Annie Smith Peck

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Annie Smith Peck (1911)

Annie Smith Peck (* 19th October 1850 in Providence , Rhode Iceland ; † 16th July 1935 in New York City ) was an US -American mountaineer and women's rights activist .

Life

Annie Peck came from a wealthy family who gave her a good education. In 1878 she completed her studies in archeology with honors and then went to Europe, where she continued her studies in Hanover and Athens . In 1885 she discovered her passion for mountaineering. After her return to the USA in 1892, however, she initially worked as an archeology lecturer at various universities. During this time she climbed some medium-high mountains in Europe and the USA (including Mount Shasta in California ). In 1895 she climbed the Matterhorn , which suddenly made her famous.

In 1902 Peck was a founding member of the American Alpine Club .

Already over 50 years old, Annie Peck wanted to do a special first ascent and was looking for a summit in South America that should be higher than the Aconcagua in Argentina ( 6961  m ). In 1908 the Zermatt mountain guides Gabriel Zumtaugwald and Rudolf Taugwalder and they were the first people to climb the Peruvian Huascarán Norte . Peck had calculated an altitude of 24,000 feet (7,315 m) for the Huascarán Norte (660 m too much). As a result, she claimed to be the holder of the height record for women. Her competitor Fanny Bullock Workman , who had climbed Pinnacle Peak ( 6,930  m ) in the Himalayas , doubted her height record and had the Huascarán Norte measured by French surveyors at her own expense using triangulation methods . The measurement resulted in a height of 6648  m (today's status: 6664  m ). But that still left Peck the height record for an American mountain.

The northern tip of Huascarán was named Cumbre Aña Peck in honor of its first climber in 1927 .

At the age of 61 she was once again successful as the first to climb; she reached the summit of Coropunas ( 6425  m ). When she arrived at the summit, she presented a banner reading "Women's suffrage".

Annie Smith Peck climbed to old age and died at the age of 84.

literature

  • Elizabeth Fagg Olds: Women of the four winds. Biographies of four of America's first women explorers: Annie S. Peek, Delia J. Akeley, Marguerite Harrison and Louise A. Boyd . Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1985, ISBN 0-395-39584-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ History of The American Alpine Club. (No longer available online.) American Alpine Club, archived from the original on October 28, 2013 ; Retrieved November 16, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.americanalpineclub.org
  2. ↑ The Alps. Journal of the Swiss Alpine Club , vol. 10 (1934), p. 224.
  3. ↑ a b Alessandro Gogna: The highest peaks . 1st edition. Frederking and Thaler Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-89405-679-7 , pp. 2.4 .
  4. ↑ Elizabeth Fagg Olds: Women of the four winds. Biographies of four of America's first women explorers: Annie S. Peek, Delia J. Akeley, Marguerite Harrison and Louise A. Boyd . Houghton Mifflin, Boston 1985, ISBN 0-395-39584-4 , p. 58.
  5. ^ Roger Frison-Roche , Sylvain Jouty: A History of Mountain Climbing . Flammarion, Paris 1996, ISBN 2-08-013622-4 , p. 177.
  6. ↑ a b c Huw Lewis-Jones: 100 portraits - adventurers of the mountains . 1st edition. Frederking and Thaler Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-89405-926-2 , pp. 128 .
personal data
SURNAME Peck, Annie Smith
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mountaineer and suffragette
DATE OF BIRTH October 19, 1850
PLACE OF BIRTH Providence , Rhode Island
DATE OF DEATH July 16, 1935
Place of death New York City