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Annie Smith Peck

United States

American pioneer of women's mountaineering; first to reach the north peak of Huascarán (1908), now named Cumbre Aña Peck.

Annie Smith Peck (19 October 1850 – 18 July 1935) was an American mountaineer, explorer and travel writer who climbed the Matterhorn in 1895 in clothing then considered improper for a woman, and in 1897 summited Pico de Orizaba in Mexico — at the time the highest ascent in the Americas by a woman. In 1908 she became the first person to reach the north peak of Huascarán in Peru's Cordillera Blanca, later renamed Cumbre Aña Peck in her honour. She was also an ardent suffragist: in 1911, aged 61, she planted a "Votes for Women" banner on the summit of Coropuna, and from 1914 led the Joan of Arc Suffrage League; she wrote four books, among them A Search for the Apex of America (1911) and Flying Over South America (1932).

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