Ed Douglas | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1966 (age 58–59) United Kingdom |
| Education | Manchester University |
| Occupation(s) | Writer Journalist |
Ed Douglas (born 1966) is a writer and journalist from the United Kingdom. Douglas is also an amateur climber and mountain traveller, with a particular interest in theHimalaya.[1]
Douglas is an author of thirteen books about mountains and their people. These include the first full-length biography ofTenzing Norgay, who climbed Mount Everest withSir Edmund Hillary in 1953. He covered theNepali civil war forThe Observer andNational Geographic and interviewed the14th Dalai Lama forThe Guardian. As of April 2023, Douglas had made over forty visits to theHimalayas, including a dozen mountaineering expeditions. Douglas is a regular contributor to British radio and television and was a consultant on the BAFTA-nominated filmSherpa. He is a former editor of theAlpine Journal and has written forClimber magazine. He has been a contributor toThe Guardian for thirty years, and writes a column for the paper’sCountry Diary.[2][3][4] Douglas ghostedLeo Dickinson's 1993 bookBallooning over Everest.[5]
Douglas won the 1994 Outdoor Writer's Guild Award for his profile of rock climberRon Fawcett.[5] His ghost-written autobiography of Ron Fawcett,Rock Athlete, won theBoardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature in 2010. His bookThe Magician's Glass was shortlisted for the 2017 Boardman Tasker Prize.[6] His bookHimalaya: a Human History won a Special Jury Mention in the 2020Banff Mountain Book Festival.[7]
Douglas studied English atManchester University, where he launched theOn the Edge magazine.[6][5] He lives in Sheffield with his wife Kate, a science editor, and two children.[2][3]