Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women's Ascent of Denali

The intensely gripping, prize-winning, and inspiring story of a group of female adventurers and their treacherous, pioneering ascent of Denali in 1970, winner of the Banff Mountain Book Award Grand Prize

Grace Hoeman dreamed of standing on top of Denali. The tallest peak in North America, the fierce polar mountain loomed large in many climbers’ imaginations, and Hoeman, a doctor in Alaska, had come close to the top, only to be turned back by altitude sickness and a storm that took the lives ...