The Trail-blazers
Six films of early exploration introduced from the Royal Geographical Society by explorer, Duncan Carse. 3: By Sledge across Greenland (1930)
'My fears have been realised. The whole business is a big catastrophe and there is no use in concealing the fact. It is now a matter of life and death.' So wrote the leader of the German-Greenland expedition, Alfred Wegener , as he camped, pinned down by blizzards, on the ice-cap. First dense pack-ice had delayed the expedition's landing. Then the new propeller-driven motor sledges on which they were relying had broken down in the first snows of winter; and now it seemed unlikely that the relief dog-sledge team would be able to get through with vital supplies.... This is an account of scientific trail-blazing, and the price that sometimes has to be paid.
Narrator Michael Kilgarriff Film editor DAVID LEE
Producer RICHARD ROBINSON