Mountaineering Women

Women have been climbing mountains since the nineteenth century — not as curiosities or exceptional cases, but as climbers of the highest order who faced not only the objective dangers of the high peaks but the particular difficulties of doing so in an era that made access to equipment, training, and recognition systematically difficult. Mountaineering Women gathers the stories of the women who built the tradition of female high-altitude climbing, from the early alpinists of the Victorian era through the Himalayan pioneers of the twentieth century to the contemporary athletes who now compete for first ascents alongside men.

A long-overdue celebration of a tradition that has been consistently underrecorded — rigorous, inspiring, and beautifully illustrated. Published by Thames & Hudson.