Sailing turned to skiing and she competed for the Swiss in four world championships from 1930 to 1934. Ridden a camel across the desert in what is today Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan.Published a book about her walk through the Caucasus.Assisted at an archeological excavation in Crete.Captained the Swiss women’s field hockey team.Competed in a sailing competition in the 1924 Olympics (the only woman in the race).From there, she went on to many more adventures.Īccording to Brian Fagan*, by the age of 30, she had: Her adventurous life began with learning how to sail, and she and her friend Hermine de Saussure won their first sailing race at age 13. A sickly child, she spent her time reading adventure books and maps and she dreamed of travel. She was the only child of a wealthy fur trader and his Danish wife. Photo courtesy of NVP User:nvpswitzerland / CC license 3.0 Ella Maillart’s Early LifeĮlla was born in Geneva, Switzerland, in February 1903. Ella Maillart at her home of Chandolin in 1992. And there weren’t many places she didn’t go. Sadly I retraced my steps, turning my back on the limitless unknown that beckoned.”īut Ella Maillart was determined to get where she wanted to go. She explained, “If I went on I should be arrested at the first Chinese village. No visa could be had at that time and it was too dangerous. I almost cried to read these magical words – “China,” “Celestial Mountains.” Such a vision. It was China, the fabulous country of which, since my childhood, I had dreamed.” “…from the heights of the Celestial Mountains, I could, on a plain far away and further still to the east, the yellow dust of the Takla Makan desert. A woman with a bicycle is standing on a mountain looking at the eastern frontier of Russian Turkestan.
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