It was with something of a sense of drama that the two men finally left the Kotel'niy weather station. Indeed, one of the men stationed there, in this godforsaken corner at the ends of the world, had seriously stabbed his boss (who had made the trip from Tiksi to the New Siberia Islands in the MI8 helicopter chartered by Alain Hubert) with a knife after he had reproached him for some shortcomings in his work.
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