BACK AGAIN

Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 126, 23 November 1935, Page 11

BACK AGAIN

ANTARCTIC FLIGHT

ELLSWORTH'S OBSERVATIONS

BAD CONDITIONS

United Press Association—By Electric Tele -graph—Copyright. NEW YORK,. November ,21. "Hallick-Kenyon and I: landed here at 6.30 p.m., Greenwich time, j after another unsuccessful attempt to span the Antarctic Continent," says a message received from Mr. Lincoln Ellsworth at Dundee Island by the North American Newspaper Alliance. "We were lOh hours in the air, and were forced, to turn back after reaching a point between latitudes 71 and 72 and longtitudes 65 and. 66 west."

"We!encountered an unmapped chain of mountains at least 12,000 ft in altitude. Atmospheric conditions and cloud formations were such that it' would have been foolhardy to continue, especially as we were.in a terrific tail wind, b\it we covered one-third of the distance to:the Ross Sea and made an important discovery, in that the mountain chain, of wnich Graham Land is part, rises again beyond Stefansson Strait on what is probably one great Antarctic continent. We passed jagged peaks, flying at an altitude of- 12,000 ft on our course, which trended to the south-west. ■■■'■'.. ..,:.■.-

"Clouds ranged for probably 70 miles ahead, and even there 'we could see a rolling cloud mass apparently at a higher level, indicating another range higher than the., one we saw. .

"I was- tempted to venture to fly above the clouds as far as the eightieth degree, but there would have been a grave flying risk and it would not have supplied the information we seek. Disappointed at our setback, we returned to the Wyatt Earp to try our luck again as soonas the weather permits."