The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-02-15
MISS PECK Tells.
OF ALL PEAKS
Climber Is Back From South
American Exploits.
SHE CONQUERED coRuNpuNA

~se OOOxO6ssSO OO1UOUu OVH
Planted Suffrage Flag on One of It's
Five Icy SUBMITS Estimated at e, 500
Feet Above Sea Level-Her Expert
ences-Above Snow Line.
Miss Annie E. Peck, conqueror Of
attitudes, recently got back from South
America after having unfurled and
planted the yellow pennant of the
Joan of Arc Suffrage league Of New
York on one of the five icy SUBMITS
Of Corunpuna in southern Peru, esti-
mated to tower 22,5OO feet above sea
level.
Miss Peck left on June for Colon
and went thence across the isthmus
/ OF Panama to Peru. Her chief OBJ
ject was to scale Corunpuna, suppos-
ed at one time to be the highest noun
tain in South America, but really
lacking that distinction by several
hundred feet. Miss Peck was accom-
panied by German mountain guide,
Carl Volkman, and. as she said,
gentleman of Peru and four half
breed Peruvians." She left the little
village of Viraco for the mountain
peaks on Monday. She said she could
not remember the exact date.
Il am a cautious climber Miss
Peck said, land I did not hurry to-
ward my goal, knowing the folly Of
haste. I had trouble with the half
breed guides, who are very supersti-
tious.
PeriIs Not So Great.
"After we had got we'll above the
snow line. which we reached on the
second day, they began to talk about
turning back. l exhorted them not to
leave me. appealing to their vanity
| and telling them that the glory would
be theirs if they took me to the sum-
NIT. They talked about the tradition
that men going above a certain alti-
tude on the mountain would be turned
to stone and even if this did not hap
pen, which l assured them was i'm
possible, as I had been above that
height on South American mountains
with natives who never had been pet
rifed, they might be gobbled up by a
monster at the top of the mountain. l
told them it was impossible for me
to make the summit without their
help and that I was depending on
them. Then they gathered themselves
together bravely and we went on.
| "The perils of the ascent were less
than those I encountered on Mount
Huascaran. The half breeds said was
the first person they had ever heard of
who had made an effort to reach the
top-I should say the tops. for there
are five peaks of about equal height
of Corunpuna. wore no wooden mask,
as did on Huascaran, as the winds
were less bitter. I merely had a silk
cloth over my face. The frozen snow,
glacierlike, was about a hundred feet
deep.
eve went up the west side of the
range and came down by the east side
1 took hypsometer to determine the
altitude. Nobody in the village from
which we went knew Corunpuna's al
t1tude above the sea. so it was difficult
for me to determine exactly the height
of the peak we reached. but it was
more than $4,000 feet above sea level
The barometers of Professor Bingham
showed a height of 22,5OO We were
one week reaching the summit and
spent two nights above an altitude Of
10000 feet.
Of Volcanic Formation.
81 am sure the mountains are of vol
canic formation, as l smelled sulphur
strongly on the summit, which we
reached on Sunday. having spent one
week on the trip up. placed the suf-
frage flag on the highest point. 1t is,
or was, only three feet long. would
have taken much larger flag, but in
mountain climbing the less impedi-
menta you have the better you get
along.
eve had no trouble sleeping, but my
guides slept more than I, as was the
cook of the expedition as we'll as the
, leader. I really had insufficient equip
ment and should have had man with
me to take observations. 1 was always
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