The sun., 1910-02-23
NISSpECKATTHBFOP, ANYHOW
WHETHER HUASCARAN IS $4,000
FEET UP OR sI, ISs.
Mrs. workman says m. lsg-she climbed
YUn Kun In the Hlmalayas and Made
That TrianwuIatIon Is Very
Nice, bat RefrActlon 10 q Bother.

Enat y1pO-Ertnmwu1nt0m AB very
Nice, but Refractl0n 10 q Bother.
Miss Annie 8. Peck. the alpinist who
conquered Mount Huasceren OF the
Peruvian Andes in September, le0e.
thinks thst II other women want to 20
around trisngulfting her mountains and
Hnd profit in so doing that Is their bust
ness As for herself, she believes the.t
there ere no women's records in noun
ranl climbing that ere worth while going
after, and she hopes only that some day
she may be able to compete with men for
mems records over in the Himalayas.
what Miss Peck thinks in the matter
of other women triFnguleting her noun
tains is prompted by a letter in the current
number of the Geographical Journal OF
the Royal Geographical Society of Eng
knd written by Mrs. Fanny Bullock
Workman, enother American woman
who finds no eotivity 80 Fascinating as
thst of scaling peaks which had never
been scaled before. Mrs. Workman d
letter. published a. il is in the most sane
tilted court Of last resort for things geo.
graphical, is short. but its tenor is suffi-
Gent to give Miss Peck opportunity for the
expression of some opinion. Under the
heading Height OF Mount Huascaran'
Mrs. Workmen's letter reads:
In July last Mrs. F. Bullock Workman
sent a party OF expert engineers. under
direction Of the Societ4 Generate d'Etudes
o. de Gravaux Topographfuues OF Paris, to
Peru to make a reliable triangulation of
the height of the two peaks OF Mount Huas-
carsn The head OF the mission. NJ. de
larminat. specially chosen for the work
by Messrs. FIR. Schrader and Henri vollot.
has returned and rendered his preiim-
mary report to Mrs. Bullock Workman,
which ia as follows. The altitude OF the
north summit OF Huascaran. claimed TO
have been climbed by Miss Peck OF United
states Of America. and estimated by her
At $4,000 feet. was found to be ~ .sl2 feet
The height OF the south summit works
out at a2,is7 feet" The final calculations.
which are now being gone over by NJ. vallot
for verihcation. may show q variation Of q
few feet, The full report Of the results
will be submitted later"
mi c. r, EnOck. in his book on Peru. gives
the height as trigonometriealy nxed at a.
feet, close approximation OF the above ngure.
A fact Of parenthetical application here
10 that Mrs. Workman climbed Yum Kun
in the Himslayss and found it's height to
be 2a.3Oe feet. II Miss Peck's estimate
Of the height OF Husscaran as 1900 feet
stands approved by the scientific world
then to Miss Peck goes the honor of hav-
i,g been 100 feet higher up ia ths world
than any other woman.
Miss Peck is now at the Hote Alabsms
In this city. She lives on the eighth hooI
ard the elevator boy says she never uses
his machine. When seen at the hote
yesterday Miss Peck had some things e.
say about Mrs. Workman's ent erprise
n sending engineers from Paris TO Peru
to calculate by triangu lation the height
%f HGssoarsn. She began:
'It Mrs. Workman chose for cientific
o. other reason to send snglnee rs 70
South America to make a triang ulation
OF Russcaran. the height Of which above
the saddle I had merely estimated. as |
then stated. being unable on account OF
the high wind to take observations on
the summit. she was perfectly within
her rights in so doing. While Mrs. Work
nan has frequently announced her readi-
ness to furnish evidences of altitude
claimed by herself. she does not seem
Avays ready TO give them TO inquirers.
] wrote 20 her some time ago and said
that would be interested in seeing some
~ the figures OF attitudes she had taken
in the Himalayas. and she replied that
they had not been published. nor did she
ODER to give them TO me personally"
Miss Peck explained thst the reason
why she had been able tc give only what
she believed to be close approximation
Of the height OF Husscaran had be-a
that she aud her guides arrived at the
summit at . o'clock in the afternoon, one
OF her hands was frozen, thus preventing
her from lighting the candle under the
hypsometer she carried. and that when
one OF the guides tried twenty matches
in the high wind then sw esping over the
peak and tailed to light the candle the
lateness OF the hour and the danger OF
the down trail forced them to abandon
Efforts 10 make exact observations on the
top Of the mountain.
She hed the HEIGHT OF the seddle be-
tween tbs two peaks. where exact OBJ
~e;vations were poss ble, and the remain
ing height between the ssddle and the
summit had necessarily been estimated
Miss Peck said. But there wee plenty
'f authorities on mountain climbing,
she added, who would not be wholly CON
vlnced OF the correctness OF the revised
figures on the height OF Huasoaren sup
piled by Ms. Workmans engineers.
In reference to the accuracy Of t-ian-
gulation OF figures" she said. Il have only
- cite the wen known authority A. l..
Mumm, who in his recent work Five
Months In the Himalayas has this 20
ssy about the accuracy OF such measure
r4nts:
The results Of t:iangulstion do not
slways agree, Even when they praoti-
cslly coincide they cannot be accepted
40 unimpeso ohable. There is good rca-
son TO suppose that the effect OF re-
fraction Ia net sufficiently Understood Tor
th. allovs noes made for Il 20 pe per-
tectly sccunate; the higher or more re-
mote the summit TO be measured, the
larger the possibility OF erroc. Bearing
this fact in mind II win be apparent that
eny one who tries to form dsc'd~d cpin-
a IN What anfiflAd tC fh0