https://www.pc100.org/events daily 0.75 2021-08-13 https://www.pc100.org/events/art-exhibition-in-buxton monthly 0.5 2021-08-13 https://www.pc100.org/events/snowdonia-exhibition-and-film-screenings monthly 0.5 2021-08-13 https://www.pc100.org/events/keswick-mountain-festival- monthly 0.5 2021-08-13 https://www.pc100.org/events/newmillerdam-womens-institute-talk-and-film-screening monthly 0.5 2021-08-13 https://www.pc100.org/events/university-of-lancaster monthly 0.5 2021-08-13 https://www.pc100.org/events/thing-in-langdale monthly 0.5 2021-08-13 https://www.pc100.org/events/kendal-mountain-film-festival monthly 0.5 2021-08-13 https://www.pc100.org/events/alpine-club-london-exhibition monthly 0.5 2021-10-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/92daa125-8e00-448f-acce-61068e980ba5/WWA_Web_Launch_Poster_Small.jpg Events - Alpine Club, London - exhibition - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.pc100.org/adventure-and-fun daily 0.75 2024-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613914319944-W1RED5NS11OGVB9Y6GDI/1351%2BAnnabel%2BBarker%2B1.jpg Adventure and fun Annabelle Barker in Shimshal Pass, Pakistan. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613914258538-7IHYE58UM6EYHQ0T6UET/stella-adams--002-.jpg Adventure and fun Stella Adams on Rainbow Buttress, Morocco, in 2016. Credit: John Adams. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615049589736-LELRV4XUPDITYCVD9RE6/Sally%2BW.jpg Adventure and fun Sally Westmacott https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612726378156-Z0LVWADMONWOR3B1SQVQ/1299aa.jpg Adventure and fun - 2000s: 57 Cocktails Maureen Foster and Fred Reynolds shared a birthday on this trip, and set a challenge for the number of cocktails to be consumed. The climbing was superb, including all the classics at Lower Cove. But the cocktails were even more impressive. “Among the maps and guidebooks on the table, there lurked The Ultimate Cocktail Manual and a bottle of Angostura’s Bitters. Clearly some kind of witchcraft was afoot. Cocktails are made through the careful blending of mutually enhancing ingredients to create something that is strong, exciting and greater than the sum of its parts. Certainly an appropriate metaphor for the Pinnacle Club that weekend.” — Judith Brown, journal 26, 2003-05 Pictured (L-R): Val Hennelly, Judith Brown, Helen Copeland, Fred Reynolds, Diana Proudfoot, Sue Williscroft, Maureen Foster, Dee Gaffney, Sally Macintyre, Pamela Holt. Credit: Fred Reynolds Collection > Read the journal article (PDF - opens in a new window) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614011762376-FUKI8XY5BTUAV7O8P0RT/1101+Chris+Watkins.jpg Adventure and fun Chris Watkins in Upernavik, NW Greenland, 2019. Credit: Shirley Potts. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612611345019-EGBWJH6F9C0D8YU6GBJW/382.jpg Adventure and fun - 1920s: First women-only traverse of the Cuillin Ridge After a first attempt in 1927, Lilian Bray returned with two companions – sisters ‘Biddy’ and ‘Trilby’ Wells - in 1928. They set off at 2:30am; the day became hot and cloudless with not a breath of wind. The rock was almost too hot to touch, and their mouths became so dry they could hardly speak. There was little conversation, save for agreeing the destination of the next climbing holiday: Holland. The three completed the traverse by 9am the following day: 30.5 hours in total. “From the moment we set foot on the Island we were imbued with but one idea – the Cuillin ridge; we must traverse it in its entirety, it had never yet been accomplished alone by women.” — Lilian Bray, journal 3, 1927-28 Pictured: Emily ‘Trilby’ Wells at Cow and Calf Rocks, Ilkley, in 1981 > Read the journal article (PDF - opens in a new window) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1616189254237-ZCDHT26752FYN1PF7EXE/stoer+seq+26+Louise+Dickie.jpg Adventure and fun - 1990s: Old Man of Stoer Climbing frequently doesn’t go according to plan. Journal 23 has a memorable account of six Pinnacle Club members’ attempt on a classic sea stack. On reaching a large ledge, the route didn’t look like the expected finish to the Hard Severe. Careful checking of the guidebook revealed they were off-route with a choice of E1 or E2 to finish. The team extricated themselves with a combination of climbing, prusiking up the rope and making use of rusty old pegs. ‘Silhouetted against the sky in an almost unbroken line, the tourists stared back at me, waiting. We hadn’t moved for ages. Surely they must have switched their camcorders off by now. I began to feel quite indignant towards the crowd on the clifftop. Having a personal fiasco recorded for posterity was embarrassment of the highest order.’ — Fred Reynolds, journal 23, 1994-96 Pictured: Louise Dickie on the Old Man of Stoer. Credit: Fred Reynolds > Read the journal article (PDF - opens in a new window) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613226937022-ZHW2CH4UKJZBK3K6DXQI/Thoughts+on+a+first+lead+J06+Page+56+M.Wood+1.png Adventure and fun - 1930s: Guideless in Switzerland A journal article from 1938 captures the ethos of the Pinnacle Club perfectly: “The title sounds grand, but this is a chronicle of very small beer. It is a record of Pinnacle parties of moderate accomplishment doing in the Alps very much what we do at home – that is, climbing mountains without professional or other assistance and, as at home, encountering very bad weather.’” — SR Harper The cartoon by Marjorie Wood illustrates the ever-changing emotions of alpine climbing. > Read the journal article (PDF - opens in a new window) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612726946303-7662K257AVPI55SC8HNJ/lossy-page1-953px-CH-NB_-_Mont-Blanc-Gruppe%2C_Aiguille_du_tour%2C_Aiguilles_Dor%C3%A9es_-_Eduard_Spelterini_-_EAD-WEHR-32079-B.tif.jpg Adventure and fun - 1950s: Sans Guide et Sans Garçon Jo Scarr and Muriel Baldwin set off for the Alps in ‘Bambino,’ a Ford van, with food for a month, one small tent “held together by string and mildew”, a little money and a lot of plans. They were heading for the Dolomites, but stopped off to climb in Chamonix on the way. They did the first guideless female traverse of the Aiguilles Dorees, involving an unplanned bivouac. A packet of Spangles and four dried apricots saw them through a cold but beautiful night. Pictured: Aiguilles Dorées. Credit: Eduard Spelterini/Wikimedia > Read the journal article (PDF - opens in a new window) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612619326231-Q2058XEGMKW234NONSA2/871_Morocco_6_2017a.jpeg Adventure and fun - 2010s: Morocco Hazel Jones has a passion for climbing in Morocco, and has explored remote climbs with friends and Pinnacle Club members over several trips. The Samazar valley, reached via an unmade road, has a spectacular long climb, Dragon Ridge (Severe), perfect for getting used to the rock and environment – after that, Hazel and Ann Blandford “devoured the adventure of the mountain routes, with route-finding and loose rock still keeping us on our toes, but revelling in the views and the wildness.” “‘The minimalist topo was little help, but by asking the million-dollar question, ‘if I could climb anywhere on this crag, where would it be?’ we eventually identified a clean rib and impressive crack line.” — Hazel Jones, journal 29, 2012-14 Pictured (l-r): Jan Rickman, Abi Chard, Hazel Jones, Sue Hodgkinson > Read the journal article (PDF - opens in a new window) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612618769470-P7LFEXMWQWBOCX6ZP9ZW/lahaul-team-1.jpg Adventure and fun - 1980s: Lahaul Expedition A group of eight Pinnacle Club members got together to organise an expedition to the Lahaul district of North India, which offered plenty of unclimbed peaks at a reasonable technical standard. Whilst they quickly decided that their original objective of peak ’20,537ft’ wasn’t on, they climbed 14 peaks between them between 16,000 and 19,000ft, all but one of them believed to be a first ascent. Steph and Sheila had to return home before the end of the expedition, prior to the ascent of the most exciting and highest ascent, named ‘Steph’s Peak’ by the group. Below, Jean Drummond describes an unexpected bivvy on the descent from the first ascent Steph's peak. Pictured: Team members at a camp during the expedition: Angela Soper standing; L-R sitting: Stella Adams. Jean Drummond, Steph Rowland, Sheila Crispin, Sheila Cormack, Jay Turner. Credit: Denise Wilson > Read a newspaper article about the expedition (opens in a new window) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612617759874-N9MZPPURI8GWXBYR1LM6/Milena+von+und+zur+Muhlen.jpg Adventure and fun Milena von und zur Mühlen. Credit: Jessie Leong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613915232609-ZODYRC3MJ9YQOIUFBH5D/1148_JeanDrummond_DeniseWilson%2B1.jpg Adventure and fun Jean Drummond and Denise Wilson, Alps Porton Via Ferrata, Dolomites. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614011496068-J0CA34LKZ9K9GV57GWRP/1535%252BGwen%252BMoffat%252BDiocese.%252BNo%252Bgloves%252B044a.jpg Adventure and fun - 1960s & 70s: Sea cliffs There is always a special frisson of excitement climbing on sea cliffs. The Journals from the 1960s and 70s are full of reports of climbing on well-known and lesser-known cliffs: Bosigran, St Bees, Gogarth, Lundy. Hilda Young casually wrote about Lundy: “Having exhausted our supply of known routes on the island, naturally we put up a few climbs. Probably the best line was the Crack on Gannet Rock.” Pictured: Gwen Moffat on Diocese (VS), Chair Ladder, Cornwall, in 1967. Credit: JR Lees. > Read the journal articles (PDF - opens in a new window) https://www.pc100.org/the-pinnacle-club-history-and-ethos daily 0.75 2024-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613923473922-BX5S201M4C5AHGRMOLB3/1540.jpg History and ethos - The Pinnacle Club was officially inaugurated on March 26, 1921 at a meeting in the Pen y Gwryd Inn It began with 43 members; Pat Kelly was Club Secretary and Eleanor Winthrop Young President. A letter was published in the Manchester Guardian soon afterwards, advertising the club’s existence and asking interested women to contact Pat Kelly. Tragically, Pat died the following year following an accident while descending easy ground on Tryfan in North Wales, but the club she founded lived on. Pictured: the club’s 90th anniversary (l-r). Dorothy Russell, Hazel Jones, Lesley Shipway, Sue Hodgkinson, Valerie Partington, Claire Maw, Fred Reynolds, Helen Lear, Alison Stewart, Penny Clay, Anne Freund, Alison Cairns, Elspeth Howell, Thea Williams. Credit: Claire Maw Collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1616265481733-9SM63RYK2HXM0IFPAPQK/Val%2BHennelly%2Bat%2BSennen%2B1.jpg History and ethos - Contrary to some assumptions, the Pinnacle Club isn’t an elitist club for hot-shots The club’s ethos is about getting out there and climbing competently at your chosen grade, whether Difficult or Extreme. The most important thing is that women have the opportunity to climb together in a friendly and supportive social setting. Whilst there are some very good climbers in the club, others of us stand no chance of being extraordinary climbers. Nevertheless, we still want to be able to climb as well as we can, while enjoying the mountains. It is much more engaging to lead at your own grade than to be ‘taken up a climb’. The confidence to push one’s grade often comes best from a near-equal pairing, especially if a jamming specialist is paired with someone who prefers to tiptoe up unprotected slabs. Pictured: Val Hennelly demonstrates combined tactics in Sennen, Cornwall, assisted by a very polite member of HM Forces. Credit: Claire Maw > Learn more about women climbing with women https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612818248316-Z65BU5XX4M0QNJXMFT6A/39a.jpg History and ethos - The original members were pioneers – all pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable for women in their time Barriers could be as simple as clothing: a skirt was what a woman was expected to wear on the hill and solutions were creative. “Besides, dear Pinnaclers, to escape condemnation I used to walk out of the village in a green tweed skirt over baggy knickerbockers well hidden till the foot of the climb. This outfit had been beautifully made by my mother.” — Dorothy Pilley – Forty Years Back, Pinnacle Club Journal no. 9, 1959-60. Clothing has continued to evolve – from heavy tweeds in the 1920s to flamboyant, colourful lycra in the 1980s and back into the more practical 21st century. > Read Dorothy Pilley’s journal article (PDF, opens in a new window) > Learn more about how climbing clothing has evolved Pictured: Dorothy Pilley, Glacier National Park, Montana, 1926. Credit: Alpine Club Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613934146826-2WBJWOVGVBSHCEDRXABC/643_Intromeetday2_Peak_15102019a.jpg History and ethos - By 1945, the Pinnacle Club had grown from the initial 43 members to almost 100 This growth continued through the following decades. The club today has over 170 members, the youngest in their 20s and the oldest in their 90s. When it was first established, there were two types of membership — full membership, for experienced and competent lead climbers who were active members of the club, and associate membership, for new members and those lacking confidence or experience. Nowadays we operate a prospective membership list, and women who want to join the club have to attend a minimum of four meets and be proposed and seconded by two members who have been in the club for at least a year and can attest to their safe practice and skills. > Learn more on the Getting Started in Climbing page Pictured: 2019 introductory meet, Stanage, Peak District https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1616264336075-ERURPRZXDPNV2VQC0IV2/2019%2BCount%2BHouse%2BCC_PC%2Bmeet%2B-%2BBarbecue%2B-%2Bnot%2Bas%2Bcold%2Bas%2Bit%2Blooks%2B1.jpg History and ethos - There is no doubt the club benefited from the support of other established clubs …both at the outset and up to the present day. Many of the early outings were supported by men-only clubs such as the Rucksack Club or the Climbers’ Club (CC), or the mixed Fell and Rock Climbing Club (FRCC), as well as the Alpine Club. Members of the Pinnacle Club often belonged to other clubs — the FRCC or the Ladies Alpine Club, and more recently the CC. The Pinnacle Club was involved in the foundation of the British Mountaineering Council (BMC) in 1944. Nowadays, we hold regular meets with our kindred clubs, borrow their huts, let them borrow ours, and work with them and the BMC for the benefit of the climbing community. Pictured: Pinnacle Club and Climbers’ Club members on a joint meet at The Count House in Cornwall. Credit: Val Hennelly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613335941310-QYF4TZTP0IIPOZTVJWXT/18.jpg History and ethos - The Pinnacle Club has always been organised around weekend ‘meets’ — arranged dates and venues where members could come together to climb; and getting to them could be nearly as adventurous as the climbing. Early venues included North Wales, the Lake District, Skye, the Yorkshire Dales and the Peak District — all places where the club still runs meets today. In 1921, there were just nine meets in the