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This has been our worst day for crevasses up to now, some of them are 100 feet across, but well bridged. "It was very cold, with a sharp southerly wind when we started, but later on got quite warm. We rose 1130 feet in the forenoon and made 5 miles 1565 yards up to lunch. "Our height above the Barrier is 7750 feet by aneroid.
It is rather trying having to march so far to the west, but if we keep rising we must come to the end of the obstacles some time. Saturday night. Camp 45. T. -3°. Bar. 21.61. ?Rise. Height about 7750. Great vicissitudes of fortune in the afternoon march. Started west up a slope about the fifth we have mounted in the last two days.
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