ski-driving

Updated: July 20, 2026

This so-called sport has never appealed to me, but under the circumstances it was permissible; it warmed my feet, and that was the object of it. I again had recourse to this "sport" of ski-driving later on, but that was for another reason. On the 15th, as we sat in the tent cooking and chatting, Hanssen suddenly said: "Why, I believe my heel's gone!"

Roald Amundsen - The South Pole; an account of the Norwegian antarctic expedition in the "Fram," 1910-1912 — Volume 1