calendar; in 2019 (before the Covid pandemic), there were 28. From the start, members also regularly climbed abroad; prior to the Covid pandemic, members continued to travel throughout Europe and beyond, enjoying all types of climbing: sport, trad and mountaineering. Pictured: the first Pinnacle Club meet, Idwal Slabs, 1921. L-R: Emily (Pat) Kelly, Dorothy Evans, Mrs O Johnson, Harriet Turner, B Lella Michaelson, Cicely Rathbone, Constance Stanley, Blanche Eden-Smith. Credit: GS Bower https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612817379528-G3REG8M1AMWD59U3X37Q/90.jpg History and ethos - Climbing was interrupted by World War II We know that some people managed to spend time at the Emily Kelly hut between 1939 and 1945, having negotiated the barbed wire and soldiers at the power station but we don’t have many details of how Pinnacle members were involved with the war effort. “During the war, in spite of many difficulties, we contrived to have at least one official meet each year, and we never missed holding an Annual Meeting, though most of our members, and especially the really active ones, were either in the Women's Services or doing other war work. Fortunately, our only war casualty was the loss of the club's entire financial records in the 1941 fire blitz on Manchester, and that, though inconvenient, was comparatively trifling.” — Club Notes, Pinnacle Club Journal no. 7, 1950 > Read the journal article (PDF, opens in a new window) Pictured: Alicia Wilson, Evelyn Lowe, Cicely Wood, Berta Gough, Hester White. Believed to have been taken at the summit of Lliwedd by Geraldine Sladen on 9 April 1939 after an ascent of Central Gully. https://www.pc100.org/practicalities-making-it-work daily 0.75 2024-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615038354276-8OO0U4ZJ8K8XNV3UCN8P/1155_SallyMacIntyre.jpg Practicalities: making it work Sally Macintyre in Jordan in 2000. Credit: Tom Prentice https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613256825487-BSYJTKPTYERA6A8F5F0I/1446b.jpg Practicalities: making it work - More enlightened attitudes developed ...and Joe Brown’s climbing shop saw an opportunity of advertising specifically to women in the 1965 – 1966 Journal: “Ladies…. all you want for climbing can be obtained from the Joe Brown shop, in particular breeches (from stock or made to measure), sweaters plain and fancy, cagoules, boots, helmets, anoraks, pitons, ski- and apres-climbing trousers, socks, sleeping bags and woolly hats.”’ The last twenty years or so have seen a transformation in outdoor clothing for women. We now have stuff that fits, works well and looks great. The founding members of the Pinnacle Club would be amazed! Pictured: Alison Cairns and her amazing 80s leggings on Darius (E2), High Tor, in 1988 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615043737972-IFT7KGCKE28BTTW3XHFJ/1264a.jpg Practicalities: making it work - Meeting like-minded women with a similar family life is a major benefit of the club “So is there life after birth? Once things have settled down a bit and you can actually get out before midday, life opens up again. Mums boulder while babies sleep or grovel in the peat. Watch out for inquisitive sheep. In crowded situations, it is worth investing in a helium balloon to attach to the baby – they are easily mistaken for a pile of clothes and trodden on. “Once children are mobile, terminology is important – Grace, at 4, would happily ‘go climbing’ or ‘climb a mountain’ but was much less keen on ‘going for a walk’.” — Hilary Lawrenson Pictured: Brede Arkless and family, 1970s. Credit: John Cleare > Read more: Ann Blandford on combining climbing, family and work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612626008968-ABF9T8DV1103MR4ON89F/680_AlexNicholson_Tenerife_Feb2019.jpg Practicalities: making it work - In recent years, budget airlines have opened up opportunities for quick trips to ‘hot rock’ Kalymnos and Spain are especially popular. Long-haul flights have put more exotic destinations within reach for ordinary members. What can we learn from past adventures for future travel, to help us reduce our carbon footprints? Will we go back to the future, inspired by the train, bus, boat and horse travel of our early members? Pictured: Alex Nicholson in Tenerife, 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613230289345-EGGBQ08IZQT9FZK029D9/39.jpg Practicalities: making it work - Dorothy Pilley Richards in the Glacier National Park, Montana, USA, in 1926 Credit: Alpine Club library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615042515509-TWGMHL6GAXYEG5QJITRE/Lillian%2BBray%2BJournal%2B03%2BPage%2B4%2BClothing%2B.jpg Practicalities: making it work - Lilian Bray, 1920s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615042557484-E3AZ3W87QAKPXRQ77SSX/Penelope%2BSeth%2BHughes%2B60-Foot%2BSlab%2BJournal%2B05%2BPage%2B25%2BClothing.jpg Practicalities: making it work - Penelope Seth-Hughes on 60-Foot Slab, Glyder Fawr, North Wales, 1930s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615043065178-N7CZU0BIHI3PKUKZBAGE/1587.JPG Practicalities: making it work - Dorothy Pilley climbing in plimsolls in the 1930s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612628476420-7T2BRT9I3WIP4IWB1P6H/138.jpg Practicalities: making it work - Marjory Heys-Jones and party, Swiss Alps, 1950 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612695156639-8TNFHBY2WGUCWQPIQLC0/9.jpg Practicalities: making it work - Bunny Bull demonstrates what the female climber might have worn in 1960 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612628478181-HU6JFTUKFPELIBFJC3J3/274.jpg Practicalities: making it work - Frances Tanner scrambling on Adam and Eve, Tryfan, North Wales, in 1960 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615042407206-E41RHTEZ7Y88ON1010WU/Barbara%2BJames%2Bon%2BShrike%2B1962%2BJournal%2BNo%2B29%2BPage%2B18.jpg Practicalities: making it work - Barbara James on Shrike (E2), Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, 1962 Credit: John Wilkinson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612628477576-CWAFMOOAJD25SHO20WXM/237.jpg Practicalities: making it work - Sally Westmacott on the Glyders, North Wales, in 1963 Credit: Margaret Dew collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612628477114-E53P2J06LR6CA9XH0Z52/172.jpg Practicalities: making it work - Pat Woods crossing a glacier in The Requin, French Alps, in 1964 Credit: Frances Tanner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612628478778-88QGTW028ZF41ZZQT9PV/321.jpg Practicalities: making it work - A mixed group in Jagigrat, 1966 Credit: Helen Jones https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612628505564-NWOF5XVPLZTW8TQK0T3T/1176_NeaMorin-a.jpg Practicalities: making it work - Nea Morin and Denise Evans on Nea (VS), Clogwyn y Grochan, North Wales, in the 60s Credit: John Cleare https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615043143850-9BB5NBD1KYLX8ZZ33JLU/denise%2Bjournal%2B15.jpg Practicalities: making it work - Denise Wilson in 1973 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612628503916-QA1YDM5SY9VRMPHYN5L4/753_GwenMoffat_bigboots_ShepherdsCrag.jpg Practicalities: making it work - Gwen Moffat climbing in big boots on Shepherds Crag, Borrowdale, Cumbria https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612628479177-L1YYRQKMVVV6W08UDRVP/357.jpg Practicalities: making it work - Angela Soper soloing at Almscliffe, Yorkshire, in 1981 Credit: Mary Loukes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612695186511-E83Q58O4YXZR84TAW8BO/gill-price-on-the-right.jpg Practicalities: making it work - Jill Lawrence and Gill Price, Raven Crag, Thirlmere, Cumbria, in 1984 Credit: Border Television https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612628479763-Z2ZDO0EUEECYDRTX8DQ4/662_AlisonCairns_Lycra_Buoux_1986a.jpg Practicalities: making it work - Alison Cairns, Buoux, 1986 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612628505864-7159FLG3F9OF7ON21IR1/1203_RHMa.jpg Practicalities: making it work - Cathy Woodhead and Stephanie at the summit of Pradidali Campanile, Trentino, Italy, in 1996 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612695158913-I3B9BQ1PYJR3N40II0A4/1126_Jagdula.jpg Practicalities: making it work - Barbara Spark Roscoe and Jo Peacock Scarr with Sherpas, Jagdula, Nepal, 1962 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612628480229-0T1GTBK7VG2JZOMLN1QH/737_EmmaBiczyk_pullups_Oct2015.jpg Practicalities: making it work - Emma Biczyk at the climbing wall in 2015 Credit: Hazel Jones https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612628504262-DPIFV8U8YRTYKCBX67MZ/746_snowyscotland_Feb2017.jpg Practicalities: making it work - Jenny Gaiawyn and group in Scotland, 2018 Credit: Penny Clay https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612695184597-G93D8SL5UBZJUS4EMKCJ/1076_RhonaLampard.png Practicalities: making it work - Rhona Lampard at home in 2020: more duct tape than jacket Credit: Adele Long https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615039044667-PRU4BVO98507DH8J5QNR/1148_JeanDrummond_crop%2B1.jpg Practicalities: making it work Jean Drummond before a traverse down to the San Margarita hut at Porton via Ferrata in the Dolomites https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612627732512-AXCVQPWAZADQY5EY1HU7/38a.jpg Practicalities: making it work - By the time the Pinnacle Club was established, women were able to wear clothing suitable for climbing …although usually borrowed from everyday life. Times had moved on from the late 1800s / early 1900s, when women climbing had to choose between wearing something “practical but scandalous (or even illegal), or wearing something acceptable socially but that made climbing harder” (Alison Albright, American Alpine Club - read more). In 1924, L.E.Bray commented, in journal no.1, “We had an early breakfast at which I criticised my companions’ clothes. Miss P. actually wore upon her head a mauve cotton sunbonnet! Now, no one has ever climbed a mountain in a sunbonnet – it is simply not done, and I told her most severely; but she only laughed at me and even my best language did not prevail upon her to change her headgear.’ Later on memories were still strong of negative attitudes towards women wearing trousers, as recorded by EH Daniel in the 1929-1931 Club Journal: “Just before the war, people on the road near Ogwen would walk backwards for quite a long way, in astonishment and mirth at the sight of my sister and me in our corduroy breeches.” She continued: “And now, young women, taking an ordinary tramp across country, find it necessary to array themselves in most unbecoming shorts!” Pictured: founder member Dorothy Pilley Richards, 1926. Credit: Alpine Club Library > Read the journal article (PDF - opens in a new window) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612623682713-MHDKBRORGKGQT1LNR7LI/68.jpg Practicalities: making it work - In the days before most people had personal cars, hitchhiking was common “Generally, drivers tell me, they don’t approve of women travelling on their own – it’s too dangerous – but, they always add quickly. ‘You’re quite safe with me.’ I must admit I have occasionally had my doubts.” — Helen Goodburn, journal no 12, 1965-66 Pictured: Edith Bennett, Evelyn Pirie, A. Wilson, Blanche Eden-Smith, Ruth Hale and Biddy or Penelope Deed travelling in style in 1936 — Ogwen Valley, North Wales > Read the journal article (PDF - opens in a new window) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615038481379-W0I3WWT83LU74O7DZIPD/780_HilaryLawrenson_wtf2018.jpg Practicalities: making it work Hilary Lawrenson in the Peak District in 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615038841069-3UWOO79OENEQAB3K6Z9Y/644_JanRickman_20082019a.jpg Practicalities: making it work Jan Rickman in 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615038184412-R70Z57VN6DDRRVRGF92M/Cartoon+Journal+23+Page+20a.png Practicalities: making it work - Attitudes to climbing when pregnant have changed Gwen Moffat records her first weekend climbing with the Pinnacle Club in 1949 in her book Space Below My Feet. Mid-climb on Lliwedd, she was asked whether she’d be going to the alpine meet in July. She replied that it would be impossible as she was having a baby then. “Consternation! Most of the club were on the cliff (including several doctors) and messages were relayed from climb to climb, and up and down the ropes, to the effect that Moffat was having a baby and what was the quickest way to get her off the cliff?” In contrast, by the early 1990s, Hilary Lawrenson wrote in the Club Journal that “as long as it feels right for you, there is no reason for giving up climbing [when pregnant], other than the difficulty of finding ever easier angled crags to accommodate the protrusion. Overhangs get a bit like hard work after 5 months.” She describes adapting a Whillans harness with a sling to enable her to continue climbing, seconding Edgehog (E4) in Glen Nevis whilst 5 months pregnant. According to a cartoon by Sue Logan, the extra pair of hands was helpful on the arete. > Read the journal article (PDF - opens in a new window) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1616187463536-0H4HYMLXI2RSAESMIQWZ/hilary+work+4a.jpg Practicalities: making it work - Perhaps not surprisingly, there’s little discussion within the Pinnacle Club of how people combine work and climbing Apart from the women whose work is directly linked with climbing (as guides or instructors) climbing is, for most, an escape from work: a powerful way of managing work-life balance. Some members of the Pinnacle Club have chosen to limit their work commitments, or retired relatively young, so as to maximise time for climbing and opportunities for travel. Others have taken unpaid leave or had to juggle work and holidays to maximise the time away. For those with demanding jobs where it’s hard to be flexible about hours (teachers, medics, etc.), it can feel as if climbing is being slotted into the corners of life. But it’s all the more powerful for that. Pictured: Hilary Lawrenson demonstrates the art of multitasking at Agden Rocher, Peak District. Credit: Jessie Leong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615039251341-2K61TZNMCXTF3YXL79KO/1449a.jpg Practicalities: making it work Alison Cairns, topping out on Outside Edge, Craig yr Ogof, Cwm Silyn, Snowdonia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612625408851-OF1MP1BDDQY73OLNFMU7/298.jpg Practicalities: making it work - From the earliest days of the Pinnacle Club, members travelled all around the globe to go climbing Train travel across Europe was common. Trilby Wells wrote in 1928 about a typical journey to Italy, involving a train to Aosta via Turin, where they were met by a mule driver who piled the luggage into a little cart. The party of four then walked for five hours to their base at Eau Rousse. Pictured: Joyce Tombs née Hughes, Rienetta Herbert née Leggett, Nea Morin, Annis Flew, Eileen Pyatt — 1956, after various adventures in the French Alps. > Read the journal article (PDF - opens in a new window) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615038901826-8KWCN38UTS3W6N160BXC/1064_MargaretClennett-1a.jpg Practicalities: making it work Margaret Clennett at Gavarnie in the