The Alaska citizen., 1912-05-20
Amundsen's Own Story of
 His Dash to the Pole

for the east and visit King Edward VII land.
 The last mentioned trip was not included in our last program, but owing to the fact that the English | had not reached it at least this summer. as was their intention, we agreed that the best thing to do was also to make this trip
 On October 20 the southern party started-five men. four sledges. 52 dogs and provisions for four months everything in excellent order We had made up our minds to take the | first part of the trip as easily as i possible, in order to give ourselves and the dogs rational training. and on the 23rd we made our depot in l so degrees south. We went right ahead. In spite of the dense fog an error of two or three kilometers happened once in while. but We were caught by the flag marks and found these on our way without difficulty. Having rested and fed the dogs on all the seal meat they were able to eat. we started again on the 26th, with the temperature steadily between minus 29 and 30 celsius t4 degrees and 22 degrees benow zero | Fahrenheit)
 At the start it was the intention not 10 drive mere than 30 kilometers a day. but il appeared that this was too little for our strong. willing animals. At 80 degrees south we began to build snow cairns of mans height. in order to have marks on our return trip. On the 31sr we reached the depCt at S1 degrees and stopped there one day and fed the dogs on as much pemmican as they wanted.
 l We reached the depot al S2 de. grees on the 5th of November, where the dogs for the last time got all they wanted to eat On the Sth, southward again with a daily march of 50 kilome,ers.
 In crder to tighten our heavy sled, ges we established depots at each degree of south latitude The trip from S2 degrees to S3 ! degrees became a pleasure trip-ex- cellent 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 Earn est Shackleton mentioned In his chart as running toward the southeast from the Beardmore glacier. and on the same day we reached S3 degrees and established depot No. 4. On the ] 1lth we made the interesting dis covery that the Ross barrier ter minated in blight toward the south east at 838 degrees south latitude and 163 degrees west longitude, formed between the southeast noun tain range running from South Vic torla land and range on the oppo- site side running In a southwesterly direction-probably a continuation of King Edward VII land.
 On the 18th We reached S4 de- ' ub tah 1ich cd on the 18th we were at S5 degrees, where We also made a depot,
 From cur winter quarters. Tram heim," 7S degrees 3S minutes south latitude, we had been marching due south,
 On the Eth of November at S5 degrees we arrived at place where the land and barrier were connected This was. done without any great difficulty. The barrier here rises in undulations to about 300 feeu Some few big crevices indicated the linn ited boundary.
 Here we made our head depot, taking provisions for 60 days on sledges and leaving 30 days provs- ions on the spot.
 The land under which we lay and which We now had to attack looked quite imposing The nearest sum- mits along the barrier had height from 2,OO0 to 10000 feet. but several others farther south were l5,OOO feet CT more
 The next day we began to climb The first part of 1t was an easy task flight stops and well-filled noun tain sides. It did not take a long time, for our willing dogs worked their way up. Farther up we met some small, but very steep, glaciers. Here we had 10 harness 20 dogs to each sledge and take the four sled ges in two turns. In some places 1t was so steep that it was difficult enough to use our skis. Some big crevices forced us from time 10 time to make detours.
 The first day we climbed 2,00O feet. the next day mostly up small glaciers. camping at height of 4,50O feet. The third day we were obliged to go down to the mighty glacier, "Axelheibergs glacier" which divided