Select the correct text in the passage,
Which sentences in this excerpt from Ernest Shackleton's South! suggest that the author is writing a memoir?
The outlook was disappointing. I looked down a sheer precipice to a chaos of crumpled ice 1500 ft. below. There was no way do
country to the east was a great snow upland, sloping upwards for a distance of seven or eight miles to a height of over 4000 ft
fell away steeply in glaciers into the bays, and to the south it was broken by huge outfalls from the inland ice-sheet. Our path lay-
glaciers and the outfalls, but first we had to descend from the ridge on which we stood. Cutting steps with the adze, we movechir
direction round the base of a dolomite, which blocked our view to the north. The same precipice confronted us, Away to the north
appeared to be a snow-slope that might give a path to the lower country, and so we retraced our steps down the long slope that h
three hours to climb. We were at the bottom in an hour. We were now feeling the strain of the unaccustomed marching. We had do
walking since January and our muscles were out of tune. Skirting the base of the mountain above us, we came to a gigantic bergsch
and a half long and 1000 ft deep. This tremendous gully cut in the snow and ice by the fierce winds blowing round the mountain
semicircular in form and it ended in a gentle incline. We passed through it under the towering precipice ofice, and at the far end w
another meal and a short rest. This was at 12:30 pm Half a pot of steaming Bovillration warmed us up, and when we marched agan
inclines at angles of 45 degrees did not look quite as formidable as before.
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