Fay Fuller

[3] After graduating from high school, Fuller began teaching at the age of 15, eventually moving to work in Yelm, Washington.

[4] Fuller made her first attempt on Rainier in 1887, reaching an elevation of approximately 8,600 feet (2,600 m) and setting a goal to someday "climb to the summit of the great peak".

On the afternoon of August 10, she and four teammates reached Columbia Crest, Rainier's highest summit, making her the first woman to have climbed the mountain.

[4] The next climbing party on the mountain found Fuller's hair pins on the route and joked that this proved "a woman really had made it to the summit".

[3] Fuller left Tacoma in 1900 to continue her career in journalism in Chicago, Washington, D.C., and New York City.