IN 1911, Annie Smith Peck climbed to the 21,000-foot summit of Nevado Coropuna in the Peruvian Andes and unfurled a ‘Votes for Women’ banner. The following year, Fanny Bullock Workman led the first expedition to explore the Siachen Glacier in Baltistan, and was photographed holding aloft a newspaper with a ‘Votes for Women’ headline.
I describe in my new book how, from around the mid-1800s, women turned en masse to outdoor activities, because they offered emancipation
