The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-03-09
AMIJNDSE'N DESCRIBES HOW HE,
MADE DASH TO SOUTH POLE
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ther up we met with some small but
very steep glaciers. Here we had to
harness twenty dogs to each sledge
and take the four sledges in two turns,
In some places it was SO steep that it
was difficult onough to use our skis.
Some big crevices forced us from
time to time TO make detouTs. The
first day we climbed 5000 feet, the next
day mostly up some small glaciers,
camping at a height of $500 feet. The
third day we were obliged to go down
on a mighty glacier, ''ANel Heiberg IS
glacier which divided the coast
mountains and the mountains further
south
Pick Way on Glaciers.
The next day began the longest part
of our climb Many detours had to be
made in order to avoid broad cracks
and open crevices. These were appar
emily mostly filled up, as the glaciers,
in all probability, had long ago stopped
moving, but all had TO be very care
full, never knowing for certain how
thick was the layer that covered them.
Our camp that night lay in very pic
turesque surroundings at height of
5000 feet. The glacier here was mar
rowed in between the two 5000 feet
high mountains, the "Fridtz of Nan
sem and the "Don Pedro Christopher
SEN" From the bottom of the gla
cier rose Mount "Olecnglstad, big
snow cone 1880 feet high,
The glaciers were much broken in
this comparatively narrow pass. The
mighty crevices seemed TO stop us
from going further, but it was NOT so
serious as it appeared. Our dogs, which
up TO this time had covered a distance
of about 700 kilometers. ran this day
thirty-five kilometers, the ascent being
$500 feet, an almost incredible record
Vast Inland Plateau.
it took us only four days from the
barrier to get up on the vast inland
plateau. We camped that night at a
height of 10000 feet. Here we had 10
kill twenty Of our brave COM
panions and keep eighteen, SIX for
each of our three sleds.
We stopped here for four days on
account of bad weather, Tired Of this,
we set out on the 25th of November.
On the 26th in furious blizzard and
in dense snowdrift, absolutely nothing
70 Io b,,. bo al }b,4
trary to expectations, we were going
fast dowuhill. The hypsometer gave
us that day descent Of so feet,
We continued our march the next day
in a gale and dense snowdrift and
got our faces badly frozen. We could
see nothing. We reached that day SO
degrees dead reckoning. The hypsom-
eter indicated a fall of 500 feet. The
next day was similar. The weather
cleared little at dinner time aud ex-
posed to our view a mighty mountain
range to the east and not far off, only
for q moment. and then it disappeared
in the dense snowdrift.
On the Goth it, cslmed down and the
sun shone through. II was not the only
pleasant surprise he gave. In our
course stretched a big glacier running
toward the south at its eastern end,
with the mountain range going in a
southerly direction. Of the western
part of 1T no view was TO be had, it
being hidden in the dense fog. At the
foot Of this glacier the DEVILS Gla.
cier, depot for six days, was estab-
lisbed at s 6-21 degrees south latitude.
The hypsometer indicated 5000 feet
bove sea level.
On November 80 we began to climb
the glscier. The lower part of il was
very much broken and dangerous.
Moreover, the snow bridges very often
burst
From our camp that night we had a
splendid view over the mountain to
the east. There was 'FHelmer Hansen s
summit the most remarkable Of them
all. 1t is 10000 feet high IT was
covered with such broken glaciers that
in all probability no foothold was to
be found
Oscar Wisting's Sverrehassels and
Olav Hlanland S mountains also Law
here, beautifully illuminated in the
rays of the bright sun. In the dis.
tance, and only alternately TO be viewed
in the fog appeared from time TO time
Mount Nielsen, with its SUBMITS and
peaks about $4,000 feet high We only
saw the nearest surroundings 1t took
us three days to surmount the Devil s
glacier, always in misty weather. On
the first of December we left this bro
ken glacier with holes aud crevices
without number. with its height Of
9l00. before us, looking. in the mist and