The worst journey in the world, Antarctic, 1910-1913 . odolite tele-scope confirmed it, and our spirits rose accordingly. ^Then Wilson had another bad attack of snow-glare :could hardly keep a chink of eye open in goggles to seethe course. Fat pony hoosh. ^ This day they reachedthe Lower Barrier Depot. They were in evil case, but they would have been allright, these men, if the cold had not comedown upon them,a bolt quite literally from the blue of a clear sky : unex-pected, unforetold and fatal. The cold itself was not sotremendous until you realize that they had been out fourmonths, that the
The worst journey in the world, Antarctic, 1910-1913 . odolite tele-scope confirmed it, and our spirits rose accordingly. ^Then Wilson had another bad attack of snow-glare :could hardly keep a chink of eye open in goggles to seethe course. Fat pony hoosh. ^ This day they reachedthe Lower Barrier Depot. They were in evil case, but they would have been allright, these men, if the cold had not comedown upon them,a bolt quite literally from the blue of a clear sky : unex-pected, unforetold and fatal. The cold itself was not sotremendous until you realize that they had been out fourmonths, that they had fought their way up the biggestglacier in the world in feet of soft snow, that they had spentseven weeks under plateau conditions of rarefied air, bigwinds and low temperatures, and they had watched one oftheir companions die—not in a bed, in a hospital or ambul-ance, nor suddenly, but slowly, night by night and dayby day, with his hands frost-bitten and his brain going, ^ ScoUs Last Expedition, vol. i. pp. 575-576. ^ /^/^/^ p_ ^y^^ 3 wmm^Fmm^^
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