Ben Yehuda encountered another body in an ice crack 984 feet below the summit.

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The rope tangled around Ben Yehuda's legs, threatening to bury him in the ice crack as well.

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Irmak fell into an ice crack, dragging Ben Yehuda with him.

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Crack and ice are also hideously addictive, far beyond the imagination of well-meaning people whose opinions about drugs were shaped by smoking a few spliffs in the 1960s.

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Mr. ASTON-REESE: It's - well, the - you know, it starts more emotionally and mentally, because I've - believe it or not, my senses are much more heightened now, because I'm glued to those screens, looking for any blip that might show, what Adam always asks me, a crack in the ice, to show that we're going to get moving again.

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Oil company manager Kaspars Skrabans said he was down at the beach by Jurmala with his family when he noticed that a crack had appeared in the ice extending from the shore out into the gulf.

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