Pyrenees in 2006. Credit: Pete Stokes https://www.pc100.org/home daily 1.0 2022-01-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613336324789-BVFL9P0S2VR5V9Y0N28P/19a.jpg Homepage - Timeline A summary of notable moments from the Pinnacle Club’s first century, from the club’s inauguration through to the present day. > Read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614717961831-WOXW04O8VOG2Z2Q6O37Z/PC-Bosigran-Jessie_Leong-%5BIMG_0152%5Da.jpg Homepage - Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors The connection between climbers and their environment has been there from the start. Climbing gets us close to nature. > Read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613337547557-XIB6F6JYC6152EKCAZZE/4_EmilyKellyHut_1932.jpg Homepage - A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly Hut The hut at Cwm Dyli, nestled beneath Snowdon, has been the Pinnacle Club’s mountain getaway since 1932. > Read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614509673267-WNFQNP1HSY2E80QB6TUY/68.jpg Homepage - Practicalities: making it work Some of the challenges to balancing climbing and life haven’t changed much over the last century – eg. juggling work or family . Others — finding the right clothing, having good transport — have become significantly easier. > Read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1616265573862-KZFKE3IJ3DIMWOMHSO4O/Sue%2BLogan%2Bat%2BLanyon%2BQuoit.jpg Homepage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613336616462-5XREAYD55H7OADFS20FI/462%2Blahaul-team-1.jpg Homepage - Adventure and fun The 100 years of the Club has seen women of all abilities and backgrounds enjoy all sorts of climbing and mountaineering, > Read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1616587131112-FMENY1GA5WGUU6U1N82H/HLF%2BEnglish%2Blogo%2B-%2BColour%2B%2528PNG%2529.jpg Homepage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613336474512-ZAKTH32N930VUSN3T8YS/1409a+Micheline+Morin++Nea+Morin+Alice+Damesme+At+the+Aigle+Hut+after+the+Meije+traverse+Cordee+feminine.JPG Homepage - Firsts and notable achievements Since the founding of the Club in 1921, Pinnacle Club members have been making first and first female ascents around world. > Read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613337164107-GEHSB8MT6EN0ZRY7XLXB/827_Intro_May_2017.jpg Homepage - Women climbing with women When the Pinnacle Club was founded, women were very much a minority in the outdoors, let alone climbing. Then as now, the club provided an opportunity for women to develop skills in the mountains and in life. > Read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613338283023-9LB3K1NE8XZT7GKDI621/498.jpg Homepage - Getting started in climbing How does anyone ever get started in rock climbing? It's a good question, and the answer has changed over the last century. > Read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613335730279-TVSG8XH90N10PCMYTSVT/1506+90th+anniversary.jpg Homepage - The Pinnacle Club: history and ethos The Pinnacle Club – the UK’s only national rock-climbing club for women – was founded in 1921 to “foster the independent development of rock climbing amongst women and bring together those interested in the pursuit”. > Read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614510803602-BJB7U3T0ZI1BF4LJDPH7/1132_JeanDrummond%2Bcrop%2B1.jpg Homepage - Audio stories Listen to Pinnacle Club members describe their experiences with climbing, the Club and more. > Read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1616586933668-B7MXP8L83LF60R4A6QM3/PCC%2Blogo%2B100%2BYEARS.jpg Homepage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613338013988-75PZBM3AK3JI0ASCIX7T/gwen-moffat.jpg Homepage - People Our members are what have always made the Pinnacle Club special. We profile some of the women we’ve most admired over the last century. > Read more https://www.pc100.org/timeline daily 0.75 2024-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614010478881-ZU7KYLHBUBJC8X8XS22Q/Cuillin%2BRidge%2B1%2BRichard%2BLizzimore.jpg Timeline - 1928 Lilian Bray joins sisters Sarah (known as Biddy) and Emily (known as Trilby) Wells to make the first all-female traverse of the Cuillin Ridge on Skye. Pictured: the Cuillin Ridge. Credit: Richard Lizzimore. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615651134961-QCRM8S83V14U97QABEL4/PPL+book+cover-1a.jpg Timeline - 2009 The book Presumptuous Pinnacle Ladies, edited by Margaret Clennett, is published. This fascinating collection of early club journal articles tells the unfolding story of women on rock, from the early 1900s to the late 1930s. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613224878889-M7F52W25S9VGNP7TBI7Z/19a.jpg Timeline - 1921 March 26: The Pinnacle Club was officially inaugurated. Founding members Dorothy Pilley, Lilian Bray and Annie (known as Paddy) Wells make probably the first independent all-female ascent of a peak in the Alps, the Egginergrat (3367m). Although a modest route, as they themselves admitted, it was groundbreaking in that they had no male companions or guide. Pictured: Founder member Lilian Bray on Portjengrat, Swiss Alps, 1921 > Read more about the club’s history and ethos https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613175373925-SO0PGXAXIMWF22AXLL86/1175_JillLawrence-2a.jpg Timeline - 1984 The club, supported by the British Mountaineering Council (BMC), runs an international women’s meet in North Wales, with 40 women taking part. Jill Lawrence makes the first female ascent of an iconic climb in the Llanberis Pass - Right Wall, graded E5. She is the first woman to lead a climb of that difficulty. Three other women on the meet make an ascent of the route soon after: Catherine Destivelle and Christine Gambert from France and Rosie Andrews from the USA. Pictured: Jill Lawrence, the first woman to lead E5. Credit: John Cleare. > Read more about the 1984 Women’s International Climbing Meet https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614712321229-N2RBVGYOD2H1VQIE3AQE/WICIM%2BMeet%2B2016-%2BJessie%2BLeong%2B%255BIMG_9736%255Da.jpg Timeline - 2016 The club organises another International Meet in north Wales, which brings together 80 women from 24 different countries — some as far afield as Japan, Iceland and New Zealand — aged 20 to 63, with participants chalking up personal bests at all grades from Severe to E7. Pictured: the International Women’s Climbing Meet, 2016. Credit: Jessie Leong. > Read more about the meet (pdf opens in new window) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613171146508-PXF2BW2WL4UHSA2R4K8H/800px-Photo_de_groupe_avant_le_d%C3%A9part_-_Exp%C3%A9dition_f%C3%A9minine_de_1959_au_N%C3%A9pal.jpg Timeline - 1959 Three club members join the international Cho Oyu expedition to the Himalaya: Eileen Healey (then President), Dorothea Gravina, and Margaret Darvall. It is the first all-female expedition to attempt a peak of this altitude — Cho Oyu is the sixth highest in the world at 26,867 ft — but it ends in tragedy when leader Claude Kogan, another climber and two Sherpas die following two separate avalanches. Dorothea Gravina takes over as leader to enable the team’s descent. Eileen Healey makes a film not widely publicised at the time but since re-edited and aired on the BBC in 2014. Pictured: the mountaineers and porters before departure. Credit: Micheline Rambaud via Wikimedia Commons. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613169033731-LX9Q39FIFVXNCDQB79FI/1172_Denise_Evans_and_Nea_Morin.jpg Timeline - 1941 Nea Morin makes the first ascent of her eponymous route Nea (grade VS 4b), a classic climb of the Llanberis Pass. Earlier (1933) Nea had also joined her sister-in-law and another French friend, both elite climbers, to make the first all-female traverse of the Meije, in the Dauphine Alps. Pictured: Nea belays her daughter Denise Evans (still a Pinnacle Club member) on the route Nea. Credit: John Cleare. > Learn more about Nea Morin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613169780560-0QBF4YIPFYTFLQ082NHX/1369_Moffat.jpg Timeline - 1953 Gwen Moffat, who joined the club in 1949 and is still a member today, becomes the first British woman to qualify as a mountain guide and worked in Britain and the Alps, making her living through the sport. Brede Arkless (joined 1984) becomes the second British female guide in the 1960s and the first international mountain guide around the same time. Pictured: Gwen Moffat at the summit of Stob Coire nan Lochan, Glencoe, in 1957. Credit: JR Lees. > Learn more about Gwen Moffat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1595089939640-8W5EU7OIVLUDG8ROZINQ/club-hut.jpg Timeline - 1932 The club acquires a lease on a deserted cottage in Cwm Dyli. This fulfils a long-held aspiration for the club to help it achieve its second aim: to bring together all women interested in climbing. The hut is named after the club’s founder, Emily (Pat) Kelly and will be purchased in 1988, though indoor toilets and a shower won’t be installed until 1995. > Learn more about the Emily Kelly hut. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613172316344-86T6636SJT4L7PX8G7AM/1120_Jagdulateam.jpg Timeline - 1962 Six members take part in the Jagdula expedition to the Himalaya: Dorothea Gravina, Josephine Scarr, Barbara Spark, Nancy Smith, Denise Evans (Nea Morin’s daughter) and Pat Wood. Their aim is partly to counter the adverse criticisms levelled at women climbers after the failure of the 1959 Cho Oyu expedition. They make the first ascent of four peaks including Lha Shamma, at just over 21,000 ft. Josephine Scarr’s book about the expedition, ‘Four Miles High’, came out in 1966, and has been republished by the Pinnacle Club for the club's centenary, with footage from the expedition edited for an accompanying film. Josephine Scarr, now Peacock, rejoined the Pinnacle Club in 2019 having spent the majority of her life in Australia. Pictured (L-R): Nancy Smith, Jo Scarr, Denise Evans, Barbara Spark, Pat Wood and (seated) Dorothea Gravina in Nepal, 1962. > Buy the book ‘Four Miles High’ by Josephine Scarr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613177849777-KOZNIYB6BXLXUC0LXSUR/721_zoomgallery_April2020.jpg Timeline - 2021 In 2021, our centenary year, we adapted our plans around Covid regulations and safety measures to run: — A Women’s Trad 100 event in North Wales in September — A Centenary Challenge expedition — a three-week road trip taking in many of the most classic climbs in England, Scotland and Wales — Introductory meets for prospective new members — Exhibitions in Langdale, Buxton and London — Lots of online events and launches of films and books Pictured: members celebrating the centenary in a very modern way! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613919557665-3MGGXBZKD1DUOWL12EO6/climbing+days+1.jpg Timeline - 1935 Brenda Ritchie leads Longland’s Climb on Clogwyn du’r Arddu, making her the first woman to lead a route on this now renowned cliff below the summit of Snowdon. Founding member Dorothy Pilley publishes her autobiography Climbing Days, which chronicles, amongst other adventures, her first ascent of the North-North West Ridge of the Dent Blanche in Switzerland. In 2016 her great-great-nephew Dan Richards publishes a biography of Dorothy, also called Climbing Days. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613172071774-YULBSSO8TL4IXABTDT31/space-below-my-feet2.jpg Timeline - 1961 Gwen Moffat publishes her best-selling autobiography, Space Below My Feet. In the 1970s, she starts writing crime fiction, in particular the Miss Pink series featuring Melinda Pink, a middle-aged magistrate and climber; and 11 mysteries set in the American West. She publishes her last novel, Gone Feral, at the age of 83. Pictured: the 1976 Penguin edition of Space Below My Feet. > Read more about Gwen Moffat. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613173659158-L5GIYMGDTTNZM6K9BIMC/a%2Bwoman%2527s%2Breach%2Bnea%2Bmorin%2B3.jpg Timeline - 1968 Nea Morin publishes her autobiography, A Woman’s Reach, “a story that could have been from a John Masters novel or a Carol Reed movie: an unconventional childhood, Alpine odysseys, close shaves, a French resistance husband, a widowed mother of two... less than 300 pages long and there was an awful lot of action to cover.” (Jeff Connor, UK Climbing) > Read more about Nea Morin https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613919785083-354TDWZ5QDXSNVTAFZB7/1480.JPG Timeline - 1989 Rhona Lampard leads the first British all-women expedition to an 8000m peak: Gasherbrum II (in the Karakorum range in the Himalayas). Club members Brede Arkless, Becky Thorp and Geraldine Westrupp are part of the team of seven Brits, with Polish climber Wanda Rutkiewicz adding an international element. Rhona and Wanda reach the summit. Pictured: Rhona Lampard and Wanda Rutkiewicz: high camp on Gasherbrum II. > Hear audio stories about the Gasherbrum expedition and more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613176993291-95ZNGQMKMLZAQWBKUVYK/27132-poster-b-operation-moffat-2015-30557-o-.jpg Timeline - 2015 Claire Carter and Jen Randall make the film Operation Moffat, inspired by Gwen’s autobiography and including interviews with her. The film wins seven awards at international film festivals. Gwen Moffat and Angela Soper become the first female Honorary Members of the BMC. > Read more about Gwen Moffat and watch Operation Moffat > Read more about Angela Soper https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613917985775-D7Z6O8F4FB5PHY4U40ON/shirley+angell+book+2.jpg Timeline - 1988 Shirley Angell publishes her book Pinnacle Club: A History of Women Climbing. “I suppose I wrote Pinnacle Club because I have such a strong belief that everybody is individual, interesting and important. History is so inclined to pick on some names at the expense of others, and even in literature the well-known words of obscure writers are liable to be attributed to their better-known contemporaries, So here I was, on a crusade to redress the balance.” — Shirley Angell, A Great Effort, Pinnacle Club Journal no. 21, 1988-90. > Read the journal article (pdf - opens in a new window) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1616265915867-SFEICZ7NS7BL85OJ1IHC/Sue%2BLogan%2Bat%2BLanyon%2BQuoit.jpg Timeline - 2022 and beyond A team had planned an expedition to Kyrgyzstan in 2021; this will hopefully be feasible in 2022, along with our celebration dinner. The club has never stood still and has always supported the wider development of women in climbing. Our focus for the next few years will be on diversifying our pool of potential members by supporting under-represented groups of women to participate and enjoy outdoor activities, and rock climbing in particular. Our newly launched Pinnacle Club Centenary Sponsorship Fund will support women to get started and develop their rock climbing outside who otherwise wouldn’t have the opportunity. > Learn more on our What’s Next page Pictured: Sue Logan at Lanyon Quoit, Cornwall. Credit: Val Hennelly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613174223510-GH4TVXHPQIVEHGN6GNOY/462a.jpg Timeline - 1980 Eight Pinnacle Club members — all still members today — visit the Miyar Nala area in the Himalaya. They climb 14 peaks, of which 13 are first ascents, including Steph’s Peak, the highest at 19,300 ft and Half Dome, 19,000 ft. Pictured: Angela Soper standing; L-R sitting: Stella Adams, Jean Drummond, Steph MacDonald (formerly Rowland), Sheila Crispin, Sheila Cormack, Jay Turner. Credit: Denise Wilson. > Read a newspaper article about the expedition (opens in a new window) https://www.pc100.org/women-in-the-wild-enjoying-the-outdoors daily 0.75 2024-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613939489541-LU5Z7VSJV7JQHNR9UG62/894_Dolomites_6_2018a.