Awards

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Gordon receiving the Best Book of Mountain & Wilderness Literature Award, Banff Mountain Book Festival 2012, from Brett Oland of the Jon Whyte Museum

1963   Silver cup for Art & Music at Stagenhoe Park School

1966   Goggs History Prize for dissertation on ‘The Evolution of Modern Mountaineering’ at Tonbridge School

1972   First Class Honours degree in Philosophy at the University of Wales (Cardiff).  Note that in the period 1965-72, only 2% of Philosophy graduates at Cardiff were awarded First Class Honours degrees

1975   Masters degree in Film and Television at the Royal College of Art (London)

1977   Member of the Association of Cinematograph Television and Allied Technicians
[OK, not an award, but so difficult to get – it took three years – that it felt like an award. AKA, my ‘union ticket’ into the film industry.]

1985   Winner of the Mountain Landscape Photography competition at the Kendal Mountain Film Festival

1989   Licentiate of the British Institute of Professional Photography

1989   Associate of the Royal Photographic Society

1990   Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society

1992   Winner of the Thomas Cook Illustrated Travel Book Award for Eyes to the Hills

1994  Winner of the Best Book of Mountain Image, Banff Mountain Book Festival for The Cuillin

1995  Winner of the Outdoor Writers’ Guild Award for Excellence for The Cuillin

1999   Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for The Peak: Past and Present

2000  Shortlisted for the Portico Prize for The Peak: Past and Present

2012   Shortlisted for the Boardman Tasker Award for Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong

2012  Winner of the Jon Whyte Award, Banff Mountain Book Festival for Fiva: An Adventure That Went Wrong

2017  Winner of the Mountaineering and Mountain Travel Literature Prize, Górski Mountain Festival for Polish edition of Fiva: Cross the Border of Fear

 

My first prize, at the age of 13 at prep school, a silver cup for
Art and Music

[Just for the record, here is a list of ‘Examinations passed‘]