Author: Edna Northrup & Penny Northrup Kirk
AMC Outdoors inspires people to engage in outdoor conservation and recreation through meaningful stories.

AMC Member Reflects on Hiking to the Everest Base Camp at 84
EDNA SAYS: When I graduated high school, I didn’t want to be a nurse. I didn’t want to be a teacher. I wanted to go to college for forestry, but women didn’t do that then. So I took a train from Buffalo to Ellicottville, N.Y.—what’s now Holiday Valley Ski Resort. I could stay and ski […]