Martina Gugglberger,
"Wanda Rutkiewicz ? crossing boundaries in women?s mountaineering"
, in Sport in Society, Routledge, Seite(n) 1059-1076, 4-2016, ISSN: 1743-0445
Original Titel:
Wanda Rutkiewicz ? crossing boundaries in women?s mountaineering
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
The Polish computer engineer Wanda Rutkiewicz was a leading figure
in Himalayan mountaineering in the 1970s and 1980s. By the time
of her disappearance ? while climbing Kanchenjunga in 1992 ? she
had successfully climbed eight of the fourteen 8000 m peaks in the
Himalayas. From the beginning of her climbing career she was actively
involved in organizing expeditions, particularly for female rope teams.
She promoted the separate evaluation of ascents by purely female
teams. After becoming the first European woman to scale Mount
Everest (in 1978), she continued to extend her transnational contacts
in Europe, Asia and the US. This increased her ability to organize
mountaineering expeditions, although she always maintained a
strong connection to the Polish climbing community and institutions.
Furthermore, she actively sought media attention by publishing books
and articles and giving interviews. She also produced mountaineering
film documentaries.
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