In reply to iccle_bully:
not at all off topic. My sister knew Arlene Blum somehow and I saw her speak once as a young climber ( in Wellesley maybe? like 45 years ago). She was one of the first to point out to my generation that climbing was of course the domain of men and women. Most of the “classic” books at the time it was all about the hearty men who conquered virgin peaks.
Blum is amazing, I have read her books, very good classics of the mountaineering literature.
edit-yes, she was teaching at Wellesley College at the time I heard about her, my sister went there for university at the time.