Lizzie Le Blond
Irish mountaineer, author and photographer
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Gwen Moffat
Brighton’s first female mountain guide, followed by a career as a successful author.
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