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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XIX, Issue I, 26 June 1897, Page 7

The ‘ Woman of To-day ’ is now distinguishing herself as a mountain climber. Miss Annie S. Peck, who has already scaled the Matterhorn, and is described as the greatest woman mountain climber who has ever lived, is about to undertake the most daring feat of her venturesome career, in making the ascent of the Mexican mountains Popocatepetl and Orizaba. Both the mountains are volcanoes, of an unintermittently eruptive nature, both are practically unknown to the most intrepid explorers, and both present difficulties in the way of precipices, gorges, and treacherous surfaces, that are almost insuperable. Miss Peck does not embark on the enterprise from a spirit of mere bravado, but for scientific purposes.