The distance out was 7ｽ miles, and the party covered a total distance of about 17 miles.

Hurley took some photographs and Wordie came back rejoicing with a little dust and some moss.
"Within a radius of one mile round the berg there is thin young ice, strong enough to march over with care," wrote Worsley.

"The area of dangerous pressure, as regards a ship, does not seem to extend for more than a quarter of a mile from the berg.

Here there are cracks and constant slight movement, which becomes exciting to the traveller when he feels a piece of ice gradually upending beneath his feet.

Close to the berg the pressure makes all sorts of quaint noises.