1st Edition
Women on the Rope The Feminine Share in Mountain Adventure
By Cicely Williams
Copyright 1973
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
248 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 1973, Women on the Rope provides the first consecutive story of the ‘feminine share in mountain adventure’, a share which has grown from tiny beginnings in 1808 to a level at which women have won their place at Everest expeditions. Cicely Williams provides a book which combines exact and detailed knowledge of a little-known chapter of human enterprise with that zest for life... Read more
Acknowledgements 1. Approach 2. First Beginnings 3. Petticoat Pioneers 4. Gallant Successors 5. Ladies Only 6. Like Mother, Like Daughter 7. Wider Horizons 8. From Strength to Strength 9. Invitation to Everest 10. ‘Out to the Undiscovered Ends’ Bibliography Index
Biography
Cicely Williams
