annapurna himalayan expedition adventures

books:

The Magnificent Mountain Women (Second Edition): Adventures in the Colorado Rockies

2 reviews
Janet Robertson

Bison Books, 2003

This book is wonderful!
Read it before you go the the Rocky Mountains. Then have fun exploring the places that are described. These women are awesome and I would love to meet the author, Janet Robertson.

Breaking Trail

33 reviews

Scribner, 2005

Simply A Great Book About a Fascinating Life
This book became an instant favorite--Arlene Blum's story is amazing. I don't usually like autobiographies, and I'm not a mountain climber, but this book had me hooked from the first few pages. Somehow, the author has managed to weave elements of her childhood, her career in science, rememberances of her family, and her love of mountainclimbing into a coherent and engaging story. I was ...

Annapurna: A Womans Place

1 review
Arlene Blum

THREE RIVERS PRESS, 1980

A WOMAN'S PLACE IS ON TOP...
This is, without a doubt, one of the best books written about a specific mountain climbing expedition. This particular book is a lyrical and moving account of the the first women's expedition to climb Annapurna in the Himalayas. It provides great detail and insight into their two month odyssey in the mountain and chronicles the challenges that they faced in trying to reach the summit. The ...

Annapurna A Womans Place

1 review
Arlene BLUM

Vikas Publishing House/Granada, 1980

A WOMAN'S PLACE IS ON TOP...
This is, without a doubt, one of the best books written about a specific mountain climbing expedition. This particular book is a lyrical and moving account of the the first women's expedition to climb Annapurna in the Himalayas. It provides great detail and insight into their two month odyssey in the mountain and chronicles the challenges that they faced in trying to reach the summit. The ...

Annapurna: A Woman's Place

26 reviews
Maurice Herzog

HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 1981

Wow.
This new release of a 20yo book is a winner. I still have my tattered T-shirt proclaiming women should be 'on top,' that I bought in Berkeley way back then, in support of Blum?s fundraising for her 1978 all-woman assault on Annapurna. By proving to the skeptical small mountain-climbing community of men, as well as to the world at large, that women COULD be leaders of expeditions into the high ...

Annapurna: A Woman's Place

1 review
Arlene Blum

Sierra Cllub Books, 1980

A WOMAN'S PLACE IS ON TOP...
This is, without a doubt, one of the best books written about a specific mountain climbing expedition. This particular book is a lyrical and moving account of the the first women's expedition to climb Annapurna in the Himalayas. It provides great detail and insight into their two month odyssey in the mountain and chronicles the challenges that they faced in trying to reach the summit. The ...

Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life

1 review
Arlene, and Bonington, Chris, Sir (Foreword by) Blum

Scribner Book Company, 2005

WHAT A LIFE...WHAT A WOMAN...WHAT A MEMOIR...
Having read and loved the author's other book, "A Woman's Place", I looked forward to reading this one, knowing that, at the very least, I could expect a well-written book. Well, it is that and much more. It is a memoir that kept me turning its pages, as it provides a peek as to how this highly intelligent and articulate, nice, Jewish girl became a mountaineer with which to contend. In a ...

Clouds From Both Sides

1 review
Julie Tullis

Sierra Club Books, 1987

DO NOT MISS THIS BOOK! IT'S A BEAUTIFUL READ!
This book is absolutley wonderful. It is the autobiography of a very ambitious mountainiering woman. I am not athletic at all but found inspiration here. She was a common person who achieved so much. She makes mountainiering sound so fun and easy. You will feel like you know her and are with her on her exciting travels. You will be happy and sad with her and you will feel like you've been ...

Tents in the Clouds: The First Women's Himalayan Expedition

4 reviews
Monica Jackson, Arlene Blum, ...

Seal Press (WA), 2000

An Echo from Another World
Imagine...It's the 1950s. Only two years since Sir Hillary's first ascent of Mount Everest. There is no Polartec. No GoreTex. No Polypro longjohns. No plastic bags! And you can't afford oxygen, or an altimeter that reads over 8,000 feet. And yet, you and your two best buddies decide to go treking in the Himalayas, leaving husband and boyfriends behind. Explore unknown, unnamed ...