CLIMBING DAYS (THE CANONS) (DOROTHY PILLEY) (PB)

When Dorothy Pilley first began climbing in the 1910s, female mountaineers were seen as a dangerous liability, and their achievements ignored, unrecorded or disbelieved. Undeterred, Dorothy proved herself on vertiginous slopes in Wales, Scotland and the Lake District before tackling rock faces in the Alps, the Pyrenees, the Rockies, Mount Fuji and the Himalayas. First published in 1935, this is a daredevil tale of adventure, near-death slips and rapturous achievement in high places, interleaved with moments highlighting the challenges of being a woman in a sport seen as the province of men.