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Lot 235
Sale 625 - Adventure & Exploration Library of Steve Fossett
Mar 15, 2019
4:59AM CT
Live / Chicago
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WORKMAN, Fanny Bullock (1859-1925); WORKMAN, William Hunter (1847-1937). Peaks and Glaciers of Nun Kun. A Record of Pioneer-Exploration
8vo. With 3 color-printed plates, one color-printed folding route map & 89 photogravure plates (4 double-page panoramas). (Some minor spotting to first and last few leaves.) Later half red morocco gilt. FIRST EDITION. This third Karakorum Himalaya expedition was the Workmans' second to the Nun Kin Masif, which whey saw on their first expedition of 1898 (see previous lot). Fanny Workman set a women's altitude of 22,810 ft. during the couple's attempt to summit Pinnacle Peak. Neate W125.

