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After Stockport, he studied English at the University of Nottingham, where he was President of the 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 at 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 EverestMount Everest is the highest mountain in the world Sir George Everest ( 1790 1866) British surveyor after whom Mount Everest is named Everest is the name of an 1998 IMAX film by director David Breashears of his filming team's ascent of Mount Everest durin via the South East ridge, 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 PrizeThe John Llewellyn Rhys Prize is a British based literary prize. It is presented for the best work of literature from Britain or the Commonwealth written by an author under 35. Since 1987 it has been funded by the Mail on Sunday. The winner receives 5000 for literature.
After a failed attempt at K2K2 (also known as Mount Godwin-Austen Lambha Pahar Chogori Kechu or Dapsang is a mountain in the Karakoram, part of the Himalayas range, on the border between China and the Northern Areas of Pakistan. At 8,611 metres, it ranks as the second highest in the, 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 Everest in 1982, along with his climbing partner Joe Tasker .
A second book Shining Summits, detailing his climbing exploits of 1979, was published posthumously. The Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain LiteratureThe Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature is an annual prize of £2000 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. It was establish was established in memory of him and Joe Tasker, also a gifted writer.