The worst journey in the world, Antarctic, 1910-1913 . rn. February 4. 18 miles. Clear cloudless blue sky, sur-face drift. During forenoon we came down gradual descentincluding 2 or 3 irregular terrace slopes, on crest of one ofwhich were a good many crevasses. Southernmost werejust big enough for Scott and Evans to fall in to theirwaists, and very deceptively covered up. They ran eastand west. Those nearer the crest were the ordinary broadstreet-like crevasses, well lidded. In the afternoon we againcame to a crest, before descending, with street crevasses,and one we crossed had a huge hole wh
The worst journey in the world, Antarctic, 1910-1913 . rn. February 4. 18 miles. Clear cloudless blue sky, sur-face drift. During forenoon we came down gradual descentincluding 2 or 3 irregular terrace slopes, on crest of one ofwhich were a good many crevasses. Southernmost werejust big enough for Scott and Evans to fall in to theirwaists, and very deceptively covered up. They ran eastand west. Those nearer the crest were the ordinary broadstreet-like crevasses, well lidded. In the afternoon we againcame to a crest, before descending, with street crevasses,and one we crossed had a huge hole where the lid hadfallen in, big enough for a horse and cart to go have a great number of mountain tops on our rightand south of our beam as we go due north now. We arenow camped just below a great crevassed mound, on amountain top evidently. February^. miles. We had a difficult day, get-ting in amongst a frightful chaos of broad chasm-like cre-vasses. We kept too far east and had to wind in and out ^ Scoits Last Expedition, vol. i. p. a z D O Q tt. < hJ ^ c/: -^ 1—1 c« J i^ y} w a; J p ini ^*^ X ffl Cd K W X THE POLAR JOURNEY 519 amongst them and cross multitudes of bridges. We thenbore west a bit and got on better all the afternoon andgot round a good deal of the upper disturbances of thefalls here. [Scott wrote : We are camped in a very disturbedregion, but the wind has fallen very light here, and ourcamp is comfortable for the first time for many weeks. ^] February 6. 15 miles. We again had a forenoon oftrying to cut corners. Got in amongst great chasms run-ning E. and W. and had to come out again. We thenagain kept west and downhill over tremendous sastrugi,with a slight breeze, very cold. In afternoon continuedbearing more and more towards Mount Darwin : we gotround one of the main lines of ice-fall and looked back upto it. . Very cold march : many crevasses : I walking bythe sledge on foot found a good many : the others all onski. February 7. m
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