GOULD'S PARTY CLIMBING ICY MOUNT NANSEN.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18940, 10 December 1929, Page 1

GOULD'S PARTY CLIMBING ICY MOUNT NANSEN.

find rocks telling MOST INTERESTING STORY BY RUSSELL OWEN. Copyrighted, 1928, by the “New York Times'* Company and “St Louis Post-Dispatch." All Rights for Publication Reserved Throughout the World. Wireless to “New York Times." (Received December 10, 11.30 a.m.) BAY OF WHALES, December 8. Professor Lawrence Gould’s geological party in the Queen Maud Range have climbed part way up Mount Nansen, west of Axel Heiberg Glacier. Gould’s reports have been as follows: December 6.-—“ Our present camp, which is west of Mount Betty on Axel Heiberg, is at 85 degrees 2 minutes south and 165 degrees 30 minutes west longitude. O’Brien, Thorne and I started for Mount Betty to-day, but heavy fog came up and we had to return. We have established our mountain base here. With better weather we shall start up the glacier to-morrow, with two weeks’ supplies, in an attempt to reach the flat-lying rocks that cap Mount Nansen.” December 7.—“ We came up the west portion of Axel Heiberg yesterday and camped in a snowstorm on the north side of Mount Nansen. The rocks are very difficult to reach, as there are crevasses on all borders of the glacier, but we climbed 6500 feet up the flank of Mount Nansen to-day and found a series of rocks that has told us a geological story of such amazing interest as to make the whole trip worth the effort. We have only started, and have been in the clouds most of the time for the last three days. It greatly interferes with our work.”