Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions

1902- Crozier Island: Worst Bit of Ice-Foot

 ice shelf arctic inuit sledge
The arctic ice foot

“For a short distance this was the worst bit of ice-foot I have ever encountered. By the slipping of my sledge two men nearly lost their lives, saving themselves by the merest chance, with their feet already dangling over the crest of a vertical face of ice some fifty feet in height. At the very extremity of the cape we were forced to pass our sledges along a shelf of ice… On the western side of the cape the ice-foot broadened in such a depth of light snow that it stalled us and we went into cape. The next day we made Crozier Island.” - Robert E. Peary in Nearest the Pole, published in 1907

"Ice Foot " by Donald Baxter MacMillan, 1921-1922, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Collections

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