The Montgomery advertiser., 1902-11-19
WOMEN SCALE A GLACIER. Reach a Dangerous Altitude in tho
 Himalaya Mountains.

That women are no less daring as mountain climbers than men has orten been claimed on their behalf. It was de- monstrated fully during the third expe- dition of Dr. William H. Workman and his wife to the higher Karakoram Him alayas in Baltistan the past summer. They explored the great Chogo Lungma glacier throughout it's whole course of thirty miles from its end at Arandu to its origin among peaks above A,OOo feet in height.
 They also followed to their sources three of the large terminal tributary glaciers exploring in all forty-ffve to sixty miles of glaciers. This region has never before been visited and its delineation on the maps was found to be incorrect and chiefly the product of imagination.
 The adacier ascends over 5000 feet from its lower to its upper end. Its surface is irregular. being at some places much depressed below. and in others as much elevated above its general level. It is cleft in every direction by crevasses of different lengths and widths, split in parts into huge seracs or ice pinnacles of, va ried and curious shapes. bears large me- dial moraines eighty to 100 feet high and its course is interrupted in the upper DOT ton by icefalls, through which a way is difficult to find.
 Four peaks and two passes were as cended. varying in height from 15,00O to 19, 900 feet. The last pass crowned an ice wall over 1.5O0 feet high. rising at angles of 45 to SO degrees and covered with snow from a few inches to two feet deep. Every step had to be cut, and the ascent took from a. m. till 1;30 p. m, when the top was reached.
 The descent was more perilous than the ascent. as the broihng sun softened the snow. which made the hold on the hard ice beneath very precarious.
 The party was obliged to camp many days and nights on snow and ice st alti- tudes of 16OOO to over 19,OOO feet often without wood. and without heat other than that furnished by a small Primus stove, over which an hour was required to melt snow and boil water In small teakettle. The temperature at night sank as low as g degrees Fahrenheit.
 The weather was uncertain or stormy much of the time and the accumulation of new snow at the upper part of the gla- ciers made progress slow and wearisome. The depth of the new snow encountered varied from two to three feet.
 The party was detained at one high camp sixty hours by a snowstorm, at the beginning of which the coolies. over fifty in number, deserted, going down the glacier in body. Stone cairns were built at various points, where materials could be had, and records were placed in them.
 To the three world mountain records for women established by Mrs. Bullock Workman during the expedition in 1899 the highest being 21. 600 feet, a fourth has now been added she being the only wo- man who has made the first ascent of a great Himalayan glacier or of any other of equal size.
 The English officials at Srinagar and also the Maharaja of Kashmir and his brother. General Raja Sir Amar Singh, assisted the expedition materially by sup plying transport and ordering all officials | along the route to furnish coolies prompt ly and give any aid that might be re- 9uirsd. .