Word: snowblind
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Dates: during 1943-1943
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...December ten men, five women and two boys tried it again. All but three of them had homemade snowshoes. They carried a blanket apiece and "minute rations" that must last six days. The first day they made four miles. The second day they crossed the divide, but they were snowblind and had only an ounce of food a day. Their feet froze. By Christmas Eve, they had been tramping nine days, two days without food. They had lost the trail. "To go on they must live, to live they must eat, but there was no food. But there was food...
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