"ONE CHANCE IN A HUNDRED"
A PESSIMISTIC COMMENT.
(SYDNEY SON CABLE.) (Received 25th May, 10 a.m.)
NEW YORK, 24th May Captain Hammer, a Danish aviator who accompanied Amundsen two years ago to within four hundred miles of the Pole, declares that a landing in the vicinity of the Pole must Ije suicidal, bcuiuso of the rough ice. '■'Even if they managed to. descend, how can they ri/e again?" h 8 asks. He thinks the expedition has not more than one chance in a hundred of returning. "There are terrifying hummocks of ice all about. If anything happens to their aeroplanes they are gone, as water intervenes between the polar region and any route of escape to Alaska or Siberia."
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 120, 25 May 1925, Page 5
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