Women pioneers of the Cresta Run
![Ladies grand National](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2019/02/ab3a6e87c416bb9398434166767effe7-179161999-data.jpg)
![Spectators watching an English woman on the Cresta Run, Saint Moritz](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2019/02/eee7a92ad45bfc0187c9eb39b755bd10-gettyimages-2636006--1--data.jpg)
![Lorna Robertson reaches the Shuttlecock section of the Cresta Run.](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2019/02/09107b46bd575675c0aedbb0d8ef24de-22-dsc09658-data.jpg)
![Miss Lorna Robertson c.1900](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2019/02/c415e4cfaf89d7b51e96a958eaf6e9f2-13-dsc09584-1--data.jpg)
![Mr and Mrs J. Arden Bott winners of the 1902 Men s and Ladies Grand National 1902](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2019/02/0b98e8d5ec959872b87279725a094442-mr-and-mrs-j--arden-bott-winners-of-the-1902-men-s-and-ladies--grand-national-1902-data.jpg)
![Miss Ursula Wheble at the Ladies Start c.1900](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2019/02/f24a796cac05461fad94b87c22897c29-miss-ursula-wheble-at-the-ladies--start-c-1900-data.jpg)
![Skeleton competitors with their toboggans at the start of the Cresta Run, 1908.](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2019/02/0e7b8b9d3638c5cfb156f4777af8f6b1-gettyimages-3289509-data.jpg)
![May Bott](https://www.swissinfo.ch/content/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2019/02/071a5f661032edc8ac32d617394471e5-27-dsc09540-2--data.jpg)
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