Forrest Ross
New Zealand teacher, mountaineer, journalist and writer
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Margaret Lorimer
New Zealand school principal and mountaineer.
Louie Roberts
Besides her interest in theatre, fashion, literature, art, woodwork and car maintenance, she was a capable mountaineer with a penchant for rugged West Coast New Zealand terrain. Her warmth, energy and knowledge assisted many students to attain international standards of practice in physiotherapy and helped to firmly establish the profession in New Zealand.
Katie Gardiner
New Zealand mountaineer
Maria Atkinson
New Zealand pioneer, writer, and the first Pākehā woman to climb Mount Taranaki.
Wanda Rutkiewicz
Accomplished Polish mountaineer
Julia Archibald Holmes
American suffragist and abolitionist, best known for being the first woman to climb Pikes Peak in Colorado in 1858.
Forrest Ross
New Zealand teacher, mountaineer, journalist and writer
Miriam O’Brien Underhill
Mountaineer, environmentalist and feminist proponent of all-women climbs
Junko Tabei
Renowned Japanese mountaineer, author, and teacher.