Ice Ship: The Epic Voyages Of The Polar Adventurer Fram - Plot & Excerpts
Fridtjof Nansen and Hjalmar Johansen set to work immediately, getting ready for the winter that was never far away, though it was only early in September. First, they erected a temporary hut for shelter, with walls of stacked-up rocks and a ceiling of their tent, barely big enough for them to move around inside without bumping into each other. Then, before the plentiful game disappeared, they began hunting, laying up as much as possible to get them through many months before the animals would return the following spring. (“Hunting” was sometimes a generous term for it, at least as it applied to bears, as most of those they killed had come close to them, attracted to the scent of all the piled-up meat and blubber.) So began weeks of a terrible slaughter, mostly of walruses and polar bears, an often-abhorred carnage necessary to get through their own protracted ordeal, as the provisions they had brought with them from the Fram were almost gone. When not hunting, flensing, and butchering the carcasses, and storing the meat and blubber, they also began construction of a bigger, more permanent, and more comfortable winter quarters.
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