The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-05
MISS ANNIE s. PECK's GREAT
CLIMB IN THE WHITE NOUN
TAINS.
WoMAN's REMARKABLE WORE
RANGE FROM $40 A. NJ. TO
no M.
SHE MADE THE TRIP ALONE,
And Lost Ferty--Five Minutes
Through BIT of Misinfor-
nation.

Miss Annie S. Peck is a young Amer
lean woman who distinguished herself
in 1895 by climbing the Matterhorn, and
last April performed the even more
difficult feat of climbing Mt. Orizaba,
in Mexico. At present Miss Peck is
living In New York apartment house.
but she manages to keep in pretty good
training. One can do considerable
climbing, even in New York, if one
lives, as Miss Peck does, on the top
floor of a city house, says the New
York Sun.
This plucky young WomanS expert
ences on the Matterhorn and on ORR
zaba have been talked of among all
mountain climbers. This autumn, how
ever, she performed a feat which can
be appreciated more readily by hun
dreds of persons who have never seen
either Switzerland or Mexico. Any one
who has visited the White mountains.
and particularly the energetic persons
who have climbed a few of the peaks,
will be able to form some idea Of Miss
Pecks endurance and pluck when he
or she reads what she did up there one
September day.
Everybody knows the Presidential
range A good many persons have
climbed one or more Of It's peaks. A
few have lost their lives in similar at
tempts. But Miss Peck is the first
woman who ever went over the
range" as it is called, climbing every
one of the nine peaks in a single day.
A few men have performed this feat.
Mr.. Cook and DR.. Sargent went from
the Ravine house, at the foot of Mt
Madison, over the range to the Craw-
ford house, and then around the noun
tains back to the Ravine house, reach
ing there at between and 2 a. m. This
is the biggest thing on record in the
White mountains.
Miss Peck did not do this. She stop
ped at the Crawford house instead of
following the road around through the
valleys to the Ragines house again. But
Miss Peck is assslender woman, not
a stalwart man. Furthermore, she
made the entire trip alone, and when
she was recovering from a slight ILL
ness. 1t was the Sc. of September when
| she went over the range, and Ghis
shows that she is not troubled with
superstitions) was a Friday.
"I had started the Friday before, -
she said in telling about it, but the day
was SO unfavorable, that had to give
it up. Mr. Watson called me at 4
o'clock and, though the mountains We're
in the clouds, Il got up and made the
start. / felt quite sure it was not the
day for the@range burt I thought
might as well walkFup Madison, since
/ / had ~started:"-4 .~<~--@e-c g7z8S
Miss Peck doesn't talk of climbing
the White mountains. She "climbed''
the Matterhorn but she just walked
up" Mount Madison, a trifing little
mountain 5000 feet high! She was UP
! in the fog and-clouds most of the time
but nevertheless took the opportunity
of trying a new route back from the
summit The new route existed prin-
cipaly in the ina gination of the man
who had told her to try it, so, of
course, she lost her way. However,
she had a compass, and she regained
the old path without any mishap. A
severe cold kept her from repeating
| the attempt to go over the range be-
| fore the next week, when she started
again, once more on Friday.
81 was called at O'clock" she said
had a breakfast of steak. potatoes and
coffee-which 1 do not usually drink
and left the hoteEat $40 a. m. L wore