The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-02-05
MISS PECK BACK FROM
CLIMBING CORUNPUNA
Among the Tallest Of South Amerl-
can Ppaks-She Stuck a
Suffrage Flag on Ii.
no ADVENTURES TO TELL OF
Only n Lot Of Hard Work-Lecturcd
In South America on This
Country.
ADVENTURES TO TELL OF

tudes, got back from South America yes
terday bv the Iamport and Holt liner
Nasar after having unfurled and planted
the yellow pennant Of the Joan of Arc
Suffrage League Of this town on one oi the
five icy SUBMITS of Corunpuna in southern
Peru, pstima' ed To tower % $40 fe"t above
sea level
Miss Peck is a sufYr8gist Of the unm'h-
tant stripe and dozen women OF the Joan
of Arc League. all equipped with yellow
pennpnts inscribed with the name OF the
league. waved them AZ her as the Nasar'
came alongside her pier in Brooklyn.
They had beon waiting more than two hours
III the chilly blast. which did not cool their
enthusiasm Miss Peck had no pennan'
to wave back but she wore miniature
one Among the women who greeted
her and 10 whom she later told how she
placed the suffrage flag higher than that
OF any male organization had ever gone
in South America or anywhere else per
haps were Mrs Louise q. ID. Quesada. 4.
tn - Baroness '. e. Schale. Mrs. Nellie
u Van Slngerland. president Of the
Joan Of Arc League; Nine. Adele Riq'ie,
Mrs Do Naux Roger Mrs. Marie Stenart
and Mrs William X. Mitchell.
! Miss Peck said she left here on June 3
! for Colon aud went thence across the 18TH
mus or Panama ~ Peru. Her chief object
was 10 scale Cornn puma, supposed at one
! time q bc the highest mountain in South
! America but really lacking that distinc-
! tion bv several hundred feet. Miss
! Peck W.. accompanied by a German
mountain guide. Carl Volkman and az
she said n gentleman Of Peru and -four
halfbreed per,lvians" She left the little
village Of Niraco for the mountain peaks
on Monday. She said she could moi
ramen her the exact date, as she had al
her notes locked up in her trunk. hut
that il was some time before Prof. Hiram
bingham of Yale made the ascent of the
mountain IA Oct oher last
4 am q cautious climber, Miss Peel
said, and did not hurry toward m!
goal. knowing the folly of haste ] hat
,rouhln with the half breed guides, ~h'
are very superstitious,
After We had got well above the SNOW
line which we reached on the second day
they began to talk about turning back
| .Shorred them not to leave me, appeal
ing To their vanity and telling them tina
the glory would he theirs If they tool
mo 10 the summit They talked abou
the tradition that men going nbovea Ger
: tain altitude on the mountain would b
| turned 10 stone. and even II this did no
happan which | assured them was i'm
possible q. had been above that heigh
, ON South American mount aims with ma
,ives who never had been petrifed. the
. might be gobhled up by a monster a. IN
ton of the mountain. | told them il wa
p impossibe for me TO make the SUNNI
4 without their help and that [ was d.
p pending on them Then they gathere
II themselves together bravelv and We wei
u on.
u The perils Of the ascent were less tha
o thoe. | encountered on Mount Hua
Caran The halfbreeds said | was the tir
p person they had ever heard Of who hs
= made an effort To reach the top. shou
4 say the 'op-, for there are five pea
r of about equal height Of Corunpun
wore no woollea mask as did on Hus
" Caran A. the winds were less bite
: | merely had n silk cloth over my fac
} The frozen snow. RlaClerhk". was abo
- a hundrei feet deep.
We wen mp the west side Of the ran,
!. and came down by the east side. 10,
'i hvpsumeter to determine the altltud
Nobody in the village from which '
. went knew Coruppuna's altitude sbo
'e Tia, sea. So il was difficult for IN. to dets
=. mine exactly the height of the peak '
ir reached. tout II vas more than 22.0
II feet above sea level. The baromete
a Of Prof. Bingham showed height
- 900. We We're one week reaching =
)" summit and spent two nights abo
an altitude OF OGU feet.
Il am sure the mountains are Of V,
tt came formation. AS ! smetled nulph
"i strongly on The summit, which W. reach
nv ON sunday, having spent one week on I
~ trp up. placed the suffrage flag on I
or highest point. II IL, or was. only thT
fee, long | would have taken a rnu
T. larger hag. but III mountain chlnbi
y th- l's- Impedimcnta yon have the bet
d" you g-t along.
We had no trouble sleeping, b,l
GUIDES slept more than J. as ] Was
cook u, the expedition IA well as I
leader | really had insufficient euu
n-nt and should have had q man "
- me To ,uk. observations | WAS alwa
TWO hours fixing the stove after the n
had turned in
. We had no adventures worth m,
"H ,ioning. Dr, Cook may relate adventur
hg will tell only what happened. TIT
the was lit le accident when We were \ e
the way up, pack containing a lot OF nee
he sary material slipping and rolling do
, IN" iC" several hundred feet We had
Wy stop th. ascent to save the pack
Miss Peck took many notes Of her
,a- perlenCe- on ia" mountain and IN
IN, south American countries sh" visi
n, later She will lecture and write "a b'
"' about them She said II was untrue I
'aI she had ever said that she had clim)
to higher than anybOdy but that she
ltlv climbed higher than any man in
nna United States there were Americans
l.. others III Europe who had climbed hi igl
She had loctured in Spanish al LA
You the capital of Bolivia on the United Sta
MIR and the President OF Bolivia had b
ner present, She had also lectured in Bue
,as Avres and would have done so in Br
,t if she had been more familiar with
Wv Portuguese language She advocates
any lures IN Spanish in South America
rees North Americans and lectures in Eng
lber in North America by South American
bin one way of helping along the trade T
-, tions and the friendship between the
: ~ countries