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Barbara Washburn (November 10, 1914 – September 25, 2014) was an American mountaineer. She became the first woman to climb Denali (Mount McKinley) on June 6, 1947. She was the wife of mountaineer and scientist Bradford Washburn. Barbara died a few weeks short of her 100th birthday. ==Biography== Born in the Boston area, Washburn met her husband while taking courses at Harvard University. They married in 1940 and honeymooned in Alaska making the first ascent of Mount Bertha together. The Washburns often worked in tandem areas of mountaineering, exploring, mapping, and museum administration. She did not realize that she had been the first woman to climb Denali until after their ascent,〔The Accidental Adventurer: Memoir of the First Woman to Climb Mt. McKinley by Barbara Washburn, Lew Freedman and Bradford Washburn, Epicenter Press, May 2001.〕 which occurred shortly after their wedding. She typically accompanied her husband on his expeditions, and contributed to his work at the Boston Museum of Science. With her husband, she completed a large-scale map of the Grand Canyon, published as a National Geographic magazine supplement in July 1978. For that achievement and others, the Washburns received in 1980 the Alexander Graham Bell Medal from the National Geographic Society.〔 〕〔 ''"Bradford and Barbara Washburn ... received it in 1980 for their contributions to geography and cartography"''.〕 In 1981, the Washburns produced the most detailed and accurate map ever made of Mount Everest. Barbara's memoir is ''The Accidental Adventurer: Memoir of the First Woman to Climb Mt. McKinley'' by Barbara Washburn, Lew Freedman and Bradford Washburn, Epicenter Press, May 2001. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Barbara Washburn」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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