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Rosemary J Brown
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Trailblazing Women and the Peaks that Bear Their Names
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Product details

  • ISBN 9781803994512
  • Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
  • Publication Date: 13 Aug 2026
  • Publisher: The History Press Ltd
  • Publication City/Country: GB
  • Product Form: Hardback
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Moving Mountains celebrates the extraordinary women who reached the pinnacles of exploration and are immortalised in destinations named after them. It reveals for the first time a small group of exceptionally daring women who, against all odds, achieved an honour usually reserved for men and royalty.

Blazing trails across the globe and straight through the status quo, they defied convention to achieve the impossible. They left inhibition at home and travelled through a man’s world.

What they did had never been done before. Their triumphs are recognised in the names of a scattering of mountains and peaks around the world from the Alps to the Andes, the Rockies to the Karakoram.

Some you may have heard of – British archaeologist and political advisor Gertrude Bell, Japanese mountaineer Junko Tabei. Others are lost in obscurity – inexhaustible traveller Gertrude Emily Benham, ‘Queen of the Climbers’ Annie Smith Peck and more.

These are the women you are about to meet.
About Rosemary J Brown
ROSEMARY J BROWN is a London-based journalist and author of Following Nellie Bly, where she re-traced the epic 72-day global journey. She is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society (RGS), a Churchill Fellow and a member The Biography Club. She lectures at the RGS, The Globetrotters Club and literary festivals. An avid traveller, her interest in trekking has led her to the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, along the Inca Trail, across the Himalaya through Kashmir and Ladakh, into the Grand Canyon; and along the High Route in the Bernese Oberland, and the Grand Randonnées of Tour de Mont Blanc, GR54 (Dauphiné) and GR10 (Pyrenees).

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