How Fanny Bullock Workman climbed the Himalayas in 1906 without any equipment and wearing a skirt

On 17th July we left Moraine Camp with our whole caravan, and marched up the glacier to join the guide and porters at Base Camp. For more than a mile we followed the steep, torn, and bouldercovered left or west bank, and then descended to the glacier, where for another mile we picked our tortuous way over, up and down, in and out of, its rock-smothered ravines, hillocks, and ridges, to the smooth white ice, over which we passed without difficulty, till the crevassed red section adjoining the mountain-side had to be crossed, where care was necessary. A short, sharp scramble of 400 feet up the spur brought us to the camp. Two tent-terraces had been levelled off for us on the slanting hillside, upon which our tents were soon pitched, while the porters and servants established their quarters as the nature of the ground warranted.

The coolies of the sportsman, who had visited this spot the preceding summer, had constructed several rude, stone shelter-huts near-by, in which our coolies immediately made themselves at home. In a short time, everything was arranged, and we devoted ourselves to preparations for the further moves to be made from here. All were now keen...

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