Then we were to take the Primus lamp filled with oil, the small cooker, the carpenter's adze (for use as an ice-axe), and the alpine rope, which made a total length of fifty feet when knotted.

We might have to lower ourselves down steep slopes or cross crevassed glaciers.

The filled lamp would provide six hot meals, which would consist of sledging ration boiled up with biscuit.

There were two boxes of matches left, one full and the other partially used.

We left the full box with the men at the camp and took the second box, which contained forty-eight matches.