Man-haul

When the Whaleboat was left on the Ice that afternoon as the able-bodied Men went back to man-haul forward the 5 Boats left behind on the First Haul, Captain Fitzjames confessed to me that his Vision was terribly blurred and that he was frequently seeing Double.

On our Antarctic crossing 1993 we fashioned crampons from spare rope, as did Mawson, in order to man-haul over steep areas of blue-ice glaciers.

I thought a lot today about pacing, prompted by thoughts of Reinhold Messner, the Austrian-born mountain climber who will soon begin his attempt to ski and man-haul across an eighteen-hundred-mile section of Antarctica.

The ride to Kettle Falls was uneventful except for having to man-haul the canoe around trees because the travois needed more room.

Supplies are carried from the caches to buildings by hand or by man-haul sleds .

Scott's expedition, as successful as any man-haul expedition in history, coincided with uniquely bad weather; was not planned as a race, though it was forced too late in the day to try to compete; and achieved a hugely valuable survey and science program.

If anyone can accomplish the man-haul, Messner (and partner Arved Fuchs, a veteran German polar explorer) probably can.

In addition to muck cars, various special cars must be provided to facilitate the work. These include man-haul, explosives, vent pipe, flat-, and concrete cars.

He always wanted to get one more tree felled before boarding the man-haul bus to leave the woods each night, just as he was hungry for more hay to stack when he was a teenager.

The rumpus started later on that evening, as soon as the man-haul dropped off the workers at the wet canteen .