num_pages: 368
description: Annie Smith Peck is one of the most accomplished women of the twentieth century that you have never heard of. Peck was a scholar writer lecturer mountain climber swimmer oarswoman horsewoman splendid conversationalist and well-trained listener. She was a feminist and an independent thinker who never let gender stereotypes stand in her way. Peck gained fame as the third woman recorded in history to climb the Matterhorn--not for her daring alpine feat but because she climbed wearing pants--and would eventually be the first climber ever to conquer Mount Huascaran (21812 feet) in 1908 and would race Hiram Bingham (the model for Indiana Jones) to climb Mount Coropuna in 1911. A Woman's Place Is at the Top: The Biography of Annie Smith Peck is the first full length work about this incredible woman who single-handedly carved her place on the map of mountain climbing and international relations. Peck marched in suffrage parades was the president of the Joan of Arc Suffrage League in New York City became a political speaker and writer before women had the right to vote and was also a propagandist an expert on North-South American relations and an author and lecturer contracted to speak as an authority on multinational industry and commerce before anyone had ever thought to appoint a woman as a diplomat. This empowering biography will give Peck her rightful place in history.
language: English
title: A Woman's Place Is at the Top: A Biography of Annie Smith Peck, Queen of the Climbers
publisher: St. Martin's Press