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)H° W I Discovered the South Pole”—Amundsens Own Story of Famous Trip
(FROM HEARST’S MAGAZINE FOR NOVEMBER)
Amundsen's discovery of the
South Pole is one of the mile
stones of great achievement in
modern history. The famous ex
.plorer tells his story of daring and
accomplishment in Hearst’s Mag-
Mthe for November, now on sale
*%,t the newsstands.
It is an amazing and yet very
. %uman narrative, as the following
xcerpts show:
JZ"XN April 11 th* sun disappeared.
X/ 1 I The longest night any man had
| known In the Antarctic regions
ihad begun. Old campaigners as we
'•u'ere, everything was well prepared for
jit. There was the hut. stout and strong
INo storm, no matter how It blew could
hurt ft. T.lght and warm It was Inside,
dry and airy. The large, roomi eav-
E erns we had exi avated In the fee bar
rier and connected directly with the hut
gave us Apace sufficient for our work
shops: we did not need to use our hut
to work in.
We were amply supplied with pro
visions. Seven hundred yards from the
hut was our chief store, containing
enough for several years We had
killed and laid by 120.000 pounds of seal
meat, enough for ourselves and our
dogs sot our whole stay Phtel and
light we had in abundant •. the best
|>y Welsh coal and the dryest Not egian
F birchwood. Barrel upon bat re! of pe
troleum lay in out cellars.
The winter work consisted In pre
bating out outfit and getting every
thing ready for out march to the south.
Our tours in the months of February
March and April, to form depots 1n lat.-
tude 80. 81 and 82 degrees, had taught
us that we must make many alterations
1n our outfit.
Making the New S'edges
Thus Bjuaiand. ski and sledge makvt.
■n.is sent to make the necessary pa is
fo> four new sledges, weighing about 5!)
. pounds apiece. The original sledges
M' igheil 150 pounds apiece Wi-ting
and Hanssen, both good sailor.- ami khe
latte- an experienced polar explorer,
had to fasten the parts together as
Strongly as could be done Siubberud >
a carpenter and joiner by trade, «as|
assigned the unenviable task of redm I
Ina ih<- Height of our sledge provision I 1
boxes.
. Tm- packing of the sl -dgc provisions 1
■kyii- iiattet of the very utmost hn- I 1
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—MAGAZINE SECTION.
of thought and attention had 10 be de
voted to the subject. This was in
trusted to Johansen Ptaeste-ud was
occupied with the scientific arrange
ments for tlie expedition—-pendulum
and astronomical observations. Titus
each had his hands full and the winter
set In
Our provisions were not rich in va
rieties of courses, but were the most
nourishing and most concentrated ob
tainable. They consisted of pemmican.
biscuits, chocolate and <iried milk. The
pemmican .was made in Norway and
"as somewhat different from' that
which Is generally used, being mixed
with oatmeal and vegetables, as well ns
meat and fat. The biscuits «ere made
expressly, and possessed a very high
degree of nourishment They consisted
of oatmeal, mflkmenl or dried milk and
sugni-. The chocolate was an ordinary
kind. The milkmeal proved a splendid
thing, and as much as possible should
■■e taken on all such expeditions. It
hght, packs well and keeps good under
all cir< um-iances.
brought dried new milk with
n» the manufacturer assuring us it
would keep through the tropics we had
10 traverse. Despite the treatment ft
re< eived It kept perfectly good the
whole time. We could make ourselves
a cup of new milk at any time, and
that is a great advantage on such a
long expedition.
Double Sleeping Bags.
On the first part of the journey, we
used double sleeping bags The outer
one Ot the skin of reindeer buck. The
inner one of light skin of reindeet doe
or reindeer calf Both had the hnirv
ride in. Outside the two. we had a
cover of light linen cloth, somewhat
longer than the bags This cover was
always kept on. both in the tent and
on the march. Jn the tent it protected
the bags from damp, while on the
march It kept the driven snow entirely
out.
Os snow spectacles, several kinds
were used each thought he had dis
covered the bem. PersonaJly. I used
a pair of ordinm y spectaclt e with light
cellow glass It may seem unheard of
to go on an expedition of 1.500 miles
In tli.-e surroundings with only a pair
of oidinary unprotected spectacles, in
which the light can enter everywhere
but I did .I and what is more, with
out «o much as suffering once from
.'•not* blindiK
♦Mi nis h«lies 1 used, from uui
i< i qunriPfs t<» th» po ♦ Mini bin k. a
pa < of ordinary walking woolen mu
tens with th. font tlngets together tn
i he Atlanta Georgian and news.satl rday, November 2. ihu.
one compartment. <me pair lasted the
whole way .
Our sledges were of the ordinary
Nansen pattern, but of unusually light
build. Two were shod with steel, the
others not. All four had spare run
ners. The sledges were as strong on
our return as when we sent out.
On August 23 all was ready, and at
noon we drove our laden sledg.-s up
to the starting place on the other side
of the bay, about three miles from our
establishment, "Krautheim.” We had
won in our race ivith the sun, which
reappeared on the following day. Ow
ing to the low temperature, 50 to 70
degrees below zero. Fahrenheit, we
were obliged to wait some days. At
lost, on September 8. at 12:3o noon,
we were able to get off.
The journey that followed I shall pass
over ouiekly. It was I■ rntlcally cold,
ranging from 60 to *•'» degrees beloxy
zero; the dogs suffered greatly at night
and three of the men had frozen heels.
We bad 10 be satisfied with reaching
the depot, at 80 degrees, that we had
built five months before, leaving stores
there and returning to "Pramheim.”
Thi« trip, however, taught us much.
