Pinnacle Club

The Pinnacle Club is a women's climbing club based in the United Kingdom.

History

Though the Fell & Rock Climbing Club, established 1906 for Lake District climbing, was open to both men and women, women were excluded from many climbing clubs. A Ladies' Alpine Club was founded in 1907 and the Ladies' Scottish Climbing Club in 1908. After advertisements in the Manchester Guardian in 1920, the Women's Rock Climbing Club was founded at a meeting chaired by Eleanor Winthrop Young at the Pen Y Gwrid Hotel in Llanberis on 26 March 1921.[1] The name was subsequently changed to the Pinnacle Club.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Nelsson, Richard (2012). On the Roof of the World. Guardian Books. p. 30. ISBN 9780852653579.
  2. ↑ Gordon, Peter; Doughan, David (2001). "Pinnacle Club". Dictionary of British Women's Organisations, 1825-1960. London & Portland, Or.: Woburn Press. p. 117. ISBN 0-7130-0223-9.

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