The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1912-03-14
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eat, we started again on the 26th. with
the temperature steadily between
minus 20 and 80 celsius a degrees and
20 degrees below zero FahrenheitD
From the start it was the intention
not to drive more than 80 kilometers
I day. but it appeared that this was
too little for our strong, willing ami
mails. AT so degrees south we began
10 build snow cairns of a mans height
in order to have marks on our return
trip. On the 31st We reached the depot
at 81 degrees, and stopped one dag.
and fed the dogs on as much pemmi-
can as they wanted.
We reached the depot at 50 degrees
on the 5th of November, where the
dogs for the last time got all they
wanted to eat. On the 9Th, 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 50 TO IS degrees, be-
came pleasure trip-excellent
ground, fine sledging, and an even
temperature. Everything went like a
dance.
On the ninth we sighted South Vic
toria land and the continuation Of the
mountain range which Sir Ernest
in, rhar
running toward the southeast from
The Beardmore glacier, and on the
same day we reached SO degrees and
established here depot No. L. On the
eleventh we made the interesting dis
covery that the Ross Barrier termi-
east at sc degrees south latitude and
163 degrees 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 Girection-probabl bly,
a continuation of King Edward VII.
land.
On the thirteenth We reached "a de-
grees where we established a depot;
on the sixteenth We were at So de.
grees, where, also, we made a depot
From our winter quarters, Fran
HEINZ" Is degrees SO minutes south
latitude We had been marching due
south. On the seventeenth Of Novem-
Der. at So degrees, we arrived at a
place where the land and barrier were
connected. This was done without
any great difficulty. The barrier here
rises in undulations to about 800 feet.
Some few big crevices indicated the
limited boundary.
! Here We made our head depot, ia.
king provisions for sixty days on
sledges and leaving thirty days provi,
| sions on the spot.
The land under which we lay, and
which We now had to attack, looked
| quite imposing. The nearest SUBMITS
along the barrier had height OF from
| 1000 to 10000 feet, but several others
farther south were $4,000 feet or more
The next day We began TO climb
The first part of it was an easy task
light stops and well filled mountain
sides. 1t did not take a long time, for
our 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 II
was difficult enough to use our. 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 gla
ciers, camping at height of 4,50t
feet. The third day we were obliged
| to 20 down on a mighty glacier
"Axel Heibergs Glacier" which divided
the coast mountains and the noun
tains farther south.
The next day began the longest part
of our climb. Many detours had tc
be made in order to avoid board
! cracks and open crevices.
These were APPARENTLY mostly filled
up, as the glaciers in all probability
had. long ago stopped moving. but w
had TO be careful, never knowing fol
certain how thick was the layer thai
covered them,
Our camp that night lay in pic
turesque surroundings at a height Of
| 5000 feet. The glacier here was mar
rowed in between the two $4,000 fee
high mountains, the Fridtjof NanseI
and the Don Pedro Christophersen
From the bottom Of the glacier rose
Mount Ole Englstad, big snow cone
1850 feet high. The glacier was
much broken in this comparatively
narrow pass. The mighty crevlces
seemed to stop us from going farther
but II was not so serious as II ap
] nsared.