Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-07-22

gether they have been in places never before trod by the foot of the white| man.
 It cannot be the fascination which lies in beating records which attracts Mrs. Workman to the dangerous and trying pastime of mountain climbing. Some years ago she topped all pre- vious records made by women by scal- ing the Siegfried in the Himalayas. reaching height of 1S,750 feet above sea level. Since then she has had only her own records to beat But she has kept on doing it. year after year.
 Excelsior" must be her motto.
 By the ascent of Mt. Bullock sha advanced her record another BIO feet. Her subsequent records were: ID 14." 20,700 feet; the Koser Gungi. 21.000; Mt Chogo. 21,500; Mt. Blungma. 22 2.500. and this last ascent carried her an- other TAO feet higher.
 On this recent occasion the daring woman climbed 5S0 feet higher than her husband, for, as the mists were gathering the doctor tarried at an alti- tude of PATIO feet to take some pho tographs, while Mrs. Workman com tinued on to the summit of the peak.
 Considerably over 40 years of age, Mrs. Workman is magnificent type of the open-air woman. She has strong features, fine physique. and she has proved time and again that she posA sesses marvellous powers of endurance. Her gray hair is made more conspicu- ous by the healthy tan on her face. Apparently she is utterly destitute of nerves. For six years past each sea- son has seen her, accompanied by her husband. among the lofty, unexplored regions of the Himalayas.
 The ascent of the Nun Kun is my greatest as we'll as my highest climb.T .T Mrs. Workman said. We had seen' this great peak several times from ad- joining heights and had determined to conquer it. The enormity of the task we thus set for ourselves we did not fully realize until we accomplished it. uc NCIC IOuCA14Q4Es. They can only be realized. and them only partially, by climbing who havol made the ascent of unknown and un- marked peaks of this kind. Climbing. in the Alps and places of that kind is child's play compared to 1t.
 Mountain climbing is my recrea~ tion. l love the danger and the ex-, citement which are its accompani-, ments. It is among the mountains of northern India that the greatest fieldl for this sport exists and SO Dr. Work man and go there every year.
 q shall not stop content with tho conquest of Nun Kun. you may be- sure," she added. The field for th- man or woman who longs for fresh mountain triumphs in India is almost unlimited. and believe 1t will not be- a very long time before the doctor anal 1 make a new record"
 Dr. Workman is not man of strik ing physique. He is rather below the medium height. He wears spectacles and his hair Is getting spare at the top He Is about the last man one would pick out in a crowd as the worlds greatest mountain climber-a title. by the way. which he would him. self indignantly repudiate. for he has a horror of being lionlzed in any vay but the Japs have shown us that size affords no measure of a man's staying powers. pluck and endurance. It Is those qualities that count in get ting to the top of a stnpendous noun. tain, where the rerehed air greatly iz, tensifes the fatigue of the slightese exertion.
 Although both Mrs. Workman and her husband were born in the unitetI States. the former being a daughter q ex-Gov. Bullock sf Massachusetts and the latter a native of worcssfsr. ir the same state. and for many rear s prominent prsctictng physician in thz1 city. it is now four ysarA slncssfh</ have been in America