| Year |
|
Winner |
Winner Work |
| 2011 |
|
Jock Wishart |
In recognition of his involvement in the Old Pulteney Row to the Pole. |
| 2010 |
|
Rune Gjeldnes |
In recognition of his record as one of the world\u2019s leading adventurers. |
| 2009 |
|
Ray Mears |
In recognition of his work in adventure travel, and for his distinguished contribution to popularising geographical issues. |
| 2007 |
|
Norman Hallendy |
In recognition of his distinguished contribution to the study of the people and landscape of the Canadian Arctic. |
| 2006 |
|
John Hare |
For distinguished contribution to exploration |
| 2005 |
|
Jean Malaurie |
|
| 2004 |
|
Maurice Joseph |
|
|
Norma Joseph |
|
| 2003 |
|
John Simpson |
|
| 2002 |
|
William Dalrymple |
For outstanding contribution to travel literature |
| 2001 |
|
Robin Hanbury-Tenison |
|
| 2000 |
|
Colin Thubron |
|
| 1999 |
|
Kate Adie |
|
| 1998 |
|
Julian Pettifer |
In recognition of his outstanding contribution in promoting a greater understanding of the wider world through journalim and broadcasting. |
| 1997 |
|
Chalmers M. Clapperton |
|
| 1996 |
|
Michael Asher |
For desert exploration on foot and with camels. |
| 1995 |
|
Nigel Winser |
|
|
Shane Winser |
|
| 1994 |
|
Michael Buerk |
|
| 1993 |
|
David E. Sugden |
|
| 1992 |
|
Nicholas Crane |
For their journeys across Tibet, China, Afghanistan and Africa. |
|
Richard Crane |
For their journeys across Tibet, China, Afghanistan and Africa. |
| 1991 |
|
Andrew Goudie |
|
| 1990 |
|
Charles Swithinbank |
|
| 1989 |
|
Christina Dodwell |
|
| 1988 |
|
John Hemming |
|
| 1987 |
|
John Ridgway |
|
| 1981 |
|
Keith L. Miller |
In recognition of his leadership of the Karakoram Expedition. |
| 1975 |
|
Haroun Tazieff |
For research and exploration of volcanoes. |
| 1969 |
|
Hugh Simpson |
For research and exploration in Spitsbergen, Guyana and Greenland. |
|
Myrtle Simpson |
For research and exploration in Spitsbergen, Guyana and Greenland. |
| 1962 |
|
Malcolm Slesser |
|
| 1961 |
|
Marjory Penham |
In respect of her contributions to the knowledge of African exploration. |
| 1955 |
|
George Band |
For Hamalayan Achievements: Everest and Kanchenjunga, 1933 and 1955., For Mountaineering and Exploration in the Himalayas, 1950-55. |
|
Thomas Dempster Mackinnon |
For Hamalayan Achievements: Everest and Kanchenjunga, 1933 and 1955., For Mountaineering and Exploration in the Himalayas, 1950-55. |
| 1954 |
|
Alain Bombard |
In recognition of his scientific investigations into the value of sea food and his courageous exploit in crossing the Atlantic alone in a rubber dinghy. |
| 1953 |
|
Eigil Knuth |
For outstanding exploration in Greenland, 1932-1952. |
| 1952 |
|
W. H. Murray |
For his work in the two Everest Expeditions, 1950 and 1951. |
| 1950 |
|
Thor Heyerdahl |
|
| 1948 |
|
Freddie Spencer Chapman |
|
|
Mary Gibson Henry |
|
| 1944 |
|
Frank Fraser Darling |
For his notable contribution to scientific knowledge of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland. |
| 1939 |
|
E.B. Worthington |
For his share in the work of the African Research Survey. |
| 1936 |
|
Lawrence Wager |
For his work in Greenland and Mount Everest. |
| 1935 |
|
Freya Stark |
For her explorations in Northern Persia. |
| 1934 |
|
Isobel W. Hutchison |
In recognition of her researches in the Arctic. |
| 1931 |
|
Frank Smythe |
|
| 1930 |
|
Angus Buchanan |
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