"(1st edition 1913)"
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Annie Smith Peck
(October 19, 1850 – July 18, 1935) was an American , adventurer, ., classical scholar, professor, lecturer, writer, and suffragist. In 1927 the renamed 's northern peak as Cumbre Aña Peck in her honor. She was one of only three women who reached the summit of the during the nineteenth century. (The first was and the second was .)
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