Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1912-03-15

south. On the lltn OF November, at
| S5 degrees, we arrived at place
where the land and barrier were con
nected This was done without any
great difficulty The barrier here
rises undulated to about 800 feet.
Some few big crevices indicated the
limited boundary.
Leaves 80 Days Provisions.
Here, we made our head depot, TAX
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 SUBMITS
along the barrier had height from
1000 to 10000 feet, but several others
further south were $4,000 feet or
more.
The next day we began the climb.
! The first part of it was an easy task
| light stops and we'll filled mountain
sides. 1t 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 1880
feet. The third day we were obliged
! to go down on a 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 5000 feet. The glacier
here was narrowed in between the
two $4,000 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 1880
! 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 1000 kilometers, the
last day severe hard work, ran this
| day 35 kilometers, the ascent being
6, 900 feet, an almost incredible rec
ord.
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
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 28th of November, in furious
Absolutely nothing was to be seen,
but we felt that, contrary to expecta-
tons, we were going fast down hill.
The hypsometer gave us a fall of 800
! 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 18th it Gained
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
| its eastern end was the mountain
range going in southeastern direc-
ton; 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 1921
degrees south latitude. The hypso-
meter indicated 5000 feet above sea
level On November 80 we began to
climb the glacier. The lower part of
it was very much broken and danger
Gus. Moreover, the snow bridges
very often burst From our camp
that night we had splendid view
over the mountain to the east. There
was ssIIelmer Hansen's Hummit," the
most remarkable of them ALL 1t was
10000 feet high, and covered with
such broken glaciers that, in all prob
ability, no foothold was to be found.
oscar Wistings," "Sverre Hassels, :"
ond a0Iov IIiou1and" maintains also