The Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature is an annual prize of £3,000 awarded by the Boardman Tasker Charitable Trust to an author or authors for "an original work which has made an outstanding contribution to mountain literature". The prize was established in 1983 in memory of British climbers
Peter Boardman and
Joe Tasker, both of whom wrote books about their mountaineering expeditions, after their deaths on the northeast ridge of
Mount Everest in 1982. It can be awarded for a piece of fiction or non-fiction, poetry or drama, although the work must have been written in (or translated into) English. The prize is announced at the annual
Kendal Mountain Festival.[1][2]
Winners
2023
Katie Brown, Unraveled: A Climber’s Journey through Darkness and Back
2022
Brian Hall, High Risk: Climbing to Extinction and
Helen Mort, A Line Above the Sky: A Story of Mountains and Motherhood
2021
David Smart, Emilio Comici: Angel of the Dolomites
2020
Jessica J. Lee, Two Trees Make a Forest: On Memory, Migration and Taiwan
2019
Kate Harris, Lands of Lost Borders: A Journey on the Silk Road
In 2012, an award for writers aged between 16 and 25 was introduced for works up to 1,500 words in length that must be "original unpublished literary work, whether fiction, non-fiction, drama or poetry, the central theme of which is concerned with the mountain environment". The prize is £250 and publication in Summit magazine.[3]