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American Alpine Club Literary Award

Prize Background

The Literary Award was established by the American Alpine Club to recognize excellence in alpine literature by American writers. The recipient of the award is selected by a committee which determines the selection criteria and procedures.

The Award Winners

This list of books includes a sampling of works from each of the winners since the award was first made in 1986. Some of the winners have primarily published in magazines and not books and this is noted, when appropriate. Some of these books are out-of-print or unavailable in the US (at least through Amazon.com) and are shown in red.

Year Winner(s) Selected Titles
2005 JOHN SHERMAN
bullet Sherman Exposed: Slightly Censored Climbing Stories   Read Review
bullet How to Rock Climb: Better Bouldering (How To Climb Series)
bullet Hueco Tanks Climbing and Bouldering Guide, 2nd (Regional Rock Climbing Series)
bullet Stone Crusade: A Historical Guide to Bouldering in America (The American Alpine Book Series)
bullet Classic Rock Climbs No. 06 Hueco Tanks State Park, Texas
MARK JENKINS
bullet The Hard Way: Stories of Danger, Survival, and the Soul of Adventure
bullet To Timbuktu
bullet Off the Map: Bicycling Across Siberia
bulletMark also writes for Outside Magazine
2004 GALEN ROWELL (tie)
bullet Galen Rowell's Vision: The Art of Adventure Photography
bullet Mountain Light: In Search of the Dynamic Landscape
bullet High & Wild: Essays and Photographs on Wilderness Adventure
bullet Yosemite and the Wild Sierra
BRADFORD WASHBURN (tie)
bullet Bradford Washburn: Mountain Photography Read Review
bullet Mount McKinley: The Conquest of Denali
bullet On High: The Adventures of Legendary Mountaineer, Photographer, and Scientist Brad Washburn
bullet Exploring the Unknown: Historic Diaries of Bradford Washburn's Alaska/Yukon Expeditions
2003 TAMI KNIGHT
bulletClimbing Tales of Terror: Wicked Lies and Malicious Slander
bulletEverest: The Ultimate Hump
bulletTami Knight Returns: Cartoonz Fer Climberz
bulletTraditional Lead Climbing: Surviving the Learning Years (with Heidi Pesterfield)
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2002 RICK RIDGEWAY
bulletThe Shadow of Kilimanjaro
bulletBelow Another Sky: A Mountain Adventure in Search of a Lost Father
bulletThe Last Step: The American Ascent of K2
bulletBoldest Dream: The Story of 12 Who Climbed Mount Everest
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1999 AUDREY SALKELD
bulletThe Last Climb; The Legendary Everest Expeditions Of George Mallory (with David Breashars)
bulletWorld Mountaineering: The World's Great Mountains by the World's Great Mountaineers
bulletOn the Edge of Europe: Mountaineering in the Caucasus
bulletA Portrait of Leni Riefenstahl
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1998 MICHAEL KENNEDY  
Founder and publisher of Climbing Magazine.
1997 BROUGHTON COBURN
bulletEverest: Mountain Without Mercy
bulletTriumph on Everest: A Photobiography of Sir Edmund Hillary
bulletAama in America: A Pilgrimage of the Heart
bulletNepali Aama: Life Lessons of a Nepali Woman
bulletNepali Aama: Portrait of a Nepalese Woman
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1996 JONATHAN WATERMAN
bulletArctic Crossing: A Journey Through the Inuit Passage And Northwest Culture
bulletThe Quotable Climber: Literary, Humorous, Inspirational And Fearful Moments Of Climbing
bulletIn the Shadow of Denali: Life and Death on Alaska's Mt. McKinley
bulletA Most Hostile Mountain: Recreating The Duke Of Abruzzi's Historic Expedition on Mount St. Elias
bulletKayaking the Vermilion Sea: Eight Hundred Miles Down The Baja
bulletCloud Dancers: Portraits of North American Mountaineers
bulletHigh Alaska: A Historical Guide to Denali, Mt. Foraker and Mt. Hunter
bulletSurviving Denali: A Study of Accidents on Mt. McKinley 1903-1990
covercovercover
1995 ALLEN STECK
bulletAscent: The Climbing Experience In Word And Image (with Steve Roper, David Harris)
bulletFifty Classic Climbs of North America (with Steve Roper)
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1995 STEVE ROPER
bulletMount Whitney: The Complete Trailhead-To-Summit Hiking Guide
bulletThe Sierra High Route: Traversing Timberline Country
bulletAscent: The Climbing Experience In Word And Image (with Allen Steck, David Harris)
bulletCamp 4: Recollections of a Yosemite Rockclimber
bulletFifty Classic Climbs of North America (with Allen Steck)
covercovercover
1994 ELIZABETH HAWLEY  
Reuters correspondent in Nepal; contributed articles to 9 climbing publications
1993 JEFF LONG
bulletThe Descent
bulletThe Ascent: A Novel
bulletAngels of Light
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1992 DAVID S. ROBERTS
bullet Escape from Lucania: An Epic Story of Survival 
bullet True Summit: What Really Happened on the Legendary Ascent of Annapurna
bullet Escape Routes: Further Adventure Writings Of David Roberts
bullet The Mountain of My Fear & Deborah: A Wilderness Narrative
bullet Moments of Doubt And Other Mountaineering Writings
covercover
1990 ED WEBSTER
bulletSnow in the Kingdom: My Storm Years on Everest
bulletRock Climbs in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, 3rd edition (East Volume)
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1988 H. ADAMS CARTER
bulletAmerican Alpine Journal, 1994
bulletAmerican Alpine Journal, 1993
bulletAmerican Alpine Journal, 1992
bulletAmerican Alpine Journal, 1991
bulletAmerican Alpine Journal, 1990
bulletOther issues available at Amazon.com to 1972.
Editor of the American Alpine Club Journal of Mountaineering and Expedition Climbing from 1972-1975.
1987 GREG CHILD
bulletMixed Emotions: Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child  Read Review
bulletPostcards from the Ledge: Collected Mountaineering Writings of Greg Child  Read Review
bulletThin Air: Encounters in the Himalayas  Read Review
bulletOver the Edge: The True Story of Four American Climbers' Kidnap and Escape in the Mountains of Central Asia
bulletClimbing: The Complete Reference
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1986 JONATHAN ROBLEE KRAKAUER
bulletInto Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster  Read Review
bulletInto The Wild
bulletEiger Dreams: Ventures Among Men and Mountains  Read Review
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If you like this list and want to see other award winning books on mountaineering, check out the winners of the following prizes:
bullet Boardman-Tasker Memorial Award for Mountain Literature
bulletBanff Mountain Book Literary Award
bullet National Outdoor Book Awards

 

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