Peter Gillman

Who is Peter Gillman?

Peter Gillman is a British writer and journalist specializing in mountaineering topics. His book, Direttissima; the Eiger Assault, also published under the title, Eiger Direct, co-authored with Dougal Haston, published in 1967, told the story of the ascent of the Eiger North Face in which John Harlin II lost his life. He attended Hawes Down school, Dulwich College, and University College Oxford. He was editor of Isis magazine at Oxford. He became a journalist on leaving Oxford and was soon writing for the Sunday Times, first as a freelancer, and then as a staff-member, where he spent five years on the newspaper's Insight team. He became a freelance journalist in 1983 and has written for most British newspapers. He is specialized in mountain writing and has won six annual awards from the Outdoor Writers Guild. He has worked in television and cinema and he is also a trainer in journalism and writing.

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Along with writing, he works as journalism trainer and consultant at a range of magazine publishers in the UK and overseas. He had trained numerous journalists on the award-winning magazine Building.