Dr. Grace (Jansen) Hoeman (1921–1971) was an accomplished mountaineer and physician in Anchorage.

She climbed in excess of 120 peaks in Alaska, many with her husband, Vin Hoeman, who died in an avalanche on Nepal's Dhaulagiri two years before she met a similar fate.

She perished in an avalanche on Eklutna Glacier in the Chugach Mountains near Anchorage on April 12, 1971.

In 1970 she led an all-women expedition to the summit of Denali via the West Buttress route.

[4] Weather systems coming off the Gulf of Alaska are forced upwards by the Chugach Mountains (orographic lift), causing heavy precipitation in the form of rainfall and snowfall.