Audrey Sale-Barker

Audrey Florice Durell "Wendy" Drummond Sale-Barker (1903 in Chelsea, London – 21 December 1994 in Dorset, England) was a British alpine skiing champion and prominent aviator. She was the daughter of Maurice Drummond Sale-Barker and the grand-daughter of children's writer Lucy Sale-Barker. After her marriage to George Douglas-Hamilton, 10th Earl of Selkirk in 1947, she became Audrey Douglas-Hamilton, Countess of Selkirk. Skiing career An inaugural member of the Ladies' Ski Club organized by Sir Arnold Lunn, she was the first female skier to win the diamond badge at the prestigious Arlberg-Kandahar race, signifying at least four top-three finishes in the combined race. She won the combined title at the second A-K race, held in St. Anton in 1929. American skier Alice Kiare described Sale-Barker as a striking figure: In 1929 a letter was received inviting the British to send skiers to compete in an event in Poland. The organisers in Zakopane were surprised to find that the British team included Sale-Barker and another LSC founder member Doreen Elliott. Elliott and Sale-Barker were allowed to join the skiing competition and the skiers were impressed when they finished 13th and 14th.