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 down for us. The country to the east was a great snow upland, sloping upwards for
seven or eight miles to a height of over 4000 ft.
a distance of
To the north it fell awav steenly in elaciers into the havs and to
the south it was. hroken. hv huge outfalls from the inland. ice. sheet. lOur path lay between the glaciers and the
outfalls, but first we had to descend from the ridge on which we stood.
in a taterat direction round the base of a dolomite, which blocked our view to the north. The same precipice Cutting steps With the adze, we moved
confronted us. Away to the north-east there 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 had taken us three hours to climb. We were at
walking since January and the bottom in an hour. We were now feeling the strain of the unaccustomed marching. We had done little
walking since January and our muscles were out of tune. Skirting the base of the mountain above us, we came
to a gigantic bergschrund, a mile
ice
and a half long and 1000 ft. deep. This tremendous gully, cut in the snow and us we came
by the fierce winds blowing round the mountain, was semicircular in form, and it ended in a gentle incline.
We
passed through it, under the towering precipice of ice, and at the far end we had another meal and a short
rest. This was at 12:30 p. m. Half a
pot of steaming Bovril ration warmed us up, and when we marched again ice-
incines at angles of 45 degrees did not look quite as formidable as before