This book is the first edited collection to offer an intersectional account of gender in mountaineering adventure sports and leisure. It provides original theoretical, methodological, and empirical insights into mountain spaces as sites of socio-cultural production and transformation. The book shows how gender matters in the twenty-first century, and illustrates that there is a need for greater efforts to mainstream difference in representations and governance structures if we are to improve equality in adventure, sporting and leisure spaces. The interdisciplinary volume represents scholars from theoretical as well as applied perspectives across adventure, tourism, sport science, sports coaching, psychology, geography, sociology and outdoor studies. 

The chapters are written by retired high performance sport athletes who transitioned to academic careers and are uniquely positioned to academically examine their experiences. The chapters represent a variety of social theories and a diversity of sports, including team and individual sports. The narrative style of the chapters makes the book accessible to a wider audience.