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Their literary legacy lives on through the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature, established by family and friends in 1983 and presented annually to the author or co-authors of an original work which has made an outstanding contribution to mountain literature.
Both men were superb mountaineers and talented writers.
Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker died on Everest in 1982, whilst attempting a new and unclimbed line.
Combining the excitement of extreme climbing with acute observation of life in the mountains, this is an amusing, dramatic, poignant and thought-provoking book.
Three Sacred mountains, three very different expeditions, all superbly captured by Boardman in Sacred Summits, his second book, first published shortly after his death in 1982.
Renowned for its technical difficulty and spectacular profile, it is aptly dubbed the Eiger of the Himalaya and Boardman\'s first ascent took a gruelling twenty-three days.
In October, he climbed the mountain most Sacred to the Sherpas: the twin-summited Gauri Sankar.
Hurricane-force winds beat back their first two bids on the unclimbed North Ridge, but they eventually stood within feet of the summit - leaving the final few yards untrodden in deference to the inhabiting deity.
During the spring Boardman made a four-man, oxygen-free attempt on the world\'s third highest peak, Kangchenjunga.
This is the highest point between the Andes and the Himalaya, and one of the most inaccessible, rising above thick jungle inhabited by warring Stone Age tribes.
He began on the South Face of the Carstensz Pyramid in New Guinea.
In one climbing year Peter Boardman visited three very different Sacred mountains.
Mountaintops have long been seen as Sacred places, home to gods and dreams
