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National Geographic : 1993 Mar
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"Every day as the snow melted, new things would pop up," says National Science Foundation archaeologist Broadbent (above, at right), who led seven other workers in digging out snow-clogged East Base during the briefAntarctic summer of 1991-92. Though located in the continent's "bananabelt," where temperatures can reach a balmy 590 F, the crew still endured sudden 60-knot winds and cold snaps of minus 30°F with wind chill At one point the team was poisoned by carbon monoxide from a cooking stove. "We felt a real kinship with the past," Broadbent recalls. "We suffered the same dangers, the same cold and isolation." Star ing up from a pile of base arti facts, a Mormon text (left) perhaps gave spiritual comfort on some long gone winter night. 117
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