The history of the unsung hero of Everest
the book of Harriet Tuckey, daughter of Griffith Pugh has now won four awards:
Tony Lothian Prize of the Biographers club in 2009 when it was still a manuscrit - 4 years before publication.
In 2013:
Banff Award for Mountain and Wilderness Literature
The Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature
In 2014:
The British Sportsbook Award for Outstanding General Sports Writing - coming second to the Grand prize by the public, both a first for a mountaineering book.
and was:
Finalist for the HW Fisher Biographer's Prize
Longlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction 2013
A great book to be published in French by Caterine Destivelle (Editions du Mont-Blanc) this Autumn, translated by myself.