ICE-CAP GHOST TRAIN

Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 71, 23 February 1937, Page 13

ICE-CAP GHOST TRAIN

EXPLORER’S ALARMING EXPERIENCE. MR COURTAULD’S LONE VIGIL. Mr Augustine Courtauld, the explorer, in London, recently, told lor the first time of his adventures in the five months that he spent alone on the Greenland ice-cap in 1931. He was giving a Christmas lecture to children at the Royal Empire Society. He told them that while there he was alarmed at a strange phenomenon that had never been satisfactorily explained. “One day, while I was at the ice station, I heard a noise,” he said. “It was like a tube train coming down a tunnel and getting nearer and near r er, and it ended in a great crash overhead. i “I was very frightened, and could not think of anything that would account for it. The first time I went outside I found that nothing had happened. That made it all the more mysterious.

“It was not just a case of nerves, because other,, people have noticed it. Scientists explain it as a settlement of tho snow on a very big scale. It was most terrifying.”

Mr Courtauld said that he had to stay at the station alone as the expedition could not get to the station sufficient provisions for two owing to the bad weather. Gradually the entrance of the house became snowed under.

“I had,” he said, “to resign myself to keeping indoors and sit and do nothing.” Mr Courtauld added that although tho relief by aeroplane did not arrive until April, he did not really worry about it, but he was glad to see it when it did turn up.