{"id":271,"date":"2015-02-24T17:36:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-24T06:36:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.askroz.com.au\/blog\/?p=271"},"modified":"2015-02-24T17:36:56","modified_gmt":"2015-02-24T06:36:56","slug":"1st-woman-to-climb-the-1st-of-the-3-sisters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.askroz.com.au\/blog\/1st-woman-to-climb-the-1st-of-the-3-sisters\/","title":{"rendered":"1st woman to climb the 1st of the 3 Sisters."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Queensland climber Muriel Patten becomes the first women to climb the First Sister, Katoomba, 1934. Bert Salmon is above her as both solo the climb.<\/p>\n<p>With a female climbing culture firmly established in Queensland by the early 1930s, January 1934 saw 16 Queenslanders\u2014including 7 women\u2014travelling to Katoomba in the Blue Mountains on a \u2018rock-climbing holiday\u2019. Early one Sunday morning, with 300 people watching from a nearby lookout, Bert Salmon and 21 year old Muriel Patten climbed the first of the Three Sisters, unroped. It was the first female ascent and the Katoomba Daily was impressed:<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Miss Muriel Patten, a petite and daring Brisbane girl, claims a record: that she is the only woman to scale the first of the Three Sisters. One section of this climb is extremely difficult and hazardous: particularly for a lady.\u2019 When Muriel Patten returned to Brisbane, she was a celebrity, with the Courier-Mail reproducing the story of her success: \u2018Miss Patten yesterday laughed at the idea of nervousness on these expeditions, although she confessed that she has had to acquire the climbing taste. She has long since lost the neophyte\u2019s nervousness in daring expeditions to the top of Crook-neck (Glasshouse), Mt Barney, and Mt Lindesay. Now she is looking round for other crags to conquer.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Full story:\u00a0http:\/\/climbinghistoryoz.blogspot.com.au\/2012_02_23_archive.html<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_272\" style=\"width: 246px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.askroz.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/BM-aas002.1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-272\" class=\"wp-image-272 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.askroz.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/BM-aas002.1-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"1st woman to climb the 1st of the 3 Sisters. - Ask Roz\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.askroz.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/BM-aas002.1-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/www.askroz.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/BM-aas002.1-806x1024.jpg 806w, https:\/\/www.askroz.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/BM-aas002.1-660x838.jpg 660w, https:\/\/www.askroz.com.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/BM-aas002.1.jpg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-272\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">1st woman to climb the 1st of the 3 Sisters. &#8211; Ask Roz<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Queensland climber Muriel Patten becomes the first women to climb the First Sister, Katoomba, 1934. 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With a female climbing culture firmly established in Queensland by the early 1930s, January 1934 saw 16 Queenslanders\u2014including 7 women\u2014travelling to Katoomba in the Blue Mountains on a \u2018rock-climbing holiday\u2019.\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.askroz.com.au\/blog\/1st-woman-to-climb-the-1st-of-the-3-sisters\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-roz-blue-mountains","category-historic"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>1st woman to climb the 1st of the 3 Sisters. - Ask Roz<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"1st woman to climb the 1st of the 3 Sisters. - 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