Woman With Altitude Presents: Higher Than Any Man!

In 1838, Henriette d'Angeville became the first women to climb Mont Blanc 'unaided'. After a gruelling climb to the summit, made even more difficult by her homemade 10kg wool outfit, she requested to be lifted high into the air, so that she could go 'higher than any man has before'.

In summer 2024, with an all female team, Lise will be taking on her biggest challenge yet, re-creating Henriette's climb with the same equipment and clothing she had nearly 200 years ago. Lise will be creating her fabulous outfit in collaboration with Morley College in South London, using wool from a regenerative farm.

'It's so important to me to keep telling the stories of women like Henriette now, especially at a time when women and girls still often don't feel like they are represented in the outdoors. I believe there is a direct link between the stories of women like Henriette being overlooked and not given the media attention they deserved, to a lack of women in the outdoors today, because we all know that you can't be what you can't see'.

Henriette is recorded as the first woman to climb Mont Blanc 'unaided', because Marie Paradis was the first women to reach the summit in 1808. The story goes that Marie was so sick from altitude, that she was carried up the last section of the mountain by her male guides, hence why Henriette was the first to achieve this feat 'unaided'.