Can you describe your favorite historical wardrobe that you have ever worn on one of your trips?

Oh, yeah, easily.

So it would be the Mont Blanc trip that I did actually last year.

So I wore this outfit that the same woman wore in 1838 when she climbed Mont Blanc, so she was the first woman to climb

the mountain. And outdoors clothes for women didn't exist back then. So she created this entire

outfit herself. I mean, it was quite something massive wool dress with trousers underneath,

all made of Scottish tweed with a huge bonnet. So that's probably my favourite

outfit. That must have weighed a ton, like all like wool heavy material, yeah?

Yeah, it's super heavy. So even in her book, she said it has weighed about 12 kilograms,

so that's like on top of everything else so yeah it's super

heavy well really heavy second question also silly what's your most hated wardrobe piece that

you've had to wear for one of these trips oh the boots probably so I've worn the same boots for a few

of them now and they're hobnail boots

that were quite the thing sort of in the 1800s and early 1900s. So they'd nail nails,

essentially, into the bottom of their boots for grip, which I say with inverted commas,

because they're not that grivy.

I'm Dulaan Thuris, and this is Atlas of Skira,

a celebration of the world's strange, incredible, and wondrous places.

Today, we are talking with adventurer Elise Wortley.

Elise recreates the journeys of legendary female explorers, like Freya Stark or Alexander David Neal.

She does it all with no modern gear, no shortcuts, no guarantees that it's going to work out.

She is wearing the same hobnail boots that they wore.

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