Northward over the great ice : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the Saviksue or great Cape York meteorites . CHAPTER XIII. EIGHT THOUSAND FEET ABOVE THE SEA. Getting Ready for the Homeward March—A Steady Climb to theTop of Greenland—Prisoned in a Snow Dug-Out Sixty Hours by theBiggest Storm of the Series—Groping our Way for Two Weeksthrou
Northward over the great ice : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the Saviksue or great Cape York meteorites . CHAPTER XIII. EIGHT THOUSAND FEET ABOVE THE SEA. Getting Ready for the Homeward March—A Steady Climb to theTop of Greenland—Prisoned in a Snow Dug-Out Sixty Hours by theBiggest Storm of the Series—Groping our Way for Two Weeksthrough Dense Fogs that Crown the Summit Plateau—We Find itVERY Hard to Keep the Course—The Wind our Sole Reliance—Las-situde and Despondency Due to the Dripping Mist—We Abandon aSledge and Throw away Everything we can Spare—Once more inTHE Realm of Sunshine—^Making Thirty to Forty Miles a Day on theHome-Stretch—Meeting our Friends on the Inland Ice—WelcomedBACK TO Red CHAPTER XIII. EIGHT THOUSAND FEET ABOVE THE SEA.
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