Show Greatest Known Glacier Glacie Found Near South South Pole I p n v r f Hw r. r a wl S w f r 4 et etS et'S Q w S 'S S. S c 1 4 k r y A r n w rl K y L N eA T I GLACIER THC LARO LARGEST IN THE WORLD I The Tho Shackleton sledge expedition I t toward ard the south pole polo discovered after marching inarching many days over the flat fiat barrier bar bar- tier rier Ice that Its way was barred by br what lS seemed med to be bo the end of a great glacier I It seems as though the barrier end had Jad come and that there Is now going to be bo a change in somo some gigantic way In keeping with the vastness of the whole wh place That change did did come and nd in gigantic fashion for the crum crum- pled pressure ridges which confronted the little party of four were but the outer ripples of the most tremendous glacier yet discovered on the worlds world's surface If It on one meas measures res it from Mount Hope lope to Mount Darwin it is somo miles mlles in length but this appears to be only the portion more precisely confined between en mountain ranges The Tho icefalls connecting connecting connecting con con- with the tho glacier extend for another another another an an- other seven fifty-seven or sixty miles mile's s. s and and It It ItIs itis is not until a a. point miles mlles from I Mount Hope at the tho barrier end of the glacier r that we read road Yesterday we passed our last crevasse This was on December 18 IS 1908 Owing Qwing to the extraordinary dIfficulties difficulties tt ties ea which attended the march up the tho glacier and the shortness of food on the tho return Journey the expedition was not able to bring brinK back all the photographs photographs photo photo- photographs graphs it expected to obtain of f this wonderful wonderful wonderful won won- stairway of Ice The work of crossing the crevasses was too difficult difficult difficult cult to allow of being recorded by the camera c carried by the party With the aid however o of the map published by y the ge Royal Hoyal lg 1 Geographical i I f society and the tho ac- ac counts which have been made public by bythe bythe the expedition at various arlous times it is possible to reconstruct a a. general view of the main portion of the Beardmore glacier glacier gla gla- cier cler as it was was named by Sir Ernest Shackleton To give an Idea of its size one has I Ionly only to recall the fact fart that the tho biggest I Swiss glacier the Is only fifteen teen miles l in I length whereas h t this huge i glacier gle of et tl the e antarctic f ti cap i is s certainly t I Imore more than miles long In hi its main section arid and if all the upper crevassed area is included it measures s fully miles from the plateau to the barrier |