Arlene Blum is a biochemist with a doctorate in physical chemistry. In her twenty years of climbing, she took part in more than fifteen expeditions
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In August 1978, thirteen women left San Francisco for the Nepal Himalayas to make history as the first Americans—and the first women—to scale the treacherous slopes of Annapurna I, the world’s tenth highest peak. Expedition leader Arlene Blum here t... SEE MORE