Friday 21st April 1911, To Cape Evans, Cleanliness And Clean Clothes
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Weather improved a bit so we left Hut Point for Cape Evans. Two sledges and two tents. I was with Captain Scott, Atkinson and Crean. Bowers, Oates, Cherry-Garrard and Hooper were on the other.
We had a lot of heavy pulling over the hills going along the top of the promontory to Hutton Cliffs and here we all went down a 20 ft ice cliff by rope on to the sea ice in a smother of snow as a small blizzard came on.
We then also lowered the loaded sledges one by one, camped under the cliff, and had some tea 4 p.m. It was getting dark, but we crossed the bay to the Glacier Tongue, and then crossed the Glacier Tongue—a perfect maze of crevasses—when it was so dark that we were constantly putting our feet through.
No one went in, but we had more difficulty in finding a way down again on the north side to the sea ice as we wanted to go down a sloping drift instead of over a 40 ft ice cliff and it was too dark to see anything.
However, we were saved at last and then we plodded along over 6 miles of rubbly sea ice in the dark until at 9.30 p.m. we got to Cape Evans—dry clothes, and a supper, and some cleanliness after three months without a wash or getting one’s clothes off. 17 ½ miles of heavy pulling.
