Spes Mons

Spes Mons^[1] est collis tholiformis, ad circa 3500 pedes altus, in radicibus Mons Glaciei Beardmore in pluteo glaciei Rossiano Antarcticae in 83°45′S 171°00′E / 83.75°S 171°E / -83.75; 171 situs. Ab Ernesto Shackleton et sua manu polari australi per iter ad polum australem versus in expeditione Nimrod die 3 Decembris 1908 inventus est. Ob hunc collem ascensum, manus montem glaciei primum viderunt qui iter ad planitiem polarem et ad polum ipsum praebebat. Shackleton scripsit:

Ad radices montis pervenimus quem conscendere sperabamus ut terram circumdantem intuerimur. . . . Magna difficultate hanc faciem saxosam scandimus, et tum lenem clivum niveum ascendimus. . . . A summo iugo repente rupit in conspectum iter apertum ad australem, quia magnus mons glaciei ante nos erat . . . procul ad australem tendens, donec in altam glaciem mediterraniam tandem mergi videbatur."^[2]^[3]

Shackleton collem qui hunc despectum praebebat Mount Hope nominavit, ob promissum quod offerebat. Manus Shackletoniana montem glaciei ad planitiem ascendit, sed cursum convertit antequam polum attingere posset. Tres annos post, manus Capitanei Scott idem iter polum sequens attigit, sed omnis manus rediens interiit. Spes Mons fuit locus ultimi commeatus a manu Maris Rossiani anno 1916 positi, ad iter transcontinentale Shackletonianum suppeditandum quod manus pro gloria Expeditionis Trans-Arcticae Imperialis in animo habebat.^[4]

Notae

↑ Fons nominis Latini desideratur (addito fonte, hanc formulam remove)
↑ Anglice: "We reached the base of the mountain which we hoped to climb in order to gain a view of the surrounding country. . . . With great difficulty we clambered up this rock face, and then ascended a gentle snow slope. . . . From the top of this ridge there burst upon our view an open road to the south, for there stretched before us a great glacier . . . stretching away south inland until at last it seemed to merge in high inland ice."
↑ Shackleton 1911:180.
↑ Tyler-Lewis 2006:146.

Bibliographia

Shackleton, Ernest. 1911. The Heart of the Antarctic. Londinii: William Heinemann.
Tyler-Lewis, Kelly. 2006. The Lost Men. Londinii: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9780747579724.

[fons-nominis-desideratus-1] Fons nominis Latini desideratur (addito fonte, hanc formulam remove)

[2] Anglice: "We reached the base of the mountain which we hoped to climb in order to gain a view of the surrounding country. . . . With great difficulty we clambered up this rock face, and then ascended a gentle snow slope. . . . From the top of this ridge there burst upon our view an open road to the south, for there stretched before us a great glacier . . . stretching away south inland until at last it seemed to merge in high inland ice."

[3] Shackleton 1911:180.

[4] Tyler-Lewis 2006:146.

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