Women celebrate 100 years of climbing

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telegraph.co.uk     May 17, 2008            

Scotland's oldest mountaineering club for women will today mark its 100th anniversary by climbing one of the country's most famous peaks in costumes from throughout its century. The Ladies Scottish Climbing Club (LSCC) was founded in 1908 by three middle class women frustrated at being excluded... [read full story]                

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Climbing their way out of a man's world

scotsman.com     May 17, 2008          

Women celebrate 100 years of their pioneering club Published Date: 17 May 2008 THEY set off for distant peaks in long tweed skirts, but once away from prying male eyes, they continued their climb in starched knickerbockers. It was the era of the suffragettes, and these female climbers had been...                

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