1911] THE TERMINAL CAMP 143 
keep the ropes clear. But we had some nasty falls, especially 
Evans, who got a cut deep in his palm from a piece of ‘ bottle- 
glass’ ice, in spite of his thick mitts. 
At noon we came across a picturesque tunnel in the ice, 
about three feet wide, seven feet high, and one hundred feet 
long. It had been cut out by thaw waters which had now drained 
away. ! 
In and out wound the lanes, forming a regular network 
through all sort of picturesque pinnacles. Here was one like 
a yacht on stocks, there a perfect wedding-cake twelve feet high, 
again a lady’s bonnet and so on in infinite variety. At close of 
day we pitched Camp Labyrinth. 
On the 24th we emerged from the pinnacles and reached 
the coast moraines again near Heald Island. Here I decided 
to make our terminal camp. In a gravelly hollow we pitched 
the tent and next morning was devoted to a ‘ make and mend.’ 
All our sleeping-bags and finnesko were wet with the sloppy ice- 
floors of the last week—for we had not been able to find any 
snow-drifts on which to camp. They are much warmer and 
drier than ice. 
Behind the tent to the north were slopes about 1000 feet 
high leading to empty ‘ hanging’ valleys. These radiated from 
the base of the Lister scarp, which rose in one steep face 10,000 
feet to the summit. This face was pitted by gigantic cup valleys 
or, as they are technically called, cwms, and presented a spectacle 
which probably could be paralleled nowhere in the world. 
Looking southward across the Koettlitz from the mouth of 
one of these hanging valleys one could see some sort of plan 
in the icy maze which had so bewildered us. Above Heald 
Island the valley was filled with the glacial stream in a normal 
uniform mass, interrupted only by crevasses and falls. But to 
the east of Heald Island it took the form of a glacier ‘ delta.’ 
Below the falls the ice descended to the east in a series of broad 
undulations, a portion of which we had traversed on the 23rd. 
Long promontories of ice fifty feet high extended from the un- 
broken glacier mass and probably represented the crests of the 
undulations. These degenerated at the ends into icebergs and 
monoliths of ice, and these again had weathered into the bastions 
and pinnacles. Lower down the thaw waters had etched these 
into still smaller units, and along the coast just below me the 
