A HIMALAYAN GLACIER.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LXI, Issue 144134, 2 July 1913, Page 3

A HIMALAYAN GLACIER.

LONGEST OUTSIDE THE POLES,

Paris advices dated May 9 state that, “after ari absence of more than a year Dr. William Hunter Workman a*nd Mrs. Bullock Workman has returned to Paris/en route for Loudon, after having carried out another groat exploration feat in the Himalayas. The party were once nearly swept away by an avalancho, and Mrs. Workman had another narrow escape. Two of their* porters were drowned. One, Cirenoz, fell into a crevasse, and another tumbled into a sub-glacial river.” ■ An interview with Mrs.-Workman is published. The lady says: ‘ ‘Our principal work was the exploration of about 990 square miles of new country, including the Great Siachen, or Rose Glacier, in Eastern Karakoram, which was explored and surveyed by us for the first time. This glacier is about 47 miles long and in places 23 mtles wide, being the longest valley glacier in the world outside tlie Polar regions. Wo passed six weeks on the ice, which forms the most difficult glacier in Asia to explore, as the approach to it must bo made from Baltistan over 25 miles of crevassed glaciers, including the passage of the 18,400 feet snowy Bilaphon Pass. For five weeks wc camped at heights varying from 16,000 ft. to 19,000 ft. “Two now peaks of 21,000 ft. altitude were climbed. About 40 new peaks first .seen and identified as a cluster are those at tho head of the Siachen, which the King has consented to have called the King George group, and as such will appear, on the new Indian survey map. Tho Queen also has consented to the naming of a high peak of the Siachen 1 Glacier the Queen Mary Peak. “Wo had diversion enough. Ibex as large as yaks were quite tame, never having been shot at, and came within 400 ft. to have a look at ns.”