This episode, Allison and Kimberlee discuss two women from Europe. Artemisia I of Caria joined Persian king Xerxes in his quest to invade Greece and proved to be a powerful military commander and strategist. In the present, Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner is the second woman to climb fourteen eight-thousand feet mountains and the first woman to do so without the use of supplementary oxygen AND she won the National Geographic Explorer of the Year Award.