This book is the first edited collection to offer an intersectional account of gender in mountaineering adventure sports and leisure. It provides original theoretical, methodological, and empirical insights into mountain spaces as sites of socio-cultural production and transformation.

The book shows how gender matters in the twenty-first century, and illustrates that there is a need for greater efforts to mainstream difference in representations and governance structures if we are to improve equality in adventure, sporting and leisure spaces.

The interdisciplinary volume represents scholars from theoretical as well as applied perspectives across adventure, tourism, sport science, sports coaching, psychology, geography, sociology and outdoor studies. 

Jenny Hall is Senior Lecturer at York St John University, UK. She is a cultural geographer interested in embodied experiences in tourism. Her research explores social justice, gender, emotion and affect in adventure and heritage spaces. 

Emma Boocock is Lecturer in the Department of Sport, Exercise and Rehabilitation, Northumbria University, UK. Her main research interests are documenting the embodied experiences of women in green and blue spaces, and understanding how people and places influence our affective practices.

Dr Zoë Avner is Lecturer in the School of Exercise and Nutrition Sciences at Deakin University, Australia. Her research draws on poststructuralist and feminist methodologies to explore athlete and coach learning, power and coaching, and coaching ethics. 

1) Introduction: Contextualizing Gender and Transformational Spaces in Mountaineering Adventure Sports and Leisure.- PART I: TRANSFORMING THE PAST: GENDER AND MOUNTAINEERING HISTORIES.- 2) That is the lady I saw ascending Snowdon, alone: Pioneering women mountaineers of the nineteenth century.- 3)Troubling the silences of adventure legacies: Junko Tabei and the intersectional politics of mountaineering.- 4) There is no manlier sport in the world. How hegemonic masculinity became constitutive of excellence in mountaineering.- PART 2: TRANSFORMING EXPERIENCE: INTERSECTIONAL MOUNTAIN PLACES AND SPACES.- 5) Reflexive duoethnography: A dialogic exploration of disability and participation in outdoor adventure activities and a mountain climber academic.- 6) The whole trip I basically had to hide: A Goffmanian analysis of Erin Parisi and negotiating the gendered mountaineering space.- 7) Exploring the gendered and racialized experiences of Mexican mestiza -women mountaineers through therhizomatic body.- 8) (Re)naming routes: A tale of transformation in the outdoor rock climbing community..- PART 3: TRANSFORMING LEADERSHIP AND PARTICIPATION: CLIMBING THE MOUNTAIN OF EQUITY.- 9) A mountain still to climb: Developing gender parity pathways for women in mountaineering leadership and the role of men.- 10) A Critical Postfeminist lens as a tool for Praxis.- 11)  Leave Tracks: Gender, Discrimination, and Resistance in Mountaineering.- PART 4: TRANSFORMATIONAL PEDAGOGIES: CREATING NEW SPACES TO BE A MOUNTAINEER.- 12) Into the Mountain: challenging hegemonic discourses of mountaineering and expanding the relational field.- 13) Transformational Learning on the Journey to Mountain Leadership.- 14) An Autoethnographic Writing of Mountain Skill Courses.