Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-07-06
Mrs. Bullock Workman Ascends
Several Thousand Feet Higher
Than Any Other Lady.
KEEPS BREAKING HER RECORD
Declares She VIII Not Rest Content
With Her --latest Achievement of
Scaling the HiInalayas.
spociaI CORES oondence.

Special Cores oondenco.
\ ONDON, June 26.--Photographs
sent herewith ana now published
for the first time, are part OF the
cameras record of the most
ttupendous feat of mountain climbing
ever accomplished by woman. They
were taken during the ascent of the
heretofore untrod peak OF Nun Kun In
the FImalayas. 23,3OO feet above sea
level by those intrepid American OK
ulorers. DR.. and Mrs. Bullock Work.
man. To be appreciated they must
be viewed with the eye of imagina-
ton. for IT Is beyond the powers of
photography 10 convey more than
hint Of the understandable grandeur OF
the snowciad SUBMITS of silence in
northwestern India and still more la
mentally does 1t fall even to suggest
the difficulties that have TO be sur
mounted in reaching them
1t cannot be the fascination which
Hes In beating records which attracts
Mrs. Workman to the dangerous and
trying pastime of mountain climbing.
Some years ago she topped all preYi-
Gus records msde by women by seal
Ing the Siegfricd in the Hlmalayas,
reaching a height Of 1870 feet above
sea level, since then she has had
only her own records to beat But
sh" has kept on doing II. year after
year. Excelsior" must he her mot
10, BY the ascent of Mount Bullock
she advanced her record another $40
iret Her subsequent records were,
ID. H." 20.700 feet. the Koscr Gungi,
1000; Mount Chogo. CISCO; Mount
Rlungma, 22.5G0. and this last ascent
carried her another 7l0 feet higher,
on this occasion the daring woman
climbed $50 feet higher than her
husband. for. as the mists We're gath
orlng the doctor tarried NJ an alti-
iudo oe 22,720 feet 70 take some pho
tographs. Whlla Mrs. Workman con-
tluued ON to the summit Of the, peak.
Only once has this record been brok-
on. I believe. That was by pr Work
nan In 1908. when he climbed the
Chogo Lungma glacier to a height OF
23,394
TYPE OF OPEN-AfR WOMAN.
After brief soiourn In Paris. DR..
aud Mrs Workman are now staying
IN London. They are deluged with
correspondence and are busy besides
getting up lectures and preparing
manuscripts For publication ana
when / requested an interview Mrs.
Workman frankly told me that she
could spare me lust miauto,' Con-
sldorably over 40 years ~ age, she Is
a magnificent type of the open-alr
woman. she hns strong features q
fine physique. and she has proved
time and again that she possesses
marvellous powers Of endurance. Her
gray hair is medo the more consplcu-
Gus by the healthy tan on her face.
Apparently she h utterly destitute of
rervea. For nix years past zach sea-
son has seen her accompanied by her
husband among the lofty uneNplored
regions OF the fIimalayas.
"'rhe ascent OF tho Nun Kun Is my
greatest. az we'll as my highest
climb" she said I'VE had seen this
great peak several times from adloin-
ihg heights and had determined 10
conquer II. rhe enormily OF tho
task We thus set for ourselves We DID
not fully realize until We accomplish
"a II. Tho diifI iulties We're lrelnon.,
dous. They can only be realized, and
then only partially. by climbers who
have made the ascent OF unknown and
unmarked peaks Of this kind, climb