Joyce thought that a big crevasse had caved in.

"We took some photographs," wrote Joyce.

"It is a really extraordinary fill-in of ice, with cliffs of blue ice about 70 feet high, and heavily crevassed, with overhanging snow-curtains.

One could easily walk over the edge coming from the north in thick weather." Another bergstrom, with crevassed ice around it, was encountered on the 11th.

Joyce reached the Bluff depot on the evening of the 14th and found that he could leave 624 lbs.