Lizzie Le Blond, Mountaineer

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From witches to artists to revolutionaries; Phenomná is a feminist history podcast looking at Irish women who have been under represented or written out of mainstream history. It is presented by Maria Butler and Shaunna Lee Lynch who are both very excited to help share the stories of the Irish women who shaped the world we live in today.

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Lizzie Le Blond, Mountaineer

Phenomná

30 minutes 36 seconds

5 years ago

Lizzie Le Blond, Mountaineer

This week Shaunna tells us all about Lizzie LeBlond who left a luxurious life in Greystones to become one of the world's first female mountaineers. She traveled to great heights especially considering that she didn't even know how to put on her own boots when she set out. Reese Witherspoon eat your heart out

Notes/ Further Reading:

County Wicklow Heritage: A Wicklow Woman's War

Women's Museum of Ireland: Elizabeth Lizzie LeBlond

Irish Times: Greystones woman climbed mountains in a skirt so not to offend

Irish Times: The Greystones woman who climbed the Alps in long skirts to avoid scandal

The Royal Parks, Brompton Graveyard: Elizabeth le Blond

Into the Jaws of Death: British Military Blunders, 1879–1900 by Mike Snook