Author: BURNABY. MRS FRED.
Title: The High Alps In Winter; Or, Mountaineering in Search of Health.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. xvii, 203, 32; portrait frontispiece, 2 maps, 4 b/w illustrations, appendixes; rebacked with original cloth laid down on spine and front, title lettered in gilt on spine, silver illustration to front, adhesive mark of Mullens Library sticker to front of cloth, corners bumped, pages browned, otherwise a very good copy. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883. Mrs Fred Burnaby, also known as Elizabeth Hawkins-Whitshed, married Captain Fred Burnaby in 1880. Shortly after the wedding, Lizzie was reported to be in poor health, but she recovered and gave birth to a son in May 1880. Within just a few months, however, she and her husband had embarked on largely separate lives, Fred returning to his bachelor quarters and Lizzie spending much of her time abroad in search of a cure for the lung trouble which continued to plague her. In summer 1881 she arrived for the first time at Chamonix, where she ‘saw for the first time those glacier-clad Alpine ranges which were to mean so much to me for the rest of my life.’ Within a fortnight she was able to embark on modest rambles in the surrounding countryside. Her first significant ‘scramble’ was made almost by accident: having planned a leisurely excursion to the lower slopes of Mont Blanc, she and a woman friend, clad ‘in high-heeled buttoned boots and shady hats’, spontaneously decided to climb further. Although unable to complete the climb on this occasion, Lizzie’s appetite had been whetted. During the following summer she scaled Mont Blanc twice, as well as several other difficult peaks, and over the next two decades spent much of her time in Switzerland, climbing in both winter and summer and making more than one hundred ascents, including what is regarded as the first women-only expedition. Later in her climbing career, Lizzieabandoned Switzerland for Norway and Lapland, and over six summers in the region notched up a total of thirty-three climbs, twenty-seven of them first ascents.'' - Our Wicklow Heritage.
Keywords: mountaineering mountaineer English female climbers women Switzerland France Europe
Title: The High Alps In Winter; Or, Mountaineering in Search of Health.
Description: First Edition; 8vo; pp. xvii, 203, 32; portrait frontispiece, 2 maps, 4 b/w illustrations, appendixes; rebacked with original cloth laid down on spine and front, title lettered in gilt on spine, silver illustration to front, adhesive mark of Mullens Library sticker to front of cloth, corners bumped, pages browned, otherwise a very good copy. London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1883. Mrs Fred Burnaby, also known as Elizabeth Hawkins-Whitshed, married Captain Fred Burnaby in 1880. Shortly after the wedding, Lizzie was reported to be in poor health, but she recovered and gave birth to a son in May 1880. Within just a few months, however, she and her husband had embarked on largely separate lives, Fred returning to his bachelor quarters and Lizzie spending much of her time abroad in search of a cure for the lung trouble which continued to plague her. In summer 1881 she arrived for the first time at Chamonix, where she ‘saw for the first time those glacier-clad Alpine ranges which were to mean so much to me for the rest of my life.’ Within a fortnight she was able to embark on modest rambles in the surrounding countryside. Her first significant ‘scramble’ was made almost by accident: having planned a leisurely excursion to the lower slopes of Mont Blanc, she and a woman friend, clad ‘in high-heeled buttoned boots and shady hats’, spontaneously decided to climb further. Although unable to complete the climb on this occasion, Lizzie’s appetite had been whetted. During the following summer she scaled Mont Blanc twice, as well as several other difficult peaks, and over the next two decades spent much of her time in Switzerland, climbing in both winter and summer and making more than one hundred ascents, including what is regarded as the first women-only expedition. Later in her climbing career, Lizzieabandoned Switzerland for Norway and Lapland, and over six summers in the region notched up a total of thirty-three climbs, twenty-seven of them first ascents.'' - Our Wicklow Heritage.
Keywords: mountaineering mountaineer English female climbers women Switzerland France Europe
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- Book number: 97987
- Book number: 97987