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Dorothy Michaelis Theomin

New Zealand philanthropist

Jane Thomson

One of the first to achieve important goals for women mountaineers in New Zealand, and proved that age need be no barrier to participation in the sport.

Dora Keen

American traveler, mountain climber and writer

Brede Arkless

Irish rock climber and mountain guide

Fanny Bullock Workman

American mountain-climber and explorer of the late 1800s

Freda Du Faur

Du Faur is significant as the best amateur climber of her day and as the first woman to take up high climbing in New Zealand

Annie Smith Peck

American mountain climber and suffragist

Dora d’Istria

Romanian author, translator feminist, painter, scholar and mountaineer

When she died, the Christchurch Press commented that her ‘grip of facts added to an intimate knowledge of European politics and statesmen…had placed her in the front rank of women journalists’. She also excelled as a woman mountaineer.