Gertrude Benham

[1] Truda Peaks, one of the summits of Mount Rogers in Glacier National Park, in the Selkirk Mountains of British Columbia, Canada, is named in her honour.

She always carried a Holy Bible, a pocket edition of Shakespeare's plays, copies of Rudyard Kipling's Kim and R. D. Blackmore's Lorna Doone.

On 27 June, she made an ascent of Mount Lefroy with Mr Frost and her brothers Hans and Christian Kaufmann as guides.

Accompanied by Christian Kaufmann, she reached the summit of Mount Hejee, beating Charles Ernest Fay, after whom the mountain would subsequently be renamed.

Diverting west through Rwanda, she ascended Mount Nyiragongo (3,470 metres; 11,380 ft) and reached the crater of an unnamed volcano that had erupted in December 1912.

The First World War kept her in England, where she established relationships with the Royal Geographical Society and the Natural History Museum.

Back in India, she undertook a journey through the mountains from Nainital, near the western border of Nepal, to Leh in Ladakh.

In 1924 she was back in India, repeatedly pestering the Anglo-Indian administration for permission to enter Tibet by the remote passes to the west of Nepal.

She made a third attempt to enter the Himalayas, this time, through the mountains of Kumaon beyond the western border of Nepal.

Benham circumnavigated the globe a seventh time in 1933, sailing via Hong Kong and Los Angeles, and the coast of South America, with stops at Mollendo, Peru and Valparaíso, Chile.

Her collection consisted of hundreds of items, including jewellery, costumes, accessories, metalwork, lacquer ware, ceramics, toys and religious articles.