Bee, to pick up on the female list , here are all the women from my library.
There a few editorial comments in there. As you know I like to glean quotes.
My favorites are Maria Coffey and Arlene Blum
Mountain Bibliography - female
Abbott, Cindy
Reaching Beyond The Clouds. From Undiagnosed to Climbing Mt. Everest
ISBN 0615482910
Allison, Stacy
Peter Carlin
Beyond the Limits. A Woman's Triumph On Everest
Little, Brown, Boston 1993
ISBN 0-316-03468-1
Blum, Arlene
Annapurna: A Womans Place, 1980
20th edition 1998
Sierra Club Books, San Francisco
ISBN 1-57805-022-7
Arlene Blum- in 1978 organized a team of ten women to climb 8,091m Annapurna.
Arlene Blum (born 1945) is an American mountaineer. She is best known for her all-woman ascent of Annapurna (I), a climb that was also the first successful American ascent. She also was a deputy leader of the first all-woman ascent of Mount McKinley and was the first woman to attempt to ascend Mount Everest.
Arlene Blum, who organized women to climb Annapurna, Arlene Blum is an impassioned feminist and outspoken advocate for mountaineering as a metaphor for life's challenges
Coffey, Maria
Where the Mountain Casts its Shadow 2003
Arrow Books Random House, London 2004
ISBN 0 09 043608 6
Maria Coffey- Joe Tasker was her boyfriend, lost on Everest in 1986. See Tasker. Her incredibly introspective book came 17 years later. *HVL
Joe Tasker's girlfriend Maria Coffey writes on parchment in. *HVL
Maria saw mountaineers' optimism despite knowing herself where the mountain casts its shadow (the name of her book).*HVL
Maria Coffey is originally from England, and now lives on a small island in British Columbia. She and her husband Dag Goering spend part of each year in Ireland, where Dag practises as a large animal veterinarian. They also work as professional sea-kayaking and trekking guides, leading trips in Vietnam, the Solomon Islands, Ireland and Canada. Coffey is the author of a number of internationally published books,
Coffey, Maria
Fragile Edge. Loss on Everest
Harbour Publishing, Madiera Park British Columbia 1989
ISBN 1-55017-218-2
Coffey, Maria
Explorers of the Infinite
Penguin Group, London 2008
ISBN 978-1-58542-651-5
Gammelgaard, Lene
Climbing High. A Woman's Account of Surviving The Everest Tragedy 1996
Pan Books, London 2000
ISBN 0 330 39227 1
Surprised her title did not include "Danish Woman's." She annoyingly mentioned it umpteen times along with other self-centered comments.
Jackson, Monica and Stark, Elizabeth
Tents in the Clouds. The First Women's Himalayan Expedition. 1956 ( Collins, London)
Seal Press, Seattle, 2000
ISBN 1-58005-033-6
In 1955, just two years after Hillary's historic first ascent of Everest, these women formed the first all-female expedition into the Jugal Himal of Nepal.
Johnson, Alexa - biographer
Reaching the Summit. Edmund Hillary's Life of Adventure 2005
DK Publishing, New York 2005
ISBN 0-7566-1527-5
McDonald, Bernadette
Brotherhood of the Rope. The Biography of Charles Houston. 2007
The Mountaineers, Seattle 2007
Muir, Brigette
The Wind in My Hair - some 1996 Everest info, otherwise awful book, no quotes
Viking/Penguin, Australia, 1998
ISBN 0 670 87955 X
O'Dowd, Cathy
Just for the love of it. The first woman to climb Mount Everest from both sides. 1999
Free to Decide Publishing, La Massana, Andorra 2008
ISBN 0-620-24782-7
Reynolds, Jan in
Gillette, Ned
Reynolds, Jan
Everest Grand Circle. A Climbing and Skiing Adventure through Nepal and Tibet
The Mountaineers, Seattle 1985
ISBN 0-89886-111-X
Salkeld, Audrey in
Holzel, Tom and Salkeld, Audrey
The Mystery of Mallory and Irvine first published 1986
Salkeld, Audrey in
Breashears, David and Salkeld, Audrey
Last Climb. The Legendary Everest Expeditions of George Mallory 1999
National Geographic Society, Washington DC 1999
ISBN 0-7922-7538-1
Salkeld, Audrey in
Holzel, Tom & Salkeld, Audrey
First On Everest
Henry Holt, New York
ISBN 0-8050-0303-7
Salkeld, Audrey in
Messner, Reinhold and Salkeld, Audrey
Everest. Expedition to the Ultimate 1978
The Mountaineers, Seattle, 1999
ISBN 0-89886-648-0
Salkeld, Audrey-translator in
Messner, Reinhold
Neate, Jill - translator
Salkeld, Audrey-translator
The Crystal Horizon. Everest -The First Solo Ascent 1982
The Mountaineers, Seattle 1989
ISNB 0-89886-574-3
Stark, Elizabeth
Jackson, Monica and Stark, Elizabeth
Tents in the Clouds. The First Women's Himalayan Expedition.
Summers,Julie
Fearless on Everest. The Quest for Sandy Irvine - No quotes
The Mountaineers, Seattle, 2000
ISBN 0-89886-796-7
Tullis, Julie
Clouds from Both Sides 1986
Sierra Club, San Francisco, 1987
