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Elizabeth Hawkins-Whitshed

Born in 1861, she grew up in Co. Wicklow. She moved to Switzerland where she climbed mountains in her skirt! In 1907 she became the first president of the Ladies Alpine Club[?]. She wrote seven books on mountain climbing and over her lifetime climbed twenty peaks that no one had climbed before.



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