Give Me The Hills

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Published by Methuen & Co, London, 1956, 1st UK Edition, D/w (slight wear edges), Nr. Fine.    Miriam Underhill (1898-1976) was an American mountaineer, environmentalist and feminist, best known for the concept of “man-less” climbing i.e. she believed, in the 1920s and 1930s, that for women to really take the lead in mountaineering there needed to be no men in the party.  This autobiography, the story of her passion for climbing, covers climbs in the Dolomites, Chamonix and the Bernese Oberland, many of them first or early female ascents, as well as skiing, and climbs in Idaho and Montana. Underhill was one of the early female pioneers of skiing in the 1920s, was for some years in the late 1950s editor of Appalachia, the journal of the Appalachian Mountain Club, had  Miriam Peak in the Wind River Range of Wyoming named after her, and with her husband has The Robert and Miriam Underhill Award presented annually by the American Alpine Club.