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This week, it's At the Mercy of the Ice, written by Ellen Rykers and published in New Zealand Geographic's March/April 2023 issue.
You can find the entire article, with maps, original photos, and lots more detail, on the New Zealand Geographic website.
In the Antarctic summer of 1972, four young scientists set off on a trimaran from Cape Bird for a quick outing on a clear day. They would spend the next five days stranded at sea, jumping between ice floes that shattered and sank beneath them, risking their lives with every leap.
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