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SCOTT'S LAST EXPEDITION 
[Decembkr 
The peak proved more interesting geologically than M^as 
expected, and we took back a good crop of specimens and 
photographs. 
From here our route to the old crater itself proved 
steady, steep (for sledges), and uninteresting, and we 
camped on the gravel of a small nunatak on the lower side 
of the crater glacier at 5 p.m. on the 8th (8000 feet). 
From this point Debenham was able to initiate the 
survey of the crater, and the next day all six of us carried 
one tent and equipment for three men a mile or two up the 
side of the glacier and established a camp in a gully nearly 
9000 feet above sea level. After making this camp I took 
a rope party of four across and collected from the lower 
fang of the crater, while Debenham took Abbott and 
continued his plane table survey. What I saw from the 
crater side of the glacier decided me to make the final climb 
from a point about half a mile beyond the Gully Camp, and 
so I sent Gran with two of the men back for a supply of 
food from a depot we had laid three or four miles back 
and almost on the Professor's route. 
After lunch I returned with the other two, and we 
struck the single tent at our lower crater camp, collected 
all spare gear and depoted it and the extra food, and on the 
return of the other three we pulled the sledge with its 
skeleton equipment as far as the Gully Camp, where we 
spent the night. 
On the morning of the loth we again pulled out, and 
by 11.30 A.M. we were camped in the position from which 
I had decided to make the final ascent. After discussion 
with Debenham, I selected Gran, Abbott, and Hooper to 
