In 1937, climbing mountains was thought to be an activity reserved for men. Ruth Dyar Mendenhall broke that barrier to become one of California's first and most important women mountain climbers. 
The letters collected in Woman on the Rocks: The Mountaineering Letters of Ruth Dyar Mendenhall (Spotted Dog Press 2007), edited by Valerie Mendenhall Cohen, document her amazing fifty-year mountaineering career.

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Woman on the Rocks: The Mountaineering Letters of Ruth Dyar Mendenhall