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‘]