Ed Douglas – Tenzing – The Authoritative, Illustrated Biography

Monday October 22 at 7:30 p.m.

Ed Douglas, 41, writes about mountain areas and their people, most recently covering the Tibetan struggle for freedom, renewable energy and the Maoist insurgency in Nepal. He also writes on landscape and psychology and has profiled leading scientists like Steven Pinker and E. O. Wilson. His articles have appeared in National Geographic, New Scientist, Outside magazine, The Guardian, The Observer and The Daily Telegraph.

Awarded a Winston Churchill Memorial Trust Fellowship in 1995 to travel around Everest, Douglas’ account of that journey, Chomolungma Sings The Blues, was published in November 1997 by Constable. Widely praised in the national press, the book won the Special Jury Award at the Banff Mountain Book Festival in 1998. Other books include Regions of the Heart, a biography of mountaineer Alison Hargreaves, who disappeared returning from the summit of K2 in 1995. The book won Italy’s ITAS Award in 2005.

His latest book is the first full-length biography of Tenzing Norgay, who climbed Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953, published by National Geographic in April 2003. Tenzing was awarded a major prize at the Banff Mountain Book Festival.

Ed is also an enthusiastic amateur climber, with ascents in the Alps like the North Face of the Droites and the first ascent of the North Face of Xiashe in China. A former editor of the Alpine Journal, he has contributed to many outdoor and climbing magazines, and was most recently Associate Editor of Climber magazine.

He lives in Sheffield with his wife, Kate, a science journalist, and their two children, Rosa, 12, and Joe, 10.

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