New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-10-21
EXPLORING THE HIu4L4T4s
LAST SUMMERS EXPLOITS OF DIR. AND
MRS. WORKMAN THE AMERICAN
MOUNTAIN CLIMBERS AMONG
THE GLACIERS.

Dr. William Hunter Workman and Mrs Fanny
Bullock of Massa chusetts during their third ex-
petition to the higher Karakoram Hmalayas. in
Baltistan, last summer explored the great Chogo
Lungn1a glacier throughout its whole course Of
thirty miles from its end at Arandu to its origin
among peaks of over twenty-four thousand feet in
height They also followed their sources three
large terminal tributary glaciers. exploring in all
hftyfve to sixty miles of glacier This region has
never before been visited and its delneation the
maps found 10 be Incorrect and mostly the
product OF imagination
The glacier ends over nine thousand feet from
it's lower to its upper It's surface is irregular
being in some places much lower and in others as
rluch higher than the general level IL is cleft in
every direction by CreviCes different lengths and
widths, split at places into huge ice pinnacles or
seracs of varied and curious shapes. bears several
large medal moraines eighty hundred feet
high, which enter from the tributary glaciers. and
its continuity is interrupted in the higher portion
by ice falls, through which way is difficult
find A large depression at the beginning of the
upper third is occupied by good sized lake.
Four peaks and two passes were assembled. vary
ing in height from 15.00O to 1900 feet. The
last pass crowned an ice wall over fifteen hundred
feet high. the slopes of which angles OF
Is to 80 degrees and We're covered with snow from
a few inches TO two feet deep This furnished n
climb OF great Alpine difficulty. Every step had
TO be cut and the ascent took from a. till
$50 p m. when the top reached. The descent
was more periIous than the ascent. the broiling
softened the snow, which made the hold
the hard ice of the steep slopes under it very
Drecarious.
The party was obliged to camp many days and
nights and ice attitudes of 1900 10
19000 feet often without wood and without heat
other than that furnished by a small Prim1s
stove, which hour required melt
snow and boil water in a small teakettle. The tenn
perdture at night sank as low as degrees Fahren-
heit
The weather uncertain stormy much OF
the time and the accumulation of new snow at tina
upper parts of the glaciers Nrrade progress slow
and we2rtSOme The depth OF the
cOuntered varied from two TO three feet. The party
was detained at one high camp sixty hours by
SnOwstorm. at the beginning Of which the coolies.
glacier in a body Stone cairns built at a
rtOuS points where materials could be had. and
records of the expedition were placed in them
To the three world mountaineering records for
women established by Mrs. Bullock Workman dur
ing the expedition of 1893. the highest being q coo
feet fourth has been added. she being the
only woman who has made the first ascent OF a
great Himilayan glacier or OF any other of equal
size.
The English officials at Srinagar, and also his
hghness the Maharaiah of kaShnir and his
brother General Raja Sir Amar Singh assisted tho
expedition ma terially by furnishing transport and
vide coolies and supplies promptly and give any
other aid that might be required
DR.. Karl OeStreich of Frankfort-on- the Main
accompanied the expedition topographer. and
Matthias Zurbriggen and Muller Giuseppe as guides
Many photographs we're taken. especially OF tho
magnificent and imposing maSSiOS surrounding the
head of the ChOgo Lungma