Joan Newton Cuneo
Following Joan Newton Cuneo’s wins in the legendary Glidden Tour in 1908, women were banned from competing in American Automobile Association events.
Following Joan Newton Cuneo’s wins in the legendary Glidden Tour in 1908, women were banned from competing in American Automobile Association events.
The Operation White Tower expedition commenced in the spring of 1947 with the goal of mapping and filming the highest mountain in North America. Barbara Polk Washburn was the only woman on the team of mountaineers, photographers, scientists, and military men.
Legally blind since childhood, Olympic track and field athlete and marathon runner Marla Runyan never let her vision loss stand in the way of her athletic dreams.
Pearl Howard Dawson was a leading figure in the formative years of women’s team sports in New Zealand, particularly hockey, both as a player and administrator.
New Zealand teacher, mountaineer, journalist and writer
New Zealand school principal and mountaineer.
New Zealand teacher, sports administrator and community leader
Besides her interest in theatre, fashion, literature, art, woodwork and car maintenance, she was a capable mountaineer with a penchant for rugged West Coast New Zealand terrain. Her warmth, energy and knowledge assisted many students to attain international standards of practice in physiotherapy and helped to firmly establish the profession in New Zealand.
The first New Zealand woman to achieve national prominence in motor racing and to establish a significant automotive business
New Zealand mountaineer