Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-05

and the fact that we have Travelled all
the way on skis. Latter fact probably
saved us yesterday, for we crossed
countless crevasSes.
Distances Are Deceptive.
"When Freddie IF. E. Crochet, dog
driver and radioman with the party)
send you this, Thorne, O'Brien and I
will be somewhere up Liv Glacier. EX-
pect to spend few days in this locality
and then call at your cache as we head
eastward.
Distances are even more deceptive
here than in desert, and Carmen Land
is much further away than is suggested
by Amundsen's chart. The mountains
are all had hoped for, and look for
ward toward the coming weeks as the
best ones I have ever had.
Have had perfect cooperation of
men with me and we are bound to &C.
complish much. am again singing"
Liv Glacier Baked Efforts.
The next message was sent December
2 and said:
Find things here done on much
larger scale than we anticipated. The
mountains that held the key to geology
are far behind the foothills and we must
ascend the plateau to get at them.
Found Liv Glacier frightfully Gre
vasSed and after seeing great ice falls
ahead have decided to try to ascend
by way of Axel Heiberg Glacier. Will
therefore be grateful for any informa-
ton you can give us.
1--WE leave this place in the morning
headed eastward. We have called this
first mountain camp Camp Cyclone
Haines,' because the wind blows so
hard" CIV. c. Haines is meteorologist
with the expedition.)
Byrd Sends Information.
Comdr. Byrd is sending information
to DR.. Gould, gained from the photo
graphs made on the polar fight, which
will help him to get around the worst
of the crevaSseS and also give him
many value hints as to the best way
to get up Axel Heiberg Glacier.
This is a new means OF cooperation
in the Antarctic, something of ines
Unable value to men on the trail ana
which has never before been available.
The information gained from the pho
tographS in a few hours could never
be learned by men on foot, as they
would see only a small part OF the
broken terrain over which they VSre
moving and might miss a safe and
comparatively easy path while taking
a difficult one only short distance
away.
Air Photos Most Valuable Charts.
From the air the inequalities in the
surface and the bridged and open
crevaSses are revealed, so that the
photographs act as a chart for the
men winding their way through the
otherwise perplexing surface OF the
glaciers.
The last two days marches to the
mountains made by DR.. Gould's party
were unusually long and rank with
some of the best sledgfng trips made.
The men are now in position wherE,
if their dogs do not give out, they will
be able to trail fast with light loads,
and cover a considerable territory,
although, as DR.. Gould indicates, he
is finding the distances between the
points he wishes to reach greater than
anticipated.
The sleds of which he speaks were
made the past Winter by Sverre Stronl
and Bernt Balchen, their uprightS and
cross-pieceS deity carved out by hand
knives. The sleds are lashed with
rawhide and are very flexible. Some
weighed so and some so pounds. They
are works of art, graceful and strong,
modelled after the Sledges used for hun
dreds of years by the Vikings and their
descendants.
Co; and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: All
the WORLDLY
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