Hulda Crooks
Hulda Crooks
#History
Hulda Hoehn Crooks (May 19, 1896-November 23, 1997)
Hulda Hoehn was born in Saskatchewan , Canada, she is one of 18 children born to a farming couple. She studied and enrolled at Pacific Union College north of San Francisco and then went to Loma Linda University, where she met and married Dr. Crooks.
After her husband's death, she began climbing by 1950, as a tribute to her husband, as he had encouraged her after he suffered a bout of pneumonia.
She became an American mountaineer. Affectionately known as "Grandma Whitney," she successfully climbed the 14,505-foot (4,421 m) Mount Whitney 23 times between the ages of 65 and 91. She had climbed 97 other peaks during this period. In 1990, an act of Congress changed the name of Day Needle, one of the peaks in the Whitney area, to Crooks Peak in his honor.
At age 91, she became the oldest woman to complete the ascent of Mount Fuji in Japan. She hiked the entire 212-mile John Muir Trail in the High Sierras, completing the hike in segments over five years.
You can Google more about her life, she is a super famous woman and she made it after the age of 65, look at all the photos, statues and monuments about her. (Cover photo)
Hulda Crooks lived in Loma Linda, California. In 1991 Loma Linda dedicated a park at the base of the south hills as Hulda Crooks Park. There I show you in a picture the statue in her honor.(Source Tripadvisor)
There are no limits when we want to achieve something, age is no limit, let's put that thought in our mind and heart every day.
Have you heard her name before?
I got to know her life reading the book ¨Guía Práctica para Mujeres que quieren Emprender y no saben cómo¨. (Practical Guide for Women who want to start a business but do not know how)
