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... crevasse . We decided to try and pull him up with the sledge harness , and hurried back to the sledge , untoggled the har- ness , ran back with it to the crevasse , and let one end down to Mawson . We found , however , that our combined ...
... crevasse . We decided to try and pull him up with the sledge harness , and hurried back to the sledge , untoggled the har- ness , ran back with it to the crevasse , and let one end down to Mawson . We found , however , that our combined ...
Page 138
... crevasse . One hundred and fifty feet below was the dim outline of a dog - badly injured - and they could just hear the poor beast's moaning . Of Ninnis and the sledge there was no trace . For hours they called and called in vain . The ...
... crevasse . One hundred and fifty feet below was the dim outline of a dog - badly injured - and they could just hear the poor beast's moaning . Of Ninnis and the sledge there was no trace . For hours they called and called in vain . The ...
Page 213
... crevasse , instead of pinching together , bellied out a little way down . Later on , Morgan descended the crevasse on a rope , and found it to be 100 feet deep , a V - shaped cham- ber of hard , blue ice at the bottom . " Sounding the ...
... crevasse , instead of pinching together , bellied out a little way down . Later on , Morgan descended the crevasse on a rope , and found it to be 100 feet deep , a V - shaped cham- ber of hard , blue ice at the bottom . " Sounding the ...
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