MOUNTAINEERING MARVELS.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 196, 17 August 1906, Page 5

MOUNTAINEERING MARVELS.

MB. AND MRS. WORKMAN. LATEST FEAT IN KASHMIR. (Received 8.34 a.m.) ; CALCUTTA, August 16. Dr. Workman, the distinguished American mountaineei - , and his wife have succeeded in ascending together one of the mountains of Kashmir, having an attitude of 23,000 feet. RECORD-BREAKING MOUNTAINEER. Dr. William Hunter Workman- is one of the most distinguished of living travellers and mountaineers. Caused by ill-health to retire from his medical practice at Worcester, Massachusetts, he began to travel extensively by • bicycle and by other means through out-of-the-way parts of Europe, North Africa, and Asia, including Greece. Spain, Sicily, Morocco, Algeria,, Tunis, Turkey, Egypt, Syria, Palestine, India, Ceylon, Java, Burma, and Cambodia. As a mountaineer, he made pioneer ascents in the Karakoran mountains of peaks up to 21,000 feet high. During the summer of 1902 lie explored the great Chogo Lungrua Glacier in Northern Baltiatan 30 miles to its origin among mountains, from 22,00 to 25,000 feet high; and in 1903, on a similar expedition, he climbed to the record height of 23,394. Kashmir or Srinagar lies to the south of Baltistan, and there apparently the eminent mountaineer has equalled his former achievement. AND HIS REMARKABLE WIFE. Mrs. Workman was Miss Fanny Bullock, and the daughter of an exGovernor of Massachussetts. She has travelled extensively in eleven different parts of the world; has broken all records for woman mountaineers, including her marvellous climb of the Mt. Koser Kunga. Her work in exploration has made her name esteemed by geographical and scientific bodies throughout Europe and America.