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American Women's Himalayan Expedition, the Glossary

The American Women's Himalayan Expedition was a 1978 expedition to Annapurna which placed the first two women, and first Americans, on its summit.^[1]

19 relations: Alison Chadwick-Onyszkiewicz, American Alpine Club, Annapurna, Annapurna I Middle Peak, Arlene Blum, David Roberts (climber), Expedition climbing, Irene Beardsley, Johnson & Johnson, Kitty Calhoun, National Geographic Society, Noshaq, O.b. (brand), Pokhara, Second-wave feminism, Sherpa people, The New York Times, Vera Komarkova, Vera Watson.
1978 in Asia
1978 in Nepal
Expeditions from the United States
Mountaineering expeditions to the Himalayas

Alison Chadwick-Onyszkiewicz

Alison Chadwick-Onyszkiewicz (1942 – 17 October 1978) was a British mountaineer, painter, and lithography lecturer.

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American Alpine Club

The American Alpine Club (AAC) is a non-profit member organization with more than 26,000 members.

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Annapurna

Annapurna (अन्नपूर्ण) is a mountain situated in the Annapurna mountain range of Gandaki Province, north-central Nepal.

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Annapurna I Middle Peak

Annapurna I Central is a subsidiary peak of Annapurna I Main located in Nepal.

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Arlene Blum

Arlene Blum (born March 1, 1945Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life, page 344) is an American mountaineer, writer, and environmental health scientist.

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David Stuart Roberts (May 29, 1943 – August 20, 2021) was an American climber, mountaineer, college professor, and author of books and articles about climbing and the history of the American Southwest.

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Expedition climbing

Expedition climbing (or expedition-style or pejoratively siege climbing), is a type of mountaineering that uses a series of well-stocked camps on the mountain that lead to the summit (e.g. Base Camp, Camp 1, Camp 2, etc.), and which are supplied by teams of mountain porters.

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Irene Beardsley

Irene Beardsley (formerly Ortenburger and Miller; born 1935) is an American mountaineer, and along with Vera Komarkova, the first woman to climb Annapurna, the tenth highest mountain in the world.

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Johnson & Johnson

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) is an American multinational pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and medical technologies corporation headquartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange.

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Kitty Calhoun

Catherine Howell Calhoun (formerly Kitty Calhoun Grissom; born 1960) is an American mountain climber.

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National Geographic Society

The National Geographic Society (NGS), headquartered in Washington, D.C., United States, is one of the largest nonprofit scientific and educational organizations in the world.

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Noshaq

Noshaq, also called Noshakh or Nowshakh (نوشاخ, Nowshākh, lit. "new horn"), is the second highest peak in the Hindu Kush Range after Tirich Mir at.

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O.b. (brand)

o.b. is a brand of tampon, originally developed in Germany in 1950 and manufactured by Carl Hahn GmbH.

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Pokhara

Pokhara (पोखरा) is a metropolitan city in central Nepal, which serves as the capital of Gandaki Province and the tourism capital of Nepal.

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Second-wave feminism

Second-wave feminism was a period of feminist activity that began in the early 1960s and lasted roughly two decades, ending with the feminist sex wars in the early 1980s and being replaced by third-wave feminism in the early 1990s.

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Sherpa people

The Sherpas (shar pa) are one of the Tibetan ethnic groups native to the most mountainous regions of Nepal and Tibetan Autonomous Region.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (NYT) is an American daily newspaper based in New York City.

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Vera Komarkova

Vera Komarkova (Věra Komárková) (25 December 1942 - 25 May 2005) was a prominent Czech-American mountaineer and botanist.

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Vera Watson

Vera Watson (1932 – October 17, 1978) was an American computer programmer, mountaineer and rock climber who made the first woman's solo climb of Acongagua, the highest mountain in the Americas.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Women's_Himalayan_Expedition