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...lugging: what gear they could, tramped through the blackness, stumbling through piles of ice, skirting cracks and ridges. At the runway, they lit gasoline-and paper-filled cans and magnesium flares and waited in the breathless cold as the C-123J cautiously turned for the airstrip. Says George Cvijonovich, scientific leader of the group: "It was really a mixture of astonishment and aesthetics, because the landing was aesthetic at the same time that it was astonishing. The plane was like a beautiful big bird. With those flares, and the lights of the plane white, like two eyes, it was really...
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