Nellie Bly Freya Stark Gertrude Bell Isabella Bird Sayyida Al Hurra Ching Shi Good number of firsts and swashbuckling adventures on that list.
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Err isn’t Freya stark fictional?
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Any favorite picks?
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Good story here about Wanda Rutkiewicz, a fierce Polish mountain climber that died attempting to become the first woman to earn the Himalayan Crown:https://thepointmag.com/2017/examined-life/climbing-kanchenjunga …
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Nellie Bly, who I first came across from her undercover journalism in a mental asylum, later emulated around the world in 80 days, but in only 72 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nellie_Bly
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Also invented the oil drum...
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recommend the Evan S. Connell essay "various tourists"pic.twitter.com/AHsZLQXMHq
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Sacagawea
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not strictly an explorer, but very adventurous: Ching Shih https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ching_Shih
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