Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-11-28
BYRD SAYS POLAR
|. FIELD CHALLENGES
Explorer Declares Expedition
Simply Tore Bit of Veil.
Book Published Today.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 2S.-Antarc-
tica, the South Poles bleak and barren
base, remains unconquered and chal-
lenge to man, Rear Admiral Richard E.
Byrd says in Little America the rec
ord of his expedition to the bottom of
the world.
There remains the last trace of the
ice age, out of which emerged life, the
admiral says in the volume, which will
be published today on the first ami
versary of his flight over the second
pole.
AT best" writes the commander of
the band of 80 men, who lived for
months on the ice of Little America,
I'VE simply tore away bit more of the
veil which conceals its secrets. In its
larger aspects it remains, and probably
will remain for many years to come, one
of the great undone tasks of the world"
Glasses Discovery Important.
Discovery of a new land, unseen be-
fore, unknown and unclaimed, and its
mapping with an aerial camera are be-
lieved by Byrd to be among the i'm
pcrtant results of his expedition. The
pictures will be valuable to glaciologists
so and 100 years hence, he is convinced,
as permanent record OF ice conditions
in 1929, against which changes occur
ring in the future may be compared.
The technical results of the Byrd ex-
petition are yet to be divulged. The
scientific staff still is working on four
fat volumes.
Byrds reply to those who say his
party lacked hardships is: Rubbish"
mo Antarctic Journey" he declares,
whether by air or by surface, is easy
Part OF his story, in the form of a
diary, shows busy man literally burn
ing midnight oil in the writing of his
journal. Hairbreadth escapes from
crevasses and ice packs, from binding
gales, and from crashing on the very
flight to the Pole itself against a noun
tain pass are described but simply. The
reward was sight of the Pole in the CEN
ter of limitless plain.
Effort to Get There Counts.
That's about ALL" the explorer says.
1T is the effort to get there that
counts"
1T was an awesome thing, creeping
ESQ 1t seemed) through the narrow
pass" Byrd writes about the polar
flight, with the walls of Hansen and
Fisher (peaks) on either side. higher
than the level of the wings, watching
the nose Of the ship bob up and down
rock. Once we entered it
there would be no retreat. It offered
no room to turn
But most exciting was his discovery
Of the vast area to which he gave the
name Marie Byrd Land"
For here was the ice age in its
chill flooded tide
Here was a continent throttled and
overwhelmed. Here was the lifelesS
waste born of one of the greatest
periods of refrigeratic1 that the earth
has ever known. Seeing it, one could
scarcely believe that the Antarctic was
once a warm and fertile climate, with
its own plants and trees Of respectable
size.
Photograph Monotonous.
Here, too, in this glacial flood is a
counter part of the immense ebb and
flows of ice over the earth which pro-
foundry affected mankind
"One could not help but speculate
on what new destiny nature has in
store fc- the lowly mammal when the
pendulul~ reaches the point of turn"
OF the life in camp he recalls es-
pecially the monotony Of the phono-
graph.
THE Bells of st. Mary's," he writes,
''is tune I am not likely to forget"