THE RELIEF OF CARLSON AT MOUNT EVANS 



work of the observatory. We started back to 

 Camp Lloyd to find the work of unloading the 

 Nahuak proceeding satisfactorily under Schnei- 

 der's direction. Before night everything was on 

 shore and covered against possible rain which was 

 threatening, and the Nakuak with the boy on board 

 had started back to the coast. 



Schneider and Baer went back with Carlson to 

 install themselves at Mount Evans and take over 

 their duties as aerologist and radio operator re- 

 spectively, the rest of us remaining in tents at 

 Camp Lloyd beside the fjord. 



On the night of the tenth, the day after landing, 

 I had turned in at nine o'clock but was roused by 

 Carlson at about ten-thirty. He was much out of 

 breath and, cross country runner as he was, had 

 made the trip down from the Observatory in 

 twelve minutes. He reported to me that Belknap 

 had reached the hut on Mount Evans in a much 

 exhausted condition and with a ligament of his 

 knee badly strained. In crossing a divide the party 

 had run into a bit of weather with wet snow, and 

 the tents not being water-proofed they had passed 

 a miserable night. When Belknap had proposed 

 to break camp and start out on the trail without 

 waiting for the storm to abate, the Eskimos, who 

 were without slickers, refused to go. Belknap 



