Fanny Bullock Workman

Fanny Bullock Workman (1859 to 1925) was an American mountaineer, explorer, cartographer and travel writer known for her expeditions in the Himalayas and the Karakoram. One of the first women to pursue mountaineering as a professional career, she combined exploration with scientific observation and published detailed accounts of her journeys. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries she set several women's altitude records and advocated for women's suffrage and for women's participation in exploration and science. Born in Worcester, Massachusetts, into a wealthy and politically prominent family, she married the physician William Hunter Workman in 1882, developed an interest in climbing in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and with her husband made long bicycle tours across Europe, North Africa and Asia.