Masses of floating ice prevented ships from closely approaching the glacier for at least a decade, and the steamship companies removed Glacier Bay from their itineraries.” Over the next few decades, Uhler states; Glacier Bay belonged to a hardy assortment of scientists and adventurous entrepreneurs, as well as native seal hunters, fishermen and egg-gatherers. A number of colorful characters, including the gold miners Joe and Muz Ibach of Reid Inlet and the hermits Jim Huscroft of Lituya Bay and Buck Harbeson of Dundas Bay, enlivened the local landscape. In addition to rugged individualists who pursued mining, trapping, homesteading, fox-farming and other small-scale ventures, continues Uhler, “there was at least one successful corporate operation within what is now Glacier Bay National Park, a salmon cannery at Dundas Bay.
I became attached to the characters, and felt their life’s to be important when they were trapped on top of the mountain. I would really recommend, I found it entertaining, suspenseful, informative, and fun. • Memorable quotes o “None of them imagined that horrible ordeal was drawing nigh. Nobody suspected that by the end of that long day, every minute would matter.” pg. 11 o “Following Sikhdar’s discovery in 1852, it would require the lives of twenty-four men, the efforts of fifteen expeditions, and the passage of 101 years before the summit of Everest would finally be attained” pg.
December 8 - 30 We decided to make camp south of the Columbia. On a slight rise along the banks of a small river, we cleared a site of trees and brush and built Fort Clatsop. Our time at the fort was monotonous, spent making moccasins and buckskin clothing, storing food, and working on maps. Even Christmas Day was gloomy, our dinner was stringy elk meant and roots. Rain was
Sir Ernest Shackleton led an exploratory expedition to Antarctica in 1914. The ship was crushed by ice. The crew, led by Shackleton, survived on ice floes for two years under conditions that could easily have caused despair. Shackleton preserved hope, and all of the crew survived. Whether Shackleton would have been an equally effective leader in different circumstances, a modern industrial organization for example, can be debated, but his ability to preserve hope under adverse conditions may be unequaled.
June 25, 1805 – The journey is becoming very hard. We take frequent breaks, but no one is complaining. Captain Lewis brought out a boat frame that we attempted to build using elk and buffalo hide. It failed. We made dugout canoes from logs.
4) Fools Gold: Expeditions to map and discover lucrative sea routes such as the North –West passage, laying claim to the Arctic in the name of Queen Elizabeth I and the hope of finding gold to pay for such ventures, only succeeded in unearthing worthless black rock which built a nice wall. 5) Another Planet : Visualising an almost ‘alien’ style landscape from an early nineteenth century imagination, from stories and legends of the horrific failures of man to explore such inhospitable regions, can only enhance the view that perhaps nature will
She is an Arctic Polar Bear, rescued from drowning by a research vessel headed back to the main land, is about 4 years old and weighs about 500 pounds. We hope that we can get her to put on more weight before releasing her back into her natural habitat” the guide said. “Why did she need to be saved from drowning?” asked a child, “she is a good swimmer.” “Well, she was swimming a very long way to find another place to hunt for her favorite food, the seals and sea lions. These animals have to have great areas of ice that they live on, so when the ice was not enough for the seals and sea lions, they had to move to find a place where they could live. When the other animals left, Connie had to follow them.
In 1848 at the age of 25 year Phineas Gage was noted for being one of the worlds most talked about person in history of neuroscience. He suffered a traumatic brain injury to the skull of the frontal lobe destroying most of it, but the man somehow survived this tragic experience. On September 13, 1848 at the tender age of 25 Phineas Gage was a foreman working on a railroad project on the Rutland and Burlington Railroad near Cavendish, Vermont where one of his duties include removing unwanted large rock that were in the way, making a passage way for the railroad track. This type of procedure Phineas and his crew had to accomplish was drilling a long narrow hole in a rock with a fourteen pound tamping iron filled with gun powder and then igniting
That's when a team of scientists traveled to the Titanic's final resting place in the ocean. The scientists captured detailed pictures of the wreck site. They used state-of-the-art technology. To collect the pictures, the expedition team used two self-controlled robots. The robots examined the wreck site day and night.
It had the appearance that if the edges of the continental shelves were closer they would match as if they were a puzzle. ” American Frank Taylor was working on the same problem at the same time, but they were unaware of each other, much like Darwin and Wallace (Lee, 2009)”. Dr. Wegener was the firm believer of the two and received the credit for the theory. The first presentation of Wegener’s work was at a geology meeting in 1912, but the meeting report shows no evidence of this discussion. He published two papers in this same year on the subject.