QUEEN OF THE MOUNTAINEERS

New Zealand Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 14109, 10 July 1909, Page 2 (Supplement)

QUEEN OF THE MOUNTAINEERS

I LADY'S LONE CLIMB OF OVER 21,000 S FEET IN HIMALAYA. ! There is in Paris just now a woman who ! has performed a mountaineering feat that ; has never been equalled. She is Mrs. Bullock Workman, wife of Dr. Hunter Work- ! man. Mr. and Mte. Workman have just returned from a mountaineering expedition | on, the borders of Turkestan, during which : the lady climbed, unaided and alone, a peak in ; the 1 Pamirs, which lifts its snow-clad head 21,350 f- towards the skies. The accent of this peak, which is capped by a mass of treacherous overhanging snow, has never before been attempted. During the expedition Mrs. Workman and her husband had several perilous experiences, and met the wildest tribe they have yet encountered. The doctor and "his wife will lecture shortly before the Royal Geographical Society. ■ . ; ' -, _ Mrs.. Workman's latest feat adds still another to the already large number of conquests which she and her husband have achieved in the Himalayas. No other lady mountaineer has equalled her exploits, nor, except her husband, has any man ascended to like heights. The greatest altitude to which husband and wife have ascended is 23,394 ft, when they reached the summit of the Nun Korn Peak. /During this climb the camp of the party was pitched for two nights at an altitude of 21,000 ft. Other great climbs accomplished by the Queen of •Mountaineers, as she has been called, were the Seigfried, 18.750 ft high, her first record climb ; Mount Bullock, 19,560 ft; the Kosertrungi, 21,000 ft; and Mount Blugma, 22,560 ft. Mrs. Workman has been associated with her husband in all his adventurous travels amid the Himalayan mountain crests, and they have collaborated in describing their adventures. She lias also lectured extensively, and is one of the only two women who have ever read a paper before the Royal Geographical Society.