![]() Chronicling a life of extraordinary personal and professional achievement, Blum's intimate and inspiring memoir explores how her childhood fueled her need to climb-and how, in turn, her climbing liberated her from her childhood. Breaking Trail is the story of Blum's journey from her overprotected youth in Chicago to the tops of some of the highest peaks on Earth. In her long, adventurous career, she has played a leading role in more than twenty expeditions and forged a place for women in the perilous arena of high-altitude mountaineering. McKinley and Annapurna, and was the first American woman to attempt Mt. ![]() Defying the climbing establishment of the 1970s, she led the first teams of women on successful ascents of Mt. Arlene Blum is a legendary trailblazer by any measure. From the bestselling author of Annapurna: A Woman's Place, comes a revealing memoir about the mountaineering feats that made Arlene Blum one of America's most famous female climbers and her tumultuous journey to adulthood that inspired her to become the risk-taker she is today. ![]()
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