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"PRESSURE RIDGES." 
THIS STRIKING PHOTOGRAPH OR THESE HUGE MASSES OF BROKEN ICE CONVEYS MORE FORCIBLY THAN 
ANY DESCRIPTION THE ENORMOUS POWER EXERTED BY- THESE VAST FIELDS OF ICE. 
satisfactory, organization I had made myself 
responsible for.” 
Four days’ rest, and Scott headed a double 
sledge party to take supplies to the party held 
up at Hut Point till the new ice should form a 
level road again for the ponies instead of the 
difficult inland route from the glacier over the 
heights of Castle Rock. This did not happen 
till the middle of May. Meantime the increas- 
ing cold indicated the end of the sledging 
season. The obstacles became harder ; faces 
got frost-bitten, and feet grew cold in the 
long effort to climb the wall of the ice-foot. 
The drift of frozen snow-dust was streaming- 
off the cliff ; the rope that had let them down 
four days before was now buried at both ends ; 
the only means of scaling the wall was to un- 
load a sledge and hold it end up on men’s 
shoulders, while Scott himself clambered up 
this impromptu ladder, and with an ice-axe 
cut steps over the cornice. 
Sealing an Iee-Wall. 
With the Alpine rope he helped up others, 
then the gear was hauled up piecemeal and 
repacked. “For Crcan, the last man up, we 
lowered the sledge over cornice and used 
a bowline in other end of rope on top of it. 
He came up grinning with delight, and we all 
thought the ascent rather a cunning piece of 
work.” Then, chilled to the bone, they all 
