Gear, clothes, and sleeping bags were constantly iced up; on 5 July, the temperature fell below −77 °F (−60 °C) – "109 degrees of frost – as cold as anyone would want to endure in darkness and iced up clothes", wrote Cherry-Garrard.
Udstyr, klæder og soveposer var konstant belagt med is; den 5. juli faldt temperaturen til under -60 °C "109 kuldegrader – koldere end nogen kunne forestille sig at holde ud i mørket og i frosne klæder", skrev Cherry-Garrard.