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
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Annie Smith Peck
American mountain climber and suffragist
Dora d’Istria
Romanian author, translator feminist, painter, scholar and mountaineer
Constance Alice Barnicoat
When she died, the Christchurch Press commented that her ‘grip of facts added to an intimate knowledge of European politics and statesmen…had placed her in the front rank of women journalists’. She also excelled as a woman mountaineer.
Greta Stevenson
Botanist, mycologist, mountaineer, teacher