id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt 60948 Buchan, John The Last Secrets: The Final Mysteries of Exploration .txt text/plain 58972 2857 75 north-east to south-west, but at a place called Sadiya the main came back with stories of great inland seas and snow mountains near apparition, "like snow mountains in the sky," which his men saw, but wonderful mountain vegetation, and nearly reached the snow level. of my great efforts will be to reach the southern geographical Pole." On the evening of New Year's Day, 1909, the Pole was only 172½ miles On New Year's Day, 1912, the party were within 170 miles of the Pole. highest peak in North America, which reached a height of 20,300 feet. great snow cloud that raced like a live thing for 500 feet; whirling pitching their tents that night in the open snow under the North Col. They had looked for a sheltered camp, but the place proved to be a ice cliff, and reached the level snow from which the north ridge of ./cache/60948.txt ./txt/60948.txt