Explorers & Contenders: Susanna Carson Rijnhart

Published: April 24, 2020, 9 a.m.

b'Susanna Carson Rijnhart (1868-1908) was a Canadian medical doctor and missionary who was the second Western woman known to have visited Tibet. Her adventurous travel took her through trying and tragic circumstances at a time when doing so was decidedly against the norm for her gender.'