Elizabeth von Rummel was born into the aristocracy of turn-of-the-century Germany. When most people were settling down into middle age, Lizzie spent the next thirty-two years of her life running lodges in the backcountry pf the Rocky Mountains. She molded a life in the wilderness that few people could have imagined, but her love of the mountains made the hardship and spartan lifestyle seem like a perpetual holiday, Lizzie had the unique ability to bring mountains and people together, and she enhanced the life of hundreds.

Rocky Mountains