These include the first full-length biography of Tenzing Norgay, who climbed Mount Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary in 1953.
He covered the Nepali civil war for The Observer and National Geographic and interviewed the 14th Dalai Lama for The Guardian.
As of April 2023, Douglas had made over forty visits to the Himalayas, including a dozen mountaineering expeditions.
[5] Douglas won the 1994 Outdoor Writer's Guild Award for his profile of rock climber Ron Fawcett.
[5] His ghost-written autobiography of Ron Fawcett, Rock Athlete, won the Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature in 2010.