ALL PROVISIONS LOST.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LV, Issue 13921, 27 March 1909, Page 5

ALL PROVISIONS LOST.

Mr. Macintosh, with Mr. M'Gillaai, a New Zeaiander, set out by a different route, and they had the hardest time of their lives while on the journey.- Mr. M'Gillan fell down a crevasse and lost all the provisions. In the face of this disaster, the pair had nothing to do but to go on, and eventually they got i to Cape RoydS in a famished state, , having been .foffcy-tfour hours without : food. One of the ifnost exciting por- , tions of' the jturney was in crossing 1 over Mount Bird. They had to ascend j to an altitude of about 4000 feet on j one side and descend to sea level on the i other. By the greeatest good fortune 1 they struck she only track down the .1 mountain side; and they rolled and ] tumbled down it in the best way they \ could. On each side of the track were < open and snow-covered crevasses, but 1 providentially there were none cross- < ing the descent. When they weyc j nearing Cape Royds a blizzard came \ on, and they had to circle round and \ round for about four hours, lost^ to*>i every ide* of locality. In addition to 1 experiencing the pangs of hunger, they < also suffered from frost-bites. Mr. Macintosh said that Mr. M'Gillan made a ] splendid and courageous companion, and that if it had not been for his bravery and resourcefulness they would ■ never have got through. . 1