Eleanor Winthrop Young

Eleanor Winthrop Young, known as Len, lived from 1895 to 1994 and was a British climber. She was a co-founder and the first president of the Pinnacle Club, a British women's climbing club, and she made numerous ascents in the Alps as well as many in the United Kingdom. Her place in the history of the sport rests on that early institutional work for women climbers and on a long climbing career in the mountains of Britain and the Alps, at a time when mountaineering clubs were largely closed to women and few women climbed at a high level.