Arlene Blum

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Arlene Blum (1977)

Arlene Blum (born March 1, 1945 in Davenport , Iowa ) is an American mountaineer , writer and environmental scientist .

She became known when she led the first all-women expedition to Annapurna in 1978 . She was also a member of the first women's rope team on Mount McKinley . In the fall of 1976, as a co-organizer of the American Bicentennial Everest Expedition, she was the first American to attempt to climb Mount Everest but not reach the summit.

Until her retirement, Blum was Professor of Chemistry at the University of California at Berkeley . She is publicly committed against toxic brominated and chlorinated flame retardants . In 2010 she was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science .

Fonts

  • Arlene Blum: Annapurna. The first women's expedition to one of the highest peaks in the world. Pietsch, 1982, ISBN 978-3879439065 , translation into German by Hermann Leifeld
  • Arlene Blum: Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life. Scribner, 2005, ISBN 978-0743258463

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life, p. 344, chapter 24 .
  2. ↑ Arlene Blum: Everest - Chapter 18. Retrieved August 9, 2019 (American English).
  3. ↑ William G. Schulz: Ablaze Over Furniture Fires , C&EN , 2012, 90 (44), pp. 28-33.
  4. ↑ Fellows of the AAAS: Arlene Blum. (No longer available online.) American Association for the Advancement of Science, archived from the original on February 13, 2018 ; accessed on February 12, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Blum, Arlene
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mountaineer, writer, and environmental scientist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Davenport , Iowa