The first known sighting of Ellef Ringnes Island was in 1901 by a sledging party consisting of Gunerius Isachsen and Sverre Hassel.

A new design by Ernest Gillick was used from 1904, showing RRS Discovery, with a sledging party in the foreground.

By the time the Terra Nova left New Zealand, Scott had promoted him to be a member of the shore party in charge of landing, stores, navigation and the arrangement of sledging rations, a role in which his extraordinary powers of memory served Scott well.

In February 1852, Kennedy and Bellot set out from their winter quarters in Batty Bay on a dog sledging journey, travelling south to Brentford Bay, where they discovered Bellot Strait ( a strait between Boothia Felix and Somerset Island ).

In 1966, Reginald Pound, the first biographer given access to Scott's original sledging journal, revealed personal failings which cast a new light on Scott, although Pound continued to endorse his heroism, writing of " a splendid sanity that would not be subdued ".

In his book he listed the expedition's main achievements: proof that an expedition could live on Victoria Land over winter ; a year's continuous magnetic and meteorological observations ; an estimate of the current position of the South Magnetic Pole ; discoveries of new species of insects and shallow-water fauna ; coastal mapping and the discovery of new islands ; the first landing on Ross Island and, finally, the scaling of the Great Ice Barrier and the sledging to 78 ° 50 ' S, " the furthest south ever reached by man ".

That fall, upon returning to the ship from a sledging expedition with an Inuit guide, Hall suddenly fell ill after drinking a cup of coffee.

Although the expedition located only traces of Franklin's presence, Austin is credited with organising successful sledging expeditions along the coasts of several Canadian Arctic islands, including Bathurst, Byam Martin, Melville, and Prince of Wales Island.

Mawson is definitely too cautious, and I wonder if he would show enough gumption during the sledging expedition.

The chief work during the ensuing months was detailed preparation for the spring sledging season.

When spring returned, a series of sledging expeditions was launched to search for further signs of the missing crews.

In October 1912, Bickerton was also chosen to lead one of the expedition's four main sledging parties.

Their clothing, designed for Antarctic sledging rather than open-boat sailing, was far from waterproof ; repeated contact with the icy seawater left their skins painfully raw.

The exclusion of women from the course, which is still enforced, dates from the late 1920s and was instituted because of injuries to female racers and a myth, although never proven, that excessive sledging caused breast cancer.

However perhaps the best instance of sledging involving Grace was by bowler Charles Kortright.

Sledging is common at most levels of the game in Australia, but one Australian with a particular reputation for sledging was former fast bowler Merv Hughes.

Muhammed Ali was renowned for loudly rapping in which round he would despatch his opponent, but the most famous sledging was his more serious " What's my name?

He stated " I can't remember in the games that I played in, I can't ever remember being sledged, and I can't ever remember sledging anybody ", in reference to Steve Waugh's Australian team, which was perceived as being too hostile.

On days when the weather was good they drove the dogs around outside the hut, teaching them to run in teams ; when the winds returned the pair fitted and sewed harnesses for each dog, and prepared their sledging food.

During the extremely cold winters that affected the Birmingham area during the 1950s the northern slope of Beacon Hill was frequently covered by snow for several weeks each year and was used daily by hundreds of families for sledging.

It was due to Henrik's ability and effort that the important sledging journey to Cape Constitution was completed.

It was a bitter match which saw sledging and arguments between the players of the two sides.

Northeast Glacier was resurveyed in 1940 by members of the United States Antarctic Service ( USAS ), who first used this glacier as a sledging route, and so named by them because it lies at the northeast side of their base at Stonington Island.

These ranged from simple relics ( Scott's sledging flag in Exeter Cathedral ) to the foundation of the Scott Polar Research Institute at Cambridge.

He also participated, with the scientists Edward Wilson and Hartley Ferrar, in the first sledging trip from the expedition's winter quarters in McMurdo Sound, a journey which established a safe route on to the Great Ice Barrier.

Taylor made a concerted effort to decrease the amount of sledging committed by his team, a trait that brought criticism of Australian teams during other eras.

Vine's novel is inhabited by ordinary passengers, tube aficionados, pickpockets, buskers, vigilantes, and children who go " sledging " on the roofs of cars as an initiation rite.

Between December and March, extra trains are run on some evenings between Grindelwald and Alpiglen to carry passengers to the floodlit Eiger Run sledging course.

He lost two front teeth in a school fight and half a finger in a sledging accident, both of which Bilk has claimed to have affected his eventual clarinet style.

This sport is also known as hydrospeed in Europe and as riverboarding or white-water sledging in New Zealand, depending on the type of board used.

Several companies operate riverboarding or sledging excursions in New Zealand near Queenstown, Wanaka, and Rotorua.

He also tends to engage in sledging of opposition batsmen and teams, though it doesn't always pay off.

Activities at Gilwell Park include: camping, leader training, a rope swing, high rope course, archery, pedal go-karts, grass sledging, canoeing, rifle shooting, crate stacking, wall climbing, revolving wall climb, jump mats, rafting, team building, horse riding, orienteering, pioneering, tours, hiking, photography, obstacle courses, and aeroball.

They can frequently be heard encouraging the bowler, and may also indulge in the practice ( not meant to be overheard ) of " sledging " the batsman with well timed comments about their skill, appearance or personal habits.

Sledding ( US ), sledging ( UK ), sleding or tobogganing is a common activity in wintry areas, similar to sliding, but in a prone or seated position requiring a device or vehicle generically known in the US as a sled or in other countries as a sledge or toboggan.

Dennis, Gnasher and the Bash Street Kids sledging.

The sport of cricket is particularly notorious for heckling between the teams themselves, which is known as sledging.

Appealing differs vastly from sledging in the context that appealing is not supposed to be offensive or directly taunting to the other team, and more of a celebration to the appealing team.

When winter ended and sledging activity became possible, Borchgrevink's assumptions about an easy route to the interior proved false ; the glaciated mountain ranges adjoining Cape Adare precluded any travel inland, restricting exploration to the immediate area around the cape.

The first manifestation of Isaac's surrender of Adrian's style is apparent in 1644 when the skating and sledging scenes were executed which we see in the Lacaze collection and the galleries of the Hermitage, Antwerp and Lille.

It is a sloping grassy area, popular for sledging on snowy winter days, overlooked by The Mitre public house.

Cherry suffered from high degree myopia, seeing little without the spectacles that he could not wear while sledging.

On the rare occasions when snow falls in the town, it provides the local populace with superb sledging opportunities.