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Bread and delivered it vika Teague was awake at 10 o'clock and tried to get Lake on the wireless has agreed but some electrical conditions in the Disturbed air to the westward seem to prevent communication. We did however reach the Arkham and Douglas told me that he had likewise been vainly trying to reach link. He had not known about the wind. her very little was blowing at McMurdo sound despite its persistent rage where we were Throughout the day. We all listened anxiously and trying to get legged intervals, but without results about noon a positive frenzy of wind stampeded out of the West causing us to fear for the safety of our camp, but it eventually died down with only a moderate relapse at 2 p.m. After three o'clock. It was very quiet and we redoubled our efforts to get late. Reflecting that he had four planes each provided with an excellent shortwave outfit. We could not imagine any ordinary accident capable of crippling all his wireless equipment at once nevertheless the Stony silence continued and when we thought of the Delirious Force the wind must have had in this locality, we could not help making the most direful conjectures. By six o'clock. Our fears had become intense and definite and after a wireless consultation with Douglas endorphins and I resolved to take steps towards investigation V airplane, which we had left at McMurdo sound Supply Cache with Sherman and two Sailors was in good shape and ready for instant use and it seemed that the very emergency for which it had been saved was now Upon us. I got Sherman by Wireless then ordered him to join me with the plane and the two Sailors at the southern base as quickly as possible. The air conditions being apparently highly favorable. We then talked over the Personnel of the coming investigation party and decided that we would include all hands together with the slideshow and dogs, which I had kept with me even so so great alone would not be too much for one of the huge planes built to our special orders for heavy machinery Transportation at intervals. I still tried to reach lake with the wireless, but all to no purpose Sherman and the sailors goon arson and Larson took off at 7:30 reported A Quiet Light from several points on the wing. I arrived at our base at midnight and all hands at once discussed the next move. It was risky business sailing over the Antarctic the single airplane without any line of basis, but no one Drew back from what seemed like the plainest necessity we turned in at two o'clock for a brief rest after some preliminary loading of the plane, but we're up again in four hours to finish. The loading and packing at 7:15 a.m. January 25th. We started flying northwestward under mcteague pilotage with 10 men seven dogs a sledge the fuel and food supply and other items including the blades Wireless outfits. The atmosphere was clear fairly quiet and relatively mild in temperature and we anticipated very little trouble in reaching the latitude and longitude designated by length of the side of his Camp are apprehensions were over what they might find or failed to find at the end of our journey for silence continued to answer all calls dispatch to the camp. Every incident of that four-and-a-half-hour flight is burned into my recollection because of its crew. Position in my life. It marked my loss at the age of 54 of all that peace and balance which the normal mind possesses there is accustomed conception of Eternal nature and nature's laws against for the 10 of us, but the student Danforth and myself above all others were to face a hideously Amplified world of lurking Horrors, which nothing can erase from our emotions and which we would refrain from sharing with Mankind in general. The newspapers have printed the bulletins. We sent them the moving plane telling of our non-stop course or two battles with treacherous upper rail Gales or glimpse of the broken service relay get sunk his mid-journey shaft three days before and to our site of a group of those strange fluffy still cylinders noted violence and then bird as Rolling In the Wind. Across the endless leagues of Frozen Plateau there came a point though. When our Sensations could not be conveyed in any words, the Press would understand and a later point when we had to adopt an actual rule of strict censorship. The Sailor Larson was first spy the jagged line of Mitch light cones and Pinnacles ahead and it's shouts. Send everyone to the windows of the Great. Cabined plane despite our speed they were very slow and gaining prominence. Hence. We knew that they must be infinitely far off and visible only because of their abnormal height little by little however, they Rose grimly into the Western sky allowing us to distinguish various bear leak blackish Summits and to catch the Curious sense of fantasy. See which they inspired as seen in the reddish Antarctic light against the provocative background iridescent ice dust clouds in the whole spectacle. There was a persistent pervasive hint of stupendous secrecy and potential Revelation as if these Stark nightmare spires marked the pylons of a frightful Gateway into forbidden spheres of dream. And complex goals of remote time space and Ultra dimensionality. I could not help feeling that they were evil things mountains of Madness who's farther slopes looked out over some accursed ultimate Abyss that seething it happen luminous cloud background held inevitable suggestions of a vague. Ithi real be honest. Far more than terrestrially spatial and gave appalling reminders of the utter remoteness