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This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this.

I'm Helen Needham.

As someone who enjoys spending time in the mountains,

I'm always keen to discover new voices and stories, especially from the female perspective.

So I was really excited to learn about Dorothy Pilly, a trailblazing mountaineer who was born in 1894.

She achieved so much in her long life, including co-founding the Pinnacle Club for Women Climers in 1921, and that continues to this day.

Dorothy was also a fine writer and described many of her mountain adventures in her book, Climbing Days.

Despite its early popularity, it fell into obscurity in the 20th century and went out

of print. But now it's available for all to read once again, thanks to the efforts of Dorothy's

great-great-nephew, the writer Dan Richards. Dan's managed to get it republished, and I met up with

him recently on a very windy day in Edinburgh

and asked him, who was Dorothy Pilly?

Dorothy Pilly was a climber from the early 20th century.

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