In the spring of 1982, a small British team set out to tackle one of the most formidable challenges in Himalayan climbing: the unclimbed East-Northeast Ridge of Everest from Tibet. During the attempt, ...

Luca Schiera, Luca Moroni, and Giacomo Mauri of Italy are on their way to repeat the famed Boardman-Tasker route on the West Wall of Changabang. Why is this repeat of a route on a 6,864m peak in India ...

A book for dreamers: Savage arena by Joe Tasker. A story about a form of alpinism that has perhaps disappeared but which has certainly left its mark in history. The book review by Ivo Ferrari. Being ...

"Freedom Climbers", a novel about Polish climbing achievements in the Himalayas written by Canadian author Bernadette McDonald, has won the top honour at Canada's Banff Mountain Book Festival. The ...

Vertebrate Publishing, an independent publisher of outdoor books, has had two of its titles shortlisted for the 2014 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. Established in 1983, the £3,000 ...

Sheffield's Vertebrate Publishing has scooped the internationally recognised Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature for its book Art of Freedom '“ the biography of Polish mountaineer Voytek ...