From the New York Times bestselling author of The Gutsy Girl comes an inspiring new book encouraging older women to be fearless, explore the outdoors, embrace the wild- and stay tough. 
 
Caroline Paul has always filled her life with adventure: From mountain biking in the Bolivian Andes to pitching a tent, mid-blizzard, in Denali, she has never been a stranger to the exhilaration the outdoors can hold. Now in her fifties, she expects this new stage of life to be every bit as invigorating and full of adventure as the last.
 
Paul has long wondered, Why aren't women, like men, encouraged to keep adventuring into old age?
 
TOUGH BROAD is her personal quest to understand how to continue to live a dynamic life in defiance of societal expectations while accepting the very real fact that bodies change-that she is a bit slower and creakier, but so what? Combining scientific research, cultural studies, medicine, psychology, and personal stories that show we shortchange ourselves when we turn away from the outdoors, Paul offers role models, both well-known and not (including her mom), to inspire and instruct alongside her own incredible experiences. In Tough Broad, Paul shows that growing older is no reason for women to sell themselves short, and that no matter their financial, familial, or physical realities, every woman can experience not just outdoor adventure into their older years, but their own outdoor adventure.