man-haul

Example Sentences

• "When the Whaleboat was left on the Ice that afternoon as the able-bodied Men went back to man-haul forward the 5 Boats left behind on the First Haul, Captain Fitzjames confessed to me that his Vision was terribly blurred and that he was frequently seeing Double."
• "On our Antarctic crossing 1993 we fashioned crampons from spare rope, as did Mawson, in order to man-haul over steep areas of blue-ice glaciers."
• "I thought a lot today about pacing, prompted by thoughts of Reinhold Messner, the Austrian-born mountain climber who will soon begin his attempt to ski and man-haul across an eighteen-hundred-mile section of Antarctica."
• "The ride to Kettle Falls was uneventful except for having to man-haul the canoe around trees because the travois needed more room."
• "Supplies are carried from the caches to buildings by hand or by man-haul sleds ."
• "Scott's expedition, as successful as any man-haul expedition in history, coincided with uniquely bad weather; was not planned as a race, though it was forced too late in the day to try to compete; and achieved a hugely valuable survey and science program."