![]() ![]() Blum succeeds in fusing her personal narrative of a women's expedition with an old-fashioned adventure story about a long and difficult climb-only the second ascent of the Dutch Rib route-that ends in triumph (Irene Miller and Vera Komorkova on the summit) and tragedy (the death of the second summit team). On the other hand, if you finance the climb by the sale of T-shirts reading ""A Woman's Place Is On Top,"" you are probably asking for a certain amount of trouble. ![]() All-female expeditions to major Himalayan mountains are still uncommon, and Blum's account makes it clear that women climbers face special problems-from the Sherpas' paternalistic attitude toward memsahibs to dumb press-coverage (one German article was entitled ""What Will Their Husbands Think?""). ![]() The story of the first American ascent of Nepal's 26,540 foot high Annapurna (the world's tenth highest mountain), by the leader of the 1978 American Women's Himalayan Expedition. ![]()
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