The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1903-06-08
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WILL SCALE SORATA.
Miss Peck's Preparations to
Climb Bolivia's Mountain.
THE HIGHEST PEAK IN AMERICA.

Professor Pickering Believes the
Mountain Is Twenty-Five Thousand
Feet Hfsh-sir Martin Conway At
tempted 10 Reach Its summit, but
FaiIed-Famous swiss Guide one of
the Expedition.
Miss Annie S. Peck is a nervy little
American woman OF lofty ambitions
she also holds the worlds record. for
women at least, as a mountain climber
Not satisfied with climbing the highest
mountain III North America, Mount
orizaba in Mexico, she is now going to
try to scale the highest mountain In
South America, Mount sorata, says the
Boston Globe.
Miss Peck arrived in Boston recently
from New York and is completing ar
for her expedition to South
America. which win leave New York
June Is. The exp ditlon will consist
of herself, DR.. w. G. Tight Of the Uni
versity Of New Mexico and two Swiss
guides. One Of them is the famous
Antoine Maquignaz.
In a conversation with Miss Peck she
said she Lad climbed the Matterhorn
and several other mountains Ia Europe,
Mount Orizaba, Mount Popocatepetl
and Mount Toluea tn Mexico. Mount
Shasta I'll Washington, Clouds Rest in
the Yosemite, and she makes the as
founding statement that she crossed
the Presidential range in the White
mountains il one day.
The task which she has set herself
this time, however, promises to eclipse
all Of her former efforts in mountain
she proposes to scale Mount
Sorata in Bolivia, which is said to be
2j.000 feet above sea level making it
the highest peak on the American con
tinent so far discovered.
Miss Peck says Professor Pickering
of Harvard, who established the as
Economical observatory at Arequipa.
Peru. which is about 200 miles from
Mount Sorata. believes the mountain
to be $4,000 feet high. although the
has never been triangulated
81. measured. Sir Martin Conway. d fa-
nous English mountain climber. at-
tempted to reach the summit Of Sorata
several years ago. but failed Miss
Peck feels confident that she will sue
eeed, as the season will be more favor
able when she will attempt it than
when Sir Martin Conway attempted it.
she Will undertake it in the dry season,
while he made his attempt during the
wet season.
Miss Peck expects to arrive at Mol
lendo, a Peruvian port, by July H.
She will so By rail TO Arequipa, where
she will spend some days examining
the Harvard observatory there and |
get all the information she can about |
Mount Sorata. She viii visit FL AIisti,
where Professor S. @. Bailey Of Con
cord, n. H., has established the lof-
test meteorological station in the
world, 10000 feet above sea level.
Here she expects to get much In
in regard TO weather condi-
tions which will be Of value to her.
She expects TO spend a week on the
summit of El AIisti.
She will 80 by rail to Lake Titicaca,
which is the highest lake In the world,
at an altitude OF 10000 feet. She
crosses Titieaca iii a steamer and
then begins the journey on horseback
with tie camping outfit to Mount So
rata, about eighty miles north She |
to take some Indians who
know the country into the expedition
1t this point.
OF course. when the base Of the /
is reached it is probable that
IN altitude Of 1900 feet will already
lave been attained, so that will leave
about 1000 feet to climb Miss Peck
says she proposes to do about 1000 /
feet day until the snow line is
reached, which is about 5000 feet, she
from the summit Each
lay observations aud photographs will
be taken by herself and Professor
Tight, who is an all round scientist
Hiss Peck Will eonfne her attention
argely to Photographic work and
,arometric observations. She has had
| special barometer made for the pur-
,ose, Professor Tight will look after
he geology, topography, fauna and
iora and other things.