Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions
The 1895 Sledge Voyage- The Heart of the Great Ice
Dangerous, but impressive, crevasses scar the
arctic terrain
“More than one explorer has seen the summits of a new land rise from below the east horizon, until at last, as he stepped upon the virgin shore, they towered far above him… never before has an explorer, after traveling for weeks in an unending day, thousands of feet above the sea-level, seen the peaks and valleys of a new land lying in the yellow midnight sunlight far below him, and has literally descended from the sky upon his maiden prize… For us hissed the driving snow borne on the freezing breath of the heart of the 'Great Ice', and the new land far below was but a barren heap of fragments of earth’s skeleton.” -Robert E. Peary in Northward over the “Great Ice”, published in 1898
"Ice Cap Crevasse" by Robert E. Peary, Northward over the “Great Ice” Vol. I and II. Frederick a. Stokes Company: New York, 1898.
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