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Well , we were rigged up for discovering the north pole , and had alpenstocks to push ourselves up with , and the guides had ropes to pull us up when we got to places where we could n't climb . I could get along all right , but they had dad on a rope most of the time pulling him until his tongue run out and his face turned blue . But dad was game , and do n't you forget it . Before noon we got on top of a glazier , which is the ice of a frozen river , that moves all the time , sliding towards the sea . -LSB- Illustration : Dad slipped down a crevice about 100 feet 181 -RSB- There was nothing but a hard winter , in summer , to the experience , and we would have gone back the same night , only dad slipped down a crevice about 100 feet with the rope on him , and the two guides could n't pull him up , and we had to send a lunch down to him on the rope and one of the guides had to go back to the village for help to get dad up . Well , sir , I think dad was nearer dead than he ever was before , but they sent down a bottle of brandy , and when he drank some of it the snow began to melt and he was warm enough to use bad language . He yelled to me that this was the limit and wanted to know how long they were going to keep him there .