CHAPTER XII 



BUILDING THE EXPEDITION BASE ON MOUNT EVANS 



'HE camp which we set up at 

 the head of the Sondre Strom- 

 fjord we named Camp Lloyd 

 in honor of the late Dean of 

 the Graduate School of the 

 University, news of whose sudden death had 

 reached me just as I was sailing from Boston. 

 The height of the elevation on which we were to 

 erect our aerological station and weather observa- 

 tory, we determined as 1294 feet, and this we named 

 Mount Evans in honor of Edward S. Evans of 

 Detroit, a good friend of the Expedition and 

 especially active in promoting aviation. From the 

 summit of INIount Evans we could get a clear sweep 

 of the horizon in all directions and to the eastward 

 could look off on the white expanse of the inland- 

 ice. 



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