Arlene Blum Biography

Arlene Blum has played a groundbreaking role in women™s mountaineering. Best known for leading the first American”and all-women™s”ascent of Annapurna I, considered one of the world™s most dangerous and difficult mountains, Blum also led the first women™s team up Mt. McKinley; was the first American woman to attempt Mt. Everest; and has played a leading role in more than 20 mountain expeditions worldwide. She made the first traverse of the Great Himalaya Range of Bhutan, Nepal and India and hiked the length of the European Alps with her baby daughter on her back.

Annapurna: A Woman™s Place, written by Blum, has inspired tens of thousands of readers over the past 25 years. Fortune magazine selected it as one of œ75 books that teach you everything you really need to know about business and National Geographic Adventure magazine included it in list of the œhundred best adventure books of all time.

Her new book, Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life, is an unforgettable account of the trails Blum pioneered, not only in mountaineering, but in science.

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