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| birth_place = [[Stockport]], [[England]]
| death_date = {{death date and age|1982|5|17|1950|12|25|mf=y}}
| death_place = The North-East Ridge, [[Mount Everest]], [[Tibet]]
| occupation = [[Mountaineer]]
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'''Peter Boardman''' (b.[[December 25]],[[1950]] - d.[[May 17]], [[1982]]) was a British [[climbing|climber]], [[Mount Everest|Everest]] summiteer, and author of several mountaineering books. Born in [[Stockport]], [[England]], he began climbing in his teens, and at the age of 16 made his first visit to the [[Alps]]. He quickly became a proficient Alpine climber, and made the first British ascents of the North Face Direct of the Olan, the North Face of the Nesthorn and the North Face Direct of the Lauterbrunnen Breithorn.
After [[Stockport Grammar School]], he studied English at the [[University of Nottingham]], where he was President of the [[Nottingham University Mountaineering Club|Mountaineering Club]], here he undertook his first expedition to the [[Hindu Kush]] of [[Afghanistan]], climbing the North Face of Koh-I-Khaaik and making the first ascent of Kohi-Mundi. After Nottingham, Peter studied for a diploma in education at the [[University of Wales, Bangor]], where he learnt some Welsh. He became a British [[Mountain Guide]], and worked for the [[British Mountaineering Council]]. He was subsequently President of the British Association of Mountain Guides and Director of the [[International School of Mountaineering]] at [[Leysin]].
A number of expeditions followed, and in 1975, he summited [[Mount Everest|Everest]] via the [[Timeline of climbing Mount Everest#1975|South West face]], as part of the second assault team, on an expedition on which fellow climber [[Mick Burke]] was tragically killed.
In 1976 he joined forces with [[Joe Tasker]] and climbed the West Wall of [[Changabang]], at its time probably the hardest Himalayan climb in the world. His book about the experience ''The Shining Mountain'' is one of the outstanding works of mountaineering literature, and won the 1979 [[John Llewellyn Rhys Prize]] for literature.
After a failed attempt at [[K2]], in which climber [[Nick Estcourt]] was killed in an avalanche, Boardman successfully climbed [[Kangchenjunga]] in 1979 via the North Ridge. He returned to K2 in 1980, reaching a height of 7975 metres. He was killed on the North-North East ridge of Everest in 1982, along with his climbing partner [[Joe Tasker]]. In 1992 Boardman's body was found by climbers from Kazakhstan in a sitting position near the Second Pinnacle "looking like he was asleep". Boardman's body was identified through photographs by relatives in the UK.
A second book ''Sacred Summits'', detailing his climbing exploits of 1979, was published posthumously. The [[Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature]] was established in memory of him and Joe Tasker, also a gifted writer.
==External links==
*[http://www.boardmantasker.com/ Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature]
*José Luis Bermúdez, ‘Boardman, Peter David (1950–1982)’, [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/62490 Oxford Dictionary of National Biography], Oxford University Press, Sept 2004; online edn, May 2006
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