CHAPTER XVII
ON THE BEARDMORE GLACIER
Sunday, December 10.—Camp 32.[1] I was very anxious about getting our loads forward over such an appalling surface, and that we have done so is mainly due to the ski. I roused everyone at 8, but it was noon before all the readjustments of load had been made and we were ready to start. The dogs carried 600 lbs. of our weight besides the depôt (200 lbs.). It was greatly to my surprise when we—my own party—with a 'one, two, three together' started our sledge, and we found it running fairly easily behind us. We did the first mile at a rate of about 2 miles an hour, having previously very carefully scraped and dried our runners. The day was gloriously fine and we
- ↑ While Day and Hooper, of the ex-Motor Party, had turned back on November and Meares and Demetri with the dogs ascended above the Lower Glacier Depôt before returning on December 11, the Southern Party and its supports were organised successively as follows:—
December 10. leaving Shambles Camp—
- Sledge 1. Scott, Wilson, Oates, and P.O. Evans.
- Sledge 2. E. Evans, Atkinson, Wright, Lashly.
- Sledge 3. Bowers, Cherry-Garrard, Crean, Keohane.
- Sledge 1. Scott, Wilson. Oates, P.O. Evans.
- Sledge 2. E. Evans, Bowers, Crean, Lashly; while Atkinson, Wright, Cherry-Garrard and Keohane returned.
- Sledge 1. Scott, Wilson, Oates, Bowers, P.O. Evans; while E. Evans. Crean, and Lashly returned.
- Sledge 1. Scott, Wilson, Oates, and P.O. Evans.
