Fanny Bullock Workman, William Hunter Workman

A first-edition copy of Ice-Bound Heights of the Mustagh, an account of two seasons of pioneer exploration and high climbing in the Baltistan Himalaya.

• Fanny Bullock Workman (American).
• William Hunter Workman (American).
• London: Archibald Constable & Co, 1908.
• 444 pages.
• Octavo.
• 170 illustrations from the authors' own photographs, some colored, some full-page, including three photogravure portraits and two folding maps.
• Bound in the original green pictorial cloth gilt.

An 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. Mrs. Workman established a new world height record for women (c. 23,000 ft.) when she climbed the Pinnacle Peak during a later expedition in 1906. She was age 47.