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Updated: June 24, 2025
There is a crevasse splitting the glacier from wall to wall," proclaimed the scientist. "We'd never be able to sled over this trail in the world!" cried Mark. "How would you pass such a yawning gulf as that?" "It beats me what's happened here since I was across last," muttered Roebach, scratching his head in bewilderment. The yawning ice was right beneath the flying machine.
But there is much going on here that interests me." Andy and Jack set up the forge and in a few minutes they had a glowing fire in it. Then the boys set to work welding the broken rods and straightening those that had become bent. Meanwhile Mr. Roebach hauled out his sled and whipped the dogs into line so that he could gear them up.
I see in this terrible heat the threat of a great and sudden change in this glacier. We must start as soon as the freeze comes on to-night, and travel as fast as we can toward the far end. Mr. Roebach knows the trail, I believe?" "I've been over it several times; but I must say that the glacier has sunk a whole lot since I was across it before," the oil man declared.
But the matter of eating was past the joking stage now. The dogs fell on the ice and could not get up again. It was a mercy to put them out of their misery, and this is what Phineas Roebach and Andy did shooting each faithful creature through the head and leaving the carcasses for the wolves which had, all this time, followed the little party at a respectful distance.
Andy Sudds and Phineas Roebach took the lead in this journey. They understood better how to handle the dogs and how to choose the trail. But, indeed, the trail was pretty well marked for them by the white traders who had gone before. Their camping sites were marked by a plenitude of discarded and empty food tins.
If we begin our work of cutting steps the moment the heat of the short day departs, we will be able, I am convinced, to get to the top of the ice cliff." "You're wrong, Professor," said Roebach. "This ice is spongy even now at least, a good deal of it is. We can't make secure footholds in that wall. We're beaten, I tell you beaten!" "No. Only balked in one way.
"Earthquakes and volcanoes don't seem to bother that chap any more than they do the professor." "Just watch him now," suggested Mark, suddenly. "Watch who Roebach?" "The professor," explained Mark.
They were glad in an hour to get into their furs, and there remained shivering in the damp, cold fog, while the streams of water which had poured down the ice-wall congealed again into the hardest of crystal. Roebach and Andy possessed themselves of two storage battery lamps and went cautiously to examine the wall up which they had climbed for more than a hundred feet.
They soon saw several objects running through the grove toward them, and these objects proved to be the returning Indians. There were half a dozen of them, and they were all armed with rifles. The moment they beheld the old hunter and the youth, with Phineas Roebach, they gave every indication of shooting, for they stopped and raised their rifles, pointing them at Mark and Andy. Mr.
Meanwhile Phineas Roebach had taken the wounded Aleut in hand. He not only extracted the bullet and bound up the wound, but he made the fellow explain the situation in Aleukan and tell why the Indians had attacked the white men.
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