The Accidental Adventurer: Memoir of the First Woman to Climb Mount McKinley
Barbara Washburn
(Author)
Lew Freedman
(With)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
Barbara Washburn never set out to become a mountaineering pioneer, but she wasn't content to be a stay-at-home wife, either. In 1947, defying social convention, Washburn became the first woman to climb Alaska's Mt. McKinley. She accompanied her husband--famed explorer, mountaineer, and photographer Bradford Washburn--on other expeditions to Alaska, the Grand Canyon, and Mt. Everest, while raising three children at their home near Boston.
Product Details
Price
$16.95
$15.76
Publisher
Epicenter Press (WA)
Publish Date
March 01, 2001
Pages
196
Dimensions
5.98 X 8.98 X 0.51 inches | 0.65 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780945397915
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About the Author
Barbara Washburn was born in 1914. A graduate of Smith College, she married mountaineer-explorer-mapmaker Bradford Washburn in 1940. Six years later, climbing with her husband, she became the first woman to reach the summit of 20,320-foot Mount McKinley, North America's highest peak. The mother of three, she also became one of the nation's earliest remedial reading teachers, and received awards in several fields of endeavor.
Lew Freedman is a long-time, prize-winning journalist for such newspapers as the Philadelphia Inquirer, Chicago Tribune, Anchorage Daily News and Wyoming's Cody Enterprise. Specializing in sports and the outdoors, he has written more than 100 books. He lives in Columbus, Indiana.
Reviews
"An outstanding account of fully realized feminism well before it became a movement."
--Fearless Reader
"Washburn's charming memoir The Accidental Adventurer is a delightful account of decades of expeditions... [Barbara] has led an extraordinary life and we only wish she had written more."
--The Explorers Journal
