Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1912-03-19

M |EN M
east at Sc degrees south latitude and
1853 degrees west longitude, formed be-
tween the southeast mountain range
running from South Victoria land and
range on the opposite side running
in a southwesterly probably
continuation of King Edward VII.
land.
On the thirteenth we reached S4 de-
grees where We established depot;
on the sixteenth we were at IS de-
grees. where, also, we made a depot
From our winter quarters. Fran
HEINZ" Is degrees 3S minutes south
latitude, We had been marching Que
south. On the seventeenth of Novem-
! Der, at IS 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 proyi-
] 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 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 il was so steep that it
| was difficult enough to use our skis.
Some big creyices 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 $500
feet. The third day we were obliged
| to go 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 to
| be made in order to avoid board
cracks and open crevices.
Glaciers Source of Peril.
These were APPARENTLY mostly filed
up, as the glaciers in all probability
| had long ago stopped moving, but we
had to be careful. never knowing for
certain how thick was the layer that
covered them.
Our camp that night lay in pic
turesque surroundings at height of
5000 feet. The glacier here was mar
rowed in between the two Is 900 feet
high, mountains, the Fridtjof Nansen
and the Don Pedro Christophersen.
| From the bottom of the glacier rose
Mount Ole Englsrad, a big snow cone
1880 feet high The glacier was
much broken in this comparatively
narrow pass. The mighty crevices
seemed to stop US from going farther
but 1t was not so serious as it ap-
peared.
Our dogs, which up to this time had
| covered distance of about 700 kilo-
meters, the last days very hard work.
ran this day thirty-five kilometers. the
ascent being $500 feet-an almost in
credible record.
1t took us only four days from the
barrier to get up on the vast inland
plateau.
We camped that night at height OF
10000, feet. Here we had to kill "a
of our brave companions and keep IS,
six for each of our three sledges.
We stopped here four days on &C
count of bad weather. Tired OF this,
we set out on the 25th of Novem Der.
On the Goth, in a furious blizzard
and In a dense snowdrift, absolutely
nothing was to be seen, but we felt
that contrary to expectations, we
were going fast downhilI. The hypso-
meter gave US that day descent Of
600 feet
Faces Frozen During Gale.
We continued our march the next
day in a gale, and a dense snowdT. 1T
got our faces badly frozen. We could
see nothing.
We reached that day SO degrees
dead reckoning, The hypsometer in
dicated fall of 500 feet The next
day was similar.
The weather cleared little at din
ner time and exposed to our view a
mighty mountain range to the east,
and not far of, only for moment,
and then 1t disappeared in the dense
snowdrift.
On the 29th 1t calmed down and
| the sun shone. though it was not the
only pleasant surprise he gave us. In
our course stretched : big glacier run
ming toward the south.
Discover Mountain Range.
AZ its eastern end was the mour;ain
range gong in southeasteEiy direc-
ton. or the western part of it no
view was to Re had. it being hidden
in the dense fog.
At the foot Of this glacier, the
| Devils glacier. depot for six days
was established at S6.21 degrees south
latitude. The hypsometer indicated
5000 feet above sea level
On November 80 we began to climb
the glacier. The lower part of it was
much broken and dangerous. More
over. the snow bridges often burst
1 From our camp that night we had a