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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.
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...
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.
Dorothy Pilley was probably the best-known English woman climber in the 1920s and 1930s. Her husband, literary critic and theorist I.A. Richards, had suffered a bout of tuberculosis and developed an interest in mountain climbing while he recovered in northern Wales.
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.
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.
