Charlotte Adams

Charlotte A. Adams (later Charlotte A. Cunningham) (1860 – 5 September 1920) was an Australian mountain climber. She became the first woman of European descent to climb to the peak of Mount Kosciuszko in February 1881, aged 21.

Biography In February 1881, Adams accompanied her father, Philip Francis Adams, Surveyor General of New South Wales on a surveying trip to the Cooma district. On the trip, she climbed to the peak of Mount Kosciuszko, becoming the first known European woman to have made the climb.

She died in Darlinghurst on September 5, 1920.

Legacy

The village of Charlotte Pass, New South Wales is named after Adams.