The Ladies' Alpine Club was founded in London, England in 1907 and was the first mountaineering club for women. It merged with the Alpine Club of Great...
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first alpine club, the Alpine Club, based in the United Kingdom, was founded in London in 1857 as a gentlemen's club. It was once described as: "a club of...
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The Alpine Club was founded in London on 22 December 1857 and is the world's first mountaineering club. The primary focus of the club is to support mountaineers...
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The Ladies' Scottish Climbing Club was founded by Jane Inglis Clark, her daughter Mabel, and Lucy Smith at a boulder near Lix Toll, Perthshire in 1908...
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Elizabeth Hawkins-Whitshed (category Presidents of the Ladies' Alpine Club)
her climbing in a skirt. In 1907, she took the lead in forming the Ladies' Alpine Club and became its first president. She wrote seven books on mountain...
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Canadian mining company Ladies' Alpine Club (1907–1975), a club for women climbers, based in London, merged in 1975 with the Alpine Club Lake Avenue Church...
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Margherita later accepted the position of Honorary President of the Ladies' Alpine Club. Umberto I, who had already survived in the past two attempted murders...
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organisations including: Alpine Club The Rucksack Club The Wayfarers' Club Ladies' Alpine Club Pinnacle Club The Yorkshire Ramblers' Club The British Mountaineering...
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Lucy Walker (climber) (category Presidents of the Ladies' Alpine Club)
98 expeditions. In 1909 she became a member of the newly formed Ladies' Alpine Club where she was acclaimed as the pioneer of women climbers. In 1913...
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Katharine Richardson, and for her contribution to the Alpine Journal and the Ladies' Alpine Club. Mary Paillon was born in Oullins, Rhône, into a family...
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The Ladies' Ski Club was founded in 1923, at the suggestion of Arnold Lunn, by Doreen Elliott, Mrs Duncan Harvey and Lunn's wife, (Lady) Mabel Lunn. It...
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Una Cameron (category Presidents of the Ladies' Alpine Club)
highest peak, Batian, on Mount Kenya, March 1938. She joined the Ladies Alpine Club in 1929 and served as its president in 1957. She lived for many years...
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Geographical Society, and of the Dutch Alpine Club, as well as serving as Vice-President of the Ladies' Alpine Club. Her archives and bust, sculpted by Fransje...
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Robert William Edis and the style was eclectic and opulent. The Ladies' Alpine Club rented rooms in the hotel and held its annual dinner there. In the...
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Pinnacle Club was founded to offer an alternative – a space where women could literally ‘learn the ropes’ together. Although the Ladies' Alpine Club and Ladies'...
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Margaret Meyer (category Presidents of the Ladies' Alpine Club)
ISBN 978-1-108-01531-8. Retrieved 19 October 2012. "Ladies Alpine Club Archive". The Alpine Club. Archived from the original on 29 August 2012. Retrieved...
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Talha in Tangail The Alpine Club of Pakistan (ACP) is a non governmental sports organisation for the promotion of mountaineering, climbing and other mountain-related...
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mountain climber. Morin climbed in the Alps in the 1920s, joined the Ladies Alpine Club, and met many climbers in the French Groupe de haute montagne [fr]...
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Zinalrothorn (category Alpine four-thousanders)
1914. In the 1880s Mrs Aubrey Le Blond, the first president of the Ladies' Alpine Club, left her detachable skirt by mistake up the Zinalrothorn. To preserve...
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Heathfield, East Sussex, in 1961. After her death, her friends and the Ladies' Alpine Club published her memoirs, titled Climbing with Joseph Georges, in 1962...
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first ascents made by a woman. She was a member of the Club alpin français and the Ladies' Alpine Club (LAC). She declined the presidency of the LAC twice...
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The Alpine Club of Canada (ACC) is an amateur athletic association with its national office in Canmore, Alberta that has been a focal point for Canadian...
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of instruction for librarians. Ladies' Alpine Club (1907-1975), London, the first mountaineering club for women. Ladies Dining Society (1890-World War...
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Raymond and Josephine Elsdon in earlier years, he guided members of the Ladies Alpine Club, such as Elaine Huth from 1924 to 1929. Huth climbed more than two...
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run of Alpine combined in St. Moritz was cancelled because of poor visibility. It will be replaced on 26 January 2018 in Lenzerheide both ladies downhill...
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Appalachian Mountain Club Honorary member, Ladies' Alpine Club of Great Britain (1936) Honorary member, American Alpine Club (1967) O'Connor, Joe (2...
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Roger Chorley, 2nd Baron Chorley (category Presidents of the Alpine Club (UK))
was Vice-President of the FRCC in 1953 and became President of the Ladies’ Alpine Club (1953 - 1955). Chorley inherited their enthusiasm for mountaineering...
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did attend Cambridge University). Lloyd was an early member of the Ladies' Alpine Club which was based in London. She was the first woman to climb the Sudlenspitze...
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in 1918. She was a member of the New Zealand Alpine Club from 1924, also joining the Ladies' Alpine Club in London. "The Univehsity Examinations". The...
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David Cox (historian and mountaineer) (category Presidents of the Alpine Club (UK))
of many die-hards" for the amalgamation of the Ladies Alpine Club with the (then) male only Alpine Club. He died on 25 October 1994 on the last day of...
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