Dream Builders Australia

In the book, How High Can We Climb? (2005), authors Farrar, Straus and Giroux explore the lives of women who choose to follow their rather unusual dreams. They faced dangers, and made amazing discoveries. Some remained single, like Annie Smith Peck. Born in the Victorian era, she got upset when people remarked more about her trousers than mountains she climbed. Other women were mothers and explorers. Arnarulunguaq not only trekked thousands of miles across Arctic North America in the 1920’s, but she made part of the trip while pregnant, then, while carrying a baby on her back. Five pregnancies limited how often spelunker Elisabeth Casteret could squirm through narrow tunnels hundreds of feet below the earth. Only females faced obstacles described in the book, but the explorers viewed their trials as temporary and far smaller than challenges symbolized by the highest mountains, thickest forests, or deepest parts of the oceans. Why not read more about this book and challenge your own concept of limits?