The Alaska citizen., 1912-05-20

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 From the bottom of the glacier rose Mount "lleenglstad, a big sncw cone 13.5O0 feet high. The glacier was very broken in this comparative | ly narrow pass. The mighty crev- l ices seemed 10 stop us from going i further. but it was not so serious as it appeared Our dogs which. up | to this time had covered a distance of about 750 kilometers. the last days very hard work. ran this day | B kilometers. the ascent being 5000 feet, an almost incredible record. | It took us only four days from the barrier to get up on the vast island | plateau. We camped that night at a height cf l0,600 feet. Here we had to kill 24 of our brave compan- ions, and keep 1S-six for each of our four sleds.
 l We stopped here four days on ac. count Of bad weather. Tired of this, we set out on the 25th of No vember On the 26th, in a furious blizzard and in dense snowdrift. absolutely nothing contrary to expec- tations, We were going down hill The hyscmeter gave us that day a descent of 600 feet
 l We continued our march the next day in gale and dense snow | drift. got our faces badly frozen | We could see nothing We reached ! that day S6 degrees. dead reckoning The hypsometer indicated a fall of 800 feet. The next day was sm, | lar The weather cleared a little at dinner time and exposed to cur view a mighty mountain range to the east and not far off-only for a moment and then it disappeared in the dense snowdrlft.
 On he 29th it calmed down and | the sun shone, though it was not the cnly pleasant surprise he gave. In our course stretched a big glacier. easterly direction. Of the western part of 1t no view was to be had 1t being hidden in the dense fog. At the foot of the glacier, the Devil s glacier" depot for six days was es- | tablished at 862l degrees south lat itude. The hypsometer indicated 5000 feet above sea level
 l On November 30 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 Prem our camp that night We had a splendid view over the mountain to the east There was "Helmer Hansens Summit" the most remarkable of them all. It was 12,000 feet high and covered with such broken glaciers that in all prob ability no foothills were to be found. Oscar Wistings." "Sverre Has sels" and "Olav Highlands" noun tains also lie here. beautifully il- luminated in the rays of the bright sun. In the distance, and only al ternately to be viewed in the fog, appeared from time to time Mount Nielsen" with its summits and peaks about 15,000 feet high.
 We saw only the nearest surround ings. It took us three days t9 sur mount the Devils glacier" always in misty weather
 On the first of December We left this broken glacier, with holes and crevices without number, with it's height of 9,1OO feet. Before us, looking in the mist and snowdrifts like frozen sea, appeared light, slcping ice plateau, filled with small hummocks.
 The walk over the frozen sea was not pleasant The ground under us was quite hollow. and it sounded as though we were walking on barrels, AS It was, a man went through. then couple of dogs We could not use our skies on this polished ice The sleds had the best of it.
 This place got its name The Devils Dancing Room" This part of our march was the most unpleas- ant. On December we got cur greatest height, according to the hyp- someter and aneroid, l0,750 feet. at ST degrees 40 minutes south
 On December s we came out of the bad weather Once again we could get an observation. Dead reck- oning and observation were exact ly alike sS degrees l6 minutes 16.6 seconds south
 grees B minutes (Shackleton's farth- est south was SS degrees 25 minutes) We camped and established our last depot. No. To- From SS degrees 25 minutes the plateau began to slope down very gently and smoothly to,
 ward the other side.
 On the 9th of December we reach ed S8 degrees 29 minutes; on Decem-
 Der 10, sS degrees 56 minutes; De
 cember II. S9 degrees 15 minutes
 December 12. S9 degrees 30 minutes