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Soviet Union

$A polar investigator with arms spread is suspended from a harness line behind a distant B17 over fractured ice, an editorial interpretation of Skyhook recovery rather than an archival scene$

Case file 026Power & Secrets

Cold War on Thin Ice

Two Americans searched an abandoned Soviet Arctic station for secrets, then trusted a bomber and a balloon line to bring them off the ice.

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Close editorial interpretation of a torn, partly collapsed canvas tent and tracks across a snowy Ural slope, referring to the discovered Dyatlov campsite rather than reconstructing the departure.

Case file 018Crime & Mystery

Mountain of the dead

Nine hikers left their tent on a frozen Ural slope; the surviving records explain much of their ordeal, but leave its first moments unresolved.

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Soviet Union

Cold War on Thin Ice

Mountain of the dead

The truth is in here

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