American Women's Himalayan Expedition

As the first female team, many of the women were especially determined to forge their own leadership methods and styles independent of the male lead expeditions before them.

[5] The team spent a year raising the money needed for the climb, mostly by selling T-shirts with the slogan, A Woman’s Place is on Top.

[7] They approached the mountain siege style, leaving Pokhara with more than 12,000 pounds (5,400 kg) of supplies, a team of porters, 13 women and 6 Sherpas.

Blum had wanted to employ female low-altitude porters and train them to be climbers, but ran into difficulties with the Sherpas' union and the women hired were not strong load carriers.

[3] On the 27th Chadwick-Onyszkiewicz, Liz Klobusicky-Mailänder, Chewang, and Lakpa established camp 3, and another near avalanche miss cleared the rib making it more passable.

They failed to make a scheduled radio call, and their bodies were found by Lhakpa Norbu and Mingma below camp four, three days later.

[5] Blum's book on the expedition, Annapurna: A Woman's Place, was cited by Kitty Calhoun as an inspiration to later mountaineers.

[13] This was denounced by Blum as hypocritical, since there were no objections to Sherpa forged paths on recent all-male expeditions and that (at the time) there had been one death for every summit on Annapurna.