Byrd Expedition Explorers camp at foot of the Rockefeller Mountains in Antarctica. Men tie their shoe laces outside a tent. Men climb a mountain. A man climbs up. He takes out some papers from his backpack and takes pictures of the same. He climbs further upwards over the rocks, an ice axe in hand. A dog sledge moves across the terrain. Men wrap and tie load onto the sledge. Take out food from cans. Huskies in chains on the snow. Men put up a tent. A man uses a radio transmitter. Huskies around sledges. Men load and unload things.
Byrd Expedition Explorers at camp site in Antarctica. Man near a telescope on stand. man looks through the telescope and adjusts the view. A man plots a route using a compass on a map. Men walk across the snow to a point and mark it with a U.S. flag. A map shows the route between Little America and the South Pole. Men on dog sledges move across the terrain. Snow covered mountains in the background. Men walk up to a monument made up of a pile of stones, dedicated to explorers who reached this point in the past. They take off their hats as a sign of respect. A man takes out cans from this pile. The cans contain notes from various explorers. They read a note dated 14-16 December 1911, written by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He puts the note back into the can, closes it and replaces the same into the monument.
Members of Byrd Expedition set up camp site at foot of Rockefeller Mountains in Antarctica. Huskies in chains. A man adjusts the harness onto the sledge. Loaded sledges and skis in the snow. Huskies lying on the snow. Dogs covered in snow. A snow mound with a flag. An Expedition Ford Trimotor aircraft flies overhead. Tents at the camp site. Man pulls the huskies aside. Man packs and settles a sledge. A man retrieves food from a sledge and gives it to each dog. The dogs eat. Huskies sleeping on the snow. Man shovels snow into a container outside a tent. He settles the snow, put the container in a heater and shuts the lid. He takes it into a tent. Tents at the camp site. Men emerge from tents and put on their coats and enter one tent.
Byrd Expedition geological party camp site at foot of Rockefeller mountains in Antarctica. Huskies pull sledges across the terrain. Men on sledges. Tents at the camp site. A slight blizzard over the glaciers. Men outside the tents. Rocky hills. Men on sledges move away.
Byrd Expedition Explorers at camp site in Antarctica. Man near a telescope on stand. man looks through the telescope and adjusts the view. A man plots a route using a compass on a map. Men walk across the snow to a point and mark it with a U.S. flag. A map shows the route between Little America and the South Pole. Men on dog sledges move across the terrain. Snow covered mountains in the background. Men walk up to a monument made up of a pile of stones, dedicated to explorers who reached this point in the past. They take off their hats as a sign of respect. A man takes out cans from this pile. The cans contain notes from various explorers. They read a note dated 6-7 January 1912. December 1911, written by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He puts the note back into the can, closes it and replaces the same into the monument.
Explorers in Antarctica. Man with a dog sledge. Melted glaciers in the water. Dogs pull the sledge. Explorers with camera equipment. Whales in the water. Men record the film. Whales emerge and then again do below the water several times. Sunlight reflected off the water. Melted glaciers in the water.