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| Brian Wheater had no hint of the luck he was about to have as he rumbled across Antarctica’s Ross Ice Shelf in November 1990 on Linda, a Caterpillar D8 LGP bulldozer. He was in the middle of a three-machine convoy dragging a huge sled of gear toward the foot of a glacier for a round of seismic testing. The machines tracked a few hundred feet apart. Hills and troughs regularly hid them from each other as they traced a route declared safe by visual inspection from a C-130 days before. “It was like rollers on a lazy ocean,” Wheater recalls. He didn’t know it at the time, but that was a huge warning sign.
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