Alan Hinkes's book has been shortlisted for an award

Record-breaking mountaineer Alan Hinkes has joined an elite list including footballer David Beckham and tennis player Andy Murray.

Hinkes’s lavish coffee table book chronicling his ascents of all 14 of the world’s 8,000m peaks has been shortlisted in the British Sports Book Awards.

The Yorkshire climber’s illustrated account, 8000 Metres, is up against the famous names in the illustrated books category of the awards.

The final decision will be announced at a black-tie dinner at Lord’s Cricket Ground next month.

Other contenders in the category are Wimbledon, by the All England Club; The Pain and the Glory by Team Sky, Dave Brailsford and Chris Froome; Incredible Waves: An Appreciation of Perfect Surf by Chris Power; David Beckham by David Beckham; and Seventy Seven by Andy Murray.

Alan Hinkes is the only Briton to have summited the world’s 14 highest mountains. His breathtaking account of the 18-year-long epic quest to complete the 8,000m mountains was published by Cumbria-based Cicerone last year.

Everest: The First Ascent, by Harriet Tuckey, is also shortlisted, in the outstanding general sports writing section of the awards. Tuckey’s account of her father, doctor and physiologist Griffith Pugh’s part in the successful 1953 ascent of Everest was published by Rider Books.