Mallory Biography Wins Boardman Tasker

The Boardman Tasker Award for mountain literature has been won by Peter and Leni Gillman for their biography of George Mallory, 'The Wildest Dream'.

Potted version: upper class English chap, survives trenches of WWI, dreams of climbing Everest, in 1924 disappeared high on the mountain with fellow public school chappy Andrew Irvine. No-one is certain whether they reached the summit or not. In 1999 Mallory's body is found high on the mountain, but casts no real light on whether he made the summit or not.

On the Amazon.co.uk site, co-author Peter Gillman writes:

The Wildest Dream, our biography of George Mallory, has been awarded the Boardman Tasker prize. This prize is the major literary award of the mountaineering world. At the ceremony, held at the Alpine Club in London on November 10, the three judges praised our book as "delicate, and fascinating in the connection it reveals...between climbing and art." In addition, it "shows us, admirably, that George Mallory lived both an outward public life of adventure and a private life as a complex, loving and likeable man."

The book is published by Headline at a recommended retail price of £18.99. To buy this book from Amazon, click here.

The Boardman Tasker was founded to commemorate Pete Boardman and Joe Tasker who died on the NE Ridge of Everest in 1982. Previous winners include Paul Pritchard for The Totem Pole, and OUTDOORSmagic contributor Joe Simpson for Touching The Void.