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors Jan Rickman at Cima Cason di Formin, Dolomites, in 2018. Credit: Hazel Jones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614887146068-NZ5H3X4D8ZOUCC474DO4/1457%2BGill%2BPrice%2Band%2BJill%2BLawrence.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors Jill Lawrence and Gill Price at Raven Crag, Cumbria, in 1984. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614715880765-338CUZTGH6MVY2S78ADK/PC-Bosigran-Jessie_Leong-%5BIMG_0152%5Da.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Hilary Lawrenson, relishing the greasy granite at Chair Ladder, Cornwall 2017 Credit: Jessie Leong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614715878788-Z6WW17YASQQA3YITU9BJ/1456a.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Ellie Fuller on Lighthouse Arete (VS), Castell Helen, Anglesey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613230011565-94HHNFHNR9KHLKEN8OP7/271.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Mollie Agnew jumping from Adam to Eve (Tryfan, Snowdonia), 1960 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613230038253-PUBRAH9TQY9J7PEHS12X/52.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Madge Smith & Dr Catherine Corbett. Snowdonia, 1932 Credit: Marjorie Wood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613230039045-ONMY7NV0XO3WIGWO6BLE/138.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Marjory Heys-Jones and others in the Swiss Alps, 1950s Credit: Heys-Jones https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613230040615-SA15Z9BCWQ5UCUEG5LS1/221.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Dorothea Gravina and companions near Lha Shamma from a camp on Kagmara Lekh, 1962 (Jagdula expedition) Used as Christmas card (1960) from Dorothea Gravina to Shirley Angell https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613230040442-2G7ITBJ4Z0ZVWOJV97SL/232.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Nancy Smith and others skiing out of the hut - Cwm Dyli, North Wales, 1962 Credit: Frances Tanner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613230091177-TUNROCF83O62628ML0Z5/327.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Sylvia Yates at the Rendez-vous Hautes Montagnes, Wichelplankstock Ridge, Urner Alps, 1973 Credit: Ingrid Masterson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613230091473-Z38WDE36W46Z4WXVWGW1/452.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Ingrid Masterson at the summit of Cioch Nose, Applecross, Scotland, in 1982 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613230092829-1DXJXAMJPUJ5G24UCZBC/684_JulieCarter_Templeslabs_Morocco_March2018aa.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Julie Carter makes the first ascent of Hazelnut Truffle, Temple Slabs, Morocco, in 2018 Credit: Hazel Lewis https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613230124230-TPERGQWO8X5C4WZF63L0/742_CastleRock_Thirlmeremeet_April2017.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Rachel Somerville, Hazel Lewis, Claire Maw and Anne Freund at Castle Rock, Thirlmere, Cumbria in 2017 Credit: Cath Sullivan https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613230092905-ZOPWK7J43FE79WTVEP44/705_Coldclimbing_Peak_Feb2016.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Aid climbing in the cold: ‘Boot Camp’ at Yarncliffe Quarry, Peak District, February 2017 Credit: Alison Cairns https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613230093806-RENVFQWVWPXDBPSTODGS/722.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Denise Wilson, Cathy Woodhead and Marlene Halliwell having a post-climb swim in Llynau Cwm Silyn, North Wales, in 2001 Credit: Dee Gaffney https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613230124797-S9UOJK7X8CZ93176110Q/809_Kinlochleven4_2016.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Jenny Gaiawyn in Kinlochleven, Scotland, in 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613230094040-54XBZQOQHP53BEHKO9KK/741_AlisonCairns_May2016.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Alison Cairns on Lost in Space (HVS), Pembroke, 2016 Credit: Hazel Jones https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613230125505-SIHQQLMDMOPVK0UZOMV7/850_WICM6_TheaWilliams-1.jpeg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Thea Williams on Freebird (E1), Gogarth, Anglesey, at the 2016 Womens International Climbing Meet Credit: Nikki https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613230126377-N4LRBBSJ2VUWMIPL0G47/908_Easter_4_2019a.jpeg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Anne Freund on Nea (VS), Clogwyn y Grochan, North Wales in 2019 Credit: Jessie Leong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613230126582-1IIO7TRPBCS1QHVCMZIH/1066_JillCroskell_Che+Bayul+Kang-1a.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Jill Croskell crossing the ice field on the first ascent of Che Bayul Kang, Nepal, in 2010 Credit: Wendy Robson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613230127502-S18YEBET5HIQQCTG8F2G/1078_AnnabelleBarker-1.JPG Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Annabelle Barker with Aconcagua in the background - Cerro Penitentes, Mendoza, Argentina in 2009 Credit: Margaret Clennett https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613230127769-L4GCFQHB264ZX04LMN0V/1356aa.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Anne Wheatcroft kayaking in Upernavik, Greenland in 2004 Credit: Wheatcroft collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613230129107-YFMVUKB23QHFQGRC5BJ9/1360_Nanda+Devi+1976+with+Bal+Singh-1a.JPG Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Rosemary Scott and party, Nanda Devi, India, 1976 Credit: Rosemary Scott collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613230128667-3RHIIDM4PY7OOF20OH4N/1363_Spitsbergen+2014+ski+tour.jpeg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Rosemary Scott - ski touring camp, Spitsbergen, Norway, in 2014 Credit: Rosemary Scott Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613230129317-6U3G4602AMNB4CP06Q3E/alex-swims.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Alex Nicholson, Bradford, 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613230091771-Z8TZHY9QQ5PBRHIW32I7/663_UrbanWallClimbing_Birmingham_May2019.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - "Wilderness" can be found anywhere: Cristina Gardiner and others in Birmingham, 2019 Credit: Cristina Gardiner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614715841305-3Q7D7R392FY2X23DX1OA/201.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - A fine position Nancy Smith, Dorothy Arning and Frances Tanner on Napes Needle, Great Gable, Cumbria, in the 1960s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614715873851-QWX2KV6NDORTQAHP7DVU/1071_JillCroskell_Gargoyle+Flake1.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Jill Croskell seconding Gargoyle Flake at Bamford Edge Credit: Nikki Smith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614715874139-EIPVWKHD28ZOL4TQZ968/1107_CathyWoodhead+1.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Cathy Woodhead on the North Face summit of Col de Barre Noire, French Alps, as part of the 1979 Rendez-vous Hautes Montagnes Credit: Cathy Woodhead collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614715875540-9Y1S0B1GHDADQ7BTYE2B/1267a.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Brede Arkless and Dodie Palmer on Flying Buttress (VDiff), Dinas Cromlech, North Wales Credit: John Cleare https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614715875749-EUE97WVI90MC4G3A8ZQK/1307a.JPG Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Barefoot on The Cannon, Tryfan, North Wales https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614715878052-AUNLZIG3XN0E80ZNL40U/1317.JPG Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Unknown climbers on The Cioch, Skye https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614715878845-J7OMYQKW5EMY7P5CYT6B/-Jessie_Leong-%5BF79A9003%5Da.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - University Meet, Anglesey, 2018 Credit: Jessie Leong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614715880521-1X9KUSQ3EMYVPPEB15XJ/-Jessie_Leong-%5BF79A9058%5Da.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - Alison Cairns, the queen of the swingers - Anglesey, 2018 Credit: Jessie Leong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612705391791-8096I6D3SHWA15GL6KZD/1284.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - We make our escape from the city and the disappointments of life, making our own choice of hazard to experience the thrill of freedom The dangers may be greater than we intended, and the rewards may be greater too, because we can forget everything but the present moment. When we return, we can remember the hills, and we are better able to face the jobs that need to be done back at home. The connection with nature can be a solitary or a communal experience, but it is always in the end shared. And the language in which we share it can be poetical and indeed be written in verse. Some of this is in the Pinnacle Club Journal archive, and club members have also published books over the years — guidebooks and true tales, as well as fiction. Pictured: Pinnacle Club members collaborate to cross a river in Iceland https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613938498459-Q6EPD6FTENC5BC44Z5QA/1149_JeanDrummond-a.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors Jean Drummond on a lunch stop in Jotunheim, Norway. Credit: John Hill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614713288528-55W531GR76ANWDDOLTNO/1077_JoAbbott-1a.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors Jo Abbott on Scratch (VS), Tremadog, North Wales. Credit: Jill Croskell. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614717802471-06HCAJXOOXDS8XU5ED76/PC-Bosigran-Jessie_Leong-%255BIMG_0388%255Da.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors - The benefits are to ourselves, whether in simple enjoyment of wild places, or in a more long-lasting and deep effect on our minds The outdoors is a great treatment for mental ills, as well as physical fitness. The connection is there at small or large scale: we can look closely at the lichen on a rock (will it make a slippery foothold?) or stare out at the mountain landscape, the fold after fold of hills, wondering where it will take us next. Sometimes our exploits take us to places where no-one has ever set foot; more commonly to places where access is difficult, and not many people have attempted to get there. We may not arrive together at a mountain col to see a forgotten valley: it may be that we edge sideways, one at a time, onto a cliff ledge, in full view of the road, to find a small hidden chasm filled with green ferns. We may walk in a convivial group on an upland path, and surprise a hare or a deer, or we may watch silently and alone while an eagle circles the valley and returns. Pictured: Val Hennelly at Hella Point, Cornwall, in 2017. Credit: Jessie Leong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613937413189-5ZF0AZ9VH9PQTQRXRTPX/357.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors Angela Soper at Almscliff, Yorkshire, in 1981. Credit: Mary Loukes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613940165457-RY4ZUFM6C943MO5145KU/1278%2BMargaret%2BClennett.jpg Women in the wild: enjoying the outdoors Margaret Clennett at altitude in India, 1993. Credit: Sally MacIntyre. https://www.pc100.org/people daily 0.75 2021-03-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614192780310-EPR76QYEWX2IS3VHX16R/Bray%2BPCJ%2B1927.jpg People - Lilian Bray Lilian Bray https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613828507354-AOC7DCOZGRZVQI43BS9D/gwen-moffat.jpg People - Gwen Moffat Gwen has been in the Pinnacle Club since 1949 and is our oldest member. Her early story is well known through her classic book Space Below My Feet. > Read more Photo credit: Phil Rigby https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613827770836-L53BBHTESD5IFUA5LHCG/1177_NeaMorin%2B1.jpg People - Nea Morin Nea Morin is probably best known for her first ascent of Nea (VS) on Clogwyn y Grochan in 1941 and her first all-female ascents in the Alps. > Read more Photo credit: John Cleare https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613827796209-8VKA42R6PHMKGH0PMCMP/1283%2BAngela%2BSoper%2Bsoloing%2BAlmscliff.jpg People - Angela Soper Angela joined the Pinnacle Club in 1967 and has long been raising the bar in women’s climbing. Tales abound of her wandering up to the crag and soloing hard routes, to the amazement of onlookers. > Read more https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613827862318-D0MUC4ALDOOOYIH16CRA/Emily%2B%2528Pat%2529%2BKelly%2Bfrom%2BAlpine%2BClub%2Bcollection%2Bcrop.jpg People - Emily (Pat) Kelly Pat is remembered as the founder of the Pinnacle Club; her vision and energy had laid its foundations. Her journey to climbing came out of her passion to be independent. > Read more Photo credit: Fell & Rock Climbing Club https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613827823516-UGRPD5PMMSBL2CTEVSA9/12%2BEleanor%2BWinthrop%2BYoung.jpg People - Eleanor Winthrop Young “Len” co-founded the Pinnacle Club, and was widely recognised as an excellent mountaineer, climbing extensively in the UK and the Alps as well as Norway. > Read more https://www.pc100.org/getting-started-in-climbing daily 0.75 2024-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1616338542965-82K8G8XYH308U17HUSDR/Blue%2BSky%2B1985.jpg Getting started in climbing - “A local climbing club, all male then, taught me the ropes They were supportive, but I always felt they were being kind to let me lead a Severe before I belayed them on their next E1. So it wasn't really until another woman joined the club that we got together and decided to do our own thing on borrowed gear, starting on Diffs and working our way up to harder routes. We were learning together and pushing ourselves and each other.” — Hazel Jones > Read more Pictured: Hazel on Blue Sky (VS), Pembroke, 1986 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615053465036-IXOU5OZSQ1WZ47IISPM0/Sally%2BW.jpg Getting started in climbing Sally Westmacott https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612723273582-4URKP43FDMZGKQHCRAP3/88.jpg Getting started in climbing - “One hot summer we spent a short holiday [in the Nant Ffrancon pass]... before many days had gone, we were begging to be allowed to climb a mountain Though the one chosen for ascent was a mere rocky slope, clothed with monstrous bilberry bushes, it seemed a most formidable undertaking when we set out. Alas, the short legs of my five year-old sister grew too weary, and the bracken twigs and heather scratched our bare feet unmercifully. Our courage weakened and we did not even reach the cairn. But the desire to get to the top of things had been strongly stirred within us, and after this, we climbed every available tree, wall, lamp-post and haystack. We startled neighbours with our simian poses in the branches overhanging their gardens, and on wet days practised glissades down the banisters or perilous traverses round the edge of the bath. Neither my sister nor I followed the best mountaineering principles. We chose a fine day, put on as few clothes as possible, and started up a mountain, hoping for the best.” — Daloni Seth Hughes, Early Days in the Welsh Hills, Pinnacle Club Journal 5, 1932-34 Pictured: Daloni Seth Hughes, Penelope Seth Hughes, Brenda Chamberlain on Far West Buttress, Clogwyn Du'r Arddu, in 1935 > Read the journal article (PDF - opens in new window) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615052326050-Q7F5JF9C3EAC6WY1EYBJ/mabel+barker+2.jpg Getting started in climbing - “I met with no rock climbers in those days. I knew that they existed — but they were as the gods, and far beyond my ken... I did lots of scrambling up and down gullies, with no fear of accident, and never seeing a climber or a rope... Millican Dalton came to see us one evening and sat late with us, talking and singing round the camp fire. Rock climbing was mentioned. Oh yes, he would take some of us for a climb if we liked! What? Could such a wild and impossible dream be realised? On July 31st 1913 we stood at the foot of the Needle. 