Emmeline Lewis Lloyd

Emmeline Lewis-Lloyd (18 November 1827 – 22 September 1913) was an early Welsh alpine mountaineer.

Her father and mother owned the Nantgwyllt manor house in the, now flooded, Elan valley.

[2] Her father, Thomas Lewis-Lloyd, was a Justice of the Peace and High Sheriff of Cardiganshire in 1822.

[3] Lewis Lloyd was an independent child and she ran a farm at Llandyfaelog Fach that bred mountain ponies.

[2] In 1870 they became the first women to climb Monte Viso[4] and the following year they made the first ascent of Aiguille du Moine guided by Joseph Simond.

Nantgwyllt manor house home of the Lewis Lloyds in Powys