Mountaineering Art, Harold Raeburn

There is a lot to unpack here, and if you want to, please do so in the comments. Mountaineering Art is about the art of getting up and down mountains, and is Harold Raeburn’s outcome of twenty years’ experience as a climbing leader. Published in 1920, it’s a truly beautiful book about many aspects of mountaineering — climbing, equipment, dress, alpine expeditions — and its section titled For The Lady Mountaineer caught our eye, to say the least.

Freda Du Faur, mentioned above, was an Australian mountaineer credited as the first woman to climb New Zealand's tallest mountain, Aoraki / Mount Cook. The Ladies’ Scottish Climbing Club is still active, with an aim to bring together women who are committed to mountaineering in Scotland and to encourage all aspects of mountaineering at home and abroad.

If you’re interested in mountaineering, climbing or walking, we also recommend checking out Women In The Hills, a research network highlighting how women constitute a distinct community of land-users, whose experiences and representations of landscape, and whose values and beliefs regarding the natural world, frequently differ from those of men. 

Harold Raeburn (1865–1926) was a Scottish mountaineer and one of the founders of the Scottish Mountaineering Club.