A Woman's Place Is at the Top by Hannah Kimberly (2017) Peru

A Woman's Place Is at the Top by Hannah Kimberly (2017) PeruA biography of Annie Smith Peck, Queen of the Climbers. Annie Peck was a remarkable woman in the early history of mountaineering, which is hugely dominated by men. She is most famous for her (disputed) first ascent of Huascaran in Peru, at the time thought to be the highest peak in South America (now we know it is the fourth highest). This book looks quite interesting and is on my own to read list. Hardcover first edition, 347 pages. One small insert

Small guide to a midwestern oasis

Original price tag ($14

23 numbered pages and nine blank pages for notes

First US hardcover

(raconteur: someone who tells stories with charisma and wit)

Ron Matous Celebrates the Jenny Lake Climbing Rangers

Leif Whittaker describes his experiences growing up as the son of Jim Whittaker

and modernizes the information in that book to include all the new routes done since the publication of that book (around 900

On the dustjacket

A magazine-sized pamphlet to the bouldering on Flagstaff Mountain

second edition

Alpinist magazine issue 22