Dorothy Theomin of Olveston. By Margery Blackman

Softcover, fine condition, very minor shelf wear ISBN 9780473115647 Publisher: Friends of Olveston Inc., Dunedin, 2007

Dorothy Theomin played golf and rode, but her great love was for the mountains of the Southern Alps. An asthmatic, she found conditions on the West Coast conducive to her health. She was a member of the New Zealand Alpine Club, and made an impressive number of climbs and transits between 1914 and 1933. In the early years she wore a short skirt, puttees and hob-nailed boots. The Graham brothers, Peter and Alexander, and Frank Milne were the guides who most frequently accompanied her. She was also a respected mountain photographer.

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