separateness the solution and Aeons long death of this untrodden and unfathomed astral world. It was the young Danforth drew our notice to the Curious regularities of the higher Mountain Skyline. Regularities like clinging fragments of perfect cubes which lake had mentioned in his messages and which indeed Justified his comparison with the dreamlike suggestions of a primordial Temple runes on a cloudy Asian Mountaintop. So suddenly and strangely painted by roerich. There was indeed something hauntingly roerich like about this whole unearthly continent of mountainous mystery I had felt it in October when we first caught sight of Victoria land and I found that a fresh now I felt to another wave of an easy consciousness of RK and mythical resemblance has of how disturbingly this lethal realm correspondent to the evilly famed plateau of Leng the Primal writings Pathologists have placed Lang in Central Asia, but the racial memory of man or of his predecessors is long and it may well be that certain Tales of come down from lands and mountains and temples of horror earlier than Asia and earlier than any human world. We know a few daring Mystics of hinted at a pre. Pleistocene origin for the fragmentary but not to get manuscripts playing wherever in space or time. It might be rude. What's not a region I would care to be in or near nor did I relish the proximity of a world that have ever bred such ambiguous in RK and monstrosity. He's as the lake at just mentioned. At the moment. I felt sorry, but I had ever read the abhorred Necronomicon or talked so much with that. Unpleasantly Euro died folklorist will mine at the University this mood undoubtedly served aggravate my reaction to this har Mirage which burst upon us from the increasingly opalescent Zenith as we drew near the mountains and began to make out. We will tip undulations of the Foothills. I have seen dozens of polar mirages during the preceding weeks some of them quite as uncanny and fantastically Vivid as the present sample, but this one had a holy novel in obscure quality of menacing symbolism, and I shuddered as the seething Labyrinth of fabulous walls and towers and minarets blue. Loomed out of the trouble ice Vapors above our heads the effect was that of a cyclopean city of no architecture known to man or to human imagination with vast aggregations of night black masonry embodying monstrous perversions of geometrical laws in attaining the most grotesque extremes of sinister monstrosity. There were truncated cones. Sometimes terrorists or fluted surmounted by tall cylindrical shafts here and there bulbous Lee enlarged and often capped with tears of thins scalloped discs and strange beetling Table leg constructions suggesting piles of multiple rectangular slabs or circular plates or five-pointed stars with each one. Overlapping the one beneath There were composite cones and pyramids either alone or surmounting cylinders or cubes or flatter truncated cones and pyramids and occasional needle-like spires and curious clusters of five. All of these febrile structures seem to knit together by tubular Bridges Crossing from one to the other but various design Heights the implied scale of the home. What's terrifying it impressive in its sheer gigantism? The general type of Mirage was not unlike some of the Wilder forms observed and drawn by the Arctic Whaler scoresby and 1820 but at this time and place, but those dark unknown mountain peaks soaring stupendously ahead and anomalous Elder World Discovery in our minds and the Paul of probable. Faster enveloping the greater part of our Expedition. We all seem to find in it but taint of latent malignity and infinitely evil Morton's I was glad when the Mirage began to break up though in the process the various nightmare turrets and Cones assume distorted temporary forms of even faster hideousness as the whole illusion dissolved. And to churning up lessons, we began to look earthward again solid our Journey's End was not far off the unknown mountains again rose dizzyingly up like a fearsome Rampart of giants. They're curious regularities showing the startling clearness even without a field glass. We were over the lowest Foothills now and we could see it miss the snow ice and bare patches of their main Plateau a couple of darkish spots, which we took to be latex Camp boring the higher Foothills shot up between five and six miles away forming a range almost distinct from the terrifying line of more than Himalayan Peaks Beyond them. The fat legs ropes the student who had relieved fatigue the controls began to head downward toward the left hand dark spot whose size marked it as the camp as he did. So pratik send out the last uncensored Wireless message. The world was to receive from our Expedition. Everyone of course has read the brief an unsatisfying bulletins of the rest of our Antarctic. Some hours after our Landing we sent a guarded report of the tragedy we found and reluctantly announced the wiping out of the whole leg Party by the fight. Oh wind of the preceding day or of the night before that 11 known dead. You'll get me missing people pardoned are lazy hack of details through ization of the shock. The sad must have caused us and Meet us when we explained but the mangling action of the wind had rendered all 11 bodies unsuitable for transportation outside indeed. I flatter myself that even in the midst of our distress utter bewilderment and soul clutching a horror. We scarcely went beyond the truth in any specific instance. And the tremendous significance lies in what we dare not tell and what I would not tell now, but for