Fanny and Hunter Workman, roped together with Zurbriggen, stopped too. Her marriage, in 1881, to Dr William Hunter Workman, was an ideal match. Members of the Bullock Workman expedition ascend an ice wall in the Himalayas | Credit: Getty ImagesGrief proved a driving force. Fanny saw off bandits with her revolver, wild dogs with her whip. In 1899, Zurbriggen led Fanny to a new women’s world altitude record, on a peak she christened the ‘Siegfriedhorn’.