Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1912-03-15
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/ minus 20 and 80 celsius G. degrees and
% degrees below zero Fahrenheit.)
From the start it was the intention
not to drive more than 80 kilometers
a day, but it appeared that this was
too little for our strong, willing ami
mails. At 80 degrees south we began
to build snow cairns of mans height,
in order to have marks on our return
trip. On the 31st we reached the depot
at 81 degrees, and stopped one day,
and fed the dogs on as much pemmi-
can as they wanted.
We reached the depot at 50 degrees
on the 9Th of November, where the
dogs for the last time got all they
wanted to eat. On the 9th, southwark
again. with daily march of 80 kilo-
meters.
In order to tighten our heavy
sledges We established depots at each
degree Of south latitude.
| Like Pleasure Trip.
The trip from 80 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
Shackleton mentioned in his chart as
running toward the southeast from
the Beardmore glacier, and on the
same day We reached SO degrees and
established here depot No. A. On the
eleventh we made the interesting dis
covery that the Ross Barrier termi
mated in blight toward the south
east at &c 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 southwesterly direction-probabl
continuation of King Edward VII
land.
On the thirteenth we reached 81 de-
grees where we established a depot;
on the sixteenth We were at So de-
grees, where, also, we made depot.
From our winter quarters, FRAN
helm" 70 degrees SO minutes south
latitude, We had been marching due
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 prov1-
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 we'll filled mountain
| sides. It 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 it was so steep that it
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 $500
| feet. The third day We We're obliged
to go down on mighty glacier,
"Axel Heibergs Glacier" which divided
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 filled
I'D. 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 $4,000 feet
high mountains, the Fridtjof Nansen
and the Don Pedro Christophersen.
Fran the bottom of the glacier rose
Mount Ole Englstad, 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 it was not so serious as it ap-
peared.
Our dogs, which up to this time had
covered a distance Of about 700 kilo-
meters, the last days very hard work.