![]() When they left Camp Muir for the summit, Fuller smeared charcoal on her face to protect her skin from the sun. On August 9th, Fuller set out to climb the state’s tallest peak dressed in flannel underwear, a thick bloomer suit, woolen hose, boy’s calfskin shoes, and a straw hat. ![]() I like to think that in many ways they’re still part of each team we join today, silently celebrating each footstep they’ve helped us achieve.įay Fuller was a teacher and journalist living in the tiny town of Yelm, Wash., when Philemon Van Trump and General Hazard Stevens invited her to join a team intending to climb Mount Rainier in the summer of 1890. These five women each redefined the rules in their own way: by going where no women had been before, by planning their own expeditions dictated by their own goals, by taking responsibility for their own relationships with the mountains. Long before we had hashtags and women’s climbing festivals, there were generations of female pioneers paving our way toward the top. ![]()
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