Above: the "red mountain" of Malmbjerget, seen from the other side of the Schuchert Gletscher. The ore body is well defined. Note the accumulated mine waste carried out from the excavation of the tunnels inside the mountain. The mountain is called Himmelbjerg in the novel.
Below: camp site on the Oxford Gletscher, after a heavy snowfall.
At long last, I have digitised the key photos from our 1962 expedition, and they are now in a Facebook Album here:
https://www.facebook.com/brian.john.526/media_set?set=a.982579645090735.1073741845.100000161271278&type=1
Some of the images have been in slide boxes collecting dust and mildew for 52 years......... so the quality is less than perfect! Nonetheless, the photos give a good impression of what we all got up to over the course of 8 weeks in the "Arctic Riviera".........
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