WOMAN IN ANDES
Search for Wild Flowers Miss Doris Stafford, of Enfield. Middlesex, who has wandered alone at heights of more than 14,000 ft. in the Peruvian Andes in search of new wild flowers for suburban gardens, has returned. She has suffered a heart attack which forced her to descend to lower levels. Flown down mountain valleys with the wings of her aeroplane almost touching the sides, and fallen off her mule on a steep mountain side covered with ice.
Miss Stafford depended on fierce mountian farmers for her shelter, and the results of her adventures are seven small cases filled with dried wild flowers, some of which she hopes may be new to horticulturists. “Later I am going back to Peru to start a flower farm about 10.000 ft. up on the mountain side.” said Miss Stafford to a “Daily Mail” reporter recently. She is the first European woman to explore these regions.
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Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 68, 13 December 1932, Page 2
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