'Skirt detachable?' said he. 'Yes'. 'Take it off.' I obeyed, and knew the feel of the rope for the first time.” — Mabel Barker, The Way of a Neophyte, Pinnacle Club Journal 5, 1932-34 Pictured: Mabel Barker on Pillar Rock. 1930 © FRCC Archive > Read the journal article (PDF - opens in new window) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615053714130-KXMN8R9O0E3DY4MALMNG/1071_JillCroskell_Gargoyle%2BFlake1.jpg Getting started in climbing Jill Croskell seconding Gargoyle Flake (VS), Bamford Edge, Peak District, in 2006. Credit: Nikki Smith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1616264196068-7CL0J8489ELHZ6GFFZTQ/Womens+Trad+Festival+-19-Jessie_Leong-%5BF79A4522%5Da.jpg Getting started in climbing - Because the Pinnacle Club no longer caters for beginners, we’re keen to support others who do For example, our members have supported the Women's Trad Festival from its inception, by volunteering as leaders to share skills and experience with women starting out in trad climbing. Our newly launched Pinnacle Club Centenary Sponsorship Fund will support women who otherwise wouldn’t have the opportunity to get started and develop their rock climbing outside. Learn more. Pictured: 2019 Women’s Trad Festival. Credit: Jessie Leong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612722014365-WNSIQMYS2DXUQBT0N1KG/382.jpg Getting started in climbing - “In the early days we had a great deal of help from menfolk — mostly members of the Rucksack Club, and we owe a lot to them for their patience and forbearance. They taught us technique, leadership, and gave us a great deal of confidence. We often held small practice meets on gritstone at Almscliff, Stanage, Laddow, etc. and these meets helped the novices a great deal. Our larger meets, in the Lakes and in Snowdonia, were well and truly organised. Before setting out, 'ropes' were arranged - a sound leader, a good second, and a novice or two. If you were a novice, you carried the rope; if you were a second and your leader cared to change her footwear on a difficult pitch, you carried her boots!” — Trilby Wells, The Early Days, Pinnacle Club Journal no. 14, 1969-70 Pictured: Emily ‘Trilby’ Wells, Cow & Calf Rocks, Ilkley in 1981 > Read the journal article (PDF - opens in new window) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615054372646-3OLXEU1MKWD0XSIH4YUD/1072_MandyGlanvill-1.jpg Getting started in climbing Mandy Glanvill in 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615051744068-CXHBI2YBHZXCLB1BIOZJ/eh+daniell+l1.jpg Getting started in climbing - “Two or three times a week we bicycled up to Ogwen This persistence at last attracted the attention of a climber who... offered to take us up the Milestone Buttress a few days later. There were five of us, with two ropes. I was on the first one, led by Mr B., and I shall always be grateful to him for the completeness with which he ignored me. I do not mean that he failed to take proper care of me but, to any feebly piped enquiry as to how to do a pitch, he invariably replied, ‘I just came up’... And so we went on, getting help here and there, but gradually becoming bolder and attempting climbs we had not seen before.” — E.H. Daniell, Reminiscences, Pinnacle Club Journal no. 4, 1929-31 Pictured: EH Young, née Daniell > Read the journal article (PDF - opens in new window) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615055876264-KB2ZBDI1207WRFYPEXTT/CathS_being+a+climber_v2a.jpg Getting started in climbing - Cath, age 5. She's now 50 and still likes to dress up as a climber https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612725964321-7ECWVWWY7BVOVS1U88WA/498.jpg Getting started in climbing - Sheila Cormack would climb anything - 1951 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615055879556-LYZKMTZ0C10I2IRZI0EH/Pamela+aged+14+climbing+trees+1.jpg Getting started in climbing - Pamela Holt, age 14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612725964506-TX8NCGCE7Y9X8XBY9PIU/499.jpg Getting started in climbing - Sheila Cormack and family at Windgather Edge, Peak District, in 1952 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612725962777-1SALV9B44DEUV1NJ422Y/284.jpg Getting started in climbing - Denise Wilson on the Grepon - her first trip to the Alps, 1954 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612725963152-7NRQCFQ2MU3O4HSISOXR/285.jpg Getting started in climbing - Denise Wilson on the Mer de Glace - first trip to the Alps, 1954 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612725965092-UOGGAM1WWBVI53LUO9UP/648.jpg Getting started in climbing - Fern Levy guiding two youngsters in Moelwyns, North Wales, in 1993 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615055873222-CNHM73PYPG8R6GQ7FE5P/001+Early+trip+to+Lake+District+c1959_AlisonHa.jpg Getting started in climbing - Alison Higham age 11ish on a family trip to Lake District, c.1959 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615055873708-DJ33LNFOKT8KP5L232RC/002+Harrisons+circa+1967_AlisonH1.jpg Getting started in climbing - Alison Higham top roping at Harrisons Rocks with a college climbing club circa 1967. Note: no harnesses or belay devices! https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615055874083-FFCFFWPESH2BRVNC025I/351_Angell+family1.jpg Getting started in climbing - Shirley Angell and husband taking the children up an Alp, 1979 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615055874504-E91TVHG2VG0F353U6E6M/363_WilsonWheatcroft_1979a.jpg Getting started in climbing - Denise Wilson and Anne Wheatcroft on a family climbing holiday in 1979 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615055875254-OCPSDIJVVLH8W1Y1NWJR/Ann_Emily_PYB_2004a.jpg Getting started in climbing - Ann and Emily Blandford - mother and daughter learning the ropes with Plas y Brenin in North Wales, 2004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615055875855-KNTDHH6NRIVRCTHO17MC/Astell+toproping_Uniclub+meet_1983.jpg Getting started in climbing - Astell Clark top-roping on a university club meet in the Peak District, 1983 Credit: Jo Barnes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615679078217-DF6SSS5JFOLL3BOJVW43/cleo.jpg Getting started in climbing - Cleo, age 9, playing around on boulders at a local crag Credit: Adele Long https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615055876751-1VGDRS1LJG8WHK59K3Q8/Cleo+at+the+Depot_ALa.jpeg Getting started in climbing - Cleo, age 9, bouldering, with Grandma advising and spotting Credit: Adele Long https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615055877828-KJOEP48UR6VP5HR27S1O/img006_using+a+guide.jpg Getting started in climbing - Evelyn Lowe & Marjorie Heys-Jones’s first Alpine trip with a guide in the 1950s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615055878517-5TY6FZ7L6SFK2GP2U4GN/JennyG_firstclimb_1981a.jpg Getting started in climbing - Jenny Gaiawyn age 3 (in black), playing at climbing with her sister 'belaying'. Jenny is now in her 40s and wears a harness and rock boots and insists her belayer actually holds the rope https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615055879032-Q62FHCFH4Z3QKH6PXBAH/JoBarnes+climbing+with+Uni+club_1983.jpg Getting started in climbing - Jo seconding a route on a university club meet in 1983. Note plimsolls, and belt and sling leg loops instead of a harness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615055880236-TC4T7DKVART93QKTAR2A/Pamela_climb+Boxtrick_1975a.jpg Getting started in climbing - Pamela Holt on an early climb with her local climbing club in 1975. Note the caving belt, before she had her own harness https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612725963719-69IUWW6M082S9QE3A0E3/383.jpg Getting started in climbing - A newspaper article on the Wells family and Angela Soper, 1981 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1616340156933-HL9RZYQTK9N139UQOYDY/1468%2BMilena%2B1.jpg Getting started in climbing - “I first discovered climbing at school I was lucky enough that it was part of our PE curriculum in France and I loved it immediately. Unfortunately there were no commercial climbing walls in the town I grew up in and my parents didn't know anyone who climbed and could show me the ropes. It wasn't until I started studying at the University of Sheffield that I was truly able to pursue rock climbing as a passion. My first real steps in climbing were trad climbing on gritstone in the Peak District. Older members of a local club taught me how to place gear and build anchors. We spent many weekends climbing all across the country, crowding into tiny cars with all our kit ready for an adventure. When I graduated I joined the Pinnacle Club. Being a member of the club further helped me grow my confidence as a leader and introduced me to an incredible community of female climbers. I often wonder what I would have thought as a little French girl climbing in my school gymnasium if I knew that one day I would fall in love with trad climbing on the sea cliffs and mountain crags of Britain.” — Milena von und zur Mühlen Pictured: Milena in Tremadog, North Wales. Credit: Jessie Leong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612724239037-MJADTFBMNZ3JYKMRMMM9/642_Intromeetday1_Peak_15102019a.jpg Getting started in climbing - The role of the Pinnacle Club in teaching beginners has changed over the years Many early members joined the club as Associate members, i.e. novices, and were taken climbing by more experienced members until they were considered competent enough to progress to leading climbs. With opportunities to learn to climb becoming more widely available, whether with a local climbing club or youth group, on a course, or at a climbing wall, the teaching role was no longer needed and members are now required to be competent leaders at their chosen grade on joining. The Pinnacle Club website lists some ways to get started. Pictured: members and prospectives at Stanage Edge on a Pinnacle Club Intro Meet in 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615053412930-G75IY0E1EEMWZK7OWVH0/Chris%2BWatkins%2Baged%2B19%2Bon%2Bfirst%2Bbig%2Bmountain%2B1.jpg Getting started in climbing Chris Watkins in 1974, aged 19, on her first mountain trip - Mount Harvard, Rocky Mountains, USA. Credit: Jonathon Daunt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615053884110-5PM3VD4HWTZX584N1QNU/1131_JeanDrummond%2B1.jpg Getting started in climbing Jean Drummond, Miyar Nala, Himalaya, 1980. Credit: Denise Wilson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615054284981-1QH6YX3WEK4LSJK38HCB/1176_NeaMorin%2Band%2BDenise.jpg Getting started in climbing Denise Evans with her mother Nea Morin on Nea (VS), Clogwyn y Grochan. Credit: John Cleare https://www.pc100.org/a-home-in-the-hills-the-emily-kelly-hut daily 0.75 2024-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615044049119-Z8GZZ9JHZA541K3H67LN/215.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - Cwm Dyli has always been less accessible than most huts When the power station was manned you could get a key to the gates from its staff, but for many years parking right at the top of the lane was the norm, making it a long walk with gear and food to get to the hut. During her Presidency (1999-2002) Cathy Woodhead opened negotiations to facilitate parking near the power station. In 2003, when Sally Keir was President, the club received permission from the electricity board and now members only have to cross the narrow slate bridge and the final hundred metres of hillside to reach the hut. “Those shod in Merrell trainers can expect to go down several times. And don't forget, on more occasions than not, it's going to be dark.” — Fred Reynolds, journal no. 27, 2006-08 Pictured: access to the hut blocked by a flash flood in 1964 while the water pipeline was under construction. Credit: Keele University MC > Read the journal article (PDF - opens in a new window) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613329307066-PB7Z8897IENSQADRMFX4/17.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - The hut was named after Emily (Pat) Kelly, the club's founder, who had died in 1922. It had two rooms downstairs, the larger with an open fire, the smaller a stove. There was a pecking order for proximity to the fire; the senior members, sitting nearest, were hot, while newer or younger members sat further back in a freezing draught. The stairs went up the middle of the hut; upstairs were green sailcloth bunks with scarlet blankets. Pictured: Emily (Pat) Kelly on The Scoop (HVS), Castle Naze, in 1920. Credit: A Burgess. > Read more about Emily (Pat) Kelly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1609176882797-W6RRKTGE8YQ493RQHWYQ/cartoon.png A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - In wet weather a spring would bubble up through the flagstones ...run across the floor in front of the fireplace and exit via a channel at the foot of the front wall to the door. This spring featured regularly in the hut log book until the 1980s, and Sheila Crispin's cartoon from the 1960s catches the atmosphere. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612620481643-J7YD2LT8FEF4OEAYFDF2/1171_DeniseEvans2.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut Denise Evans on Nea (VS), Clogwyn y Grochan. Credit: John Cleare https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615670392475-PMPHP6I8L6X2S96IOUK7/Gogarth-N-Wales-Jessie_Leong-%5BF79A1547%5Da.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - The Emily Kelly hut, 2019 Credit: Jessie Leong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615045516398-TBBTH33C1C411QZUW5GY/Pinnacle+Club+Film-Jessie_Leong-%5BF79A0062%5Da.