Eleanor Winthrop Young

Eleanor "Len" Winthrop Young (1895–1994) was a British climber. She was a co-founder and the first president of the Pinnacle Club, a British women's climbing club, and made numerous ascents in the Alps and many in the United Kingdom.

Early life Eleanor Slingsby was born in 1895 in Carleton-in-Craven, West Riding of Yorkshire. She was the youngest of five children born to William Cecil Slingsby (1849–1929), a mill owner and climber with extensive experience in Norway who became known as "the father of Norwegian mountaineering". Slingsby introduced each of his children to climbing at a young age around their local village. at her home in Carleton-in-Craven. She married him in 1918; by that time, he had lost a leg in the war and she helped him to regain his climbing abilities with an artificial leg. At the end of 1924 they moved to Cambridge with their son Jocelin who had been born on 25 October 1919. A daughter named Marcia was born on 11 March 1925, she went on to marry Peter Newbolt, the grandson of Sir Henry John Newbolt. She served as the club's first president, and its inaugural meeting was at the Welsh pass Pen-y-Gwryd on 26 March 1921. The couple also co-wrote a 1948 book, In Praise of Mountains.