My Ascent of Mont Blanc

In 1938 the indominitable Henriette d'Angeville climbed Mont Blac. And what a climb it was! A few years earlier several male mountaineers had been killed in an avalanche, and the porters and guides she approached in the village of Chamonix at the foot of the Mountain wee loath to accompany her. Even the local cure' threatened to withhold his blessing... (from inside front cover)