Dora Keen Photograph Collection 1911

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Dora Keen Photograph Collection 1911

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Photographs of Dora Keen's expedition to Mt. Blackburn

17 photographic prints; 1 folder

eng,

University of Washington Libraries Special Collections

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SNAC Resource ID: 6371674

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Keen, Dora, b. 1871-

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According to the American Alpine Club Annals, Dora Keen became the first woman to mountain climb in Alaska. Born in 1871, Dora Keen defied social norms of the day by taking up mountain climbing and traveling in her late thirties, after obtaining an education from Bryn Mawr. One of the world's first female mountaineers, she was the first person ever to climb the peak of Mt. Blackburn. The highest peak in the Wrangell Mountains range, Alaska, Mt. Blackburn is considered the fifth high...