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Dorothy Pilley Richards

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British mountain climber (1894–1986)

Dorothy Pilley Richards
Dorothy Pilley – Secretary of the British Women's Patriotic League, c. 1922
Born	Dorothy Eleanor Pilley (1894-09-16)16 September 1894 Camberwell,South London,England
Died	24 September 1986(1986-09-24) (aged 92) Cambridge,Cambridgeshire,England
Occupation(s)	Mountaineer, writer
Notable work	Climbing Days (1935)
Spouse	I. A. Richards (m. 1926; died 1979)

Dorothy Pilley Richards (16 September 1894 – 24 September 1986) was a prominentmountaineer. She attendedQueenwood Ladies' College and went on a climbing tour with fellow studentBryher^[1] in Wales and around this time joined theFell & Rock Climbing Club, later helping found thePinnacle Club in 1921.

In the 1920s, she climbed extensively in theAlps, Britain, and North America after her marriage to educator,literary critic andrhetorician,I.A. Richards.

In 1928, she made the celebrated first ascent of the north north west ridge of theDent Blanche in the Swiss Alps, with Joseph Georges, Antoine Georges and her husband,^[2] which she described in her well-regarded memoir,Climbing Days (1935)^[3] – republished by Canongate Books in 2024.^[4]

Pilley's great-great-nephew Dan Richards has written a biography of her, published byFaber and Faber in 2016 and also titledClimbing Days.^[5]^[6]

References

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^Bryher (1962).The Heart to Artemis: A Writer's Memoirs. New York:Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.ISBN 978-1-930-46408-7. Retrieved27 September 2024.{{cite book}}:ISBN / Date incompatibility (help)
^Collomb, Robin G. (1975).Pennine Alps Central (1st ed.).Alpine Club, London. pp. 107–109.ISBN 978-0-900-52314-4.
^Pilley, Dorothy (1935).Climbing Days (1st ed.). London:George Bell & Sons.
^Pilley, Dorothy (2024).Climbing Days (Canongate ed.).Canongate Books.ISBN 978-1-805-30253-7.
^Richards, Dan (16 June 2016).Climbing Days. London:Faber & Faber.ISBN 978-0-571-31193-4. Archived fromthe original on 17 September 2021. Retrieved27 September 2024.
^Norbury, Katharine (26 June 2016)."Climbing Days by Dan Richards – review".The Guardian.Archived from the original on 28 September 2024. Retrieved27 September 2024.

Sources

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Osborne, Carol A. (23 September 2004)."Richards [née Pilley], Dorothy Eleanor".Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press.doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/52566.Archived from the original on 28 September 2024. Retrieved27 September 2024. (Subscription,Wikipedia Library access orUK public library membership required.)

Gallery

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Dorothy Pilley c.1926
Dorothy Pilley & I.A. Richards - passport photographs 1920s
I.A. Richards, Joseph Georges and Dorothy Pilley - Bertol, Switzerland, 1928 (Antoine Georges)
Canongate 'Canon' reissue of Dorothy Pilley's Climbing Days, 2024