A Woman's Place Is At The Top: A Biography Of Annie Smith Peck, Queen Of The Climbers
by Hannah Kimberley /
2017 / English / EPUB
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Annie Smith Peck is one of the most accomplished women of the
twentieth century that you have never heard of. Peck was a
scholar, educator, writer, lecturer, mountain climber,
suffragist, and political activist. She was a feminist and an
independent thinker who refused to let gender stereotypes stand
in her way. Peck gained fame in 1895 when she first climbed the
Matterhorn at the age of forty-five – not for her daring alpine
feat, but because she climbed wearing pants. Fifteen years later,
she was the first climber ever to conquer Mount Huascarán (21,831
feet) in Peru. In 1911, just before her sixtieth birthday, she
entered a race with Hiram Bingham (the model for Indiana Jones)
to climb Mount Coropuna.
Annie Smith Peck is one of the most accomplished women of the
twentieth century that you have never heard of. Peck was a
scholar, educator, writer, lecturer, mountain climber,
suffragist, and political activist. She was a feminist and an
independent thinker who refused to let gender stereotypes stand
in her way. Peck gained fame in 1895 when she first climbed the
Matterhorn at the age of forty-five – not for her daring alpine
feat, but because she climbed wearing pants. Fifteen years later,
she was the first climber ever to conquer Mount Huascarán (21,831
feet) in Peru. In 1911, just before her sixtieth birthday, she
entered a race with Hiram Bingham (the model for Indiana Jones)
to climb Mount Coropuna.A Woman’s Place Is at the Top: The Biography of Annie Smith
Peck
A Woman’s Place Is at the Top: The Biography of Annie Smith
Peck is the first full length work about this incredible
woman who single-handedly carved her place on the map of mountain
climbing and international relations. Peck marched in suffrage
parades and became a political speaker and writer before women
had the right to vote. She was a propagandist, an expert on
North-South American relations, and an author and lecturer
contracted to speak as an authority on multinational industry and
commerce before anyone had ever thought to appoint a woman as a
diplomat. With unprecedented access to Peck’s original letters,
artifacts, and ephemera, Hannah Kimberley brings Peck’s entire
life to the page for the first time, giving Peck her rightful
place in history.
is the first full length work about this incredible
woman who single-handedly carved her place on the map of mountain
climbing and international relations. Peck marched in suffrage
parades and became a political speaker and writer before women
had the right to vote. She was a propagandist, an expert on
North-South American relations, and an author and lecturer
contracted to speak as an authority on multinational industry and
commerce before anyone had ever thought to appoint a woman as a
diplomat. With unprecedented access to Peck’s original letters,
artifacts, and ephemera, Hannah Kimberley brings Peck’s entire
life to the page for the first time, giving Peck her rightful
place in history.