Fanny Bullock Workman
Fanny Bullock Workman (January 8, 1859 - January 22, 1925) was an American geographer, cartographer, explorer, and mountaineer, notably in the Himalayas. She was born in Worcester, Massachusetts and usually travelled in conjunction with her husband Dr. William Hunter Workman. She was one of the claimants, in the first decade of the 1900s, of the women's altitude record, vigorously defending her claim against that of Annie Peck. Her claim was based on an ascent of Pinnacle Peak, a subsidiary peak in the Nun Kun massif of the western Himalaya.[1] She is the co-author, with William Hunter Workman, of Ice-Bound Heights of the Mustagh: An account of two seasons of pioneer exploration and high climbing in the Baltistan Himalaya (Charles Scribner's Sons, 1905).
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- ^ Jill Neate, High Asia: An Illustrated History of the 7000 Metre Peaks, The Mountaineers, 1989, ISBN 0-89886-238-8
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