Joyce Dunsheath (8 November 1902 – 30 July 1976),[1] née Cissie Providence Houchen, was an English mountaineer, traveller, explorer and writer.

[4] In 1956 she set off to explore the Himalayas in an expedition together with Eileen Gregory, biochemist, and Frances Delaney, geologist, and Hilda Reid, nurse.

[6] The whole area had been shut to the public since the Russian Revolution, and she was able to access it thanks to an invitation from the deputy Minister of Electric Power Stations, who had been in touch with her husband Percy about organizing an international electro-technical conference in Russia.

[8] In 1964 she was invited by Bharat Scouts and Guides' Association to lead a team of six Indian women, aged between 18 and 31, to climb Mount Mrigthuni, 22,490 feet high, between the frontiers of Tibet and Nepal, in the Garhwal Himalayas.

[1] Her accounts and memories can be found in her three published books, "Mountains and Memsahibs" 1956,[11]  with the other members of the expedition to the Bara-Shigri glacier, Guest of the Soviets (1959),[12]  and Afghan Quest (1961),  plus a number of articles in the Ladies Alpine Club Journal.