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Posted on June 6, 2021 | Views: 29 cwebb2021-06-05T19:39:49-07:00 by Matt Hickman: Although climbing mountains, documenting exotic lands and traversing some of Mother Nature’s most extreme landscapes might not be considered gender-exclusive activities today… they were once very much the endeavors of men only. Well, men and a select handful of tenacious women who saw beyond their prescribed societal roles and just went out and did it. We’ve rounded up several notable female adventurers of the 19th and early 20th centuries who blazed the trail, sometimes literally, for their modern counterparts. Isabella Bird (1831-1904) You could say the life of perpetually on-the-move socialite turned globetrotting adventurer turned missionary Isabella Bird served as one big, eye-opening geography lesson for Victorian England. It’s only fitting, then, that after decades of bouncing from continent to continent, Bird became the first woman inducted into the ....
Last of the daredevils The pandemic has shown how risk-averse humans usually are. But there are always outliers L AURENT FRAT is standing on top of a ridge line in the French alps, preparing to leap down to the valley below. If something goes wrong, he will die. “If I can’t find the landing area it will find me,” he jokes. He claims not to be nervous, although he admits that he tries not to think about his family before he jumps. After checking that the photographer is ready, he is off, arms outstretched, head forward, leaping into the void. ....