tent-bottoms

Updated: June 11, 2025

Ocean Camp, they said, "looked like a village that had been razed to the ground and deserted by its inhabitants." The floor-boards forming the old tent-bottoms had prevented the sun from thawing the snow directly underneath them, and were in consequence raised about two feet above the level of the surrounding floe.

Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton - South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition