In 1808 a spirited French maidservant shocked society by doing what most
\npeople of the day thought impossible for a woman – she scaled Europe’s highest
\npeak, the legendary Mont Blanc in the French Alps. While the next one hundred
\nyears found society clinging to stifling Victorian perceptions of women as
\nfrail, delicate creatures in need of male protection, a band of courageous
\nwomen boldly rejected this limiting mantle. Bucking convention, these daring
\npioneers hiked up their skirts, set their sights far above, and took their
\nplace atop some of the world’s highest peaks.<\/p>\n
As the author traces the evolution of female mountaineering through the
\nVictorian era and into the early decades of the 1900s, she illuminates the
\nvery real social and physical boundaries women had to overcome – whether
\nsocial norms that dictated a woman’s place as in the home, corsets that
\nexerted as much as seventy pounds of pressure on their midsections, or long
\nskirts that caught on rocks and crags as women climbed harrowing slopes. In
\nthe process, Brown’s riveting portraits of these pioneers of mountaineering
\nreveal how their astonishing ascents of the world’s highest summits are as
\nextraordinary today as they were more than one hundred years ago. (272 pages,
\nb&w; photos)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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