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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft: phenomenally rapid and effective borings and blastings made at
various points reached by our sledge trips and short aeroplane
flights, are matters of history; as is the arduous and triumphant
ascent of Mt. Nansen by Pabodie and two of the graduate students
- Gedney and Carroll - on December 13 - 15. We were some eight
thousand, five hundred feet above sea-level, and when experimental
drillings revealed solid ground only twelve feet down through
the snow and ice at certain points, we made considerable use of
the small melting apparatus and sunk bores and performed dynamiting
at many places where no previous explorer had ever thought of
securing mineral specimens. The pre-Cambrian granites and beacon
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