Rare photos of climbers of the Victorian era

At the end of the XIX century not all ladies sat at windows and embroidered. Some went counter to rules and were engaged in that that is pleasant to them. For example, mountaineering. But even there, in severe mountain conditions they wore dense skirts in a floor. As, for example, Lucy Uorker who the first conquered peak Matterhorn. Source: hsmedia.ru Or Jackson Margaret, the first woman who made an ascension attempt to Jüngfrau (Bernese Alps). Source: squarespace-cdn.com Sometimes skirts saved lives. Gertrude Bell, the archeologist, wrote that when it got stuck on a mountain slope during a storm, could be closed by fabric from a wind...