Moving Mountains

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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 nine extraordinary women who reached the pinnacles of exploration and are immortalised in mountains named for them. Defying altitude, expectations and convention, they reached some of the highest places on Earth, achieving an honour long reserved for men and monarchs. Though their names endure on soaring summits, their remarkable stories have largely gone untold … until now.

As we witness their courage amid avalanches, blizzards and breath-stealing heights, their stories unfold against sweeping landscapes of ice, rock and snow. Their lives are testimony to the uphill struggle for recognition in a world that challenged their right to climb at all. Here they reveal the mountains they moved – both literal and symbolic – to realise their dreams.

These are the women you are about to meet:

- Sacajawea

- Meta Brevoort

- Isabella Charlet-Straton

- Annie Smith Peck

- Elizabeth Le Blond

- Gertrude Benham

- Gertrude Bell

- Junko Tabei

- Samina Baig

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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