Show soar over ice 1 peaks in in plane plan e exzior explorers ers cross lofty crags in flying boat wonderful pictures of scenery Spitz spitsbergen spitzbergen bergen flying over jagged ice clad arctic mountain crags lu in a seaplane with knocking motor provides the thrill of thrills it Is no sport for one with a weak heart such a trip was mado by W a swiss aviator who has charge of the aviation expedIt expedition lon sent to SpItz spitzbergen bergen to operate cooperate co with amundsen in his attempt to fly from point barrow to SpItz spitzbergen bergen lie ile took with him tin nn all metal junker seaplane to relieve amundsen should the latter atter bo be corn com polled to land in the course of his bis long flight though Amund sens failure was known before re reached ached lie he made use of Us his opportunity port unity to make inte interesting resting aerial which he be describes in the neue la in an article translated in the living baylog age as follows low engine starts to knock I 1 determined to cross over the range which culminates la in crystalline pinnacle of Newton top at a height of nearly feet and th thersey across the 60 or CO 00 miles of mountainous country to strait my pilot neumann was a veteran seaplane operator the great ice flord lay before us on both sides vast glaciers ciers framed in rugged descended into the deep blue water to the northward rose a sea oft of peaks and pinnacles whose violet hues huea stood atoo d out with knifelike knife like tike sharpness against the golden eolden yellow horizon to the southward one snowy dome followed another under an azure blue italian heaven beyond which our gaze seemed to lose itself in iii mut but what ailed our motor whenever neumann gave it more gas it would knock distressingly I 1 left it to neumann to decide whether we should turn back but he motioned vigorously ahead throttled down hla his motor as much as possible and trusted to his bla flyers luck not to leave us in the lurch take pictures of scenery we were only feet above the sen sea and Newton top still towered above us when neumann gave the motor more gas to rise higher it began to knock again so our only recourse was to pod find a way through the mountain passes where we were violently tossed hither and thither by powerful wind currents we would glide above deep deed abysses skirt glittering bluish green grcen ice precipices and turn sharply this way and that in order to record on on our films as aa much as possible of the glorious awe inspiring scenery on either hand neumann performed his bla task with coolness and courage for nearly hall half nn chour hour we threaded burway our any with many a twist and turn amid the highest peaks of in a seaplane 1 leaving our lofty mountain companions we were soon speeding over a mighty glacier where we could easily have made a landing almost anywhere |