanc: The Life of T. Graham Brown, Physiologist and Mountaineer by Peter Foster
Slatehead: The Ascent of Britain’s Slate-Climbing Scene by Peter Goulding

2019

Winner
Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road by Kate Harris

Shortlist
No Easy Way by Mick Fowler
Inner Ranges by Geoff Powter
Paul Preuss: Lord of the Abyss by David Smart
Hangdog Days by Jeff Smoot
The Equilibrium Line by David Wilson

2018

Winner
Limits of the Known by David Roberts

Shortlist
Tides: A Climber’s Voyage by Nick Bullock
The Eight Mountains by Paolo Cognetti translated by Simon Camell
Days to Remember by Rob Collister
Kinder Scout: The People’s Mountain by Ed Douglas & John Beatty
The Flying Mountain by Christoph Ransmayr
The Ogre: Biography of a mountain and the dramatic story of the first ascent by Doug Scott
Honouring High Places: The Mountain Life of Junko Tabei by Junko Tabei & Helen Y Rolfe translated by Yumiko Hiraki & Rieko Holtved

2017

Winner
The Art of Freedom: The Life and Climbs of Voytek Kurtyka by Bernadette MacDonald

Shortlist
The Push by Tommy Caldwell
The Magician’s Glass by Ed Douglas
Night Naked by Erhard Loretan & Jean Ammann translated by Corinne McKay
Among the Summer Snows by Christopher Nicholson

2016

Winner
The Bond by Simon McCartney

Shortlist
Alone on the Wall by Alex Honnold & David Roberts
Eruption by Steve Olson
Wild Country by Mark Vallance
The Maverick Mountaineer by Robert Wainwright

2015

Winner
The Calling: A Life Rocked by Mountains by Barry Blanchar

Shortlist
In Some Lost Place by Sandy Allan
Snowblind: Stories of Alpine Obsession by Daniel Arnold
Cold Feet, Stories of a Middling Climber by David Pagel
One Day as a Tiger by John Porter

2014

Winner
Tears of the Dawn by Jules Lines

Shortlist
Hanging On, A Life Inside British Climbing's Golden Age by Martin Boysen
Law Unto Himself by Michael Law
In Search Of Peaks, Passes & Glaciers Irish Alpine Pioneers by Frank Nugent
Nanga Parbat 1970,Tragedy And Controversy by Richard Sale & Jochen Hemmleb
My Father, Frank Unresting Spirit Of Everest by Tony Smythe

2013

Winner
Everest: The First Ascent by Harriet Tuckey

Shortlist
Echoes One Climbers Hard Road To Freedom by Nick Bullock
Shipton & Tilman The Great Decade Of Himalayan Exploration by Jim Perrin
Starry Night by Isabel Suppe

2012

Winner
Cold Wars: Climbing The Fine Line Between Risk And Reality by Andy Kirkpatrick

Shortlist
Here, There And Everywhere by Jim Curran
Into The Silence by Wade Davis
The Challenge Of K2 by Richard Sale
Fiva An Adventure That Went Wrong by Gordon Stainforth
The Wild Within by Simon Yates

2011

Winner
Freedom Climbers by Bernadette McDonald

Shortlist
Desert Towers by Steve 'Crusher' Bartlett
Murder in the Hindu Kush by Tim Hannigan
The Sound of Gravity by Joe Simpson
Shadow of the Matterhorn by Ian Smith

2010

Winner
Ron Fawcett: Rock Athlete by Ron Fawcett & Ed Douglas

Shortlist
No Way Down by Graham Bowley
The Hut Builder by Laurence Fearnley
Climbing Philosophy For Everyone by Stephen E Schmid
Unjustifiable Risk? by Simon Thompson

2009

Winner
Beyond the Mountain by Steve House

Shortlist
Cairngorm John by John Allen
Hooker & Brown by Jerry Auld
The Longest Climb by Dominic Faulkner
Revelations by Jerry Moffatt
Deep Powder and Steep Rock by Chic Scott

2008

Winner
Psychovertical by Andy Kirkpatrick

Shortlist
The Eiger Obsession by John Harlin III
Fallen Giants by Maurice Isserman & Stewart Weaver
Cham by Jonathan Trigell
Ararat by Frank Westerman

2007

Winner
The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane

Shortlist
The Mountains Look On Marrakech by Hamish Brown
Happy Climbing Tells No Tales by Judith Brown
Brotherhod Of The Rope by Bernadette McDonald
Forever On The Mountain by James Tabor
Higher Than The Eagle Soars by Stephen Venables

2006

Winner
An Afterclap Of Fate by Charles Lind

Shortlist
Breaking Trail by Arlene Blum
High Endeavours by Jimmy Cruickshank
The Climbing Essays by Jim Perrin
A Rope Of Writers by Graham Wilson

2005

Winners
Learning To Breathe by Andy Cave
The Villain: The Life Of Don Whillans by Jim Perrin

Shortlist
Mountain Rescue: Chamonix-Mont Blanc by Mick Fowler
On Thin Ice by Mick Fowler
Broad Peak by Richard Sale

2004

Winner
When The Alps Cast Their Spell by Trevor Braham

Shortlist
Life And Limb by Jamie Andrew
With Friends In High Places by Malcolm Slesser
Nanda Devi by Hugh Thomson

2003

Winner
The Fall by Simon Mawer

Shortlist
Everest: The Official History by George Band
Tenzing, Hero Of Everest by Ed Douglas
Mountains of the Mind by Robert Macfarlane
Yosemite: Half A Century Of Dynamic Rock Climbing by Simon Mawer & Heinz Zak
My Father, Sandy by Nicholas Woolaston

2002

Winner
Fatal Mountaineer by Robert Roper

Shortlist
Over The Edge by Greg Child
Climbing Free: My Life In The Vertical World by Lyn Hill & Greg Child
Expeditions by Andrew Lindblade
The Evidence Of Things Not Seen by WH Murray
Travels With The Flea by Jim Perrin
The Beckoning Silence by Joe Simpson

2001

Winner
Hazard's Way by Roger Hubank

Shortlist
Climbing Everest by Pat Ament
The Middle-Aged Mountaineer by Jim Curran
Pyrenean High Route by John Harding
Touching My Father's Soul by Jamling Tenzing Norgay & Broughton Coburn
Snow In The Kingdom: My Storm Years On Everest by Ed Webster

2000

Winner
The Wildest Dream: Mallory, His Life And Conflicting Passions by Peter Gillman & Leni Gillman

Shortlist
Hell Of A Journey (Scottish Winter Mountain-Walking) by Mike Cawthorne
Travail So Gladly Spent by Tom Price
White by Rosie Thomas
A Slender Thread by Stephen Venables

1999

Winner
Totem Pole by Paul Pritchard

Shortlist
Songs Of Silence by Patricia Barrie
High Achiever: The Life And Climbs Of Chris Bonington by Jim Curran
Ghosts Of Everest: Authorised Story Of The Search For Mallory And Irvine by Jochen Hemmleb , Eric R Simonson & Larry A Johnson
Regions Of The Heart: The Triumph And Tragedy Of Alison Hargreaves by David Rose & Ed Douglas