William Hunter Workman

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William Hunter Workman and Fanny Bullock Workman

William Hunter Workman (born February 16, 1847 in Worcester , Massachusetts, † October 10, 1937 in Newton , Massachusetts ) was a doctor, geographer , explorer and author.

William Hunter Workman studied at Harvard Medical School and graduated as a doctor after studying in Vienna, Heidelberg and Munich. He also graduated from Yale with an art degree . After graduating, he ran a medical practice in Worcester and Boston .

In 1881 he married Fanny Bullock , with whom he had a daughter named Rachel. From 1882 to 1888, he performed some mountain climbs in the New Hampshire White Mountains . His interest was less in medicine and more in geography - he had been writing geographic articles since 1883, although he had no training for this.

After falling ill in 1889, he went to Germany with his wife. From there they made bicycle trips to Holland, France, Switzerland and to Spain and Morocco . There were also some mountain climbs in Switzerland. The bike tour across Spain and Morocco extended over the Atlas and through the Sahara for a total of 4,500 km.

They continued their bicycle journey to Palestine , Syria , Turkey and the Far East until they came to India in 1899 . The couple then went on their first expedition to the Himalayas .

During their expedition tours over the course of 14 years in the Himalayas, he and his wife hiked a distance of 6,500 km over ice and snow, and climbed 20 mountains at an altitude of 4,850 meters. They carried out a total of six expeditions in the Himalayas, including the "Snow Lake" area in Pakistan .

They were members of the British Royal Geographical Society and the Royal Scottish Geographical Society and received ten medals of honor from geological institutes in Europe.

After 1917 the Workmans moved to the south of France, where his wife, Fanny Bullock Workman, who had become a famous mountaineer, died in Cannes in 1925 . He then returned to Worcester, where he died in 1937.

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Together with her husband she wrote the following works:

  • Algerian Memories: A Bicycle Tour over the Atlas to the Sahara. Fisher Unwin, London 1895.
  • Sketches Awheel in Modern Iberia. Putnam's sons, New York and London 1897.
    • A bike tour through today's Spain. Travel sketches. Ms. Mürdter, Backnang 1897.
  • In the Ice world of Himálaya, Among the Peaks and Passes of Ladakh, Nubra, Suru, and Baltistan. Fisher Unwin, London 1900.
  • Through Town and Jungle: Fourteen Thousand Miles A-Wheel Among the Temples and People of the Indian Plain. Charles Scribner's Sons , New York 1904.
  • Ice-Bound Heights of the Mustagh: An account of two seasons of pioneer exploration and high climbing in the Baltistan Himalaya . Charles Scribner's Sons, 1908.
  • The Call of the Snowy Hispar: A Narrative of Exploration and Mountaineering on the Northern Frontier of India. Constable and Co. London 1911 Google Online Books .
  • Peaks and Glaciers of Nun Kun: A Record of Pioneer-Exploration and Mountaineering in the Punjab Himalaya. Constable and Co., London 1909.
  • Two summers in the ice-wilds of eastern Karakoram. the exploration of nineteen hundred square miles of mountain and glacier. EP Dutton & company, New York 1916. Available at www.archive.org

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ information from bookrags.com , accessed 27 December 2009
  2. ↑ a b Elders of the Tribes: Funny Bullock Workman by Dana Francis on Backpacker on p. 39 ff.
  3. ↑ Fanny Bullock Workman on etrc.lib.umn.edu ( Memento of 31 August 2000 in the Internet Archive ), accessed 27 December 2009
personal data
SURNAME Workman, William Hunter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mountaineer and non-fiction author
DATE OF BIRTH February 16, 1847
PLACE OF BIRTH Worcester , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH October 10, 1937
Place of death Newton , Massachusetts