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Books
- All the White Spaces by Ally Wilkes
Something deadly and mysterious stalks the members of an isolated polar expedition. - The White Road by Sarah Lotz
After a near-death experience, an adrenaline junkie tackles Mount Everest—stalked by the ghost, or the madness, of his previous caving expedition. - Ararat by Christopher Golden
An earthquake reopens a cave on Mount Ararat, revealing the ruins of an ancient ark…and the corpse of a demon. - The Hunger by Alma Katsu
A reimagining of the events of the Donner Party with supernatural elements. - Leech by Hiron Ennes
A young physician investigates the death of his predecessor in a remote chateau.
Rabbit Holes
Roopkund Lake – In 1942, an Indian forest ranger stumbled into a remote lake in the Himalayas full of human skeletons.
Dyatlov Pass Incident – Nine Soviet hikers died in the northern Ural Mountains in 1959 under uncertain circumstances. Some overlap with the mysterious Khamar-Daban Incident.
Polar gigantism – Animals living at the poles (in the Southern Ocean and Arctic Ocean) are way bigger than their relatives near the equator.
S. A. Andrée’s failed polar expedition – In 1897, a Swedish aeronaut attempted to fly to the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon. It ended poorly.
Art
For I saw by the sickly moonlight,
As I followed, bending low,
That the walking of the stranger
Left no footmarks on the snow.– Charles Dawson Shanly
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