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  • As a result, some of the extra rations but no dog biscuit were manhauled to One Ton Depot by Day, Nelson, Clissold and Hooper.

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

  • Dr Michael Stroud, who manhauled to the Pole himself in the Polar summer of 1992-93, calculated that Evans would have lost more weight than anyone else, perhaps over fifteen kilos, by the time he reached the Pole, equivalent to about one-fifth of his body-weight.

    The Greatest Survival Stories Ever Told Underwood, Lamar 2001

  • The ten men of the Ross Sea party had manhauled upward of 1,500 miles over that stretch of the continent from 1914 to 1916, some of them without washing or changing their clothes for two years.

    Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996

  • He would die in the Arctic, but in 1908 he manhauled to the South Magnetic Pole with Mawson and Edgeworth David, and on the way they camped near our spot.

    Terra Incognita Wheeler, Sarah 1996

  • Captain Amundsen has always expressed his wonder at our performance -- and in his modest way he told me he himself could never have manhauled as Scott's men did.

    South with Scott Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans Mountevans 1918

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