Ella Maillart
Swiss writer, adventurer, reporter, and athlete
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Ella Maillart was a Swiss adventurer who wrote books and newspaper reports to finance herself, but admitted several times that she did not like to write. She participated in the 1924 Olympics in sailing as the only woman and youngest participant, which naturally lead to her representing Switzerland in the first four Alpine Skiing Worldcups. Ella Maillart also founded the first women field hockey club of french speaking Switzerland at the age of 16.
Travels
Independant traveller
Discovering russian cinema
Moscow 1930 — 1932
Reporter for Le Petit Parisien
Semi legally crossing China to assess the aftermath of the Kumul Rebellion, together with writer and MI6 agent Peter Fleming
Peking to Srinagar February — September 1935