THE WESTERN JOURNEYS 
By Griffith Taylor, B.A., B.Sc, B.E., F.G.S. 
[See Folding Map, p. 290 ; and The Birdseye Views, 
pp. 420, 422, 425.] 
CHAPTER I 
KOETTLITZ, FERRAR, AND TAYLOR GLACIERS 
The following chapters describe the doings of six members 
of the Expedition during a detailed exploration of the 
' Western Mountains ' in South Victoria Land. A few 
words as to the scene of our operations and the personnel 
of the parties will serve as an introduction to the narrative 
of the sledge journeys. 
As you stand on Cape Evans with your back to the 
steam cloud of Erebus you see across McMurdo Sound 
a glorious range of mountains running due north and 
south and rising to 13,000 feet in the south-west. These 
are the Western Mountains. Their southern limit is the 
extinct volcanic cone of Discovery, and far to the north 
one can follow the same range of snow-clad peaks until 
it merges with the grey line of the horizon. Beyond this 
grey line was Granite Harbour (76° 50^), and that marked 
the northern limit of our survey; while the Koettlitz 
Glacier (in 78"^ 20'), which hid the lower slopes of Discovery, 
