Monica Jackson

rdf:langString Monica Jackson

rdf:langString Monica Jackson

rdf:langString Monica Jackson

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rdf:langString Kotagiri, India

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rdf:langString Mountaineer and author

rdf:langString Monica Jackson (16 September 1920 – 7 April 2020) was a Scottish climber and part of the first non-male expedition to scale the Jugal Himal in the Himalayas. In 1955, she climbed the Jugal Himal with Elizabeth (Betty) Stark and Evelyn McNicol. They managed to get to the previously unmapped Phurbal Chyachumbu glacier and made it to the 22,000 ft peak on the frontier of Nepal and Tibet. They were the first people to climb it and they named it Gyalgen Peak, after their lead Sherpa, Mingma Gyalgen. The Gyalgen or Gyalzen or Leonpo Gang East peak is on the border of the Nepalese Bagmati Province and China and it is 6151 m / 20180 feet high. Jackson wrote the book Tents in the Clouds: the first women’s Himalayan expedition in 1957 about the adventure. After her return she appeared in a BBC documentary by on the history of mountaineering where she was filmed climbing Napes Needle with Horace "Rusty" Westmoreland who was 71 at the time. Napes Needle was an important location at some believe that the sport of mountaineering started there. The Scottish National Portrait Gallery had a show called On Top of the World from 2002 to 2003 that included pictures of Monica Jackson and her team.