“Worsley examined a spot where a killer had smashed a hole 8 ft by 12 ft in 12 ½ inches of hard ice, covered by 2 ½ in of snow. Big blocks of ice had been tossed on to the floe surface. Wordie, engaged in measuring the thickness of young ice, went through to his waist one day just as a killer rose to blow in the adjacent lead. His companions pulled him out hurriedly.”

— Ernest Shackleton, South