The Washington herald., 1908-01-09
She COURTS DANGER
Miss Peck Has Climbed the
Great MatterhOrn.
DEARLY IN LOVE WITH FEATS
Woman who BOASTS of Going In the
Tops of the Highest Peaks just for
the Danger There Is in Ii, ReciteS
Some of Her Expersenees-Says q
"Horrid Press" Has Been Unjust.

Ramos viii be due to get his" as they
say on this side Of Dupont circle or I
street, when spring comes upon our land
again. At present Ramos-its a shame
his first name isn't known. because its
surely must be pOetic-is peacefully whii-
ing away the hours drumming at a
guitar IN sunny Lima, Peru.
| Anon-that sounds well in a romance.
Anon Ramos mayhap win look at the
sky or the black. swapping eyes of his
| senorita, but he's mostly drumming the
guitar or riding donkeys up and down
perpendicular precipices In the Andes
Mountains. which are very white snow
covered mountains in Peru and else
where.
| But Ramos once became a guide to
an American woman. Miss Annie $. Peck,
who has climbed the Matterhorn because
/ she loved it, who climbed the Finger
| spite because II was dangerous who
walked up Orizaba. where it was hot and
/ uncomfortable; who has been seen at the
/ top of the Jungfrau, and who has climbed
/ 20lOO feet up Mount Sorata, which is the
/ highest point any resident on this conu-
nent has attained, and which is also an
{4urartant fact
All Over the World.
Before then Miss Peck had been
climbing mountains all over the world
and the air. and before and since she
has been writing pieces for the maga-
zines: has been fearfulIy misqnoted by
La horrid reporter who got on board
/ ship when they were all returning
| from Europe after they left Sandy
/ Hook. and who didn't take down what
! she said in long hand, and has been
/ wanting 90 get back 70 South America
and climb Mount Huascaran. which is a
/ saddle mountain and which is about
/ 25 600 feet high. more or less, and
which hasn't been climbed by anybody
not even Ramos
! But Ramos is a good fellow. and
| game. Why. there never was another
/ South American, Miss Peck said, vino
was a quarter as game as that fellow
who is sitting about in the shade 0f
| the fourth house on the left-hand side
/ of the finest residence street in Lima,
| Peru. at this very moment, drumming
a guitar and signing for more sen0r-
itas To conquer
That time when Miss Peek and about
| five Indians started 20 ascend Mount Hu-
ascaran which is near Lima, and which
is had I'm OetOber-bad with, oh. such
awful avalanches coming down all the
time. and in between. Ramos proved
he was true sport. He was willing
II was the time, you remember,
that they only got up about $4,000
/ In
they got cold somewhere. and wanted
TO go back.
But Ramos was right on the job all
the time. No more the stirring hum OF
the guitar for him. he was going TO be
a real mountain climber He Waded into
the mountain that has been waiting
maybe ten thousand or four years for
some one to come along, and get up 70
the top. just as if it were a dish of
chile con carne.
Goes Down tO Peru.
So the next time Miss Peck goes down
to Peru-aud this time she is going to
climb Mount Huascaran. or. we'll this
isn't Pixies Peak. but depend upon it.
she will climb that mountain-she's go-
Ing to get Ramos and two Swiss guides
and wade right in 10 get up TO the top.
Miss Peck is we'll known in every
country where there are mountains and
mountain climbers She has climbed and
climbed and walked and slid down so
many mountains that it would take d
longer piece Of copy paper 70 put them
| all on IT,
She said last night ttst she started
climbing mountains because She saw
there was something the matter with the
Horn or something beautiful I'm the Mat
terhOrn. which is 14705 feet high. in the
Alps, and very much surrounded by
scenery quite unusual in mountain.
Miss Peck made several minor ascents
before she tackled the Matterhorn, but
after she had climbed that famous
mountain she tried others, among whicf
were the FingerspitZe. a difficult noun
tain for climbers; the Jungfrau, Mount
Sorata, in Argentina; Orizaba, in Mexi-
90, and a dozen of smaller fry or stews
| in other situations.
Miss Peek has not only lectured sew
eral times before the National Geographic
Society, but has written severa-aTticles
for leading magazines and newspapers
She said SIZE intends to climb the highest
mountain in South America, if it take;
Ramos away from his guitar all spring.
Scheduled for Lecture.
She viii lecture before the Nationa
Geographic Society tomorrow evening il
the National Rifles Armory. The lecture
will deai with her recent climbs in Soutf
. America.
She said she is trying to raise abou
5000 to make this attempt. She has al
= ready been promised a considerable sun
, | by people who have faith in her ability
= As a climber. and hopes TO raise IN
amount mentioned before next spring, "A.
: she desires then to start upon her tril
. of adventure.
e Miss Peck believes too little attention
= is paid to mountain climbing in this coun
try. She said it was a popular sport il
Europe, in spite OF the fact that it is ex
tremely fashionable. She said the report
ers might also say that at a dinner il
q New York one time she found she haC
g climbed 1000 feet higher than any maj
present not excluding the Duke dab
/. ruzzi. She said she went down to tn,
: Herald Office and told them about il her
self, but it never appeared in that paper
. She went down TO the Times Office, be
cause that was on her way TO the Hote
Albert, and told them explicitly abou
: that 2,000 Maybe the Herald didn't wan
> TO injure the feelings of Luigi, she said.
But Ramos will certainly have to throw
that guitar away next spring, for it's L
be Mount Huascaran Or.