Climbing Days
eBook - ePub

Climbing Days

  1. 384 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Climbing Days

About this book

When Dorothy Pilley first set hand on the rope in the 1910s, women climbers were seen as a dangerous liability, their achievements ignored, unrecorded or disbelieved. Undeterred, Dorothy proved herself on the vertiginous slopes of Wales, Scotland and the Lake District before tackling the rock faces of the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Rockies, Mount Fuji and the Himalayas. Her tireless championing of other women climbers as well as her own trailblazing example led to women being seen as serious mountaineers with impressive records on bravery, skill and endurance.

First published in 1935, Climbing Days tells a daredevil tale of adventure, near-death slips and rapturous achievement in high places, interleaved with moments highlighting the particular challenges of being a woman in a sport seen as the province of men.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Map
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Introduction
  9. Retrospection
  10. Preface
  11. I. Initiation
  12. II. Explorations
  13. III. Variations
  14. IV. The Lake District
  15. V. The Misty Isle of Skye
  16. VI. An Alpine Novitiate (1920)
  17. VII. Experiments and Discoveries (1921)
  18. VIII. Corsica (1922)
  19. IX. The Mont Blanc Chain (1922)
  20. X. Into Spain and Back Again (1923)
  21. XI. Alpine Traverses (1923)
  22. XII. The Pyrenees Revisited
  23. XIII. Mainly Italian Alps (1924)
  24. XIV. Wander Years (1925–27)
  25. XV. Alpine Return (1927)
  26. XVI. The Great Year (1928)
  27. Index
  28. Extended Descriptions