At a gathering of the University of Bristol Spelaeological Society in a pub in 2008, caver Charlie Self handed PhD student Gina Moseley a photograph of a cave in a limestone cliff just beyond the north-western edge of the Greenland ice sheet. Thought to be the northernmost cave in the world, it had been photographed from a US military aircraft in 1958, but never explored…
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