(Mountaineering, Travel, Himalayas), Fanny Bullock & William...

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(Mountaineering, Travel, Himalayas), Fanny Bullock & William Hunter Workman, 2 titles: 'Ice-bound Heights of the Mustagh. An account of two seasons of pioneer exploration and high climbing in the Baltistan Himalaya', London, Constable & Co, 1908, 1st edition, 2 large folding colour maps (VGC) + 170 illustrations, several full page, of which 6 coloured and 3 photogravure portraits, as called for, the impressive illustrations all from the authors own photographs, xv, 444pp, original green pictorial cloth gilt (generally VGC). Account of the authors' 1902-1903 expedition in the Baltistan Himalayas. They explored the Chogo Lungma Glacier and later reached the Nushik La from the Hoh Lumba Glacier; 'The Call Of The Snowy Hispar. A Narrative Of Exploration And Mountaineering On The Northern Frontier Of India, with an Appendix by Count Dr. Cesare Calciati and Dr. Mathias Koncza', London, Constable & Co Ltd, 1910, 1st edition, 2 large folding maps at rear + 113 plates as called for, including 6 folding panoramas, numerous photogravures and b/w ills. from photographs, xvi,297,[2]pp, original burgundy pictorial cloth gilt (generally VGC), armorial bookplate of Reginald Hepburn Heath to front pastedown. Neate W122 'Account of their fourth expedition in 1908. They explored the Hispar glacier then descended the Biafo glacier'. Perret 4605 'tres rare et recherché'. Fanny Bullock Workman (1859-1925) was an American geographer, cartographer, explorer, travel writer, and mountaineer, notably in the Himalayas. She was one of the first female professional mountaineers; she not only explored but also wrote about her adventures, publishing eight travel books with her husband William Hunter Workman, and championed women's rights and women's suffrage. Mrs Workman set several women's altitude records, notably establishing a new world height record for women (c.23,000 ft) when she climbed the Pinnacle Peak during an expedition in 1906. She was aged 47 (2)