Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-03-10


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AZ the bottom of the glacier
Amundsen could be Mount ole Engle-
sled, big snow cone $500 feet high.
Tho glacier was very much broken
| IN this comparatively narrow pass
Mighty creyasses threatened 10 stop
their further progress but It was not
so serious as II looked
They had now reached 5000 feet al.
tltude, M almost incredible record
and Il had taken them only four days
from the barrier until they were an
on vast inland plateau They
camped that night at height OF TO-.
500 feet. There Amundsen's heart
was almos. broken. for he had to KIN
twenly-four OF his bravo dogs and
Keep only eighteen, six to each Of his
three sledges. He halted thcre for
four days on account of had weather,
In n Furious Blizzard.
ON November 25 weary of the de-
lay he set out agnu. ON the 26th he
encountered furious blizzard In tho
dense drifting snow overything was
obscured, nothing was tl he seen. But
they felt that contrary to what they
had expected, they were going down
ward Their hypsometer told them
that they had descended 600 feet that
day
The march of the band the noN
day was I'm a gale and with the dense
drift Of snow in their faces. They
were badly frozen but were In no
danger, They marched ON bllndly,
taking their course by the compass
and that day reached south latitude
SO degrees according to dead reckon
ing. The weather cleared a little at
dinner time and revealed to the men
their surroundings There was
mighty mountain range 10 the east
and not far off. They saw IT for only
moment and then II disappeared
again in the wonderful drift Of ant
artc snow
The weather calmcd down on the
29th and the sun shone through the
shadow clouds. This was a glad sur
prise 70. the machers as they were
able to see that in their course was
far stretch Of glacier formation
running toward the south. At ita
eastern end was a mountain range
branching off IN southerly
direction. over the western part of
IT they could have no view on account
Of the dense antartic fog
High Mountain Peaks.
This glacier was named Devils
glacier and ot its foot a depot for
SIX days was established This depot
was located in Sc degrees, 81 minutes
south latitude and the hypsometer in
dicated about 5000 feet above sea
level.
Amundsen and his men began to
climb the glacier on November 80.
They found the lower part of It very
difficult II was much broken and
brIdged by thin snow formation which
very frequently broke beneath the
weight Of the explorers. From the
point Of their camp that nieht they
We're able TO get splendid view over
the oun.ains to the east Thav saw
there Hilmer Hansen's summit, TIE
most remarkable Of all nopntoin
peaks they had encountered II rolled
1900 feet hiph and was brillient with
the facts of broken glacier ice It
was so steep and rugged that I'm all
probability no foothold was to be
found there.
Three other peaks. the oscar Visit
ings, Sveere Hassels and O'af Piaa-
lands also lay before thorn, beautl-
fully illuminated in tie RAYS Of the
BRIGHT sun. In the distance the fog
still held, but shifting occasionally,
the shadowv form Of Mount Nielsen.
its summit peaks about 5000 feet IN
the air could be seen. ONLY portions
of this great peak nearest to the OBJ
servers were In ranre OF their eyes.
\ Frozen Inland Sea.
Devils glacier proved hardy OBJ .
stacle. 1t required three DAYS for
Amundsen and his men to surmount it
The weather they encountered was
misty and on December they gladly
left this difficult way in their path
They had fought the glarier broken
and containinne numberless holes and
Creyasses. lis height rose 9,1O0 feet. .
on this level they reached tho end Of
the glacier, and that which lay before
them looked in the mist and the drift
of snow Ike q frozen goa. Instead, II
was a light slopine plateau and was
filled with small hummocks OF i.e and
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