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Show Woman Scales Mountain Peak 26,000 Feet High. Lima, Peru. Mliis Annlo Peck ot I'rnvldonco, II. I., tho mountain climber, has succeeded on her second attempt within a month, In reaching tho summit ot Mount Huascarnn. Sho calculates that tho height ot tho summit sum-mit ls 20 000 feet. A Swiss companion ct Miss Peck had a foot and both hands frozen, which cntisod gnngreno to net In, nnd an Indian guldo was miraculously s,vcd from death after falling n thousand feet down a ravlno, Tho last attempt of Miss Pock to scalo tho Huascaran was bogun on August tO. Two weeks previously sho climb, ed the mountain to a height ot 25,000 feet, but was compelled to return to tho lowlands on account of tho Illness of ono of her guides. |