Tough Broad

<p><b>From the <i>New York Times</i>-bestselling author of <i>The Gutsy Girl</i>, a funny, inspiring, deeply researched exploration into the science and psychology of the outdoors and our place in it as we age.</b><br><br>Caroline Paul has always filled her life with adventure: From mountain biking in the Bolivian Andes to pitching a tent, mid-blizzard, on Denali, she has never been a stranger to the exhilaration the outdoors can hold. Yet through it all, she has long wondered, <i>Why aren¿t women, like men, encouraged to keep adventuring into old age?</i><br><br><i>Tough Broad</i> is her quest to understand not just how to live a dynamic life in a changing body, but why we must. She dives deep into the current research on aging, and highlights the results with the stories of women like ninety-three-year-old hiker Dot Fisher-Smith, eighty-year-old scuba diver Louise Wholey, fifty-two-year-old BASE jumper Shawn Brokemond, sixty-four-year-old birdwatcher Virginia Rose, and the many septu