WOMEN CLIMBERS

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 74, 1 April 1929, Page 13

WOMEN CLIMBERS

Miss K. Gardiner, :of.■Liverpool, who recently climbed Mount Cook, 12,349 ft, in 15 hours '15 minutes, has added to the series of thrilling'performances by Avomen climbers in recent years, says the the "New Zealand Herald." Only a little more than two years ago Miss Sheila Macdonald, a London typist, climbed Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa, being the first.woman to do so. Dr. Dorothy Jordan Llpyd, .who is. a D.Sc. of London University,: made the ascent and descent in a day last August of the Eiger, 13,949 ft, in the Jungfrau Alps. About the same time Miss Evelyn Curry, of Manchester, a typist, reached the summit of Mont Blanc in six and a-half hours, half an hour less than the guides' allotted time. Last summer another London woman, Miss Maud Cairnway, achieved the distinction of being- the 'first of her sex to ascend Dent Blanche, 14,318 ft, near Zermatt, from the eastern side. Miss Dorothy E. Pilley, of Camberwell, had a similar distinction in 192G, when she went up Mount Baker,'a 14,000 ft mountain in the Rockies. Another amazing performance was that of Miss Wheston, an Englishwoman, who climbed the Wetterhorn, 12,000 ft, at the age of 72, in 1925.