A Woman’s Place Is at the Top: A Biography of Annie Smith Peck, Queen of the Climbers

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Annie Smith Peck is among the most accomplished women of the twentieth century that you’ve never heard of. Peck was once a scholar, educator, author, lecturer, mountain climber, suffragist, and political activist. She was once a feminist and an independent thinker who refused to let gender stereotypes stand in her way. Peck gained fame in 1895 when she first climbed the Matterhorn at the age of forty-five – not for her daring alpine feat, but because she climbed wearing pants. Fifteen years later, she was once the first climber ever to overcome Mount Huascarán (21,831 feet) in Peru. In 1911, just before her sixtieth birthday, she entered a race with Hiram Bingham (the model for Indiana Jones) to climb Mount Coropuna.

A Woman’s Place Is at the Top: The Biography of Annie Smith Peck is the first full length work about this unbelievable woman who single-handedly carved her place on the map of mountain climbing and international relations. Peck marched in suffrage parades and became a political speaker and author before women had the right to vote. She was once a propagandist, an expert on North-South American relations, and an creator and lecturer shrunk to speak as an authority on multinational industry and commerce before somebody had ever thought to appoint a woman as a diplomat. With unprecedented get entry to to Peck’s original letters, artifacts, and ephemera, Hannah Kimberley brings Peck’s entire life to the page for the first time, giving Peck her rightful place in history.

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