Polar-exploration vehicles

Usage examples of sledges.

Hassel and the Vapour-bath 330 Midwinter Day, June, 1911 362 Our Ski-binding in its Final Form 364 At Work on Personal Outfit 364 Trying on Patent Goggles 368 Hassel in the Oil-store 368 Deep in Thought 372 Funcho 372 The Loaded Sledges in the Clothing Store 374 Sledges Ready for Use Being Hauled Out of the Store-room 374 At the Depot in Lat.

The four who were to continue the work at the station -- Wisting, Hassel, Stubberud, and Bjaaland -- now had as much as their sledges could carry.

It may be startling to hear of sledging in Madeira, but I must explain that the sledges had wooden runners, and that the road was paved with a black stone that was very smooth.

I sit down on the pile of sledges by the opposite wall, and am going over in my mind all I have seen, when suddenly he thrusts his head forward -- like a man who is going to make a dive -- and disappears among the bundles of skins.

At the next point we met with some small, very steep glaciers, and here we had to harness twenty dogs to each sledge and take the four sledges in two journeys.

We had brought the sledges the day before to the starting-point of the southern journey.

On September 8 a party of eight men set out, with seven sledges and ninety dogs, provisioned for ninety days.

It consisted of five men with four sledges and fifty-two dogs, and had provisions for four months.

In order to relieve the heavily laden sledges, we formed a depot at every parallel we reached.

We took supplies for sixty days on the sledges and left behind enough provisions for thirty days.

They also took a motor-car, besides the usual equipment of sledges, ski, tents, etc.

The southern party, composed of Shackleton, Adams, Marshall, and Wild, started on October 29, 1908, with four sledges, four ponies, and provisions for ninety-one days.

We had ten sledges made by a firm of sporting outfitters in Christiania.

They were built like the old Nansen sledges, but rather broader, and were 12 feet long.

These sledges were extremely strongly built, and could stand all kinds of work on every sort of surface.