Today's mystery happened somewhere on Earth in February 1959. Read the clues, drop a pin, find the location.
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Witness statements
01In the final days of January 1959, ten Soviet students from a polytechnic institute set out on a winter expedition toward a remote peak — a Grade III mountaineering challenge in one of the USSR's most forbidding highland regions.
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