women mountaineers

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Climbing free

my life in the vertical world
2002
An autobiography in which Lynn Hill tells about her life and her motivation for becoming a mountain climber, and discusses her experiences in the sport, with an emphasis on her once-in-a-lifetime accomplishment of becoming the first and only person to climb to the summit of El Capitan in Yosemite without gear and in under twenty-three hours.

K2

one woman's quest for the summit
2001

Facing the extreme

one woman's story of true courage, death-defying survival, and her quest for the summit
1998
Chronicles the experiences of a team of mountain climbers who were trapped on Mount McKinley in Alaska during one of the worst storms to hit the mountain in the twentieth century.

Annapurna, a woman's place

1998
Chronicles the experiences of thirteen American women who climbed to the summit of Annapurna I in the Himalayas in 1978, and discusses how the expedition changed the lives of the climbers.

Beyond the limits

a woman's triumph on Everest
1993
This book is the story of Stacy Allison, America's premier mountain climber, who in 1988 was the first American woman to reach the summit of Mt. Everest. Includes photographs recounting the climb.

Savage summit

the true stories of the five women who climbed K2, the world's most feared mountain
2005
Presents the true stories of five women who reached the summit of K2 in the Karakoram mountain range along the border of China and Pakistan and examines how these women lived and died.

Breaking trail

a climbing life
2007
Arlene Blum, the first woman to attempt to climb Mt. Everest, recalls her childhood in Chicago and the experiences that fueled her need to become a high-altitude mountain climber, and discusses her groundbreaking accomplishments on the slopes.

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