The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1890-12-27
MOUNTAIN CLIMBING.
Women Who Have Recently Won
Conss orabio Distinction.


Several women have won considerable
distinction within the past few months
4 in the way Of mountain climbing, says
the New York Sun. Mount Clarence,
the great summit on the mountain Fer
nado Pc, near the west coast of Africa,
was recently assembled by German
traveller and his wife, who passed un-
scathed among the Bube villages that
have been such terror to all explorers.
These people have been regarded as n
mysterious people simply because they
were not known. Several men have
tried in vain tos penetrate the central
portion of the island and ascend Mount
Clarence, but European woman was
in the first party that got to the top. g
Another remarkable journey, of which
news has just come, is that of Mrs.
Littledale and her husband, who have
crossed the great Central Asiatic range
of the Hindu Kush. Here arc the lofti-
est peaks of the globe, though this
chain of mountains, which woman has
now helped to conquer, has attracted
less attention than the IIimalayan
range lying to the East, on account of
its inaccessibility and the supposed hos
tility of the tribes. The only explorers
who have been in this region are native
Indian surveyors, sent out by the Indian
Government in the guise of peddlers
and merchants, and we have depended
upon their reports for our information
about this country.
1t is not yet known how Mr.. and Mrs.
Littledalo succeeded in getting over
these mountains, but a telegram from
Calcutta announces that their journey
has been safely completed. They
crossed the mountains at point o little
northwest Of Cashmere. This is I'M
doubtedly the first time in Central Asia
which did the pioneer exploring in q
region that was supposed to be inacessi-
Bile to white men. -
The most remarkable won an climber
of the past year is Miss Meme Dowie, an
adventGrsome Scotch girl, who spent
last summer travelling alone among the
Carpathian mountains, 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 Galician peasantry, conform
ing entirely to their ways of life. Night
after night, when up in tho high noun
tains, she slept in the open air, wrapped
only in cloak She had reason to
know now and then in her solitude that
wildcats, bears and wolves exist in con-
siderable number in the Carpathians.
and are rather more curious to find out
all about stranger than was comforta-
bic for her. But she says there is no real
obstacle to girl travelling alone from
London to the Russian frontier
Probably not ono girl in ten thousand,
however, would think there was any fun
in travelling as Miss Dowie did. She
seldom wore shoes when climbing the
mountains, for they were slippery, and
she found she conld ascend a steep slope
in greater comfort barefoot, with her
footgear slung around her neck. She
met with number of accidents, and
was very near drowned once while bath
ing But she returned home very
brown anu healthy and very enthusias-
tic over ner unique summer tour. She
says she is going back TO Galicia again,
but she hopes that her description OF the
journey VIII not induce any other girl
TO follow her example, Tor the hardships
OF tneJourney, she thinks, would In most
cases more than onset It's pleasant and
romantic features. She says no one can
travel among TINS mountain peasantry
without peileving that Poland Will one
DAY be on her feet again. The people
CHING 10 tneir love OF the old nationality
ana nave unsnaken 1alth that Poland
Will one day again wear It's crown.
The young lady read a paper on her
summers adventures before the British
Association. The paper showed how
admirably young lady may study
geography, for it was full of interesting
information, and the great geographer,
Ravenstein, said, in moving a vote OF
thanks, that Miss Dowdie was more en-
titled to be called real goegraphcr than
many OF those who went much further
afeld.
In our own Whlte mountains not
lew ladies' perform feats of mountain
eerlns wnicn a good many OF theii
brethren do not care to undertake.. Some