I9II] GLASS-ROOF ICE 189 
too rich and abundant ; — alas, how fleeting was this 
opinion ! 
Next day, January 28, we sledged several miles up 
the glacier, but spent all the afternoon examining a 
beautiful hanging glacier which lay like a great white 
mantle flung on the northern wall of the Ferrar Valley. 
To reach this side glacier we had to cross a much weathered 
portion of the Ferrar's surface. Large dome-covered 
ponds into which we fell at frequent intervals made one 
of us remark, ' Just like a promenade on the roof of the 
Crystal Palace.' 
As usual the rock slopes were fringed by a colonnade 
of gigantic pinnacles thirty feet high separated by narrow 
crevasses. The sun glistening on the icy minarets and 
beautiful icicles made a most impressive sight. Beyond 
this we soon reached the talus or debris slopes below the 
'Double Curtain' glacier. A stift' climb up this brought 
us to the snout of the tributary, and we found that this 
*^ mantle of ice ' ended in a vertical face forty feet thick. 
While Wright and Debenham investigated this region, I 
climbed up 2500 feet and stood on the shoulder of the 
Kukri Hills. 
A wonderful panorama was spread out before me which 
was especially striking to the south-west. Here jutted 
out the three grand gables — like the roof of a Gothic 
cathedral — which were so appropriately named the 
Cathedral Rocks. Below this we were to leave our first 
depot. 
As we returned to the tent some two miles off we 
came across several parties of Emperor penguins stolidly 
