SHACKLETON'S BOLD PLAN.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 13300, 9 February 1914, Page 10

SHACKLETON 'S BOLD PLAN.

,■■ i i i BJJBJI f WILL DEPEND ON'TJOG-EAT- -•*'■■ DOG" SYSTEM. LONDON, Dec. 31. "Tile, nfost surprising > feature of Shackleton's .plan, to .cross the South continent is his proposal to march / at "least ICOO miles, and possibly 1700, ' without the aid of depots of food. So | daring a scheme has never been atr. tempted before. The usual plan has 'been to make a depot every 70 miles '. or so, and no other polar expedition has r ever tried to carry enough food for the . -whole journey. Shackleton said: — j "VI know that many people say- it is not. possible. I say it is, and lam ■ going to show that it is., the last two years I have been working it out dpwn to the last ounce of food, and so ' far as I can see there is no reason why we should not do it. We will start • with 120 dogs and about 12,0001bs oi k food, and as we go along the dogs will "eat each other, and by the time we reach the Pole or thereabouts we shall probably be reduced to 50 dogs and six sledges. That equipment will see us ' through the 700 miles or so that are still m front of, us.- 'ln working out the equipment- 1 have allowed ten days for ' delay by blizzards." it . •———— —————