Nea Everilda Morin (née Barnard) (21 May 1905 – 12 July 1986) was a British

rock climber Rock climbing is a climbing sports discipline that involves ascending routes consisting of natural rock in an outdoor environment, or on artificial resin climbing walls in a mostly indoor environment. Routes are documented in guidebooks, and ...

and

mountain climber Mountaineering, mountain climbing, or alpinism is a set of outdoor activities that involves ascending mountains. Mountaineering-related activities include traditional outdoor climbing, skiing, and traversing via ferratas that have become mounta ...

. Morin climbed in the

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in the 1920s, joined the

Ladies' Alpine Club The Ladies' Alpine Club was founded in London, England in 1907 and was the first mountaineering club for women. It merged with the Alpine Club of Great Britain in 1975. History In December 1907 a group of ladies who were climbers in the Alps m ...

, and met many climbers in the French . In 1928 she married Jean Morin (1897–1943) and lived in

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. She climbed often with other women and advocated the cordée féminine, climbing only with women on a rope. After the death of her husband in

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, she lived in

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and climbed in England and Wales, she was elected president of the Ladies' Alpine Club (1944-1946) and was a member of the female-only Pinnacle Club. In 1941 Morin had made the first ascent of Clogwyn Y Grochan the route, which is 230 feet high and graded very severe 4b, is named Nea. She also led on an ascent of Curving Crack on

Clogwyn du'r Arddu Clogwyn Du'r Arddu (; ) is a north-facing rhyolite set of cliffs located on the northern flank of Snowdon mountain. Clogwyn Du'r Arddu is considered to be one of the best traditional climbing areas in Britain, and has been called "The shrine of B ...

(the Black Cliff). In 1959, she was the only woman in the team of six British climbers who attempted to make the first ascent of 6812 meter high

Ama Dablam Ama Dablam is a mountain in the Eastern Himalayas range of Koshi Province, Nepal. The main peak is , the lower western peak is . Ama Dablam means "mother's necklace"; the long ridges on each side like the arms of a mother (''ama'') protecting he ...

in Nepal. Her autobiography, ''A Woman's Reach'' (1968), describes her climbing and the achievement of other women in the mountains. She frequently climbed with her daughter, Denise, who went on to marry the

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and

Everest Mount Everest (), known locally as Sagarmatha in Nepal and Qomolangma in Tibet, is Earth's highest mountain above sea level. It lies in the Mahalangur Himal sub-range of the Himalayas and marks part of the China–Nepal border at its ...

mountaineer Charles Evans in 1957.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Morin, Nea British mountain climbers British rock climbers 1905 births 1986 deaths British female climbers