Alma Wagen – 1st climbing guide on Mt Rainier

Celebrating girls and women in the outdoors on #InternationalWomansDay.

Alma Wagen was the first female guide to work in Mount Rainier National Park. The bulk of her work as a guide consisted of leading tourists on hikes to nearby glaciers, but she occasionally assisted in leading parties to the mountain’s summit, which she was said to have done “like a master”. …