It was early afternoon on Christmas Eve when they pulled into the base, after being delayed first by a successful search for and then fishing expedition to recover and replant one of the weather stations that had fallen into a crevasse that had opened up right next to the station and it had broken through the thin ice wall remaining in the wind. Then, when they had started down from the ice sheet in the early evening the day before they found it much more treacherous than normal and backtracked to camp a final night at the top so as to be awake and alert going down. Mirka had managed to stay dry again the first morning, but woken up wet that morning.

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