1947 Newsreel: Boston woman 1st to scale Mt. McKinley

…but she still had to do the laundry.

The Museum of Science, Boston has posted a short film on the husband-and-wife team of Bradford and Barbara Washburn, museum patrons and co-founders.

From Nat Geo: Their June 6, 1947, climb of Alaska’s ice-ribbed Mount McKinley made Barbara the first woman to summit North America’s highest peak and set an early benchmark in the close bonds of an illustrious career of mountaineering, exploring, mapping, and museum administration.

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