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The Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature is an annual prize of £2000 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.' It was established in memory of Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker after their death on the North East ridge of Mount Everest. 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.
He was subsequently President of the British Association of Mountain Guides and Director of the International School of Mountaineering at Leysin.
His book about the experience The Shining Mountain is one of the outstanding works of mountaineeringliterature, and won the 1979 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for literature.
The BoardmanTaskerPrize for MountainLiterature was established in memory of him and Joe Tasker, also a gifted writer.
The trust was established to promote literature by providing an annual award to authors of literary works, the central theme of which is concerned with mountains.
The prize of £2,000 commemorates the lives of Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker and is given to the author or co-authors of an original work which has made an outstanding contribution to mountainliterature.
On 17 May 1982 Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker were last seen on Mount Everest attempting to traverse The Pinnacles on the unclimbed Northe East Ridge at around 8250 metres.
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