QUEEN OF MOUNTAINEERS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2563, 26 July 1909, Page 3

QUEEN OF MOUNTAINEERS.

LADY’S LONE. CLIMB OF OVER 21,000 FEET ,IN HIMALAYA.

There is in Paris just now a woman who has performed a mountaineering feat that has nevler (been equalled. She is Mrs Bullock Workman, wife of Dr. Hunter Workman. Mr and Mrs Workman have just returned from a mountaineering expedition on the borders of Turkeystan, during which the lady climbed, unaided and alone, a peak in the Pamirs, which lifts its snow-clad head 21,350 ft towards the skies. The ascent 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 Roval Geographical Society. Airs Workman’s latest feat adds still another to the already large number of conquests which she and her husband liave 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 Ko-rn 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 Kosergungi, 21,000 ft; and Mount Blugma, 22,560 ft. ■ Airs 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 has also lectured extensively, and is one of the only two women who have ever read a paper, before the Royal Geographical Society.