at the Gimsun Palace [illegible] the ice hardened very annoying us to come up in safety. Descending the glacier was exciting work as well as hard work. The condition of the ice precluded driving the dogs, such a procedure would result in loss of team and equipment our face if glacier into the sea. Whipping the dogs behind the sledge and making traces as a trail I guided the sledge over the slippery descent for about a mile. On the very far we were compelled to cut a path into the ice for the sledge. Fortunately at the foot of the blaze the ice just was about 30 feet wide which enabled the downward plunge to be taken in safety. So our disengagement, luck as we expected, the sea