From the New York Timesbestselling author of The Gutsy Girl a funny inspiring deeply researched exploration into the science and psychology of the outdoors and our place in it as we age.Caroline Paul has always filled her life with adventure From mountain biking in the Bolivian Andes to pitching a tent midblizzard on Denali she has never been a stranger to the exhilaration the outdoors can hold. Yet through it all she has long wondered Why arent women like men encouraged to keep adventuring into old ageTough Broad is her quest to understand not just how to live a dynamic life in a changing body but why we must. She dives deep into the current research on aging and highlights the results with the stories of women like 93yearold hiker Dot FisherSmith 80yearold SCUBA diver Louise Wholey 52yearold BASE jumper Drew Brooks 64yearold birdwatcher Virginia Rose and the many septuagenarian Wave Catchers who boogie board together in the San Diego surf. These women arent experts. But their experiences and the scientific studies that back them up offer important insight into our own physical and emotional health as we age showing that growing older is no reason for women to sell themselves short. Tough Broad is a highspirited call for women to embrace the outdoors not back away from it in our fifties sixties seventies and beyond casting our own futures in a new and dazzling light.