page_title: Mummery tent
section_title: Design
hierarchical_section_title: Mummery tent / Design
caption_attribution_description: English: page 113 of The Call of the Snowy Hispar by William Hunter Workman and Fanny Bullock Workman. Published 1911 by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York. Legend to photo "At camp, 16,486 feet, near head of Kanibasar glacier on its first ascent. Mrs. Bullock Workman and modified Mummery tent used by her at high snow-camps on last three expeditions. Similar tents used by other members of expeditions at high camps."
context_page_description: A Mummery tent is a small, lightweight tent designed and used by Albert Frederick Mummery in the 1880s and named after him. Fred Mummery was an English pioneer in alpine climbing, making many first ascents, and he developed this type of tent for his lightweight expeditions.
context_section_description: In his 1892 book Mountaineering, Mummery's contemporary Clinton Dent gave a detailed description of the design. It was a ridge tent with low side walls, very similar to a current-day "pup tent". The roof and wall material that he used was oiled silk. Tents were made in various sizes but 6 by 4 feet (1.8 by 1.2 m) was typical, which could accommodate two people.
  The ice axe was being developed from the earlier alpenstock and by the 1880s was generally about 4 to 4.5 feet (1.2 to 1.4 m) long. Mummery's revolutionary idea was to put them to additional use as tent poles – one at each end of the ridge and supported by guy ropes. The weight (excluding ice axes which were carried anyway) could be less than 2 pounds (1 kg) (3.5 pounds (1.6 kg) with groundsheet and tent pegs). Unlike Whymper's tent, which usually had attached flooring, Mummery used a separate groundsheet, if he used one at all.
caption: Fanny Bullock Workman beside her Mummery tent in the Karakoram
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