The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1912-03-16

IUNun the lNI'IihIlNE INV lUII'l 'NN'
discovery that Ross barrier tormIn
atcs boz "a height toward the south.
east. formed between mountain
range running southeast from South
Victoria land and O. range ON the op.
posite side running I'm q southwest.
crly direction, which is probably o.
continuation Of King Edward VI
land.
on the 18th they reached the Nith
degree, where they placed another
depot. on the 10th they reached the
S5th degree, where they made yet
another depot. From their winter
quarters, Fran Helm" they had
been marching due south.
On November II they arrived at a
place where the land and the bar
rier were connected, the barrier here
rising in one undulation about 300
feet high. Here Amundsen made his
head depot and took provisions for
sixty days on sledges and left suf-
fcient for thirty days there. The
land under which they lay and which
they had now to attack, looked quite
imposing. The nearest SUBMITS
along the barrier ranged from 2000 TO
10000 feet in height.
Easy Task at First.
Several other SUBMITS further
south were $4,000 feet or more. They
began to climb. The first part of it
was an easy task, the ground rising
in little slopes.
1t did not take long with their will
ing dogs to work their way up. At
the furthest point they met some
small but very steep glaciers There
they had to harness twenty dogs tC
each sledge and take four sledges in
two shifts.
In some places the going was SO
steep that it as difficult to use their
skis. Some great crevasses com
PEELED them from time to time to
make detours. The first day they
climbed 1000 feet and the next day
during which the going was chiefly
over small glaciers, they camped at
a height of $500 feet.
On the third day a huge glacier,
Axel Heidelberg's glacier, which =
vides the coast mountains and the
mountains further south, was encoun-
tered The next day began the long
est part of their climb. Many d.
tours had to be made to avoid oper
crevasses.
Amundsen considered that thes
crevasses had filled up almost to the
top, as the glacier in all probability
had stopped moving long ago. Never
theless they moved very cautiously,
never knowing for certain how deep
was this layer of snow that covered
the crevasses.
They camped that night in very
picturesque surroundings at a height
of 5000 feet. The glacier here was
narrowed between the two 5000 fee
high mountains, one named Pftei
Fridtj of hansen and the other Dol
Pedro Christopher Sena mountain.
At the bottom of the glacier
Amundsen could see Mount Ole En-
gelsted, a big snow cone 1880 feet
high. The glacier was very much
broken in this comparatively narrow
pass. Mighty crevasses threatened
to stop their further progress, but il
was not so serious as it looked.
On Vast Inland Plateau.
They had now reached $500 feet al
titude, an almost incredible record
and it had taken them only four days
from the barrier until they were al
on vast inland plateau. The!
camped that night at height of 10,
600 feet. There Amundsen's hear
was almost broken. for he had to X
twenty-four of his brave dogs ant
keep only eighteen, six to each of hi
three sledges. He halted there 70
four days on account of bad weather
On November 25, weary of the de
lay, he set out sagain. On the 26t
he encountered a serious blizzard.
the dense drifting snow everything
was obscured, nothing was to b.
seen. But they felt that, contrary t
what they had expected, they wer
going down hill Their hypsomete
told they had descended 600 feet tina
day.
The march of the band next ia
was in a gale and with the dens
drift of snow in their faces. The
We're badly frozen, but were in n
danger. They marched on blindl!
taking their course by the compass
D and that day reached south latitud
t sc degrees, according to dead reel
oning.
Saw Mighty Mountain Range.
The weather cleared a little at dir
ner time and revealed to the me
4 their surroundings. There was
mighty mountain range to the cas-
+ and not far off. They saw it for onl