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ice; and the last part, the western end of the northern side, was bordered by 
the aforesaid Nunatak, which here stood with a steep wall facing south. 
We did not undertake any soundings trough the ice, but judging by 
appearances, chiefly the colour, it would seem as if this last, lowest 
lying lake, Lake B, was considerably deeper, and in support of this may 
be cited the numerous icebérgs frozen into the lake (Fig. 74). 
At 8 o’clock in the evening of 21/, we set up our tent in the south- 
westerly corner of the lake, in order to undertake investigations regarding 
the ascent of the glacier on the following morning. 
I will, however, from this very camping site narrate an episode 
which might possibly be of importance for other expeditions, or, at any 
rate, exhort to caution, because in our case it might have cost OLSEN 
his life. 
We had set up the tent, and PouLsen was feeding the dogs, whilst 
OLSEN had been asked to get me some ice for cooking purposes. Just 
outside the tent lay a block of ice about three metres in diameter. OLSEN 
and I agreed that it would be possible to get some good ice there. He 
chopped away at the block quite lightly with an axe, but this slight 
touch caused it to suddenly shift, and, with a loud report, it slid 
down on to the ice, because it lay slightly higher up on the firm ground. 
It just missed OLSEN, who was standing a little to one side of it; had 
he been but a fraction lower down, he would have had the whole lot 
over him and been crushed to death. 
The ascent took place on the morning of the 22nd of April after 
we had investigated whether there was not possibly a place where 
the whole sledge with its load and everything could be taken up at 
one time, but it could not be done (Fig. 75). 
POULSEN now stayed by the tent, whilst OLSEN and I went round 
the land with the dogs and up on to the Suzanne Glacier, which 
here right in to the land was very much lower than farther north. The 
height of the perpendicular wall was about 25 metres, and from here it 
sloped up very steep, but not more than one could climb with care 
about 20 metres on to the nearly vertical declivity. At this spot a 
platform was built in the ice, in such a way that a man could stand 
here securely, and about 50 metres further up there was another large 
platform upon which we could place the load, as it was brought up, 
whilst the dogs could make this their starting point. The alpine rope 
was then brought down, and with the 100 metres’ long trace which we 
thus had at our disposal we were able to make use of the dogs. Whilst 
I myself drove them along up on the glacier, OLSEN, who sat upon the 
first platform, supported the trace until the sledge came up to him, 
and then he followed it up to the second platform, where it was loaded 
up. In this way we were able to get all our tackle on to the glacier 
in five journeys, but we had to leave our sleeping skins behind in 
order to decrease the weight. (Fig. 76). 
