Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions
1906- The Big Lead Revisited
“In the third march from Storm Camp we crossed the scar of the “big lead.” By scar I mean where the edges of the “big lead” had been driven together and had frozen fast... [However,] on the second march south of the scar we came upon a region of huge pressure ridges running in every direction. It was an ominous sign, and I was not surprised a few hours later when an Eskimo whom I had sent in advance to reconnoiter a trail for the sledges signaled to me from the summit of a pinnacle ‘open water.’”- Robert E. Peary in Nearest the Pole, published in 1907
