A dancer on Everest and a queen of high climbing mountaineers are featured. Suzanne Lang talks with Mimi Zieman, doctor and author of “The Post Roe Monologues” whose latest book is Tap Dancing on Everest —a Young Doctor’s Unlikely Adventure, a chronicle of her life and serving as the team doctor on a dicey ascent from Tibet up the east side of Mt. Everest.

Also featured is journalist Cathryn J. Prince, on her book  Queen of the Mountaineers, the Trailblazing Life of Fanny Bullock Workman, a story of a remarkable woman, explorer and climber of high peaks in the Alps and the Himalaya at the turn of the Twentieth Century.

It’s a Novel Idea with Suzanne Lang, Sunday, April 21st at 10am PT. Streaming and podcasting at norcalpublicmedia.org.

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