the need of warning others off from the nameless terrors. It is a fact that the wind had wrought Dreadful Havoc whether we all could have lived through it even without the other thing is greatly open to doubt the storm with its Fury of madly driven ice particles must have been beyond anything. Our Expedition had encountered before one airplane shelter all it seems had been left in far too flimsy and it Quit state it was nearly pulverized with the Derrick at the distant pouring entirely shaken to pieces. The exposed but all of the grounded planes and drilling Machinery was bruised into a high polish and to the small tents were flattened despite their snow banking wooden surfaces left out in the blast were pitted and denuded of paint and all signs of tracks in the snow were completely obliterated. It is true that we found none of the Arcane biological objects. In a condition to take outside as a whole we did gather some mineral form of vast tumbled the pile including several of the greenish soap stone fragments who Zod five-pointed rounding and faint patterns of grouped dots caused so many doubtful comparisons and some fossil bones among which were the most typical of the curiously injured specimens. None of the dogs survived their hurriedly built still enclosure near the campaign almost wholly destroyed. The wind may have done that though the greater breakage on the site of the next Camp, which was not the windward one suggests an outward leap or break of the Frantic beasts themselves. All the sledges are gone, and we have tried to explain that the wind may have blown them up into the No. The trail and Ice helping Machinery at The Mooring were too badly damaged to Warrant Salvage. So we use them to choke up that suddenly disturbing gateway to the past which lake had blasted. We likewise let the camp the to little shaken up of the planes since our surviving party had only for real Pilots Sherman Danforth mcteague and ropes in all with Danforth and a poor nervous shaped navigate. He brought back all the books scientific equipment and other incidentals. We could find though much was rather unaccountably Blown Away spare tents and Furs were either missing or badly out of the condition. It was approximately 4 p.m. After wide plane cruising and forced us to give get me up for lost that we sent our carded message to the Arkham for Elaine. And I think we did well to keep it as calm and non-committal as we succeeded in doing the most reset about agitation concerned our dogs those frantic uneasiness are the biological specimens was to be expected from poor Lakes accounts. We did not mention I think their display of the same uneasiness when sniffing around the strange greenish soap stones and certain other objects in the Ordered region objects including scientific instruments airplanes and Machinery, but with the camp and of the boring whose Parts had been loosened or moved or otherwise tampered with wins, the must have harbored singular curiosity and investigative - about the 14 biological specimens. We were part of Lee indefinite. They said of the only ones we discovered or damaged that enough was left of them to prove links description to Holy an impressively accurate. It was hard work keeping our personal emotions out of this matter and we did not mention numbers or say exactly how we had found those which we did find we had by that time the green did not to transmit anything suggesting that this from the part of likes men. And it surely looked like Madness to bind 6 him perfect monstrosity. He's carefully buried upright and 9-foot spill Graves and your 5-pointed Mounds punched over with groups of dots and patterns exactly like those on the strange greenish soapstone dug up from as a so occur tertiary times the 8 perfect specimens mentioned by lake seem to have been completely. No way. We were careful to about the Public's General peace of mind and stand forth and I said little about that frightful trip over the mountains the next day. It was the fact that only erratically light and plane could possibly cross a range of such height which mercifully limited that scouting tour to the two of us. Oh, no return at 1 a.m. Danforth was close to hysterics, but Captain admirably stiff upper lip. It took no persuasion to make him promise not to show her sketches and the other things we brought away. into our pockets not to say anything more to the others than what we had agreed to relay outside and to hide our camera films for private development later on. So that part of my present story will be as new to the Bony fatigue ropes Sherman and the rest as it will be to the world in general indeed then for as closer mouth than I pray saw Ray thinks he saw one thing he would not even tell me as all know our report included a tale of a Hardison. formation of lakes opinion the great peaks of Arkansas late and other very Primal crumpled strata unchanged since at least metal Comanche and times a conventional comment on the regularity of the cleaning tube and Rampart formations a decision of the cave mouths indicate dissolved calcium river is veins conjecture that certain slopes and basses would permit the scaly and crossing of the entire range by seasoned Mountaineers and a remark that the mysterious other side holds a lofty an immense super glad to know as ancient and unchanging as the mountains themselves 20,000 feet in elevation with grotesque rock formations protruding threadfin glacial layer with low gradual Foothills between the general Plateau surface and the sheer precipice is of the highest peaks. This body of data is a never