Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1890-12-10
MOUNTAIN CLIMBING.
Women Who Have Recently Won
Considerable Distinction.

In the way OF mountain climbing, says
the New York Sun. Mount Clarence
the great summit on the mountain Fer
nadO Po, near the west coast of Africa,
was recently assembled by a German
traveller and his wife, who passed I'M
scathed among the Bube villages that
have been such a terror to all explorers.
These people have been regarded as q
mysterious people simply. because they
Ecrc not known. Several men have
tried in vain tospenetrato the central
portion of the island and ascend Mount
Clarence, but European woman was
il the first party that got to the top.
Another remarkable journey, of which
news has just come, is that CT Mrs.
i4ittledale and her husband, who have
crossed the great Central Asiatic range
of tho Hindu Kush. Here are tho lofti-
est peaks of the globe, though this
chain of mountains, which woman has
now helped to conquer, has attracted
less attention than the uimalayan
range lying to the East, on account of
its inaccessibility and the supposed hos
tility of tho tribes. The only explorers
who have been in this region are native
Indian surveyors, sent out by the Indian
Government in tho guise OF pcddierS
and merchants, and we have depended
upon their reports for our information
about this country.
Tho most remarkable WON an climber
"f the past year is Miss Memo Dowic, an
adventursome Scotch girl, who spent
last summer travelling alone among tho
Cdrpathian noun tainS, in the northeast
part of Austro-Hungary, on horseback
and on foot, with no companion except
the peasant who attended her. For ten
weeks in this wild region she lived
among the Calcium peaSantry, conform
ing entirely to their ways of life. Night
after night, when up in the high noun
tains, She slept in tho open GiN wrapped
only in . cloak. She had reason to
lcnow now and then in her solitude that
wildcats, bears and wolves exist in con-
siderable number in the CarpathianS,
and arc rather moro curious to find out
;sil about q stranger than WAS coGnforta-
bic for her. Bat she says there is 10 real
ohsl aclo TO girl travelling alone from
London to tho Russian frontier.
Probably not ono girl in ten thousand,
however, would think there was any fun
i'll travelling as Miss DOwic did. She
seldom wore snooB when climbing the
moun tainS, for thcy were slippery, ard
she found she could ascend steep slope
in greater comfort barefoot, with her
i0otGc@r Slung around her neck. She
net with Il number of accidents, and
vas very near drowned once while bath
ing. Eut sho returned homo worry
brown and healthy and very cnthusia3-
tic over her unique summer tour. %iIo
says she is going back TO Galicia again,
Int she hopes that her description of tho
journey will not induce any other girl
ID follow her example, for the hardShip5
81 the journey, she thinks, would in most
cases moro than Offset it's pleasant and
romantic features. She says no onc can
.ravcl among this mountain po1santry
without believing that Poland will one
Gay he on her feet again. The people
cling to thcir love Of the old nationality
. and have unshalcn faith that Poland
VIII ono day again wear it's crown.
The young lady read u paper on hor
summers adventures before The British
.ssoci@3ion. Tho paper showed how
% dinilflbly a young lady may study
geography, for it was full Of Interesting
safornation, and the great gcograpAcr.
Eavcnstcin, said, in moving u vote or
thanks, that Miss Dowtlic was moro en-
'lblCu W W ChllCu TIL 5SCt5 Cdpil'T Gnt.l
rNany Of those who went much further
aiiCld.
III our own White mountains not a
fGw ladics perform fGats of mountain.
CcrinT which good many Of their
brethren donotcare TO undertake. Some
pGoplo who hnvc gonO up TuckcrmGn'a
I1,inc End found thcir iccs weighing
tlIty pounds apiece vt tho top, have
wondered tlAt any woman should at
tempt this hardest Of Mount Washing
ton climbs; but for weeks at time in
thc season hardly day Clapscs that
ono or moro ladies do not mako this
Ssccnt, clambering in The last one thou,
s0nd feet over bare rocks where tho
route Is indicated only by daubs OF white
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