Workman, Fanny Bullock1859╨1925explorer and mountain climberBorn in Worcester, Massachusetts, on January 8, 1859, Fanny Bullock was the daughter of a prominent Republican politician who served as governor of Massachusetts in 1866╨1868. She was educated in private schools in New York City, Paris, and Dresden. In June 1881 she married Dr. William H. Workman, a Worcester physician. They began vacationing in Europe in 1886, and from 1889, when Dr. Workman retired for his health, they lived in Europe for nine years. From gallery- and opera-going Mrs. Bullock Workman (as she preferred to be called) turned gradually to climbing and exploring. Together they traveled through several Mediterranean and Near Eastern countries. They took up bicycling and logged thousands of miles in Algeria, Spain, Ceylon, Java, Sumatra, Cochin China (now Vietnam), and India. Their bicycle journeys provided the substance for several jointly written books, including Algerian Memories, 1895, Sketches Awheel in Modern Iberia, 1897, and Through Town and Jungle, 1904. In 1899 they made the first of seven journeys into the largely unexplored Karakorum range of the Himalaya Mountains. In subsequent expeditions in 1902, 1903, 1906, 1908, 1911, and 1912 they mapped, photographed, and made detailed scientific observations of snow and ice conditions, glacier structures and movements, meteorological data, and physiological responses to altitude. In 1903 she climbed the 21,000-foot Koser Gunga to set a record altitude for women, and in 1906 she bettered it with a 23,300-foot climb to the penultimate peak of Nun Kun. (When Annie Smith Peck lodged a rival claim in 1908, Mrs. Bullock Workman dispatched a team of French engineers who disproved Peck╒s estimate of 24,000 feet for her Huascarçn peak.) The Workmans explored the Biafo, Chogo Lungma, Hispar, Siachen, Kalberg, and other great glaciers, some as the first westerners to set foot on them. They described their explorations in In the Ice World of Himçlaya, 1900, Ice-bound Heights of the Mustagh, 1908, Peaks and Glaciers of Nun Kun, 1909, The Call of the Snowy Hispar, 1910, and Two Summers in the Ice Wilds of Eastern Karakorum, 1917. Mrs. Bullock Workman also contributed articles to Harper╒s, Putnam╒s, and other magazines. She was the recipient of medals from several European geographic societies, a fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, a member of the Royal Asiatic Society, and reportedly the first American woman to lecture at the Sorbonne. She died in Cannes, France, on January 22, 1925. fstyl ` ! ¬ 5¬ ! 5¬ @ !I g 5¬ h !I ├ !I ╘ !I ▄ !I ⁿ !I !I !I W !I ▐ g !I 5¬ !I ─ !I α !I Φ !I !I !I - !I 5 !I Q !I ] !I Ä !I ╔ !I ╤ !I ╙ !I █ !I link ` HYPR W g
