Elise Wortley takes on Henriette d'Angeville's pioneering Mont Blanc climb.

"Black women ain't never goin' to fly..." “Black women ain’t never goin’ to fly”, Bessie Coleman’s brother told her in 1919, whilst...

"I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful...

The Living Mountain is like no other book I've read before. It's a poetic homage to The Cairngorm mountain range in the eastern Highlands...

Somewhere along the way, during the final six month stretch of her 14 year journey, Alexandra David-Néel came across a fur hat in a patch...

I've always loved books, so here are five of my favourites, which in some way or another have influenced the Woman with Altitude project: My Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-Néel This is the book that directly inspired the whole Woman with Altitude project, My Journey to Lhasa by Alexandra David-Néel. I first read this book when I was sixteen, and I just couldn't believe what Alexandra managed to achieve at a time when women just didn't do that sort of thing. Alexandra tra