Page "Ross Ice Shelf" Paragraph 11

The next day, the party made its first steps on the Barrier.

" After half an hour ’ s march we were already at the first important point — the connection between the sea-ice and the Barrier.

This connection had always haunted our brains.

What would it be like?

A high, perpendicular face of ice, up which we should have to haul our things laboriously with the help of tackles?

Or a great and dangerous fissure, which we should not be able to cross without going a long way round?

We naturally expected something of the sort.

This mighty and terrible monster would, of course, offer resistance in some form or other ," he wrote.