man-hauling

Suffering from divided opinions about man-hauling and dog-hauling of sledges, as well as the usual harsh conditions of Antarctica, depots were established all the way to the Beardmore Glacier by January 1916.

Mawson, Shackleton and the end of the Heroic Age 2009

Further, he knew that man-hauling required more food for the expedition members and careful attention had to be given to such details as the sweat resulting from the exertion which affecting what clothes to wear, how boots were taken off and put on, and even the accumulation of frost in sleeping bags.

Amundsen and Scott at the South Pole 2009

Suffering from divided opinions about man-hauling and dog-hauling of sledges, as well as the usual harsh conditions of Antarctica, depots were established all the way to the Beardmore Glacier by January 1916.

Mawson, Shackleton and the end of the Heroic Age 2009

His own experience on the Ice Barrier with the Discovery Expedition informed him of how hard man-hauling sledges would be, and so dogs, ponies, and motors would help.

Amundsen and Scott at the South Pole 2009

The various man-hauling teams were beginning to think of themselves as distinct groups.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

Crozier and Goodsir would move up and down the ranks of man-hauling men during the morning, cajoling them to put on their goggles, but the men hated the wire-mesh monstrosities.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

This summer, for the second year in a row, almost nothing living moved across the ice — only Crozier's diminished and diminishing men gasping in their man-hauling halters and their relentless pursuer, always briefly and partially glimpsed, always out of rifle or shotgun range.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

Time enough, if only a small miracle was granted them, to sail and row across the strait — probably man-hauling some short ice portages — the seventy-five miles he estimated to the mouth of Back's River, there to rerig the battered boats for travel upriver.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

“We're not on the same man-hauling teams, won't share the same boats, and may not even end up together if the captains decide to try for different escape routes,” continued Peglar.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007

Neither Crozier nor Little nor Hodgson nor any of the other few officers remaining ever told the man-hauling men that they'd seen the beast, but Blanky — who had more time than most to watch and think — saw them conferring and knew.

The Terror Simmons, Dan 2007