Fanny Bullock Workman

Fanny Bullock Workman (* January 8, 1859 Worcester, Massachusetts, † January 22, 1925 Cannes, France) was an American geographer, cartographer, writer and the first climber who ascended peaks in the high mountains in the Himalayas in the 19th century. She was a dedicated women's rights activist and held for a long time the altitude record in mountaineering for women. Your travels and expeditions led them through together with her husband William Hunter Workman.

Life

The mother of Fanny Bullock Workman was Elvira Hazard Bullock and her maternal grandfather was Augustus George Hazard, a traders. Her father Alexander Hamilton Bullock was governor of Massachusetts and was educated in the United States of America in the Miss Graham 's finishing school in New York City and at schools in Paris and Dresden. She walked at the age of 17 years in schools in France and Germany. In 1881 married Fanny Bullock Workman, William Hunter, a physician, mountaineer and explorer. With him she had a daughter named Rachel, who took as the profession a geologist. When he became ill, they moved to Germany. From there, they made trips to Holland, France and Switzerland. They took a trip to Spain and Morocco with the bike, which lasted one year. The bicycle trip through Spain and Morocco covered the Atlas and the Sahara on a total distance of 4,500 km. The couple also published a book in German language in 1897 at a Swabian Publisher: A bike ride through today's Spain.

They traveled further to study the architecture of the Buddhists and the Hindus by bicycle through Palestine, Syria and Turkey and the Far East to learn these languages ​​and to write about it. In 1899 she first saw the Himalayas in India. They had come to her 10 -year-old bicycle travel 22,500 kilometers and led by India from their first expedition to the Himalayas through.

During their stay of 14 years in the Himalayas charted Fanny Wordamn an area of 400 km ², hiked a distance of 6,500 km over ice and snow, climbed 20 mountains over 4,850 meters and set a height record for women with 6,400 m. In two of their Himalayan expedition accompanied beside her husband, the Swiss mountaineer Matthias Zurbriggen.

Both Workmans were members of the British Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and received ten honorary medals from European Geological institutions. As an author she not only described their expeditions with her husband, but also wrote their own skits that were laid. She was the first woman who held lectures at the Sorbonne University in Paris. They fought for higher educational opportunities for women and for the equal rights of women in mountaineering. They also dealt with women-oriented clothing for mountain climbing.

After 1917, the Workman moved to southern France, where in 1925 Fanny died in Cannes.

Mountaineering

Fanny Bullock Workman's altitude record based on the successful ascent of Pinnacle Peak in 1906 with a peak altitude of 6,930 m with her husband and Matthias Zurbriggen in Jammu & Kashmir, a mountain summit of Nun-Kun Massif in the western Himalayas of Pakistan. With their record for climbing the Pinnacle Peak Fanny Workman was in competition with the American mountaineer Annie Smith Peck, who became the first man boarded the 1908 Peruvian Huascaran. The calculated height of 7,300 m Peck later proved to be wrong, because they miscalculated because of a snow storm by about 600 meters.

1898, the couple were on an expedition in the Spantikregion of the Indian state of Jammu & Kashmir to the south side of the Chogo Lungma Glacier by.

Fanny Bullock Workman in 1902 was a founding member of the American Alpine Club.

Fanny Bullock Workman attempted in 1906 and her husband William climbing the Spantik, which is also called Golden Peak. The 7,027 m high mountain located in the western Karakoram in Pakistan today. They called this mountain because of its shape Pyramid Peak and missed the summit by 300 meters. The first ascent of this mountain succeeded a German mountaineer team only in 1955.

As the first woman she stood on the summit of the 6,400 m high Mount Koser Gunge what the famous mountaineer Matthias Zurbriggen commented as follows: " ... I am convinced that a good mountaineer can reach far greater heights, and have only one hope that you can then vote for me as a leader. "

In 1908, the couple Workman reached the English called Snow Lake near the Hispar - pass and they speculated about whether the 4,877 meters, this mountain above sea level Snow Lake ( a glacier basin ) and the other glaciers of this region, as powerful as the ice caps of Polar regions and were flowing in all directions.

In 1912 she entered the first woman from the West coming to 6,400 m high Siachen Glacier after they had already carried out six expeditions in the Himalayas. She discovered as Euorpäerin with her ​​husband's Not far from the Siachen Glacier Indira Pass.

Work

Voyages of discovery

Together with her husband, she wrote the following works:

• Algerian Memories: A Bicycle Tour over the Atlas to the Sahara. Fisher Unwin, London 1895.
• Sketches awheel in Modern Iberia. Putnam 's sons, New York and London, 1897. A bike ride through today's Spain. Travel sketches. Fri Mürdter Related Categories 1897.