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - Milena von und zur Mühlen and Alex Nicholson outside the hut in 2020 Credit: Jessie Leong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615045235024-FGIUO2XELD0F1OAK8LWO/4_EmilyKellyHut_1932.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - The Emily Kelly Hut in 1932 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612619889840-OSMXYYW1VJNOP9VEKFSO/7_RearHutView_1932.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - The rear view of the hut in 1932 Credit: Marjorie Wood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612619886301-FBW7NRC9CM6FUB5FPX5Z/2_originalInvitationToHutOpening_1932.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - An invitation to the opening of the hut in 1932 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612619886899-9XQFSDJ1DV90TBT7MVOD/3_fromTheBridgeUpToTheHut_1932.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - A view of the hut from the footbridge in 1932 Credit: Marjorie Wood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612619888233-L6HKVNHSJG2EBIQK1EJL/5_firstHutMeet_1932.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - Members at the first hut meet in 1932 Credit: Marjorie Wood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612619889247-V3A0XV4FG159U6TEEA13/6_HutTinPorchRoof_1932.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - Dr Catherine Corbett, Blanche Eden-Smith and others at the first hut meet in 1932 Credit: Marjorie Wood https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615046871500-DH8YVJY997GB6SO4PD1Z/232.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - Nancy Smith skiing out of the hut in 1962 Credit: Frances Tanner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612619893130-1WMGMC21WYTDTOOGSKJE/11_logbook1963_floodedHut.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - Extract from the hut logbook, 1963 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612619923113-NHGZUG3JU4VQUVD4UI15/13_GroupOutsideHut_60thAnniversayMeet_1982.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - The club’s 60th anniversary, 1982: Jay Turner, S McKemmie, Betty Whitehead, Shirley Angell, Jean Drummond, W Aldred, Angela Soper, Julia King Credit: Mary Loukes https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612619923728-IF5FIMCYADM29QSUY1O0/14_paintingBunkRoom_1982.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - Fiona Slator and Denise Wilson painting the bunk room in 1982 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612619925014-4V49AMT1G6PFHYI481DL/15_HutKitchen_1982.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - Angela Soper, Mary Loukes and Suzanne Gibson in the kitchen in 1982 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612619926994-M9GN3J10TIKP9S6Z2PWV/17_HutLayout_1982.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - Dorothy Wright and Betty Whitehead (occasion unknown) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612619927574-JB0YSUXWPVT7EOMNLTJM/18_WomensIntMeet_OutsideHut_1984.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - UK and international climbers, 1984 Women's International Climbing Meet Credit: Ian Smith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612619928186-6B8OBU199YJLRLCTS5SW/19_HutDormNewLibraryCupboards_1991.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - Sue Logan and Marlene Halliwell in the dorm in 1991 Credit: Fern Levy https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612619928806-BFRSR7JWWOMLWZD2C3NI/20_PreReedBeds_1991.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - Tree planting, 1991 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612619929516-31KWNRSNJUCLXV8YQZPJ/21_Hutin1992Layout.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - 1992 layout: Fern Levy, Annabelle Barker, Claudette Mann, Fred Reynolds, Felicity Andrew, Pamela Holt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612619930116-DDCW9JM3YRTS07NSOEJH/22_EasterFamilyMeet_1993.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - Family meet Easter 93: Lawrenson, Stedman and Pearson families https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612619930753-2PBV1SZFLSLQZYRTOME6/23_Hutcrowded_75thAnniversaryMeet_1996.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - Where did they all sleep? 1996 Hazel Lewis, Pru Cartwright, Marlene Halliwell, Annabelle Barker, Avis Reynolds, Louise Dickie, Penny Clay, Fred Reynolds, Fiona Steer, Jean Dilnot, Biddy Burgum, Margaret Clennett, Suzanne Gibson, Eileen Healey, Gwen Moffat, Caroline Whitehead, Jennet Seth-Hughes, Sally Keir, Anne Wheatcroft, Janet Vince, Ann Burbidge, Pamela Holt, Val Hennelly, Suzanne Pearson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612619932157-DK3SC5E4W1KNE1MPYWB8/24_HutKitchen_2000.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - Alison Cairns, Lousie Pellett, Rachel Nicholson Barker, Sally Keir in 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613335243318-JMQ7XS6EFMRG4J5RM76F/1506+90th+anniversary.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - The Club’s 90th anniversary, 2011 Dorothy Russell, Hazel Jones, Lesley Shipway, Sue Hodgkinson, Valerie Partington, Claire Maw, Fred Reynolds, Helen Lear, Alison Stewart, Penny Clay, Anne Freund, Alison Cairns, Elspeth Howell, Thea Williams. Credit: Claire Maw Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612619951843-18V527KJF49Z23WWM1U5/27_EmilyKellyhut_Snowdonhorseshoe.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - The hut in the distance Credit: Claire Maw https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615045515649-JQVUZB25V2T9Y9FZH4GF/Pinnacle+Club+Film-Jessie_Leong-%5BF79A0028%5Da.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - Camping nearby, 2020 Credit: Jessie Leong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613329556977-XWMEEVAJM98YVYIBJENO/10_plentiful%2Brunning%2Bwater%2Bat%2Bthe%2Bhut_1955.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - At first, cooking was done on Primus stoves ...and a big red kettle would boil on the fire. There was no tap, so for cooking water was brought from the stream in buckets, and people washed themselves in the stream itself. Later a large jug and basin were available indoors. Pictured: Bunny Bull fetches water in 1960. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613333113541-XYVGNEGYWVYZ7IWU7WZP/inside%2Bthe%2Bemily%2Bkelly%2Bhut.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - The hut was leased until 1988, when the Pinnacle Club negotiated its purchase it was soon gutted, reroofed and modernised throughout. The stairs were moved, creating a single, open room downstairs. The fireplace was opened out and a stove installed, which improved the heating drastically. At last, a dampproof course and raised floor meant goodbye to the wet weather spring. Upstairs became more spacious and new bunks were made. In 1995, a grant paid for an extension which gave us the luxury of indoor toilets, a shower and drying room, and an innovative sewage system using reed beds. In 2006 storage heaters were installed, reducing winter damp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613334990892-Q4R4YREVV6AYO7IN5S52/41%2Bopening%2Bof%2Bthe%2Bemily%2Bkelly%2Bhut.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - The opening ceremony took place on November 5, 1932 The first hut meet, [date, names] https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613335134600-O8TAB38JK5QE5DDY0JNU/394%2BSheila%2BMcKemmie%2BMargaret%2BDarvell.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - In later years the smaller room evolved into a store room and became an obstacle course …particularly when it was strewn with wet gear. It had two bunks just inside the door, for the benefit of snorers, late arrivals, or male visitors. Supplies could be bought locally till the 1960s: milk from Mrs Jones at the first farm down the road, eggs from Mrs Williams at the power station, and groceries ordered from Messrs Pritchard at Beddgelert, who would deliver. This certainly made the job of the meet leader easier, since she was responsible for providing breakfast and dinner for everyone - a practice only formally abandoned in 1978. Pictured: Sheila McKemmie and Margaret Darvall in 1982. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613334666446-IPTD3ANG0FYRW0ZS715J/4_EmilyKellyHut_1932.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - It was the Pinnacle Club Easter meet, 1932. Four members had climbed Lockwood's Chimney - then as now a traditional activity for wet weather - and were eating their sandwiches in the rain. Evelyn Lowe (later Leech) spotted a cottage above the power station, and at once saw its potential as a good club hut. By September, the North Wales Power Company had agreed a 5 year lease at £10 p.a. A further £8 made the cottage habitable, and also paid for the installation of electric light, the hut's crowning glory, and the envy of many a visitor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613330608176-XVSWLJ41DZBHJONFLEAY/1064_MargaretClennett-1a.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut Margaret Clennett, Gavarnie, Pyrenees, in 2006. Credit: Pete Stokes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612620976237-FG0WMYRTDCPC70QQVZ51/1174_GwenMoffat-2aaa.jpg A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut Gwen Moffat. Credit: John Cleare https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1609175579949-KJ6RLTN6QW8G5C5L3CMA/journal-40-years-on-pic.png A home in the hills: the Emily Kelly hut - “You can see from the photograph that we were so keen to start the day's Hut chores we couldn't wait to get fully dressed. But of course, our Hut was then our pride and treasure: the first women's Club to have a Hut: we were as proud as—Oh dear, peahens doesn't somehow sound half as proud as peacocks! Neither peril by water—lack of it in a tap and excess of it on the floor in really wet weather, nor peril by smoke from the vast old chimney, turned us away.” — Evelyn Leech, journal No. 14, 1969-70 Pictured: a hut working party in 1935. Credit: Evelyn Leech https://www.pc100.org/archive-the-opening-of-the-emily-kelly-hut daily 0.75 2020-12-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1609174282594-TVJCSKZCHUT3H7J7D2TH/journal-opening-1.png The Opening of the Emily Kelly Hut https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1609174283192-1CMUROD13ZJBSMV9W3BL/journal-opening-2.png The Opening of the Emily Kelly Hut https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1609174284046-YIBH6FLYQA2KBNQEWYCJ/journal-opening-3.png The Opening of the Emily Kelly Hut https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1609174284617-Q63XWXLRJO562BKX9KQR/journal-opening-4.png The Opening of the Emily Kelly Hut https://www.pc100.org/women-climbing-with-women daily 0.75 2024-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612814707420-CGDIU9DBKABAXXTKX5A0/345.jpg Women climbing with women - “‘You should join the Pinnacle Club’. The suggestion came out of the blue, and I wasn’t sure whether it was kindly meant, or whether the speaker merely wanted to get rid of me [In 1965] it came as a very unpleasant surprise to find that the lads in the University Club refused to include me in their plans. Sure, they had a deliberate policy of burning off females who tried to join in any of their more serious activities, but I had long ago proved that I could keep up with them in the hills (and in the drinking afterwards). Now, they sheepishly persisted that they would “feel responsible for me”. What a cop out. They could be gauche, oafish, and deliberately uncouth, but they were my only climbing mates and I felt very let down. Enter Bob with his bright idea. He drove me to a nice residential area in Upper Bangor, and pushed me out at the entrance to a big house set back from the road. This was where Charles and Denise Evans lived. Charles was then Principal of Bangor University, and Denise was a keen climber, and member of the Pinnacle Club. I felt rather intimidated, but luckily came across Denise and her mother Nea outside in the garden before I could change my mind. They immediately understood my problem, and the rest of that long sunny afternoon passed in a golden haze of mountaineering talk. Yes, of course I must join the Pinnacle Club, but in the meantime, how was I going to spend the summer?” — Helen Jones, The Answer to a Maiden’s Prayer, Pinnacle Club Journal no, 28, 2009-2011 > Read the journal article (PDF - opens in a new window) Pictured: Helen Jones and Denise Evans on Tryfan in 1978. Credit: Denise Wilson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614513266365-AM0VG425GV8CLAVX0A7N/1176_NeaMorin.jpg Women climbing with women Denise Evans and Nea Morin on Nea (VS). Credit: John Cleare. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1616187657090-QEH4Q6GFUNL4M76DNP82/Womens+Trad+Festival+-19-Jessie_Leong-%5BF79A4506%5Da.jpg Women climbing with women - The Pinnacle Club has both hosted and joined in with larger women-only events over the years The first Pinnacle Club/BMC international meet in 1984 included some of the world’s leading women climbers, who came to North Wales for an amazing week of notable ascents. The repeat event in 2016 saw around 80 women over the course of the week, with 22 guests from around the world and many UK guests coming to a Pinnacle event for the first time. Some of those guests took the idea in another direction and founded the highly successful Women’s Trad Festival, for women starting out on their climbing journey, which club members have supported since it started. We have also taken part in the Women’s Climbing Symposium and Rendez vous Hautes Montagnes over the years. Pictured: Hazel Lewis and Alison Cairns at the 2019 Women’s Trad Festival. Credit: Jessie Leong. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1612818580415-UGP1CGNQLVT7GTMPC6BO/730_TegnessQuarrymeet_2014.jpg Women climbing with women - Many aspects of life are radically different for women now compared to 1921, or even 1965 We‘re frequently challenged about the continued existence of a women-only club in the 21st century in an age of equal opportunities. Various statistics, from British Mountaineering Council membership, to the number of mountaineering instructors, to the members of the Climbers’ Club, indicate that the number of women participating in climbing is still significantly less than men. Whatever an accurate figure might be, women are still under-represented in the sport — particularly in trad climbing — and the Pinnacle Club, in a small way, helps to inspire women to develop more than they might otherwise do while having fun and being part of a supportive and energetic community along the way. Pictured: Pinnacle Club members on Crazy Pinnacle, Tegness Quarry, 2015. Credit: Ann Blandford https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614513291031-OTHARNJST2RJECLH0PK7/1068_JillCroskell_Bamford%252BRib1.jpg Women climbing with women Jill Croskell on Bamford Rib (HVS), 2006. Credit: Nikki Smith. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614887946962-NK0N3S9D02BK02POT8IZ/475%2BSheila%2BCormack%2BStella%2BAdams.jpg Women climbing with women Sheila Cormack and Stella Adams at the International Womens Meet in 1984. Credit: Ian Smith. