INTRÉPIDAS

[text submitted in English by the publisher. No Spanish version available.]

When someone met Junko Tabei, always looked at her with perplexity. Her size was really small. How could she be the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest? She laughed about that confusion. Junko explained that her size or her climbing technique were not the things that took her to the summit, but her determination, and that rises from the heart. Intrepids rediscovers the incredible travels of 25 female explorers, some of them forgotten. Following her steps, we can learn how they overcame their fears to climb the highest mountains, to swing the world by feet or by bike, to travel through space, to fly beetwen continets, to cross deserts, or to dive into the greater dephts of the sea... All of them discovered an important leason: that the journey is the destination.