Authors:Dennis Wynne-Jones Published on: 2015-12-07 Publisher: Pages: 180 ISBN:1910406287 ISBN13: 9781910406281 Category:Biography and Autobiography Books Rating: Total Buying 41 When the Wells sisters from the tiny English hamlet of Denton, near Ilkley, Yorkshire, took up mountaineering at the start of the twentieth century, little did they know that they were to become pioneers in women's climbing in the UK. At the time of the growing strength of the Women's Suffragette movement, women-only mountaineering began to increase in popularity. This story describes the adventures of Paddy, Trilby and Biddy Wells, through Wharfedale, the Lake District, North Wales, Scotland and the Alps, including the first all-female traverse of the Skye ridge, the first female descent of Gaping Ghyll pothole, and the first female to successfully climb all the Scottish Munros. There were links in the lives of the three sisters to the Church of St. John in Ben Rhydding; to the local ladies Hockey Clu...