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Or how it feels to be buffeted and tossed about by turbulence as the aircraft careens through the narrow mouth of the Zojila pass. How it feels to see grim faces of comrades around you, knowing that some will not return. How the first breath of degrees celsius air feels like inhaling powdered glass, making you choke and bend over. How the numbing cold oozes through the sole of your boots, layers of clothing, skin and gristle, and into your bones within seconds.
How your limbs and digits are frozen, and hurt all the time.
How can words describe that sinking feeling when you look at the memorial rock pillars with names of the dead etched all the way up, as far as you can see? How it feels to forcibly swallow congealed lumps of canned food, meal after meal, for months on end.
How every breath is a struggle because, no matter how deeply you inhale, the thin air cheats you of oxygen. How your head constantly throbs, spins and aches because of the high altitude. How can words describe the small fibreglass hut, reeking of kerosene and unwashed bodies, that will be your home for a year.
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A home you share with a dozen other souls sleeping in squashed bunkers that have housed hundreds before you. How you search for a tiny space on the soot-darkened walls, to scratch your name among the hundreds already there. How hygiene is nothing but wiping yourself with a rag dipped in warm water, when you can. How your world is split between the blazing rays of a fierce sun and the perpetual shadows of kerosene lamps.
How every day is a battle to stay alive, every patrol a life-threatening mission.
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How every step can crack through an ice sheet hiding a crevasse and swallow you forever. How the slightest vibration can set off an avalanche and entomb you under tonnes of rocky ice. And, how a patrol that would take a few hours in any other terrain, takes days because your legs sink all the way to your knees into the subzero snow.
What it feels like to carry a load of more than 20 kilos for endless hours, every day, for months, so that rations and fuel are stocked for the winter. How it feels to be emaciated as low body metabolism wastes your flesh away. How you stop recognising the face in the mirror, with listless eyes surrounded by circles getting darker every day, and bones outlined by papery skin scorched by a sun that is 20, feet closer than in the plains. How it feels to have matted hair that can't be cleaned or washed for months, slowly obscuring your face.
How it feels to make a choice, in the middle of the night, between emptying your bowels and staying away from the cold. How it feels to hold the hand of a comrade affected by pulmonary oedema, choking on his own blood, feeling his pain as he crushes your fingers in agony.
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How it feels to hope against hope that a casualty evacuation chopper would be able to make it in time. Except write down the last words he wheezes through frothing blood— for his family, parents and children.
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And how you will later lie to them saying he went swiftly, painlessly. How the thump of an inbound chopper becomes the sweetest sound in the world. How your heart pounds wildly when you hear your only physical link trying to pierce blizzards and gales to reach you. How you pray for the pilot to make it.
How you curse him and the world when you hear the rotors veer away because he can't. Charles Greeley Abbot, director of the Institution's Astrophysical Observatory, to establish weather forecasting that would be "meaningful to mankind. This is the story of Alfred and Chella Moore, newlyweds, with a cast of assistants, and their efforts to make Abbot's Arizona field station a success.
Alfred was prone to grumpiness and did not like the Arizona site.
Chella was frail but brave. As for the assistants: Fred was a jack of all trades; Paul was a budding Hollywood star; Worthington spit too much and lacked pep; Hoover lacked initiative; and Freeman was just too spooney. Along with personalities, the Moores struggled daily with the bums and loafers in Wenden, the elements on mile-high Harquahala, surprises from Mother Nature, the site's extreme isolation, underfunding and a scientific effort that was, at times, less than scientific.
Carry Through If Hell Freezes Over is a fascinating glimpse of what life was like on a remote mountain in Arizona, the country's newest state, and how science was done in the early Twentieth Century. Read more Read less. About the Author Pieter 'Pete' Burggraaf is an avocational historian concentrating on people whose lives and adventures touched Maricopa Wells and the Pima and Maricopa villages.
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