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Arlene Blum
Arlene Blum (born March 1, 1945〔Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life, page 344 (Chapter 24 )〕) is an American mountaineer, writer, and environmental health scientist. She is best known for leading an all-woman ascent of Annapurna (I), a climb that was also the first successful American ascent. She was also a deputy leader of the first all-woman ascent of Mount Denali and the first American woman to attempt to ascend Mount Everest.〔Blum, Arlene. Personal Interview. 5 December 2009.〕
==Start in mountaineering==
Blum was born in Davenport, Iowa, and raised from the age of five on in Chicago by her Orthodox Jewish mother and grandparents.〔 In the early 1960s, she attended Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Her first climb was in Washington, where she failed to reach the summit of Mount Adams. However, she persevered, climbing throughout her college days. In 1960, she requested to join a high altitude expedition, but was told that she was welcome to come as far as the base camp to “help with the cooking.” 〔http://jwa.org/blog/climb-every-mountain〕 However, she was able to go climbing as part of her research for her senior thesis, which was on the topic of volcanic gases on Oregon's Mount Hood. She was rejected from an Afghanistan expedition in 1969, with its leader writing to her, “One woman and nine men would seem to me to be unpleasant high on the open ice, not only in excretory situations but in the easy masculine companionship which is so vital a part of the joy of an expedition.” 〔 Blum graduated from Reed and attended MIT and UC Berkeley, where she earned a Ph.D. in biophysical chemistry in 1971. After graduate school, Blum embarked on what she called the "endless winter" — spending more than a year climbing peaks all over the world.
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