May 19 2020 30 mins
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