COURTAULD SAFE

Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 90, 13 October 1931, Page 9

COURTAULD SAFE

GREENLAND EXPEDITION

SCANDINAVIAN HELP

(Received 13th October, 10 a.m.) COPENHAGEN, 12th October. Augustine Courtauld and his companions are safe at Julianshaab, Greenland, thanks to the assistance of the Scandinavian party.

After being imprisoned for two months in a snow-buried hut, Mr. Augustine Courtauld was rescued by his comrades in March last. A member of a British expedition which went to the Arctic to study air routes across it, Courtauld was left to winter on the Greenland Ice Cap, where he became an involuntary inhabitant of one spot. Mr. Hi G. Watkins, leader of the expedition, and two other comrades dug Courtauld out, and the estimated cost of the rescue was '& 20,000, including heavy insurance premiums on the rescuers. He was found only after a difficult search, the top of his chimney being seen through the snow. The expedition received much attention in the Press, and could not understand the prominence given to them, "as practically everything had gone to schedule,'* they said. Last month it was feared that Courtauld might have to spend another winter in the Greenland ice, he and Watkins being marooned at Akariurartut through the disablement of their motor-boat. They had the choice between crossing the inland ice without equipment and wintering at Umivik, where they might be picked up by a Scandinavian party.