Ice-Bound Heights Of The Mustagh: An Account Of Two Seasons Of Pioneer Exploration And High Climbing In The Baltistan Himalaya
London: Archibald Constable and Co., 1908.
First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. xvi, 444 pp, 161 illustrations from photographs, 4 color and 3 photogravure plates, 2 folding maps (one neatly separated into two parts). Original cloth, somewhat rubbed, corners bumped; contents clean and sound. The American husband and wife team were wealthy, zealous, and energetic explorers who together made many expeditions to the Himalayas. Fanny, a suffragist as well as a bit of a publicity hound, made sure the world knew of her achievements as a pioneering female climber. (Among other achievements, she held the women's altitude record for 28 years after her conquest of 23,000-ft Pinnacle Peak in 1906.) Robinson (Wayward Women) amusingly describes her as having "practically battered the Karakorams into submission, first treading them over with her squat, hob-nailed figure and then pinning them down on virgin maps and charts to take home for the various Geographical Societies of England and America to fight over." This book chronicles the couple's 1902-3 expedition to the Karakoram mountains of Baltistan (norther Pakistan).
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