women mountaineers

"A memoir by Vanessa O'Brien, record-breaking American-British explorer, takes you on an unexpected journey to the top of the world's highest mountains"--Provided by publisher.

"When Silvia's mother called her home to Peru, she knew something finally had to give. A Latinx hero in the elite macho tech world of Silicon Valley, privately, she was hanging by a thread. She was deep in the throes of alcoholism, hiding her sexuality from her family, and repressing the abuse she'd suffered as a child. Her visit to Peru would become a turning point in her life. Silvia started climbing. Something about the brute force required for the ascent--the restricted oxygen at altitude, the vast expanse of emptiness around her, the risk and spirit and sheer size of the mountains, the nearness of death--woke her up. And then, she took her biggest pain to the biggest mountain: Everest"--Provided by publisher.

The author shares her journey and motivations in returning to the trail, including her record setting success on the Pacific Crest Trail.

"One of the first female extreme athletes reflects on how her feminine strengths led to her success in a male-dominated field"--Provided by publisher.

Discusses the lives and accomplishments of five women who traveled and explored the mountainous regions of the world in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Recounts the 1978 expedition of 13 American women to the summit of Annapurna.

The author tells the story of how, at age thirty, she learned she was diagnosed with cardiomyopathy and needed a new heart; and shares how she not only survived the transplant, but became the first heart transplant recipient to climb some of the world's highest peaks.

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.