Women of the Mountains – Women’s Mountains
Book cover Hanna Kimberley "A Woman's Place Is at the Top. A Biography of Annie Smith Peck, Queen of the Climbers", designed by Kathryn Parisi, St. Martin's Press, New York 2017 (edit: Jakob Gabrielli)
On the occasion of International Women's Day 2025
Women of the Mountains – Women’s Mountains
On display at the Sphäre TAP and LUMEN. Museum für Bergfotografie from March 8 to April 19, 2026
"Women's mountains" can be interpreted in several ways: as mountains of holy women, i.e., Celtic cult sites that were "Christianized"; as mountains conquered by women; and as mountains named after exceptional female mountaineers.
