Dorothy Thompson

Dorothy Evelyn Thompson (29 May 1888 – 2 December 1961) was an English mountaineer known for her climbs in the Alps. From the mid-1920s through to WW2 she was regarded as 'one of the really great British women climbers'. With Dorothy Pilley Richards she visited the mountains of Corsica over Easter 1922 and the Pyrenees over Easter 1923 That introduction was made in 1923 She continued to climb regularly with him for many years although she also climbed 'guideless' with other parties. a record that she only became aware of after the event. In 1934 she climbed Mont Blanc via the Aiguille de Bionassay, and became the first person to descend the mountain via the Peuteret Ridge, which even some years later was regarded as 'the finest, longest and most difficult ridge in the Alps - something to which all great climbers aspire but few achieve'.

Later life Thompson completed a book of her climbing memoirs after the Second World War, but only published it privately. She died in Heathfield, East Sussex, in 1961. After her death, her friends and the Ladies' Alpine Club published her memoirs, titled Climbing with Joseph Georges, in 1962.