| Show I O ON Walter aller Weltman who has consider considerable considerable able experience In Arctic In an article In magazIne takes take the tho view that Lieutenant plazi for reaching the Iole 1010 will prove n a failure and that thal the only feasible way Is Isby b by n a dash over oer the tho Ice Some ot of hi his oh ob I are of interest to those tholo who ma may yet el be studying subject lie He says no It would b be possible to es ci outpost and to march from one oneto oneto to another it If there thero were land In which to build these But Dul there Is not Between the tho most mOlt northerly point and tb the lole lohe there thero is h as far as known n a stretch streich Of miles of sea Th This l Is ii b by tee Ice shifting with the Various currents and depoti eat established on over oer changing 1 ice 0 field would In nit all probability be host Another nother point ho he makes is II this that the tho season ot of the year ear during which an explorer can ean travel over the ice field I is very err limited The Tue wInter months ho he hosay 1 say are too dark and the summer months too hot The season ot of travel is about a hundred days daI from the tho begin beginning ning ot of March arch to tile tho end of May May the tho ano snow is II soft IOtt and sticky and the lee Ice very much broken up Every Eory Everything thIng the traveler ne nerds 1 b by way ot of good lood must be carried with him for otter after he has left land there Is II n no to tobe tobe be found The necessity ot of carrying food fuel tuel alon along complicates the difficulties ot of travel tranI as every man In the party would need at least leall pounds of food tood for tor n a journey ot of say nine months to I Ill in nothinG of the supplies for tor the ani animal mali mal th the weight ot of tents clothes and instruments For this tea rea reason teason son ho he thinks n a Quick journey must be made Anyone who can establish a proper base and then arrange to cover coor ten miles n a day has ha the Pole within roach reach barring accidents Ten miles n a da day does not seem cem much of nn an effort but sIx miles mile appear to be bethe bethe the limit reached b by both and Wellman It If It Is true truo that a Russian engineer has solved the problem ot of tion It cannot bf be long before some ome ad adventurer takes advantage of that fact for tor a 11 journey north For otter after all with witha a dirigible balloon the dander rl and hardships or of an Arctic Melle trIp should be reduced reduce to a minimum |
