Elizabeth Davenport Woolsey (December 28, 1908 – January 11, 1997)[3] was an American alpine skier.
[5] Woolsey was motivated to take up skiing after being caught in an avalanche while climbing the Ober Gabelhorn in Zermatt, Switzerland.
[3][8] The party had earlier made the first recorded ascent of a number of peaks including Black Tooth Mountain but when Woolsey heard of her father's death she returned to the family home in New Haven; a few days later the remaining four members of the party made the first recorded ascent of another peak which they named Mount Woolsey in commemmoration of Elizabeth Woolsey's father, Theodore.
[10][11] Then in 1936, a few months after her participation in the winter olympics, she joined Wiessner, House and Alan Willcox on an expedition to attempt the first ascent of Mount Waddington, which, at the time, was Canada’s highest unclimbed peak.
[12][13] In 1937 she and Wiessner narrowly missed making the first ascent of the north face of the Grand Teton; as they slept during the night before their attempt, Paul Petzoldt (a local mountain guide who Wiessner had spoken with earlier in the day), his brother Eldon and Jack Durrance started out on their own attempt, determined that the first ascent should be made by a local team.