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Show ! Row of Women Explorers Rivals Cook-Peary Dispute By Leased "Wire to Tho Tribune. NEW YORK, Fob. 12 Tho early stages of the Cook-Peary controversy may be surpassed, or at lenst equaled, by another scientific row which has broken forth, this time between two women explorers. ex-plorers. Mrs. Fannie Bullock Workman has attacked the claims of Miss Annie Peck, the mountain climber, that tho latter lat-ter holds tho records of having ascended Jilount lluascaran in Peru In 190S. iliss Peck has written a record of her mountain climbing In which sho says: "It may be regarded as certain that llunscaran Is above 23,000 feel, hence Is higher than Aconcagua, 22,800 feet, and tho loftiest mountain (known on this hemisphere. If. as seems probable, the height is 24,000 feet. I have tho honor of breaking the world's record for men, as well as women." j The fact that Mrs. Workman Is In Algiers docs not hinder her from taking Issue with Miss Peck, and cables from the other side of the world received hero today bear some vitriolic expressions from her. Mrs, Workman denies that Miss Peck made observations above an altitude of 19.000 feet. Further. Mrs. Workman declares de-clares that she has proofs that Miss Peck went no higher than 21.S12 feet. In other words. Mrs. Workman defies Miss Peck to produce cither her Eskimos or her gumdrops. Mrs. Workman based her claims on figures of French explorers, explor-ers, and Bays the results arc: "The height of North peak, climbed by Miss Peck. 21,812 feet: of South peak, still unellmbcd, 22, 1ST. Mount Aconcagua, nearly 22,000 foot, still remains u n-cllmhcd. n-cllmhcd. ! |