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“I hope you have our deicing equipment on,” he added

The helicopter was being buffeted sideways and descending A radio altiround in Russian Kurt spotted the other helicopter up ahead for a second before it disappeared into the swirling clouds and snow once again

More turbulence hit, threatening to spill the copter over sideways

“Downdrafts coainst it

They finally dropped below the clouds, and Kurt could see they were only forty feet above the terrain The other helicopter was ahead and to the right, cruising across the snowy ground Without goggles, it was hard to tell where the sky ended and the ground began Everything hite But both helicopters slowed further and finally beganto land

A man-made blizzard kicked up around them from the doash of the rotors, and they were pushed sideways once again before the wheels finally touched the ground and sank into the snow

Rarely had Kurt been so glad to be on the ground

Five minutes later, after a quick recon of the area to make sure they hadn’t been spotted, the helicopters were e equipment, and the suitcase bomb were unloaded and ready to roll

They asseethe snow sideways Kurt wondered how bad the weather would get Most of Big Ben was already hidden in the clouds

As Gregorovich whistled for the pilots to asse a rope to his pack and what looked like a spearhead of so wind “You get your frequent-flier miles on this trip?”

“Yeah,” Joe said “What about yours?”

“I didn’t sign up,” Kurt said “I’ured there was no point” He gestured to the spear “What’s that?”

“RPH,” Joe said “Rocket-propelled harpoon You can fire it into the face of the ice and avoid having to make a free climb”

“Why’d they give it to you?”

“No one wants to carry it,” Joe said “The head is hs a ton”