OLD SOL SEEN AT LAST

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 748, 22 August 1929, Page 9

OLD SOL SEEN AT LAST

EXPLORERS CLIMB RADIO TOWERS LONG HIBERNATION ENDED BY RUSSEELt OWEN Copyrighted, 1928, by the “New York Times’* company and the St. Louis ‘‘PostDispatch.** All rights for publication reserved throughout the world. Wireless to the “New Yorfc Times." Reed. 9 a.m. BAY OF WHALES, Tues. An unfair advantage was taken of the sun today. It was officially not due back until Thursday, but it was so close to the horizon at noon that the men climbed the radio towers and saw it as it peeped from the top of the Barrier hills. It did not quite detach itself from the clinging skyline, but at least three-quarters of it was visible. Not only that, but a seal was killed for fresh meat, making it a notabje day. A snow-shovel gang went out, marking the end of our long hibernation. Bernt Balchen and Sverre Strom went on skis to Framlieim to see what condition the ice was in at the approaches to the Barrier, where the southern trail winds through the pressure ice and crevasses. They found many new upheavals and crevasses, as if there had been a terrific pressure there this winter. On the way home they came by way of the Bay ice and had to make a wide detour to get back around the pressure ice, which has been forced up iu the last few months. The entire surface of the bay between here and Framlieim has apparently changed, and is so broken that it may go out this season much farther than last year.