I saw we could without risk divide our.
selves into two patties and thus ac
complish more woik. It was then de
termined that one party, under Lieu
tenant Praesterud, should go to King
Edward's 1-and and do what they could
there, w hile we others would follow the
main plan--the march to the south.
At length October 20 arrived—time
seems long to those who wait. The
weather was a little uncertain in the
morning -squally But at 8 o'clock it
cleared from the east w ith a light
breeze, and off we went. There were
five of us—Hansstn. Wisting, Hassel.
Bjaaland and myself—with four sledges
and fifty -two dogs, thirteen to each
sledge.
As we bad all our provisions at eignty
degrees, the sledges were very light, and
we went along at a gallop. We did
twenty miles a day those days, reach
ing our depot at eighty degrees at 1:38
l>. m. on October 23. in the densest fog.
This gave us a convincing proof ot
the ai curacy of our compass and of our
distance meters.
Went 15 Miles a Day.
After leaving the depot of October,
we made fifteen miles a day. giving rhe
dogs a chance to eat their till at the
lb pit .- Soon we began erecting snow
beacon- to serve to guide us on re
turn-tig. Such a b. aeon was somew hst
more titan a inan’j height, built -HL.
■ about sixty blocks of hard snow cut
from the surface. We put up about
150. necessitating 9,000 blocks.
At first one was built every seventh
- and eighth mile—subsequently every
11ft‘i ami at last, near th-' ; ole every
second mile. In each of these beacons
a note was left stating the number of
the beacon, its position, the direction
, and distance of the nearest beacon. In
. this manner we always k- pt a control
■ of our march.
t'n the morning of the ninth of No-
1 vember. when we got outside our tent.
1 w'e found the air clear, and on exam
ining the patches of cloud, which were
still in the same place, we saw they
were the tops of hugi mountains. This
sight w rought in us quite a curious sen
sation. There we had. before us, rhe
mighty continent covered with ice and
snow and barring our way to the pole.
Some mountains were more bare than
snow-covered. Thus, that part of the
mighty Fridtjof Nansen’s” mountain,
which faced the Barrier, was almost
entirely bare. It stood like a dark,
dreary sentinel, guarding the entrance
to the mystic regions. Its head was
capped by a magnificent, dazzlingly
white, glittering helmet at an elevation
of 15.001) feet.
The 17th of November w as a red let
ter day. VVe climbed an undulating
ridge of ice 300 feet high and then de
scended to the "beach.” We encamped
here nt 85:5 degrees and prepared for
the next stage. We five pedestrians
were about to be transformed into Al
pine climbers.
Ihe story of the ascent to the pla
teau Is one of almost constant adven
ture. of narrow escapes from death.,
from falling into crevices in the gla
ciers or off of bleak, slippery preci
pices. At times the faces of the men
were swollen almost beyond recognition I
in the merciless antarctic gal- s. Once
men and dogs suffered from the heat
with a blazing sun and the temperature
at fifteen degrees above zero
We were constantly sacrificing the
dogs—once we had to dispatch 24 of
our brave four-footed comrades at one
time. Several times ive camped over
9,080 feet above the sea. At times we
traversed snow ridges, eerie and dan- '
gerous. at others poltsned. wind-swept I
ice. But at last we forced our way I
and reached the level plateau.
I shall never forget the day we :
reached Shackleton s Farthest South.-
I: »)« my turn to be pioneer. Hassel
utim 1 took turns. It is a tiresome woik
Ik
t thus going on in front. No one to
t talk to. nothing to see. The plain
spreads out in all directions till it loses
1 itself in the horizon. I had now gone
on for a couple of hours and was
■ deeply immersed in my own thoughts,
when I was aroused by ringing cheers.
Shackleton Outstripped.
11 turned sharp round and remained
1 still. The scene was so engrossing that
1 all description fails. The Norwegian
flag—my own dear country’s Hag un
folded itself from the foremost, sle, e
and fluttered in the gentle southerly
bieeze—Bß:23 degrees bad been passed.
We gathered round the flag and
’ pressed one another’s hands. It was
a wonderfully solemn moment. It may
. well be believed that we sent him who
had reached thus far and his faithful,
brave companions a thought, full of
! admiration and respect for their man
ly courage and the perseverance they
displayed during their long, severe
struggle. There will ever be honor and
renow n for w hat Sir Ernest Shackleton
has accomplished.
The rest of the journey was exhaust
ing because of the altitude, but we
made good speed.
I
On the 11th of December, we were
at 89:15 degrees. Dead reckoning and
observation again agreed exactly. We
were nearing our goal with rapid
strides.
JThe next three days were spent un
der precisely the same conditions as
tlie previous ones. Temperature con
tinued even, at about fifteen degrees,
and the sun was out the whole time. On
the 12th. by reckoning and observation,
89:30 degrees. On the 13th, the obser-
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vation at noon gave 89:37 degrees. That
evening we pitched our tent at 89:45
degrees by reckoning.
And then came The G’-eat Day. After
10 o’clock there came a change in the
sky’ and it blew a little from the south
east. so we did not get the meridian
that day. At 3 p. m., the distance
meters announced that our goal was
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It’s Daddy Talking
" T_T USH, children; it’s daddy talking.”
11 “Yes, Jim; we are all well and the
children have been real good. How
have you been ? Coming home tonight ?
That s fine! It will seem good to see you
again.’’
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away from home brings joy to the family
circle by cheery words over the telephone.
The local and longdistance Bell Tele
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with home conditions.
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reached.
We had got our silk flag ready in
the morning. We gathered round it
now. each man took hold, and together
we planted it here—at the same time
naming the plateau, on which the pole
is situated, "King Haakon the Sev
enth's Wilds."
We had reached the pole with three
sledges and seventeen dogs.