Sirs, Glacier Exploration
I am glad to see from your note on “Glacier Exploration” (Journal of Glaciology, No. 2, p. 78) that we are in agreement about further research on glaciers. Although theoretical work is, of course, essential it must continually be verified by concrete example. For this purpose the only possible method, on grounds of economy, for examining the interior of a glacier must be by means of marginal crevasses and pot-holes.
Unfortunately, I am no longer in a position to continue my work on these lines but would be delighted if young and skilled mountaineers and glacier research workers could do so. In spite of my lack of success in reaching the glacier bed through a pot-bole, I believe it is possible to do so. I think it was by pure ill luck that our way was barred on that occasion in the Walchiloch. I shall be very pleased to place my experience at the disposal of anyone who contemplates work of this kind.
Hans Carol
Geographical Institute, University of Zürich. 11 August 1947.
