Climbing legends #1 Mrs Foy and Beryl Miles Series of posts celebrating climbers of Ayers Rock. Updated 27 Dec 2017 The list of names from the glass jar at the summit cairn records the name of Mrs Foy on the 28th of May 1936. Isabella Foy was the wife of Hugh Victor Foy who lead an expedition in search of Lasseter's Reef. It seems Mrs Foy is the first woman to record a climb of Ayers Rock. However it also seems the names on the Foy list were not written individually raising questions as to whether all on the list actually climbed. Foy Family 1938 . Names of Mr Foy, Mrs Foy and Bill Foy are listed in the glass jar at the summit cairn. Isabella Foy Beryl Miles - second woman(?) to climb Ayers Rock. Beryl Miles, from article in The Age 31/7/1954 The second woman to record a climb Ayers rock is Beryl Miles who entered her name into the glass jar at the summit cairn in mid 1951 during an epic outback expedition. Details of her Australian adv...
Our mountains belong to all of us. The Right to Climb them and bask in their views that inspire awe and wonder is as old as the human genome. This long-established cultural tradition is under threat by a small group of bureaucrats determined to impose their way on the rest of the world. It is right to Climb because we have the Right to climb. If you don’t exercise your rights you lose them. Don't let petty nanny state bureaucrats take them away.