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2000
Ed
Douglas (United Kingdom)
Writer,
traveller and mountaineer Ed Douglas, 32, has been climbing for seventeen years, starting
on the gritstone edges of Derbyshire while still at school. He studied English at
Manchester University and in his final year there launched the British rock
 climbing
magazine On The Edge. After running OTE for three years, he worked in
Istanbul on the English language daily the Turkish Times - arriving as an
Editorial Assistant and leaving after a year as Managing Editor - before returning to work
as a freelance journalist specializing in adventure, mountain areas and their people, and
environmental issues.
In the last seven years he has written features and news
for The Guardian, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, The Independent and the Independent
on Sunday and a range of national and specialist magazines both in Britain and
abroad, including Men's Health, Arena, New Scientist and Focus.
In 1993 he launched the international mountaineering journal Mountain Review and
ghosted Leo Dickinson's account of his ballooning trip over Everest, published by Jonathan
Cape. He has interviewed many well-known adventurers around the world and won the 1994
Outdoor Writer's Guild Award for his profile of top rock climber Ron Fawcett.
Currently Associate Editor of Climber magazine and
Editor of the Alpine Journal, he is a member of the Alpine Club and Climbers'
Club, and continues to climb to a reasonable standard, in 1995 reaching the summit of
Shivling, a 21,500ft mountain in India close to the source of the Ganges. Other recent
ascents include the North Face of Les Droites in winter and the Gervasutti Pillar on Mont
Blanc du Tacul. In 1997 he climbed on La Main de Fatma, the sandstone towers of Mali, on
the fringes of the Sahara. In the last year he has travelled to Austria to interview
Heinrich Harrer and to New York to interview David Breashears, both for The Guardian.
More recently his assignments have taken him travelling in Kazakstan for The Observer
and to India to interview the Dalai Lama. Ed Douglas was awarded a Winston Churchill
Memorial Trust Fellowship in 1996 to travel around Everest in Nepal and Tibet. His account
of that journey, Chomolungma Sings The Blues, was published in November 1997 by
Constable and won a Special Jury Mention at the 1998 Banff Mountain Book Festival.
Widely praised in the national and specialist press,
Katherine Whitehorn in The Observer called Douglas "a sparkling writer with
a great turn of phrase." In the Literary Review, David Craig described him as a
"first-class journalist whose interest in the Himalaya and its people enable him to
get in close." His most recent publication is a biography of the mountaineer Alison
Hargreaves, co-authored with David Rose. Ed Douglas lives in Sheffield with his wife,
Katie, a science journalist, and their two children, Rosa, 4, and Joe, 1.
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