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614889813045-CV1N3KPY53NGVHAC4PEH/1458a.jpg Women climbing with women Jill Lawrence and Gill Price, Raven Crag, Thirlmere, Cumbria in 1984. Credit: Border Television. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614891981303-DQ5ILN7FWBVGT0DQWG7Z/PC-Bosigran-Jessie_Leong-%255BIMG_0255%255Da.jpg Women climbing with women - Not all intergenerational teams are related to each other When we start out we can take inspiration from older members; later, we can hand on that inspiration to the newcomers. And not all family pairs are mother-daughter, or siblings. One tradition maintained since the early days of the club has been as a safe space for same-sex relationships. Pictured: Hilary Lawrenson and Jessie Leong, Bosigran, Cornwall, in 2017. Credit: Jessie Leong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613242394311-CMFC1F8NHV3XT323LD5R/1434a.JPG Women climbing with women - And then some of us have children ...which can make climbing/life balance more difficult — and provide climbing partners! It helps that there are other members with children; we have family meets. There have been famous mother/daughter climbing pairs, such as Nea and Denise Morin. Today the club has daughters and granddaughters within it. And some of us don’t have children and are happy with it. Pictured: Ann and Emily Blandford learning the ropes together in 2004 > Learn more about balancing climbing with work and family on the Practicalities: Making It Work page https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614513370348-N8U0KQ7FFYB978FCW2TI/741_AlisonCairns_May2016.jpg Women climbing with women Alison Cairns on Lost in Space, HVS, Pembroke. Credit: Hazel Jones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614517092988-VRNUG385JQZYURTUNEH1/-Jessie_Leong-%5BF79A3412%5Da.jpg Women climbing with women - Hilary Lawrenson and Alison Cairns at Crickmail Point, Pembroke, August 2018 Credit: Jessie Leong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614516972135-0EDKUABWAG3XQVFSD0QV/18.jpg Women climbing with women - The first Pinnacle Club meet, Idwal Slabs, 1921. L-R: Emily (Pat) Kelly, Dorothy Evans, Mrs O Johnson, Harriet Turner, B Lella Michaelson, Cicely Rathbone, Constance Stanley, Blanche Eden-Smith Credit: GS Bower https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614516973174-8Q6TXKQFXSEBGLVFHJ40/183.jpg Women climbing with women - Nancy Smith, Pat Woods, Sylvia Yates and Eveleigh Leith, Courmayeur, Italian Alps, in 1964 Credit: Frances Tanner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614516973662-K47K89186NWK1UH8659M/206.jpg Women climbing with women - Alwine Walford climbs while Nea Morin, Nancy Smith and Mary Fulford look on. Froggatt, Peak District, 1962 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614516974370-XPJLJAE9M40BPM1LKXE7/241.jpg Women climbing with women - Chris Woods, Sally Westmacott, Winifred Jackson and Vera Picken, Siabod, North Wales, in 1963 Credit: Margaret Dew collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614516974770-XAOU931F0ZBWBWQFFRZG/282.jpg Women climbing with women - Denise Wilson and Rienetta Leggett in front of the Matterhorn, Switzerland, in 1956 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614516975220-4TQP1XSU3X4NT4HF1CV1/330.jpg Women climbing with women - Shirley Angell and Joann Greenhow: a necky move on sandstone at St Bees Head, Cumbria in 1970 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614516977462-G51OPTLJFVTLYFG8GBR4/671_Berbersteps2_Morocco_March2019.jpg Women climbing with women - Hilary Lawrenson, Hazel Lewis and Alison Cairns, The Berber Steps, Morocco, in 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614516978272-YQB8I1FV8XLHZNKJX3MU/718.jpg Women climbing with women - On the Cairngorm Plateau, Scotland, in 2000 L-R back row: Helen Jones, Annabelle Barker, Jean Drummond, Morven McLeod, Key Proudlock; L-R front row: Margaret Clennett & Steph Macdonald. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614516978341-PLN2UUQQFVD3HHE692B8/721.jpg Women climbing with women - Louise Pellett, Hilary Lawrenson and Alison Martindale, Castell Helen, Anglesey, in 2000 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614517049535-KWU9M2QWNOSYYVH5WTLS/740.jpg Women climbing with women - Val Hennelly, Sally MacIntyre and Anne Dickinson, Aiguille du Tour, France, 1994 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614517050062-V4BUSL114T95F9H3GUGR/795_Dolomites_2014.jpg Women climbing with women - Hazel Jones, Cristina Gardiner and Sharon Jones, VF Tomaselli, Dolomites, Italy, 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614517050845-1TWQ8EBGIX5DHHEL7IGT/830.jpg Women climbing with women - Louise Pellett in the Peak District, 1990 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614517051012-0KWI0SM399CCBWECPCQE/832_Bohuslan3_2017.jpg Women climbing with women - Bohuslan, 2017 Pamela Holt, Ann Blandford, Alison Cairns, Sarah-Jane Dobner, Hazel Jones, Marion Wintringham, Deb Barnes, Anna Lindam, Hilary Lawrenson Credit: Anna Lindam https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614517051653-63FJFHJ3X3B3C8MBYB2S/1189_RHMa.jpg Women climbing with women - Marlene Halliwell and Stella Adams on the way to l'A Neuve CAS hut, La Fouly, Val Ferrat, Switzerland, in 1998 Credit: Cathy Woodhead https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614517051814-C589OJIZZ4JRGZCS0EDR/1203_RHMa.jpg Women climbing with women Cathy Woodhead and Stephanie at the summit of Pradidali Campanile, Trentino, Italy, 1996, as part of the Rendez-vous Haute Montagne https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614517052416-FHQ2LU53TS88ARQGRVII/1381a.jpg Women climbing with women - Val Hennelly, Louise Dickie, Chris Johnson, Penny Clay and Angela Soper en route to The Old Man of Stoer, Scotland, 1995 Credit: Fred Reynolds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614517052760-4KBAWV0YTVLTDH1Q1LO1/1440a.JPG Women climbing with women - Alison Cairns, Hilary Lawrenson and Margaret Best chilling out of the rain in the Lighthouse, Lundy, in 2011 Credit: Ann Blandford https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614517053625-9PX23KKZUXRQNY5IHYFF/1473a.JPG Women climbing with women - Milena Mühlen and her mother hiking the GR20 in Corsica in 2019 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614517053784-R67APPSBF96E5A60GCWW/1478.JPG Women climbing with women - Rhona Lampard and daughter, Crazy Horse, Thailand https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613337102334-IOLEB2OQ6IBHC2NZ9S9V/827_Intro_May_2017.jpg Women climbing with women - Why a women’s club? Emily (Pat) Kelly founded the Pinnacle Club in 1921 because, as a member of the Fell & Rock Climbing Club of the English Lake District, she felt she and other women members weren’t given the chance to take the lead on climbs. The objectives of the Pinnacle Club were (and still are) to foster the independent development of rock climbing amongst women and bring together those who are interested in the pursuit. There’s undoubtedly a different dynamic when climbing with men. It’s good to do both, but a ‘cordée feminine’ (‘women’s rope’) has advantages. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614889581900-JZAQL3FYL0OTO59PMMOE/1155_SallyMacIntyre.JPG Women climbing with women Sally Macintyre climbing in Jordan. Credit: Tom Prentice https://www.pc100.org/gwen-moffat daily 0.75 2024-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615675826509-OLA7XV2YS5WBJI4RKV40/whernside.jpg Gwen Moffat Gwen (top) and friends at Whernside in 1941 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613749989830-WW5C2GM8N1R6Y03G7LMF/space-below-my-feet.jpg Gwen Moffat https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613750488433-OQ0160APX60MH5LZNP22/Gwen%2Bon%2BSergeant%2B-%2B38%2Byears%2Bago%2B1.jpg Gwen Moffat - Gwen on an off day in Arizona Gwen on Spike - Bozeman paper article, 1983 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613749255146-HEDY5YDRHSK8PLI2V6Q7/1369_Moffat.JPG Gwen Moffat - Gwen on guiding in the 1950s Gwen Moffat at the summit of Stob Coire nan Lochan, Glencoe, in 1957. Credit: JR Lees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615666984595-7GP9O8D4UTX0IXAEIA9G/641_GwenMoffat_12022020a.jpg Gwen Moffat - Gwen in in the Borders near Hawick, 2020, aged 95 Credit: Val Hennelly https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1616340760072-KLY3Z7FG6EB5H38VX4VK/Gwen+Moffat+by+Jim+Herrington.jpg Gwen Moffat - Gwen in the Lake District Photo © Jim Herrington https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615667306191-7GNCL1D7ZRL4DQIW5C2Z/Cornish+barefeet+%28480x640%29.jpg Gwen Moffat - Gwen climbing barefoot in Cornwall Credit: JR Lees https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615666983879-2FXZHEPDA1XEFJM1LJSK/328.jpg Gwen Moffat - Gwen on Milestone Superdirect (HVS), Ogwen, North Wales Credit: SRG Bray https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615667014284-P8I1CU4U5VE5EPS07CR0/1535+Gwen+Moffat+Diocese.+No+gloves+044a.jpg Gwen Moffat - On Diocese (VS), Chair Ladder, Cornwall, in 1967 Credit: JR Lees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615666984762-XZOXF5IRJKYAMCC8O6O8/753_GwenMoffat_bigboots_ShepherdsCrag.jpg Gwen Moffat - In big boots on Shepherds Crag, Cumbria https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615667304837-N6GZ1SC6TQ65CN8IV182/1374_Moffat.JPG Gwen Moffat - In the French Alps in 1974 Credit: JR Lees https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615666986693-SIS1K67YHRJAIGN7AUXY/GM+Gully+on+Prisonik+%28002%29a.jpg Gwen Moffat - Prisonik, Yugoslavia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615666983795-IJRN0IMDXEW749EEC2QQ/518.jpg Gwen Moffat - Gwen Moffat, Capel Pinnacles, 1960s https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615666985237-0UN3F3UYBE3JW29CGU7V/1174_GwenMoffat-2aaa.jpg Gwen Moffat - Credit: John Cleare https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615666985851-MLTXL7PY3U77TX7FJCLP/GM+Great+Dodd+24.8.14_+%28002%29a.JPG Gwen Moffat - On Great Dodd on her 90th birthday in 2014 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615666985493-DCAJAREP0ND1RX0E7SBX/Criffel+and+pools+1.JPG Gwen Moffat - Criffel and pools, 2015 Credit: Gwen Moffat https://www.pc100.org/nea-morin daily 0.75 2021-03-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614197635209-FS5TMB41LKUIGO7ZDCJP/Jean%2BMorin%2Band%2BNea%2BBarnard%2Bon%2Bthe%2Bpractice%2Bslabs%2Bnear%2Bthe%2BMontenvers%2Bc1926.%2BPhoto%2BMiriam%2BO%2527Brien%2B1.jpg Nea Morin Jean and Nea on the practice slabs near the Montenvers, c1926. Credit: Miriam O’Brien. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614197214753-TDD06XWXOZWKLXZXW3V5/1177_NeaMorin%2B1.jpg Nea Morin Nea on the climb that bears her name, many years after her first ascent. Credit: John Cleare. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614282008927-27E4H8D9X0OIF8BC5CJJ/Cord%C3%A9e+f%C3%A9minine+Alice+Damesme%2C+Micheline+Morin%2C+Nea+Morin+c1933.+Photo+Maurice+Damesme.jpg Nea Morin - Cordée féminine: Alice Damesme, Micheline Morin and Nea Morin c1933 Credit: Maurice Damesme https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614282024917-VV9VK1XP0SH7UFIMUBVM/281.jpg Nea Morin - Evelyn Leech, Annette Wilson and Nea Morin at the Emily Kelly Hut, 1953 Credit: Suzanne Gibson née Long https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614282038304-2NBL4CIYROZLM3RA91P9/287.jpg Nea Morin - Beryl, Annis Flew, Suzanne Gibson, Nea Morin, Rienetta Herbert nee Leggett, French Alps, 1954 Credit: Suzanne Gibson née Long https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614282049664-9YLYPN0E8J9OU1683NX6/296.jpg Nea Morin - They did all fit in one taxi: Beryl, Annis Flew, Suzanne Gibson, Nea Morin, Rienetta Herbert née Leggett and others, Le Bez, French Alps, 1954 Credit: Eileen Pyatt https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614282061703-XAZI0JBRHRNPO5A0C41U/299.jpg Nea Morin - En route to the Glacier Blanc hut: Suzanne Gibson, Peggy , Rienetta Herbert née Leggett, Doreen Tharby, Annis Flew, Nea Morin, French Alps, 1954 Credit: Suzanne Gibson née Long https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614282073492-4RZSROOLKYM0OY1XEUXE/292.jpg Nea Morin - A very tough lunch: Nea Morin and Eileen Pyatt, Les Angeaux, French Alps, 1954 Credit: Suzanne Gibson née Long https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614282086560-K1IBSABESDS9XY7M3LAH/205.jpg Nea Morin - Nea Morin, Nancy Smith, Mary Fulford, Alwine Walford and Margaret Darvall at Froggatt, Peak District, in 1962 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614282086725-6J0044U54C3ITJND9IMR/206.jpg Nea Morin - Nea Morin, Nancy Smith, Mary Fulford and Alwine Walford at Froggatt, Peak District, in 1962 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614282136143-3DI245D5B2NQ4EZBMBQ3/1172_DeniseEvans+1.jpg Nea Morin - Nea and Denise in 1967 Credit: John Cleare https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614282136400-B5Q3849JO609HWR5OIMC/1176_NeaMorin+1.jpg Nea Morin - Nea and Denise in 1967 Credit: John Cleare https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614282161498-GD6PVBJ8GAQUE0EHLLW4/1312.JPG Nea Morin - Planning an assault on Nea (the climb) with Evelyn Leech https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614197005499-27OLKTUD2H7OYR8Y7HY8/Above+the+crux+on+%27Nea%27+-+Nea+following+Denise+in+1967.+Photo+John+Cleare+1.jpg Nea Morin Above the crux on Nea - Nea following Denise in 1967. Credit: John Cleare. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614196132833-LFMWR8KQGFNC67WA3A76/Blaiti%C3%A8re%2C+Pointe+de+Chamonix.+Alice+Damesme+and++Nea+Morin+1934.+Micheline+Morin+Collection+1.jpg Nea Morin Blaitière, Pointe de Chamonix. Alice and Nea, 1934. Photo: Micheline Morin Collection https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614196551856-NTP5G4H1E8HHYED0XGJX/1024px-Torri_del_Vaiolet.JPG Nea Morin Vajolet Towers. Credit: Vincenzo Gianferrari Pini - Wikimedia https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614197255498-VEFONUJ1B2PY9CXAKO5F/On%2BBosigran%2BFace%252C%2BCornwall.%2BPhoto%2BJohn%2BCleare.jpg Nea Morin Nea on Bosigran Face, Cornwall. Credit: John Cleare. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614197747126-6H9RMSL401DKC2DI993K/1409a.jpg Nea Morin Micheline, Nea and Alice at the Aigle hut after the first female traverse of the Meije in 1933. Credit: Alpine Club Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614197769103-JBFNABQSGL0BWRYUQBLC/Walking%2Bto%2Bthe%2BPromontoire%2Bhut.%2B%2BOur%2Bcord%25C3%25A9e%2Bf%25C3%25A9minine_%2B%2BL%2Bto%2BR%2BAlice%252C%2BNea%2Band%2BMicheline%2Bcarrying%2Bfirewood%2Bto%2Bthe%2Bhut%2B1933.%2B%2BPhoto%2BEtienne%2BBruhl%2BCollection%2B1.jpg Nea Morin Walking to the Promontoire hut: Alice, Nea and Micheline carrying firewood in 1933. Credit: Etienne Bruhl Collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614195450150-5YQ6L3BWZKFDTSP8NB0G/Nea+and+Osbert%2C+Diablerets+1911a.jpg Nea Morin Nea and Osbert, Diablerets (Switzerland), 1911. https://www.pc100.org/first-ascents-in-other-regions daily 0.75 2021-03-24 https://www.pc100.org/angela-soper daily 0.75 2021-03-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613831315158-R3BQG4QWNMU4EZ0Z0616/331.jpg Angela Soper Angela climbing Etive Slabs, Scotland, in 1978, with Sheila Cormack and Jenny Beale in the foreground. Credit: Angell Collection. