Moving Mountains

Intrepid Women Climbers and the Peaks Named in Their Honour

Rosemary J Brown author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:The History Press Ltd

Publishing:13th Aug '26

£25.00

This title is due to be published on 13th August, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

Moving Mountains cover

A celebration of pioneering women climbers

Moving Mountains celebrates nine extraordinary women who reached the pinnacles of exploration and are immortalised in mountains named for them. Defying altitude, expectations and convention, they reached some of the highest places on Earth, achieving an honour long reserved for men and monarchs. Though their names endure on soaring summits, their remarkable stories have largely gone untold … until now.

As we witness their courage amid avalanches, blizzards and breath-stealing heights, their stories unfold against sweeping landscapes of ice, rock and snow. Their lives are testimony to the uphill struggle for recognition in a world that challenged their right to climb at all. Here they reveal the mountains they moved – both literal and symbolic – to realise their dreams.

These are the women you are about to meet:

- Sacajawea

- Meta Brevoort

- Isabella Charlet-Straton

- Annie Smith Peck

- Elizabeth Le Blond

- Gertrude Benham

- Gertrude Bell

- Junko Tabei

- Samina Baig

‘Moving Mountains is a beautifully penned book filled with the inspiring stories of fearless women who challenged the impossible. A must-read for lovers of mountains and bold women alike.’

-- Dr Jacki Hill-Murphy, explorer and author of The Life and Travels of Isabella Bird

‘… a fascinating look at women in the mountains and how figures such as Gertrude Benham, Annie Smith Peck and Lizzie Le Blond laid a trail that we are still following today.’

-- Emma McDonald, Alpine Club Librarian

‘An inspiring and entertaining read, essential for all those interested in great deeds in high places.’

-- Eugene Rae, Principal Librarian, Royal Geographical Society (with IBG)

'This book gives voice to what those of us who love the mountains have always known: the call of these wild places is universal. Only social prejudice held women back. Joyfully, this book celebrates the women who, simply by being true to themselves, became pioneers both on the peaks and far beyond them. We can be deeply grateful they paved the way.'

-- Rebecca Stephens MBE, first British woman to summit Mount Eve

ISBN: 9781803994512

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