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Helen Y. Rolfe
Helen Rolfe lives with her family in Canmore, Alberta. Feeling the pull of the Rocky Mountains, she moved west from Ontario in her early 20s and has been in Alberta ever since.
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Women Explorers
One Hundred Years of Courage and Audacity
edition:Paperback
Since the early days of exploration, adventurous women have felt the pull of the mountains. Women of the early 1900s climbed some of the highest peaks in Canada, wearing woollen knickers and hobnail boots. These pioneers—women such as Sharon Wood and Leanne Allison—set the standard for those who followed and continued to push the limits even fa …
