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ARTICLE: Women of the Matterhorn

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 UKC Articles 19 Apr 2021
Lucy Walker

150 years ago, on July 21st 1871, Liverpudlian Lucy Walker became the first woman to climb the Matterhorn. It was at least her nineteenth first female ascent. To celebrate Lucy Walker's and Meta Brevoort's achievements in 1871 the Alpine Club is hosting a women's meet in Switzerland to climb the routes they climbed 150 years ago.



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 Sean Kelly 19 Apr 2021
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Another notable early female mountaineer of note was Gertrude Bell. Her nearly successful ascent of the Finsterrarhorn was phenomenal for its time and failing just below the summit resulted in a epic descent. 53 hours on the mountain is a long day. A biography of her alpine achievements, rather than her travels and political life, is sadly overdue. Was it GW Young who stated that her attempt was one of the major alpine pre-war  achievements. Very few ascents of the N E face of the Finsterrarhorn on the UKC logbooks even to this day.

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