Stacy Allison (born 1958), raised in Woodburn, Oregon,[1] is the first American woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest, the world's highest mountain, which she did on September 29, 1988.
Starting from late 1970s, she practiced the basics of mountaineering and mastered her skills under the guidance of Scott Fischer.
[3] Next autumn she joined the Mount Everest expedition from Tibet (northern wall) also organised by Mountain Madness.
Trying to reach the summit Stacy, Scott, Wesley and Samuel Belk have spent four nights in Camp IV but then were forced to go down because of bad weather: strong wind and snowfalls.
Three days later, On October 2, Peggy Luce Gudgell of the same team became a second American woman who reached the Everest summit.