Grace Hudowalski became the first woman to climb all 46 Adirondack mountains with elevations more than 4,000 feet when she reached the summit of Mount Esther on Aug. 26, 1937. She was only the ninth ...

When Fran Stone ran a marathon with her daughter 12 years ago, she figured it was the last major mountain she would climb with regard to athletic challenges. Stone, who had been Miss Crawford County ...