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BARRETT, OVER THE ICE TO WILSON GLACIER 



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However, we eventually found ourselves out in the middle of Nis- 

 qually Glacier in its roughest, most deeply cleft section. Here we 

 stopped and made some careful photographic studies, climbing some 

 pretty precarious, knife-edge ice ridges, where a slip in either direction 

 would have meant a slide into cold storage several hundred feet below 

 in the center of the glacier, for in this section the glacier is about seven 



Fig. 48. — Making movies on the edge of a great crevasse 

 on Nisqually Glacier, while anchored with a rope for the 

 sake of safety. 



hundred feet in depth. The steeper points were reached by means of 

 footholes chopped by Al's ice ax and often with the aid of the rope. 

 Such a point is shown in figure 46, where the foot-holes in the ice and 

 the use of the rope are both shown. 



In ascending one of these pinnacles to get an especially good vantage 



