Woman on the Rocks

The Mountaineering Letters of Ruth Dyar Mendenhall

Editor: Valerie Mendenhall Cohen

2007 - 1st Edition

352 pages

5.5” x 8.5”

ISBN: 978-1-893343-15-3

Spotted Dog Press

In 1937, climbing mountains was thought to be an activity reserved for men only. Ruth Dyar Mendenhall broke that barrier to become one of California’s first and most important women mountain climbers. The letters collected in this book document her fifty-year mountaineering career.