ANTARCTIC ADVENTURE AND RESEARCH 



1908, with the South Pole as its object. Shackleton 

 chose Lieutenant Adams, Dr. Marshall, and Frank 

 Wild for his companions. Each man led a pony sledge 

 and for a few days a supporting party accompanied 

 them. They had a bad time with crevasses on the 

 Ross Ice Shelf where it presses around Minna Bluff, 

 but thereafter progressed directly to the south. The 

 pony, Quan, enlivened their journey by eating harness, 

 ropes, rugs, and all he could reach. On the twenty- 

 first of November they were south of the 81° parallel, 

 and here the first pony was shot. Some of the pony 

 flesh was used for food, being eaten practically raw as 

 it became too tough when cooked. They were now 

 approaching Scott's record and marching abreast of a 

 new range of mountains. On November 23rd they 

 made a fine march of almost eighteen miles, and on 

 November 26th w^re south of Scott's ''farthest" of 

 82° 16'. The barrier surface had the form of long 

 undulations, the width from crest to crest being about 

 one and a half miles. The second pony was shot at 

 Depot C and the third at 83° 16', leaving only Socks. 

 The mountains showed great granite cliffs six thousand 

 feet high in places. The range now trended across 

 their path and Shackleton decided to ascend one of 

 the many glaciers flowing from the Plateau (to the 

 west) down to the Ross Ice Shelf. On December 3rd 

 they climbed Mount Hope (3,350 feet) and "from the 

 top of this ridge there burst upon our view an open road 

 to the south. We could see the glacier stretching away 

 south inland till at last it seemed to merge in high in- 

 land ice." (See Figure 6.) They chmbed two thousand 



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