Henrietta Carstairs

Henrietta Carstairs (* 1777 or 1778 ; † after 1817 ) was a British mountaineer and nanny .

Life

Henrietta Carstairs gained fame in 1817 with the first ascent of the Sugar Loaf in Rio de Janeiro . The 395-meter-high rock was previously considered to be impassable. The British woman placed the Union Jack , the national flag of the United Kingdom , on the summit . Legend has it that a patriotic Portuguese soldier climbed the rock the following day to exchange the foreign flag for his own.

Individual evidence

↑ ^a ^b David Klaubert: Rio de Janeiro: The happy man from the Sugar Loaf. In: faz.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 16, 2013, accessed on May 10, 2014 .
↑ City Information - Rio de Janeiro. In: travelchannel.de. Travel Viva AG, archived from the original on February 23, 2014 ; Retrieved May 22, 2012 .
↑ Carl D. Goerdeler: 100 years of the cable car: The good line to the Sugar Loaf. In: stuttgarter-nachrichten.de. Stuttgarter Nachrichten online, October 26, 2012, accessed on May 10, 2014 .

personal data
SURNAME	Carstairs, Henrietta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	British climber
DATE OF BIRTH	1777 or 1778
DATE OF DEATH	after 1817

[faz-1] David Klaubert: Rio de Janeiro: The happy man from the Sugar Loaf. In: faz.net. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, January 16, 2013, accessed on May 10, 2014 .

[2] City Information - Rio de Janeiro. In: travelchannel.de. Travel Viva AG, archived from the original on February 23, 2014 ; Retrieved May 22, 2012 .

[3] Carl D. Goerdeler: 100 years of the cable car: The good line to the Sugar Loaf. In: stuttgarter-nachrichten.de. Stuttgarter Nachrichten online, October 26, 2012, accessed on May 10, 2014 .