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Geikie Land ; and by following the moraine on the 
eastern side of Dugdale Glacier we succeeded in 
bringing our sledges with the outfit a considerable 
distance upwards. But the gradient got steeper and 
the crevasses more numerous, until progress by sledge 
was impossible; then we packed ourselves, roped 
together the doctor, Colbeck, myself and the Finn 
Savio, and cut our way upwards in the hard blue 
glacier. Step by step we rose until we were a few 
thousand feet up as indicated by the aneroid. At 
last the ascent became so steep that further progress 
was impossible, we all of us were then roped 
together at a place where our only foothold was 
that cut by the pick of the alpenstock, about the 
“ROPED TOGETHER 
WE STRUGGLED 
UPWARDS.” 
7, 
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Size оѓ our hand. Towards the left an almost 
perpendicular wall rose; and to the right the glacier 
precipitated itself into a crevasse at a degree of about 
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