Fanny Bullock Workman

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Fanny Bullock Workman (January 8, 1859 - January 22, 1925) was an American geographer, mapmaker, explorer, and mountaineer, notably in the Himalayas. She usually traveled in conjunction with her husband Dr. William Hunter Workman. She was one of the claimants, in the first decade of the 1900's, 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]

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  1. ^ Jill Neate, High Asia: An Illustrated History of the 7000 Metre Peaks, The Mountaineers, 1989, ISBN 0-89886-238-8
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