Word: zero
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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They climbed the steep ascent of Logan, triumphant over gravity, Zero (4° to 32° below), tempests, blizzards, "monstrous ice-cliffs and blocks of fantastic shapes with overhanging masses." Scaling one peak only to find one 600 ft. higher looming beside them, they toiled 1,000 feet down, then hacked footholds up to the true peak. They stood for an hour on a ledge, a yard wide, looking off over a billowing sea of clouds punctured by glacier-streaming peaks. They saw their own shadows moving in a rainbow 19,800* ft. above the sea-floors of the world...
...reminder that one half of the world is farther away from the sun than the other, came the news that at Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina, glacial winds last week swept the streets, driving the thermometer down to 5° below zero...
Kivalina of the Ice Lands was filmed by one Earl Rossman in a two-year expedition to the Arctic. Eskimos are the actors. Here are reindeer without the Santa Claus; an eskimaid eski-mobiling behind some dogs through a 50-below zero blizzard; a full color reproduction of the aurora borealis. It might have been written with an ice-pick on the bleak wall of an igloo, but its impression of tiny men spinning their confused webs against the icy gulfs of immeasurable space registers effectively...
Gales that drove the thermometer to 5° below zero...
Search. In Danes Gut, Spitzbergen, Amundsen's base ships, From and Hobby, awaited the zero hour fixed by their instructions. The hour struck and no seaplane zoomed in from the north, nor was any signal from the smoke bombs Amundsen had taken with him visible on the horizon. Glad of a chance for action, the waiting ones had up their anchors, steamed for the edge of the ice-floes, the Hobby heading northeast, the From northwest...