We encountered a very high, rough sastrugi surface, most remarkably high, and had a cold breeze in our faces during the march.

Our beards and moustaches are masses of ice.

I will take care I am clean-shaven next time I come out.

The frozen moustache makes the lobes of the nose freeze more easily than they would if there was no ice alongside them....

I ask myself why on earth one comes to these parts of the earth.