respect true so far as it goes and it completely satisfied the men of our camp. We had laid our absence of Sixteen hours a longer time than our announced flying Landing reckon ordering and rock collecting program called for too long mythical. A spell of a verse wind conditions and told truly of our landing on the father put Hills fortunately our Tails sounded realistic and prosaic enough not to tempt any of the others into emulating our flight had any tried to do this. I would have used every ounce of my persuasion to stop them and I did not know what Danforth would have done while we were gone. Bodie Sherman ropes mctighe and Williamson had worked like beavers over Lakes to best planes petting them again for use despite the altogether unaccountable juggling of their operative mechanism. We decided to load all the planes the next morning and started back for our old base as soon as possible. Even though indirect that was the safest way to work toward McMurdo sound for a straight line flight across the most utterly unknown stretches of the Aeons dead continent would involve many additional hazards further exploration was hardly visible in view of our tragic decimation in the ruin of our drilling machinery and the doubts and Horrors around us. We do not baby all made us wish only to escape from this astral world of desolation been brooding Madness as swiftly as we could as the public knows our returned the world was accomplished without further disasters all planes reach the old base on the evening of the next day January 27th after a swift known stoplight. With and on the 28th, we made McMurdo sound in two laps the one pause being very brief and occasioned by a faulty Rudder and a furious wind or the ice shown after we've cleared the great plateau in five days more the our poem and the miskatonic but all hands and equipment on board were shaking clear of the thickening field ice and working abroad. See what the mocking mountains of Victoria land moving Westward against a troubled Antarctic sky and they Twisted the winds Wales to a wide range of musical piping which chilled my soul to the quick less than a fortnight later. We left the last hint of polar land behind us and we thanked Heaven that we were clear of a haunted occur. To Rome for life and death space and time have made black and blasphemous alliances in the unknown effects since matter first arrived and swam on the planet scarce cooled crust. Since our return we have all constantly worked to discourage Antarctic exploration and we have kept certain doubts and guesses to ourselves with Splendid unity and faithfulness, even young Danforth with his nervous breakdown as not flinched or Babble to his doctors indeed. As I have said, there is one thing a thinks he alone song which he will not even tell me. So I think it would help his psychological state if he would consent to do so it might explain and relieved much though. Perhaps the thing was no more than the delusive aftermath of an earlier shop. That is the impression. I gather after those rare irresponsible moments when he whispers disjointed things to me. Things which he repudiates femininely as soon as he gets a grip on himself again. It will be hard work deterring others from the great white cell and some of our efforts made directly harm are caused by drawing acquiring notice. We might have known from the first that human curiosity is undying and that the results we announced or be enough to Spur mother's ahead on the same loan pursuit of the unknown links reports of Biological monstrosities had aroused naturalist and paleontologists to the highest pitch though. We were sensible not to show the detached parts. We had taken from the actual buried specimens or are photographs of those specimens as they were found once destroyed. We also refrain from showing the more puzzling of the scarred bones and greenish soap stones. All Danforth and I have closely guarded the pictures. We took or Drew on the super Plateau across the range from the crumpled things. He's moved studied in Terror and brought away in our puppets. But now that Starkweather more party is organizing and with a thoroughness far beyond anything our outfit attempted if not dissuaded they will get to the uttermost nucleus. The Antarctic and Melton born till they bring up what may be the end of the world that we know. So I must break until the whole story now even about that ultimate engine nameless thing beyond the mountains of Madness. And this my darling ends our reading of chapter 3 we will return very shortly for chapter 4. Thank you for being here today. Please make sure to like comment and subscribe and please I'm very sweet and creepy dreams. Good night. Good night.
ASMR Reading You To Sleep: Soft spoken ASMR with thunderstorm in background. At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft, written in 1931. The tale was originally rejected by the magazine Weird Tales for publication, but was eventually published in 1936 when an editor picked up Lovecraft’s tale for Astounding Stories. The story takes place during September 1930 where a group of wary explorers find themselves in disastrous conditions during an expedition in Antarctica. Told from the perspective of Dr. William Dyer, the tale is reflective of Lovecraft’s fascination with the Antarctic continent and his unfulfilled desire for exploration. A special thank you to Kyle, @PostCubicleKyle on Twitter for recommending this story as our next Lovecraft read. Now sit back, close your eyes, and relax as I read HP Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness to you. 