Meta Brevoort, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American mountain climber
Date of Birth: 08-Nov-1825
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, United States
Date of Death: 19-Dec-1876
Profession: mountaineer
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Scorpio 
About Meta Brevoort
- Marguerite "Meta" Claudia Brevoort (November 8, 1825 – December 19, 1876) was an American mountain climber. Brevoort was born on November 8, 1825, and spent her early years in a Paris convent school. She made a number of important ascents in the Alps in the 1860s and 1870s, but was thwarted in her two greatest alpine ambitions: to be the first woman to climb the Matterhorn, and the first person to climb the Meije in the Dauphiné.
- Her role-model and rival was Lucy Walker, who began her considerable mountaineering career at the age of 28, in 1859.
- In 1871, hearing that Brevoort planned an expedition to the Matterhorn in 1871, Walker quickly assembled a party that included the famous guide Melchior Anderegg, and made the summit a few days before Brevoort arrived in Zermatt.
- In contrast to Walker, who always wore dresses, Brevoort was the first female mountaineer to wear trousers.Brevoort was the aunt of W.
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- Coolidge, whom she brought to Europe in 1865, when he was 15 years of age, and introduced to alpine climbing.
- Coolidge eventually became an outstanding mountaineer, with over 1,700 ascents in the Alps, and the greatest alpine historian of the Victorian age.
- The two climbed together for over ten seasons, and were joined in many of their adventures by Tschingel (1865–1879), a small dog their guide Christian Almer gave to her nephew.
- Later, she would proudly refer to their canine companion as the only "Honorary Lady member of the Alpine Club".
- She and Coolidge journeyed to the Dauphiné several times in order to attempt the Meije, but encountered bad weather each trip.
- In 1876, she had her final opportunity for a first ascent, but, instead, stayed in the Oberland in order to give more money to her nephew, to support his efforts in the range. A few months later, on December 19, 1876, she died at her home in Dorking, England, where she lived with her niece.
- Her body was taken to Oxford, where she was buried in a grave in St Sepulchre's Cemetery, next to the grave of her sister, Mrs Coolidge.
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