| Thus on the 25th it was 10 A.M. before we got away in a strong wind, with flying snow, across fields of sastrugi. |
| We skied over the sea ice, bridged the leads and clambered over the sastrugi, and my arrogance and incompetence lost me a finger-end to frostbite. |
| The first part of the journey was slow going due to rough sastrugi and moderately strong winds rolling off the Mulock Glacier immediately north of us. |
| After we had made it through the rough sastrugi we entered a wide-open flat snow plain, almost perfect conditions for sledge travel. |
| All available knowledge showed that crevasses, sastrugi and blizzards were normal in Antarctica, yet throughout his diaries Scott complained about the conditions. |
| The wind was practically along the sastrugi and the course was diagonal to both. |
