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The Descent (novel)
Jeff Long is an American writer and researcher. He is a recipient of the 1993 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature for his work, ''The Ascent''.Boardman Tasker winners
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Bibliography


Fiction

*''Angels of Light'' (1987, ) *''The Ascent'' (1993, ) *''Empire of Bones'' (1993, ,) *''The Descent'' (#1, 1999, ) *''Year Zero'' (2003, ) *''The Reckoning'' (2004, ) *''The Wall'' (2006, ) *''Deeper: A Novel'' (#2, 2007, ) *''Too Close to God'' (2015, )


Non-fiction

*''Outlaw: The Story of
Claude Dallas Claude Lafayette Dallas Jr. (born March 11, 1950) was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the deaths ...
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Boardman Tasker Prize For Mountain Literature
The Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature is an annual prize of £3,000 awarded by the Boardman Tasker Charitable Trust to an author or authors for "an original work which has made an outstanding contribution to mountain literature". The prize was established in 1983 in memory of British climbers Peter Boardman and Joe Tasker, both of whom wrote books about their mountaineering expeditions, after their deaths on the northeast ridge of Mount Everest in 1982. It can be awarded for a piece of fiction or non-fiction, poetry or drama, although the work must have been written in (or translated into) English. The prize is announced at the annual Kendal Mountain Festival. Winners *2022 Brian Hall, ''High Risk: Climbing to Extinction'' and Helen Mort, ''A Line Above the Sky: A Story of Mountains and Motherhood'' *2021 David Smart, ''Emilio Comici: Angel of the Dolomites'' *2020 Jessica J. Lee, ''Two Trees Make a Forest: On Memory, Migration and Taiwan'' *2019 Kate Harris, ''Lands ...
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Claude Dallas
Claude Lafayette Dallas Jr. (born March 11, 1950) was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the deaths of two game wardens in Idaho. On May 16, 1986, he became the 400th fugitive listed on the FBI Ten Most Wanted List. Biography Born in Winchester, Virginia, Dallas' father was a dairy farmer. When he was young, his family moved from the Shenandoah Valley to Michigan and Claude Dallas spent most of his childhood in Luce County, later moving to rural Morrow County, Ohio, where he learned to trap and hunt game. As a boy, Dallas read many books about the old west and dreamed of someday living as the 19th century characters in the books he read. He graduated from Mount Gilead High School in 1967, then headed out west, hitchhiking most of the way across the United States, finally landing in Oregon where he earned a living as a ranch hand and trapper. Out of contact with his family back east, he claimed to be unaware of draft notices mailed to his parents' home ordering him to repo ...
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Boardman Tasker Prize Winners
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