A desert traveller’s name on an Alpine peakSourced
Bell also climbed in the Alps
Gertrude Bell, known for Middle Eastern travel and archaeology, was also a mountaineer. After she and guides Ulrich and Heinrich Fuhrer first traversed a peak in 1901, it was named Gertrudspitze.
Her travels left a name in the Alps as well.
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