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Author: Pilley, Dorothy, Richards, Dan

Inter-war period, 1918-1939

Published on 4 July 2024 by Canongate Books (Canongate Canons) in the United Kingdom as part of ‘the Canons’ series.

Paperback | 400 pages, B&W images throughout
198 x 130 x 25 | 280g

When Dorothy Pilley first began climbing in the 1910s, female mountaineers were seen as a dangerous liability, their achievements ignored, unrecorded or disbelieved. Undeterred, Dorothy proved herself on the vertiginous slopes of Wales, Scotland and the Lake District before tackling rock faces in the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Rockies, Mount Fuji and the Himalayas. Her tireless championing of fellow women climbers and her own trailblazing example helped establish female alpinists as serious mountaineers with impressive records on bravery, skill and endurance. First published in 1935, Climbing Days tells a daredevil tale of adventure, near-death slips and rapturous achievement in high places, interleaved with moments highlighting the particular challenges of being a woman in a sport seen as the province of men.