Emmeline Lewis Lloyd

Emmeline Lewis Lloyd is famous for being one of the first women to climb in the Alps.

Emmeline Lewis Lloyd

• Emmeline Lewis Lloyd is famous for being one of the first women to climb in the Alps.
• 1822: Her father, Thomas, becomes a Justice of the Peace and High Sheriff of Cardiganshire.
• After leaving home, Emmeline farmed and bred mountain ponies at Llandyfaelog Fach near Brecon.
• 1860s to the 1870s: Emmeline often went to the Alps to climb mountains.
• 1869: Emmeline and her climbing companion, Isabella Straton, were unsuccessful in their attempt to climb the Matterhorn.
• Emmeline was the eighth woman to climb Mont Blanc.
• 1871: September – Emmeline, with Isabella and the guide, Joseph Simond, completed the first ever ascent of Aiguille du Moine (3412 metres, or 11,194 feet) near Chamonix.
• The same year the two women climbed Monte Viso with Jean Charlet.

Place of Birth: Nantgwyllt, Elan Valley, Powys

Date of Birth: 18 November 1827

Date of Death: 22 September 1913

‘Miss Straton and Miss Lewis Lloyd seem to have been drawn to mountaineering mainly because they felt it was wrong to reserve any pastime for the male sex only.’ – Roland Clark, ‘The Victorian Mountaineers’ (B.T. Batsford 1953), p. 181