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Iceberg!

“I was looking at this iceberg from far away and it was such a beautiful pyramid,” Horn says. He was sailing in the Arctic Ocean last year and suggested to his friend that they climb approached the berg and the two clambered onto its near-vertical side. As they began to climb, reversed – and that was when the problems started. “The prop wash from the engines pushed the bottom of the iceberg,” Horn says. They didn’t feel it moving right away – they were too close to the pivot point – but the ice was falling on top of them.

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