Peaks and glaciers of Nun Kun: a record of pioneer-exploration and mountaineering in the Punjab Himalaya

Workman, Fanny Bullock, & William Hunter Workman

Published by Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1909

About this Item

First edition, American issue, 8vo, pp. xv, [1], 204, [2] ads; folding map, color frontispiece, 91 photographic plates (3 in color, 4 double-page); original pictorial green cloth stamped in gilt on upper cover and spine, with pictorial mountainscape onlay on the upper cover, t.e.g.; spine ends rubbed and with slight chipping, slight cracking of the cloth along the rear joint, the whole slightly shaken; all else very good and clean. This third Karakorum Himalaya expedition was the Workmans' second to the Nun Kin Masif, which whey saw on their first expedition of 1898. Fanny Workman set a women's altitude of 22,810 ft. during the couple's attempt to summit Pinnacle Peak. Yakushi W230.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Peaks and glaciers of Nun Kun: a record of pioneer-exploration and mountaineering in the Punjab Himalaya
• Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
• Publication Date: 1909
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Women
  • Asia
  • Himalayas
  • Mountaineering