The Green Forest tribune., 1912-03-15

south On the 17th of November, at 85 degrees, we arrived at a place where the land and barrier were con nected. This was done without any great difficulty. The barrier here rises undulated to about 300 feet. Some few big crevices indicated the limited boundary.
 Leaves 30 Days Provisions.
 Here, we made our head depot talk ing provisions for sixty days on sledges, and leaving thirty days pro- visions on the spot.
 The land under which we lay and which we now had to attack looked quite imposing. The nearest summits along the barrier had a height from 1000 to 10000 feet, but several others further south were 15,000 feet or more.
 The next day we began the climb. The first part of it was an easy task light stops and well filled mountain sides. It 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 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 a height Of 4,500 feet. The third day we were obliged to go down on highly glacier, "Axel Heiberg's Glacier" which divided the coast mountains and the noun tains further south.
 Camped Between Two Mountains.
 The next day began the longest part of our climb. Many detours had to be made in order to avoid broad cracks and open crevices. These were apparently mostly filled up, as the glaciers in all probability had long ago stopped moving, but we had to be very careful, never knowing for certain how thick was the layer that covered them. Our camp that night lay in very picturesque surroundings at height of 5,000 feet. The glacier here was narrowed in between the two 15,000 feet high mountains, the "Fridtjof Nanzen" and the Don Pc dro Christopherson. From the bot tom of the glacier rose Mount Ole englestad"-a big snow cone 13,500 feet high.
 The glacier was very much broken in this comparatively narrow pass. The mighty crevices seemed to stop us from going further, but it was not so serious, as it appeared. Our dogs, which up to this time, had covered a distance of about TOGO kilometers, the last day severe hard work, ran this day 35 kilometers, the ascent being , $500 feet, an almost incredible rec ord.
 It took us only four days from the barrier to get up on the vast inland plateau.
 We camped that night at a height of 10, 600 feet Here we had to kill twenty-four of our brave companions and keep eighteen, six for each of our three SledgeS.
 In Blizzard Four Days.
 We stopped here four days on ac. count of bad weather. We set out on the 18th of November, in a furious blizzard, and in dense snow drift Absolutely nothing was to be seen but we felt that, contrary to eXpecta- tions, we were going fast down hill The hypsometer gave US fall of 500 feet.
 The next day was similar The weather cleared a little at dinner time and exposed to our view a mighty mountain range to the east and not far off, only for a moment, and then it disappeared in the dense snow drift On the 29th it calmed down and the sun shone, though it was not the only pleasant surprise he gave. In our course stretched a big glacier running toward the south At it's eastern end was the mountain range going in a southeastern direc- tion; of the western part of it no view was to be had. it being hidden in the dense fog. At the foot of this glacier the Devils Glacier" depot, for six days, was established at 86.21 degrees south latitude. The hypso- meter indicated 5000 feet above sea level On November 50 we began to climb the glacier. The lower part of it was very much broken and danger ous. Moreover, the snow bridges very often burst. From our camp that night we had splendid view over the mountain to the east There was "Helmer Hansen's Hummit," the 12,000 feet high, and covered with such broken glaciers that, in all prob ability, no foothold was to be found. oscar Wistings," "Sverre Hassels," :" and "Olav Hjanland" mountains also lay here. beautiful, illuminated in the rays of the bright sun.
 In the distance, and only alternate ly to be viewed in the fog, appeared from time to time, Mount Nielsen,' D with it's summits and peaks about 15.000 feet high.
 We only saw the nearest surround mount the Devils Glacier, always in misty weather. On the 1st of Decem- Der we left this broken glacier with holes and crevices without number, with it's height of 9,100 feet. Before accurate idea of the costumes, faces and figures of any particular time