The winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize for 2008 was announced on Saturday, Nov. 22, at the Kendal Mountain Festival in England. Fallen Giants : A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the Age of Empire to the Age of Extremes, a book co-authored by James L. Ferguson Professor of History Maurice Isserman and University of Rochester Professor Stewart Weaver, was the second runner-up for the prize.
Worth £3,000, the prize commemorates the lives of authors and mountaineers Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker, who disappeared on Mount Everest in 1982. It is given to "the author or co-authors of an original work which has made an outstanding contribution to mountain literature."
On May 17, 1982, Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker were last seen on Mount Everest attempting to traverse The Pinnacles on the unclimbed North East Ridge. Their deaths marked the end of a remarkable era in British mountaineering. Their literary legacy lives on through the Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature set up by family and friends in 1983.
Worth £3,000, the prize commemorates the lives of authors and mountaineers Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker, who disappeared on Mount Everest in 1982. It is given to "the author or co-authors of an original work which has made an outstanding contribution to mountain literature."
On May 17, 1982, Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker were last seen on Mount Everest attempting to traverse The Pinnacles on the unclimbed North East Ridge. Their deaths marked the end of a remarkable era in British mountaineering. Their literary legacy lives on through the Boardman Tasker Prize for mountain literature set up by family and friends in 1983.
