Mountaineering Women: Climbing Through History -- Joanna Croston, Hardcover

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Mountaineering Women: Climbing Through History -- Joanna Croston, HardcoverAs adventure sports like climbing and mountaineering become popular, women's visibility in the sport has also grown. Mountaineering Women is a richly illustrated collection of the awesome and often surprising stories celebrating the achievements of twenty women climbers from across the globe. From the Amazigh (Berbers) of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco to the Inca Empire, high in the Andes, women have long traversed the world's most forbidding peaks.

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