70/86 Here we are, frostbitten in the day, frozen at night. What a life!" The temperature at 1 p.m.that day was -23ー Fahr., i.e.55ー of frost. The next day, after being delayed for some hours by bad weather, they turned towards Castle Rock and proceeded across the disturbed area where the Barrier impinges upon the land. Joyce put his foot through the snow-covering of a fairly large crevasse, and the course had to be changed to avoid this danger. Mackintosh felt that the pace was too slow, but was unable to quicken it owing to the bad surfaces. |