Valley of Giants: Stories from Women at the Heart of Yosemite Climbing - Lauren Delaunay Miller

The valley of Yosemite has always been a huge part of climbing's development as a sport, and probably the most well-known destination after Everest.
While most people will know of Lynn Hill's first free ascent of The Nose (by any person, male or female), there are many other contributions by women that have been sadly overlooked. 
A long overdue herstory of climbing in Yosemite, this anthology draws together a variety of sources and contributors that demonstrate how women have always belonged in the Valley. 

From the inside cover:

Though long overlooked, women have always been at the center of climbing in Yosemite - integral members of the community establishing routes and making equipment. In Valley of Giants, editor and climber Lauren DeLaunay Miller pulls together journal excerpts, original essays, interviews, archival materials, and memorable firsts that span the past century of climbing in the Valley.

This first-ever collection of both famed and untold stories from women at the heart of Yosemite climbing gathers almost 40 contributors, from Bea Vogel who forged her own pitons to Molly Higgins who participated in the first all-female ascent of the Nose on El Capitan to Liz Robbins who established routes in Yosemite Valley during the Golden Age. Astonishing Stonemasters like Lynn Hill, as well as many other notable climbers, including Steph Davis, Kate Rutherford, Beth Rodden, Chelsea Griffie, Libby Sauter, and more share their recollections of the exhilaration they felt up on the wall and the determination it took to get there. As Mari Gingery, one of the first women to climb the Shield on El Cap, writes in the foreword, "the stories feature a medley of intrepid female characters" who "offer fresh perspectives."

Organised into five distinct eras in Yosemite climbing history, this groundbreaking anthology captures a range of stories from heartbreaking losses to soaring joys, trip reports of significant ascents to moments that convey the essence of what it means to call this iconic place "home."