The worst journey in the world, Antarctic, 1910-1913 . d Meares himself had an anxious timefinding his way home. The dog tracks also helped us agood deal: the dogs were sinking deeply and making heavyweather of it. At the Barrier Depots we found rather despondentnotes from Meares about his progress. To the SouthernBarrier Depot he had uncomfortably high temperaturesand a very soft surface, and found the cairns drifted up andhard to see. At the Middle Barrier Depot we found a notefrom him dated December 20. Thick weather and bliz-zards had delayed him, and once he had got right off thetracks an
The worst journey in the world, Antarctic, 1910-1913 . d Meares himself had an anxious timefinding his way home. The dog tracks also helped us agood deal: the dogs were sinking deeply and making heavyweather of it. At the Barrier Depots we found rather despondentnotes from Meares about his progress. To the SouthernBarrier Depot he had uncomfortably high temperaturesand a very soft surface, and found the cairns drifted up andhard to see. At the Middle Barrier Depot we found a notefrom him dated December 20. Thick weather and bliz-zards had delayed him, and once he had got right off thetracks and had been out from his camp hunting for were quite well: a little eye strain from searching forcairns. He was taking a little butter from each bag [of thethree depoted weekly units], and with this would haveenough to the next depot on short rations. ^ At the UpperGlacier Depot [Mount Hooper] the news from Meares wasdated Christmas Eve, in the evening: The dogs weregoing slowly but steadily in very soft stuff, especially his ^ My own ADAMS MOUNTAINS
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