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614283594604-F5MXEOG5XX6RQP1MNQAN/1283%2BAngela%2BSoper%2Bsoloing%2BAlmscliff.jpg Angela Soper - Angela soloing at Almscliffe, West Yorkshire, in 2010 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614282905060-1X21BO91XW9FPSZWYU74/1139+President%27s+Meet+2015.jpg Angela Soper - Angela arriving for the Presidents’ Meet, Cwm Dyli, 2015 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614282903411-36GH24QF25ZQWZGFYVUI/354.jpg Angela Soper - Angela tackles the hand traverse on Creagh Dhu Wall (HS), Tremadog, in 1981 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614282904532-WUKSS7K6EFW16JWQK12D/413.jpg Angela Soper - Angela on Space Buttress in Pembroke, in 1983 Credit: Lynda Dean https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614282904325-S48O6K8C3FRTY7WGDM5M/415.jpg Angela Soper - Angela on Front Line (HVS), Pembroke, in 1983 Credit: Lynda Dean https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614282905476-PMRPM6FHMFSHRH7AIJKO/1222_RHM+Angela+Soper.jpg Angela Soper - Angela at the Rendez-vous Haute Montagne, High Tatras, Slovakia, in 2000 Cathy Woodhead https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614283507098-LH1E3OL7BAN6I8ZL51X6/1287%2BAngela%2BSoper%2BTai%2BChi%2BCalpe.jpg Angela Soper - Hot rocking: Angela on Tai Chi (F6b+), Calpe, in 2007 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614283570601-664TX4IIN3HTPFO90ZMD/1291%2BBrede%2BAngela%2BMexico%2B2004.jpg Angela Soper - Angela with Brede Arkless in Mexico 2004 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614282992546-UVV9FOWIERKPQYFF7P0H/1383+Angela+Soper+Old+Man+of+Stoer+1.jpg Angela Soper - A dignified position: Angela blowing up the boat for an assault on the Old Man of Stoer in 1995. Pictured: Chris Johnson, Val Hennelly, Angela Soper, Penny Clay, Louise Dickie Credit: Fred Reynolds https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614283355673-OPWHS95WKU9NA1YUT2EN/462%2Blahaul-team-a.jpg Angela Soper Angela with the Pinnacle Club team on the Lahaul expedition in 1980. Sitting: Stella Adams. Jean Drummond, Steph Rowland, Sheila Crispin, Sheila Cormack, Jay Turner. Credit: Denise Wilson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614283323361-07AKPGVFTDGA6WR1Z6MD/img044a.jpg Angela Soper Angela’s last Munro: with Belinda, Margaret and Graham at the summit of Ben Vane, Arrochar, in 1991. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614283265575-DCMUTKA4JLTW6LGATY6K/460.jpg Angela Soper Angela on Cave Arete (HVS) at Stanage, Peak District, in 1984, during the International Womens Climbing Meet. Credit: Ian Smith. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614283297378-2OYVLGH1C1SGE7ZIDQ3F/467.jpg Angela Soper Angela finishing up on Deranged (E2), Pembroke, in 1983. Credit: Lynda Dean. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613831569774-Q4LZ8SKOQ2OAO1IKWBVQ/400.jpg Angela Soper Angela delivers a speech at the Pinnacle Club’s 60th anniversary celebration in 1982. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613831519959-BAPMDU0OFKMI9L6H91F4/357.jpg Angela Soper Angela soloing at Almscliff, Yorkshire, in 1981. Credit: Mary Loukes. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613764331759-ST05UY102KQPC7K7IUB7/1451.jpg Angela Soper Angela in 1975, doing fieldwork in Greenland. https://www.pc100.org/himalayan-expedition-firsts daily 0.75 2021-03-25 https://www.pc100.org/british-first-ascents-and-advances-in-british-womens-rock-climbing-in-the-1970s-and-80s daily 0.75 2021-03-25 https://www.pc100.org/eleanor-winthrop-young daily 0.75 2024-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613824828544-EKKWE8042U0O6I6ATBKX/12%2BEleanor%2BWinthrop%2BYoung.jpg Eleanor Winthrop-Young Len before her marriage in 1918 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613824412060-U84M2RU7MOICXOC3P5OD/13%2BEleanor%2BWinthrop%2BYoung.jpg Eleanor Winthrop-Young Eleanor Winthrop Young outside the Pen y Pass, 1926. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614284542802-SLDR6TS5FL13L0Y1O5GB/Eleanor+W-Y+obituary.jpg Eleanor Winthrop-Young Len in later life https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613824894152-J6GCRG9VGI3ENXFVQQ5B/15%2BEleanor%2BWinthrop%2BYoung.jpg Eleanor Winthrop-Young Len in the 1970s https://www.pc100.org/firsts-and-notable-achievements daily 0.75 2021-04-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613312280731-YXN3AFVT11VKX67DXL6M/462+lahaul-team-1.jpg Firsts and notable achievements 1980 Lahaul expedition. Pictured: Angela Soper standing; L-R sitting: Stella Adams. Jean Drummond, Steph Rowland, Sheila Crispin, Sheila Cormack, Jay Turner. Credit: Denise Wilson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615675230900-A5T9556LCUDI6O0RVUZT/1369_Gwen%2BMoffat.jpg Firsts and notable achievements https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613309216950-A77TLDH4QDZRGZ86B1HT/282+Denise+Wilson+Rienetta+Leggett+Zinalrothorn+1956.jpg Firsts and notable achievements Rie Leggett and Denise Shortall in the Alps in 1956. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613922658921-CYGP8HSAFP86IQ934BV5/1453%2BDenise%2BEvans.jpg Firsts and notable achievements In 1956 Denise Evans (pictured here in Nepal in 1957), with her brother, Ian, and two friends, made the first ascent of the highest mountain on the west coast of Greenland, Mount Atter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613310101106-7RAPY6A22ZTL7WUD594J/1127%2Bstella-adams--002-.jpg Firsts and notable achievements Stella Adams on Rainbow Buttress, Morocco, in 2016. Credit: John Adams. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615674872159-GZQU2HCI79R0L3E73M95/1374_Moffat.JPG Firsts and notable achievements Gwen Moffat in the French Alps in 1959. Credit: JR Lees. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613313933515-X9JER2H4IQRR840MNLN4/1065_JillCroskell_Summit%2BChe%2BBayul%2BKang%2B1a.jpg Firsts and notable achievements In 2001 Jill Croskell and party made a first ascent on Che Bayul Kang (6,000m) in Nepal. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613836366673-37XVV2B69ANVKZWJPXNG/1558+Julie+Carter+Bob+Graham+Round.jpg Firsts and notable achievements https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613311593256-HUHMDNZB93U7PLATCL7T/1311%2BEileen%2BHealey%2BHair%2Bwashing%2Bwith%2Bdifficulty.jpg Firsts and notable achievements 1956 Kulu expedition. Eileen Gregory climbed two previously unclimbed peaks in the Kulu region, on her own, with Ladaki porters. She also made the second ascent of Deo Tibba (19,688ft). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613313895025-4K236SFGH5CCBD62KTN8/1131_JeanDrummond.jpg Firsts and notable achievements Jean Drummond on the 1980 Lahaul expedition. Credit: Denise Wilson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613835592872-6HF152SIMSBZJKF5R5IF/1459%2BGill%2BPrice%2Bon%2BComes%2Bthe%2BDervish%2B1.jpg Firsts and notable achievements Gill Price on the first female lead of Comes the Dervish (then graded E5) at Vivian Quarry in 1984. Credit: Mandy Glanvill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613306568552-XV183Y9150ZN4Y87ZTY2/1177_NeaMorin%2Ba.jpg Firsts and notable achievements Nea Morin on Nea (VS), Clogwyn y Grochan, many years after her first ascent in 1941. Credit: John Cleare. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613306538626-LDVZ231VPQRAIQ1ENDIN/1124_JoScarr%25252B1.jpg Firsts and notable achievements Jo Scarr’s first female lead of Cenotaph Corner (E1), 1961. Credit: Tony Smythe (copyright: John Cleare). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613317862665-89DWL6XBSB7DN722RLZB/1265+Brede+Arkless+1.jpg Firsts and notable achievements https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613308447408-65JPV10K1OEH8HCGJ1RJ/39a%2BDorothy%2BPilley.jpg Firsts and notable achievements Dorothy Pilley made the first ascent of the north ridge of the Dent Blanche in what she called the ‘Great Year,’ 1928. Credit: Alpine Club Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613308412736-VB9EW2C0X3PO3J66K9BH/20%252BLilian%252BBray%252Bon%252BEgginergrat.jpg Firsts and notable achievements Lilian Bray on Egginergrat in 1921 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613312364011-X0A5SKH08T4CF98AJVMU/1480+Rhona+Lampard+Wanda+Rutkiewicz+High+camp+on+Gasherbrum+II.JPG Firsts and notable achievements On 12July 1989 Wanda Rutkiewicz and Rhona Lampard (pictured) made an all-female ascent of Gasherbrum II — listed amongst the most prestigious routes climbed by women in the greater ranges. Other team members: Geraldine Westrupp, Kathy Bainbridge, Becky Thorp, Sally Churcher, Brede Arkless, Sue Harland. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613316557500-CX0AU8YDPP7FFGH3OSHA/1418+Mandy+Glanvill.jpg Firsts and notable achievements Mandy Glanvill on the first ascent of Tunnock Teacake, Torridon, in 2018. Credit: Julie Carter. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613313736928-LC70ML9IZUDSIZDIEN17/1120_Jagdula%2Bteam%2B1.jpg Firsts and notable achievements On the 1962 Jagdula expedition to Nepal, teams made first and second ascents of Lha Shamma, Kagmara 1, Kagmara 2, Kagmara 3, Triangle Peak and Twin Peak. The team: Dorothea Gravina, Jo Scarr (now Peacock), Barbara Spark (later Roscoe), Nancy Smith, Denise Evans, Pat Wood. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613313713270-7EHB5IKMAUFTHB66BNWD/1118_Jagdula%2BBarbara%2BSpark%2BRoscoe%2BJo%2BPeacock%2BScarr%2B1.jpg Firsts and notable achievements In 1961 Barbara Spark and Jo Scarr made first ascents of Central Peak and Lion (both 20,000 ft), Kulu. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613835621762-YKKC8B3Z6AVZQV3TGR67/Jill%2BLawrence%2Bon%2BRight%2BWall%2B488.jpg Firsts and notable achievements Jill Lawrence on the first female lead of Right Wall (E5) on Dinas Gromlech, 1984. Credit: Ian Smith. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613922978002-QHXSE7SB0GYB1NEWEAGN/1514%2BCathy%2BWoodhead.jpg Firsts and notable achievements Cathy Woodhead on the first ascent of Tryfan Route, Prickly Pear Gorge, Morocco, 2017. Credit: David Medcalf. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613317030420-P8Z21Q7UAWOUU61VNCWD/1351+Annabelle+Barker+1.jpg Firsts and notable achievements https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613311870948-9OT3ICZQ70JS22K0AFUP/390+Jean+Drummond%2C+High+altitude+trekking+to+high+camp%2C+Lahaul.jpg Firsts and notable achievements 1980, Lahaul: teams make first ascents of 13 peaks including Steph’s Peak (19,300ft) and Half Dome (19,000ft). Pictured: Jean Drummond trekking to high camp. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613307888771-9W7BRSB8DC0IC9PHV9OM/1409a+Micheline+Morin++Nea+Morin+Alice+Damesme+At+the+Aigle+Hut+after+the+Meije+traverse+Cordee+feminine.JPG Firsts and notable achievements Cordée féminine (all female rope) – Micheline Morin and Nea Morin with Alice Damesme at the Aigle hut after the first female traverse of the Meije in 1933. Credit: Alpine Club Library. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615047972821-QYB3HSRN7K4TC8KM7WEU/1101+Chris+Watkins.jpg Firsts and notable achievements https://www.pc100.org/grades daily 0.75 2021-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614539347641-LR62F2BHOJPIOW18Q5NC/484.jpeg Grades Jill Lawrence on Cream (grade E4, 6a), 1984 (International Women’s Meet), Photo credit: Ian Smith https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614539791899-S6EUJWGLI24SWJOSC3YW/PC-Bosigran-Jessie_Leong-%5BIMG_0356%5D.jpeg Grades Val Hennelly having fun on Helluva Slab (grade S, 4b) 2017, Photo credit: Jessie Leong https://www.pc100.org/lilian-bray daily 0.75 2024-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613766723023-QUTA9M1YXZBBQCFIGAY1/30.jpg Lilian Bray Rounding the Nose on Pillar, Bray 1926. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614284067379-UI25R6TXGUA0EGXQLDIM/20.jpg Lilian Bray - Bray on Egginergrat, Swiss Alps, 1921 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614284094044-738SN9N0H8ZI8YTQ608Y/21.jpg Lilian Bray - Bray on Egginergrat, Swiss Alps, 1921 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614284137768-JZILNJVAPKSJEU51IVL2/19.jpg Lilian Bray - Bray on Portjengrat, Swiss Alps, 1921 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614283935725-8MZ2IP7G3B5WMF8XTLNP/57.jpg Lilian Bray - Pinnacle Club Easter meet, Coniston, 1934 Pictured: Marjorie Wood, Brenda Ritchie, Arning, Pirie, Wilson, Bennet, Adam, Smith, Dawson, Turner, Corbett, Dorothy Pilley Richards, Lilian Bray, Heys-Jones, Harper, Lowe, Eden-Smith. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614283936139-9LBYQGXRQ900MNE1N2ZK/Bray+in+group+outside+PyG+-+second+from+left+in+front+row+1.jpg Lilian Bray - Pinnacle Club Easter meet, Kiln House, Rosthwaite, 1928 Pictured: Dr Taylor, HA Turner, Mrs Isherwood, MS Ashton, Mrs Eastwood, HM Clarke, Marjorie Wood, EM Hobkinson, Lilian Bray (second from left, front row), Ella Mann, Hilda Summersgill, Dr Catherine Corbett, Madge Scott https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1614283936372-IHIFFHH2UC0304KTVOW2/Bray+PCJ+1927.JPG Lilian Bray - Bray in the Pinnacle Club journal, 1929 https://www.pc100.org/emily-pat-kelly daily 0.75 2021-03-20 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613822917929-SWQAZTCMB277L8BX9MHJ/18.jpg Emily (Pat) Kelly The first Pinnacle Club meet, Idwal Slabs, 1921. L-R: Emily (Pat) Kelly, Dorothy Evans, Mrs O Johnson, Harriet Turner, B Lella Michaelson, Cicely Rathbone, Constance Stanley, Blanche Eden-Smith. Credit: GS Bower https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1613823132071-SPW0WM3ON3BOPH1740DZ/Emily%28Pat%29+Kelly+on+the+Scoop+.jpg Emily (Pat) Kelly Pat on The Scoop (HVS), Castle Naze, Peak District. Credit: A Burgess. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615321420047-01O91UGBJUN92QF9HQCK/Emily+%28Pat%29+Kelly+from+Alpine+Club+collection+1a.jpg Emily (Pat) Kelly Pat Kelly - photo with receipt note. 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climbing on rock - Gill Price https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615728050058-MQBYNOQ4GD19PBTCHEKC/-Jessie_Leong-%25255BF79A3412%25255Da.jpg Audio stories - climbing on rock - Hilary Lawrenson https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615727855144-OHYNRXM8D69H3R81AJ09/644_JanRickman_20082019.jpg Audio stories - climbing on rock - Jan Rickman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615729743928-C884LSSMAXLKRB9QZUNN/1175_JillLawrence-2a.jpg Audio stories - climbing on rock - Jill Lawrence https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615728351731-6I1JSEP3DJ3AUU6GQ2PW/1077_JoAbbott-1a.jpg Audio stories - climbing on rock - Jo Abbott https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615729835328-3XH79JW1AQSGKLAQ7OCK/1162_JoPeacock%2B1.jpg Audio stories - climbing on rock - Jo Scarr https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5e30984cd4be6126d4f602a7/1615728166523-9TUMHSTQMEN0N45TBMA5/1072_MandyGlanvill-1.jpg Audio stories - 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