Life on the Ice

Orde-Lees' Journal - November 14, 1915

Temperature +25 to 33.

"Bother the thaw; one lives in a state of perpetually wet feet but, strange to say, it seems to do one no particular harm.  Inside the tents the temperature rises at times to a mushy 50 degrees & when sitting still within ones wet boots visibly steam from the warmth of the feet, but they dry a little at any rate!

I am now wearing ordinary Norwegian ski boots, like normal walking boot instead of the big Burberry boots made of canvas with a leather golosh & Durox sole & fastened by webbing bands were fine boots in their way & no doubt were suitable for a trans-polar journey with minus temperatures all the way, as they are capable of accommodating four or even five pairs of socks but alas are unsuitable for the present temperature."