| All available knowledge showed that crevasses, sastrugi and blizzards were normal in Antarctica, yet throughout his diaries Scott complained about the conditions. |
| The light was bad, and steering had to be done by sastrugi and wind. |
| 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. |
| After we had made it through the rough sastrugi we entered a wide-open flat snow plain, almost perfect conditions for sledge travel. |
| A mirage made the sastrugi appear to be dancing like some ice-goblins. |
| The wind was practically along the sastrugi and the course was diagonal to both. |
