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2020
Winner
Two Trees Make A Forest: On Memory, Migration and Taiwan by Jessica J Lee

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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
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Psychovertical by Andy Kirkpatrick

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The Eiger Obsession by John Harlin III
Fallen Giants by Maurice Isserman & Stewart Weaver
Cham by Jonathan Trigell
Ararat by Frank Westerman
2007
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The Wild Places by Robert Macfarlane

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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

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Breaking Trail by Arlene Blum
High Endeavours by Jimmy Cruickshank
The Climbing Essays by Jim Perrin
A Rope Of Writers by Graham Wilson
2005
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Learning To Breathe by Andy Cave
The Villain: The Life Of Don Whillans by Jim Perrin

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Mountain Rescue: Chamonix-Mont Blanc by Mick Fowler
On Thin Ice by Mick Fowler
Broad Peak by Richard Sale
2004
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When The Alps Cast Their Spell by Trevor Braham

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Life And Limb by Jamie Andrew
With Friends In High Places by Malcolm Slesser
Nanda Devi by Hugh Thomson
2003
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The Fall by Simon Mawer

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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
1998
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Eric Shipton, Everest And Beyond by Peter Steele

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Sacred Mountains Of The World by Edwin Bernbaum
Postcards From The Edge by Greg Child
The Peak: Past And Present by Gordon Stainforth
A Deathful Ridge by JA Wainwright
1997
Winner
Deep Play by Paul Pritchard

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Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer
Spirits Of Place by Jim Perrin
Dark Shadows Falling by Joe Simpson
Icefields by Thomas Wharton
Against The Wall by Simon Yates
1996
Winner
A Portrait Of Leni Riefenstahl by Audrey Salkeld

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The Return Of John Macnab by Andrew Greig
Storms Of Silence by Joe Simpson
A Spy On The Roof Of The World by Sydney Wignall
1995
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Geoffrey Winthrop Young by Alan Hankinson

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The Burgess Book Of Lies by Adrian Burgess & Alan Burgess
K2 The Story Of The Savage Mountain by Jim Curran
Vertical Pleasure by Mick Fowler
Everest Calling by Lorna Siggins
1994
Winner
At The Rising Of The Moon by Dermot Somers

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Among Mountains by Jim Crumley
Alps 4000 by Martin Moran
No Place To Fall by Victor Saunders
We Aspired by Pete Sinclair
1993
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The Ascent by Jeff Long

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The Undiscovered Country by Phil Bartlett
This Game Of Ghosts by Joe Simpson
1992
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In Monte Viso's Horizon by Will Mclewin

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Spirit Of The Age - Royal Robbins by Pat Ament
Flammes De Pierre by Mick Fowler
My Vertical World by Jerzy Kukuczka
The Water People by Joe Simpson
1991
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Mer De Glace by Alison Fell
A View From The Ridge by Ian R Mitchell & Dave Brown

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Suspended Sentences by Jim Curran
The Endless Knot by Kurt Diemburger
1990
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Elusive Summits by Victor Saunders

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Footloose In The Himalayas by Mike Harding
Vortex by David Harris
Mountains And Other Ghosts by Dermot Somers
1989
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Climbers by M John Harrison

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Everest: Kangshung Face by Stephen Venables
1988
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Touching the Void by Joe Simpson

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Feeding The Rat by Al Alvarez
Thin Air by Greg Child
K2, Triumph And Tragedy by Jim Curran
1987
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In The Footsteps Of Scott by Roger Mear & Robert Swan

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K2, Savage Mountain, Savage Summer by John Barry
Native Stones by David Craig
1986
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Painted Mountains by Stephen Venables

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Kingdoms Of Experience by Andrew Greig
On And Off The Rocks by Jim Perrin
Savage Snows by Walt Unsworth
1985
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Menlove by Jim Perrin

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Summit Fever by Andrew Greig
Journey After Dawn by William Peascod
1984
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Living High by Linda Gill
The Shishapangma Expedition by Doug Scott & Alex Macintyr