2007, 1st edition. 352 pages. 8 photographs from the Mendenhall collection. In 1937, climbing mountains was thought to be an activity reserved for men only. Ruth Dyar Mendenhall broke that barrier to become one of California's first and most important women mountain climbers. The letters collected in this book document her fifty-year mountaineering career. New paperback (only edition). SIGNED by Valerie Mendenhall
A sparkling glimpse into the mid-twentieth-century American climbing world, by one of the first women climbers. Mendenhall's letters radiate wit, irreverence, and pride and irrepressible joy and are ably edited by a daughter who clearly inherited her mother's passion for words as well as mountains.Jenny Price
