191 r] THROUGH HOLE AND GULLY 37 
At one spot wc appeared again lo liave come to an im- 
passe, for one of the largest and mosi eliaolic pressure 
ridges had actually come up against the rock face of the 
Crozicr cliffs, but we fouiul a man -hole in I he space 
between the ice and the rock which was big enough, and 
only just big enough, for us to ca-awl ihiough one by one. 
[Bill disappeared into the hole, ami we followed and 
managed to wriggle through, working ouiselves over a gully 
the other side by jamming our bodies against one side with 
our legs against tlie clilT on the other. In anolher ]AArc we 
got up another liole between two jams ol jucssuic, rather 
like an enlarged rabbit-hole. The i^lace was strewn willi 
fallen ice blocks and rocks, and if one fell on us we slu)uld 
have finished, also if the Harri(M- had just then chosen 
to give a squce7,e.] We had to leave tlu- sledge here. 
Once past this we were in an enclosed snow pit with an 
almost vertical wall which required about lift ecu steps 
to be cut to get out of it. From h(Me we had again a 
series of drift troughs between the rock cliffs ami the 
pressure ridges until at last we got out on to the actual 
ice foot, overhanging the sea ice by a small overlianging 
cliff of 10 or 12 feet. This was tlic lowest }n)int of the 
ice foot and there was no snow drift running down from 
it on to the sea ice anywhere. 'I'his rather suggests that 
even this bay ice was not at all old as yet — possibly not 
even a month old. Farther on round t he foot of t he 
Crozicr rock clilTs the ice foot clifl was very consideral)ly 
higher, 20 to 30 feet. 
The light was rapidly failing when we at last reached 
the sea ice, and we had to be vc-ry (]uick in doing wliat 
