1s0 WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD 
thoroughly tired, so I think was everybody else. We were 
about a mile from the ice edge ; and the problem was where 
to get Nobby up the precipitous slopes. This was solved 
by the arrival of Evans, Atkinson, Forde and Keohane 
about midnight. They had seen us coming in from the 
heights, and had come down for news. Teddy Evans had 
arrived the day before, and, being warned off the Barrier 
edge by a note left by Captain Scott, had made for the land 
with his party, and one horse Jimmy Pigg. He had found 
a good way upa mile or so farther east, almost under Castle 
Rock. He had walked to Hut Point with Atkinson the 
next day and heard of the loss of Cherry, myself and the 
animals from Bill Wilson and Meares who had been left 
there to look after their teams. I hadn’t seen Atkinson for 
quite a while when we met this time. 
‘The next day we relayed the sledges up the slope 
which was about 700 feet high rising from a small bay. It 
was so steep that the pony could only be led up and we 
had to put on crampons to grip the ice. These are merely 
a sole of leather with light metal plates for foot and heel 
containing spikes. [These were altered afterwards.] They 
have leather beckets and a lanyard rove off for making 
them fast over the finnesko. It took us all the morning to 
get everything up to the top and then it started to blow. 
The camp was wonderfully sheltered. Jimmy Pigg and 
Nobby were reunited after many weeks, and to show their 
friendliness the former bit the latter in the back of the neck 
as a first introduction. Atkinson had gone to Hut Point to 
reassure Uncle Bill as to our safety and arrived again with 
Gran just as we got the last load up. There was no sugar at 
the hut except what the dogs had brought in, so Gran, who 
was quite fresh, volunteered to get a couple of bags from 
the depdt at Safety Camp, which could plainly be seen out — 
on the Barrier. We all went to the edge of the slope to see 
him go down it on ski. He did it splendidly and must 
have been going with the speed of an express train down 
the incline, as he was on the Barrier in an incredibly short 
time compared to the hours we had dragged up the same 
slope with the loads. Teddy, Titus and Keohane were left 
