Nea Morin

Nea Morin nee Banard (21 May 1905 – 12 July 1986) was a British rock climber and mountain climber. She climbed in the Alps in the 1920s, joined the Ladies Alpine Club, and met many climbers in the French Groupe de Haute Montagne.[1] In 1928 she married Jean Morin (1897–1943) and lived in Paris. She climbed often with other women and advocated the cordée féminine, climbing only with women on a rope. After the death of her husband in World War II, she lived in Tunbridge Wells and climbed in England and Wales and was a member of the female only Pinnacle Club. In 1941 Morin had made the first ascent of Clogwyn Y Grochan the route, which is 230 feet high and graded very severe 4b, is named Nea.[2] She also led on an ascent of Curving Crack on Clogwyn du'r Arddu (the Black Cliff).[3]

In 1959 she was the only woman in the team of six British climbers who attempted to make the first accent of 6812 meter high Ama Dablam in Nepal.[4]

Her autobiography, A Woman's Reach (1968), describes her climbing and the achievement of other women in the mountains.