A view of the crew of a dog sledge helping to haul the eight-man sledge up their prepared roadway through the ice thrown up onshore by pressure. Nares reported in the Offical Proceedings that a passage frequently had to be cut through the squeezed-up ice with pickaxes, while Markham recalled in his book that pickaxes and shovels were a contant requirement in order to create a suitable roadway for moving the sledges across [Nares, Official Proceedings, p 20; Markham, The Great Frozen Sea, p275]