The Penn's Grove record., 1912-03-15
the loss Of a few dogs and a couple
Of frozen heels everything was all

trip.
On Oct. 20 the southern party start
ed-fve men, four sledges, fifty-two
dogs, and provisions for four months
Everything in excellent order.
The Journey to the Pole.
We had made up our minds to take
the first part of the trip as easily as
possible, in order to give ourselves and
the dogs a rational training, and on
the 23d we made our depot in so de-
grees south. We went right ahead.
In spite of the dense fog an error
of two to three kilometers happened
only once in a while, but we were
caught by the ~fagmarks, and found
these on our way without difficulty.
Having rested and fed the dogs or
all the seal meat they were able to
eat, we started again on the 26th,
with the temperature steadily be-
tween minus 20 and 80 Celsius a de-
grees and % degrees below zero Fab
renheit).
From the start it was the intention
not to drive more than so kilometers a
day, but it appeared that this was too
little for our strong, willing animals.
At 80 degrees south we began to
build snow cairns of a mans height,
in order to have marks on u return
trip. On the 31st we reached the de-
pot at 81 degrees, and stopped there
one day, and fed the dogs on as much
pemmican as they wanted.
We reached the depot at 81 de-
grees on the 5th of November, where
the dogs for the last time got all they
wanted to eat. On the Sth, southwark
again, with a daily march of so kilo-
meters.
In order to tighten our heavy sledges
we established depots at each degree
of south latitude.
Like a Pleasure Trip.
The trip from 80 degrees to SO de-
grees became a pleasure trip-excel-
lent ground, fine sledging, and an even
temperature. Everything went like a
dance.
On the 9th we sighted South Vic
toria Land and the continuation of
the mountain range which Sir Ernest
Shackleton mentioned in his chart as
running toward the southeast from
the Beardmore Glacier, and OF the
same day we reached SO degrees and
established here Depot No. 4. On the
18th we made the interesting discov-
cry that the Ross Barrier terminated
in a blight toward the southeast at SO
degrees south latitude and 1853 de-
grees west longitude, formed be-
tween the southeast mountain range
running from South Victoria Land and
a range on the opposite side running
in a southwesterly direction-proba-
bly, a continuation of King Edward
VII. Land.
On the 18th we reached 81 degrees,
where we established a depot; on the
10th we were at IS degrees, where,
also, we made a depot.
From our Winter quarters, FRAN
HEINZ" 70 degrees SO minutes south
latitude, we had been marching due
south. On the 18th of November, at
IS degrees, we arrived at a place
where the land and barrier were con
nected. This was done without any
great difficulty. The barrier here
rises in undulations to about 300 feet.
Some few big crevices indicated the
limited boundary.
Here we made our head depot, TAX
ing provisions for sixty days on
sledges, and leaving thirty days pro-
visions on the spot.
A Difficult Climb.
The land under which we lay and
which we now had to attack looked
quite imposing. The nearest sum-
mits along the Barrier had a
height from 1000 to 10, feet, but
several others further south we're Isl
900 feet or more.
The next day we began the climb.
The first part of it was an easy task
light slopes and well-flled mountain
sides. 1t did not take a long time,
for u willing dogs worked their way
UP. Further up, We met with some
small but very steep glaciers. Here
we had to harness 20 dogs to each
sledge and take the four sledges in
two turns. In some places it was so
steep that it was difficult enough to
use u skis.
Some big ~crevices forced us from
time to time to make detours. The
first day we climbed 1000 feet, the
next day mostly up some small glaci-
GERS, camping at a height of $500 feet.
The third day we were obliged to go
down on a mighty glacier, "Axel Hell
berg's Glacier" which divided the
coast mountains and the mountains
further south.
The next day began the longest part
of u climb. Many detours had to be
made in order to avoid broad cracks
and open crevices. These were appar-
emily mostly filed up, as the glaciers
in all probability had long ago stopped
moving, but we had to be very careful,
never knowing for certain how thick
was the layer that covered them.
Our camp that night lay in very oi
turesque surroundings at a height of
5000 feet. The glacier here was mar
rowed in between the two Is, 900 feet
high mountains, the "Fridtjof Nan
sen" and the Don Pedro Christopher
SEN" From the bottom of the glacier