Dorothy Pilley Richards

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Dorothy Pilley Richards (16 September 1894 in Camberwell, London, – 24 September 1986 in Cambridge) was a prominent female mountaineer. She began climbing in Wales and joined the Fell and Rock Climbing Club. In the 1920s, she climbed extensively in the Alps, Britain, and North America after her marriage to Ivor Armstrong Richards.

In 1928, she made the celebrated first ascent of the north ridge of the Dent Blanche, with her husband, Joseph Georges, and Antoine Georges, which she described in her well-regarded memoir, Climbing Days (1935).

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Dorothy Pilley (Mrs. I.A. Richards), Climbing Days (London: Bell, 1935)
Carol A. Osborne, ‘Richards , Dorothy Eleanor (1894–1986)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 18 May 2007