Rocks and Muskoxen
Our first journey started well, for we were given a lift across the lake by boat, but after the ride we had to walk. Walking with a heavy pack is unpleasant at the best of times, and the sun was still hot enough to make the five-mile trek across the glaring sands of the "dustbowl"-as we ca...
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ftcaltechauth:oai:authors.library.caltech.edu:65800 2023-05-15T15:04:30+02:00 Rocks and Muskoxen Wyllie, Peter J. Simpson, Cortlandt James Woore 1957 https://authors.library.caltech.edu/65800/ https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160331-102806889 unknown Hodder and Stoughton Wyllie, Peter J. (1957) Rocks and Muskoxen. In: North ice: the British North Greenland Expedition. Hodder and Stoughton , London, pp. 270-274. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160331-102806889 <https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160331-102806889> Book Section PeerReviewed 1957 ftcaltechauth 2020-04-26T17:06:34Z Our first journey started well, for we were given a lift across the lake by boat, but after the ride we had to walk. Walking with a heavy pack is unpleasant at the best of times, and the sun was still hot enough to make the five-mile trek across the glaring sands of the "dustbowl"-as we called Skovdalen-extremely unpleasant. My companion and assistant this autumn was George Fletcher, one of the "new boys", whose first arctic journey this was to be. His introduction to Greenland travel was a march across a desert; but the ice came soon enough, and on the second day we walked fifteen miles up Admiralty Gletscher to the Trefork Sø depot. Here we pitched a permanent tent, our base for daily excursions to the various cliffs and outcrops which I wished to examine. We consolidated our results of the first year in reasonable conditions; and, after completing a fair amount of work, returned slowly towards base visiting selected outcrops on the way. Book Part Arctic Greenland Caltech Authors (California Institute of Technology) Arctic Greenland |
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Our first journey started well, for we were given a lift across the lake by boat, but after the ride we had to walk. Walking with a heavy pack is unpleasant at the best of times, and the sun was still hot enough to make the five-mile trek across the glaring sands of the "dustbowl"-as we called Skovdalen-extremely unpleasant. My companion and assistant this autumn was George Fletcher, one of the "new boys", whose first arctic journey this was to be. His introduction to Greenland travel was a march across a desert; but the ice came soon enough, and on the second day we walked fifteen miles up Admiralty Gletscher to the Trefork Sø depot. Here we pitched a permanent tent, our base for daily excursions to the various cliffs and outcrops which I wished to examine. We consolidated our results of the first year in reasonable conditions; and, after completing a fair amount of work, returned slowly towards base visiting selected outcrops on the way. |
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Wyllie, Peter J. (1957) Rocks and Muskoxen. In: North ice: the British North Greenland Expedition. Hodder and Stoughton , London, pp. 270-274. https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160331-102806889 <https://resolver.caltech.edu/CaltechAUTHORS:20160331-102806889> |
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