This year we are celebrating the 40th Anniversary of Pete and Joe’s ascent of Changabang, with a display at the Kendal Mountain Festival during the Literary events.

Interest in the Boardman Tasker (BT) Award for Mountain Literature remains as great as ever and
this year’s competition has resulted in 35 books being submitted, from personal journeys and
adventures, poetry, biographies & autobiographies to novels.

Event at Sheffield Hallam University.

This very enjoyable event was attended by, Martin Wragg, Dennis Gray, Janet & Steve Dean from the BT Trust. More than 200 people enjoyed a series of highly amusing and interesting speakers, describing various aspects of Ken's eventful life.

Featured in The Guardian, Helen Mort's poem: An Easy Day for a Lady

Helen Mort’s new poetry collection, No Map Could Show Them (Chatto), is a witty and innovative exploration of women and mountaineering that is seriously playful with history in the assured voice of a modern young woman who also has other lives and other interests (love poems, a missed train, heart surgery, running, the starling murmuration above Middleton Moor, the sauna worker who knows ‘I work in mental health’).

With great sadness we report the death of Ken Wilson. A great friend of The Boardman Tasker Mountain Literature Award from the outset. As publisher he had a number of books on the shortlist and was always present at the BT event. Ken was a huge character and will be sadly missed and fondly remembered by all of us. He was awarded the Boardman Tasker Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015.

Ken Wilson 1944-2016

Barry Blanchard and Sandy Allan join forces to promote the future of mountain literature.

Winner of the 2015 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, Barry Blanchard, and shortlisted author Sandy Allan are hosting a fundraising event at Canmore Library, Alberta, to support the future of the Boardman Tasker Charitable Trust.

With great sadness, we heard last night that Jim Curran had died after a long and courageous struggle with cancer.

In the climbing world Jim was much loved for his wit, humour, humility and great kindness. He was wonderful company, both on the crag and in the pub (where he excelled!).

The winner of the 2015 Boardman Tasker Award is the Canadian mountaineer Barry Blanchard, with his book "The Calling: A Life Rocked by Mountains."

A friend of the Boardman Tasker Trust from the outset, Ken’s contribution to mountain writing has been outstanding. Initially a climber/photographer, Ken established Mountain Magazine in 1969. Mountain soon acquired a worldwide reputation for excellence and established Ken as a figure in world mountain reporting.