Memorial

Photo by Andy Smith, taken in February 2003

The inscription on the side facing the camera reads:

IN MEMORY OF NEVILLE S. MANN SURVEYOR    LOST BELOW THIS POINT    15TH AUGUST 1963

and on the opposite side:

PROUD.AND.LOVING.MEMORY    ALWAYS.REMEBERED.BY MOTHER.BOB.DAVE.SUE

An inscription on a third side was added after the 1965 crevasse accident:

IN MEMORY OF JEREMY BAILEY JOHN WILSON DAVID WILD KILLED IN CREVASSE    ACCIDENT 12 OCT, 1965

On the fourth side, after the death of Miles Mosley in 1980, was added:

In memory of Miles Vernon Mosley     No game was ever yet worth a rap for     a rational man to play into which no accident, no mishap could possibly find its way. b 2nd Sept 1946 d 2nd Feb 1980

The quotation is from a poem by the Australian poet Adam Lindsay Gordon

The photos taken in 2020 show a plaque commemorating the dogs has been placed next to the memorial. This is a copy of the one on the sledge dog memorial in Cambridge.

See also: IGY Relics, Memorial sledge refurbishment