Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions
1906- Departure from 87 North: Red-Hot Needles
“From the time we left Storm camp on the upward mach the wind had blown with greater or less force, but without interruption, from a little south of true west. Now as we retraced our steps it blew quartering in our faces, and accompanied by a fine drift of snow, cut like red-hot needles. We had already made a good day’s march. Now we had to duplicate it without rest or food. When at last we stumbled into camp I was nearly blind from the effects of the cutting snow and wind, and completely done up with the long continued exertion. The interest and excitement of the advance were gone, the reaction had come and my feet dragged like lead.”- Robert E. Peary in Nearest the Pole, published in 1907
