As he wrote he wasn't able to continue horizontal flight on 1 belt and was loosing height or speed and experienced strong vibrations and choosed finally autogiration.
He was trying to land on ice floe but ditched near it.
Regarding climbing on ice floe he wrote it was 50cm height and in another interview he mentioned he wasted many efforts to climb there.
>What you would
not expect is that the DeLorme sends a signal after ditching.
last reading was
Speed: 0.00 km/h Heading: N
Elevation: -1.71 m Batt: Normal
Lat: 64.301745 Lon: -60.939575
it is from forum
http://saon.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?p=168793#p168793