In 1970, the first all-female team summited Denali. The new book "Thirty Below" by Cassidy Randall tells this forgotten story.

A month after the Denali expedition, in August 1970, 50,000 women strode down Fifth Avenue in New York City with linked arms in the Women’s Strike for Equality March that put second-wave feminism on ...

In 1970, the wind-swept slopes of Denali were the site of an unsung historic feat: the first all-women’s attempt to summit one of the big mountains of the world. By then, we had sent men to the ...

In 1967, Alaskan mountaineer and doctor Grace Hoeman was the only woman on two separate Denali expeditions. She was turned back on both. The first time, the team leader sent her back midway up ...

Journalist and author of Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First All-Women’s Ascent of Denali Journalist and author of Thirty Below: The Harrowing and Heroic Story of the First ...

In 1970, Alaskan mountaineer and doctor Grace Hoeman led the first all-women’s attempt to summit Denali — which was, in fact, the first all-female attempt at any of the world’s big peaks.

In 1970, six climbers set out to summit Denali, North America’s highest peak, in the first all-women’s attempt at any of the world’s big mountains. Their feat unjustly faded from history ...

And so, in the kind of random act that so often accompanies the colonial naming of geographic “discoveries,” Dickey and his comrades decided to bestow the name McKinley upon the huge peak. It caught ...

In June of 1970, amid the snow-covered rock ramparts of Denali (the true name of North America’s highest peak), six women took their first steps in a historic feat. Led by Alaskan Grace Hoeman and ...