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Dorothy Pilley Richards (16 September 1894 in Camberwell, London – 24 September 1986 in Cambridge) was a prominent mountaineer. She began climbing in Wales and joined the Fell & Rock Climbing Club, later helping found the Pinnacle Club in 1921.
15 de sept. de 2016 · Prompted by the discovery of her memoir, Dan Richards goes on the trail of Dorothy Pilley, a trailblazing female climber who explored the world.
Hace 4 días · The Cambridge scholar and literary critic Ivor Armstrong Richards (I.A. Richards, 1893-1979) and Dorothy Pilley had first met clambering up Tryfan in Snowdonia in 1917. ‘You were the first original thinker I had met,’ she later told him, ‘and in your conversation I discovered even as barely more than a schoolgirl the “something more in life” which I had ever so vaguely suspected ...
7 de jul. de 2016 · Mountaineer, diarist and waspish commentator on society, Dorothy Pilley (known in Magdalene by her married name Dorothea Richards) was one of the most extraordinary writers associated with Magdalene.
8 de sept. de 2016 · Author Dan Richards recently published a book about retracing the steps of his great-great aunt - the pioneer of women's climbing and mountaineering, Dorothy Pilley. Following in the...
Dorothy Pilley Richards, (1894–1986), daughter of an industrial chemist; journalist and climber; worked as a reporter (for a while at the Daily Express) before marrying I. A. Richards in 1926. She and Richards scaled mountains all over the world.
7 de jun. de 2016 · The author Dan Richards on following in the adventurous footprints of his pioneering great-great aunt, the mountaineer Dorothy Pilley.
