SOOTPS LAST EXPEDITION lDecember 
runners got temporarily stuck. This afternoon for the 
first time we could start by giving one good heave together, 
and so for the first time we are able to stop to readjust 
footgear or do any other desirable task. This is a second 
relief for which we are most grateful. 
At the lunch camp the snow covering was less than a 
foot, and at this it is a bare nine inches ; patches of ice 
and hard neve are showing through in places. I meant to 
camp at 6.30, but before 5.0 the sky came down on us 
with falling snow. We could see nothing, and the pulling 
grew very heavy. At 5.45 there seemed nothing to do 
but camp — another interrupted march. Our luck is 
really very bad. We should have done a good march 
to-day, as it is we have covered about 11 miles (stat.). 
Since supper there are signs of clearing again, but I 
don't like the look of things ; this weather has been 
working up from the S.E. with all the symptoms of our 
pony-wrecking storm. Pray heaven we are not going to 
have this wretched snow in the worst part of the glacier 
to come. The lower part of this glacier is not very interest- 
ing, except from an ice point of view. Except Mount 
KyfTen, little bare rock is visible, and its structure at 
this distance is impossible to determine. There are no 
moraines on the surface of the glacier cither. The 
tributary glaciers are very fine and have cut very deep 
courses, though they do not enter at grade. The walls of 
this valley are extraordinarily steep ; we count them at 
least 6o° in places. The ice-falls descending over the 
northern sides are almost continuous one with another, 
but the southern steep faces are nearly bare ; evidently 
