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Collins Maps. Extreme Survivors: 60 of the World’s Most Extreme Survival Stories
CONTENTS
FOREWORD
Into the Frozen North
Nansen prepares to leave his shipFramand begin his sledge journey to the North Pole on 14 March 1895. Sailing to the North Pole
The mission
Fridtjof Nansen (foreground) and Hjalmar Johansen
Drifting north
The sprint for the pole
Retreat
Rescue and return
The meeting between Fridtjof Nansen (right) and Frederick Jackson at Cape Flora, Franz Josef Land, 17 June 1896
Another Antarctic Winter
Australian geologist and Antarctic explorer Douglas Mawson (1882–1958) Way down south
The Australian Antarctic Expedition
Sledging to disaster
A long way from home
Douglas Mawson peering over the edge of the crevasse into which his comrade Lt. Ninnis has fallen along with his sledge, dogs and supplies
Poisoned
Walking home alone
The Day the World Shook
A world turned upside down
Disaster on an unprecedented scale
Peril in port
Taking action
The burning waters
Staying behind
Damage caused by the Great Kantō earthquake in Tōkyō
Sailing into history
The Long Walk Home
Old rabbit-proof fence remains along Hamersley Drive, Fitzgerald River National Park, Western Australia. The rabbit-proof fence
The stolen generation
Walking home
The girls route following the rabbit-proof fence
The story wasn’t over
Survival by Sacrifice
The snow-covered peaks of the Karakoram Range, Pakistan. The height of ambition
The team finds a leader
The team starts planning
A step too far
A spectacular view across the hundreds of mountain peaks in the Karakoram Range, Pakistan
An avalanche in the Karakoram Range. The rescue attempt
Another night in the arms of death
The two who were left
Home
The Inconvenient Survivor
Above retribution
Operation GRAND SLAM
Bailing out over enemy territory
Gary Powers, the US fighter pilot who was caught spying over the USSR in 1960. One of our aircraft is missing
A bluff called
International embarrassment
Disaster on the Dark Side of the Moon
The Apollo 13 prime crew onboard USS Iwo Jima following splashdown. From left to right: Lunar Module pilot, Fred W. Haise, Command Module pilot, John L. ‘Jack’ Swigert Jr and Commander, James A. Lovell. The mission
The explosion
320,000 km from home
More problems
Back to Earth with a splash
Two Miles Up without a Parachute
Amazonian rainforest, Peru. Home for Christmas
Falling to Earth
Water of life
Searching for her mother
At the mercy of the jungle
And after…
The Cruel Cost of Survival
On 13 October 1972, Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571 crashed in the mountains close to the Chile / Argentina border. Impact
The touring team
Death all around
Lost in a sea of white
Survivors waiting to be rescued
The horrors of hunger
Avalanche
Hiking out
Survivors in the wrecked fuselage after rescuers reached them
The reality of their situation
Out of luck
Sewing for survival
Hiking with hope
Five days of nothingness
A memorial on the crash site. Behind the memorial is the mountain that Parrado and Canessa climbed for the final push to reach rescue
The world knew first
The Boy who Fell Out of the Storm
Norman Ollestad skiing. Flight of the champion
The long descent
A Cessna 172 plane, similar to the plane in which Norman was a passenger
Ontario Peak, San Gabriel Mountains
One of the aeroplane seats that Norman found upon his return to the mountain
Twenty-seven years later
Under the Rumbling Mountain
Mount St. Helens the day before the 1980 eruption. The view is from Johnston Ridge, 10 km (6 miles) northwest of the volcano. The eruption removed much of the northern face of the mountain, leaving a large crater. At a safe distance
Sleeping in
Marshmallows toasted
Walking out of hell
The eruption of Mount St. Helens on 18 May 1980, seen from West Point Peak in Gifford-Pinchot National Forest, Washington
A panoramic image of Mount St. Helens showing miles of barren lands and destroyed landscape caused by the eruption on 18 May 1980
Plucked to safety
Lucky to be alive
The Kindest Cut
The Cordillera Huayhuash is still a popular destination for expeditions. The dilemma
A new route to the top
Descent to disaster
Mountaineer climbing a glacier in Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru
Glacier icefall in the high Andes, Cordillera Huayhuash, Peru. Alive in the crevasse
A new day
Waiting to leave
The long crawl
Camp
Another night
Joe Simpson, writer and climber
Mule journey
The Miracle of Stairway B
At approximately 9.59 a.m. the South Tower of the World Trade Center collapsed after being hit by a plane. Caught in a catastrophe
A good turn
A skyscraper in freefall
Walking out of the apocalypse
The rubble of the World Trade Center smoulders following the terrorist attack
People walk away from the World Trade Center tower after it was hit by a plane. The impossible survivors
One lucky guy
A Rock and a Hard Place
Canyonlands National Park, Utah. Loner’s day out
The accident
Blood stains on a sandstone canyon wall show the spot where Aron Ralston’s hand was trapped by the chockstone
The cruellest cut
The final challenge
Aron Ralston pauses while answering a reporter’s question as his mother Donna comforts him at St. Mary’s Hospital, 9 May 2003 in Grand Junction, Colorado. Found
Alone in the Death Zone
Two mountaineers on the slopes of the K2 mountain in the Karakoram Himalaya, Pakistan. The briefest taste of glory
The backlog
The Bottleneck
The seracs above the Bottleneck on K2
The first tragedy
The ice avalanche
An avalanche crashes through the Savoia Pass on the northwest side of K2 in the Karakoram Range, Pakistan
The tangled men
Italian climber, Marco Confortola, speaking to reporters at the Italian embassy in Islamabad
Saturday, August 2
Wilco van Rooijen, the rescued leader of the Dutch climbers team. Another night alone
The Sole Survivor of Flight 626
Chimoni Beach, Grand Comore, Comoros Islands. The start of a holiday
Floating alone
Bahia Bakari, the sole survivor of Yemenia Flight 626. Rescued by a ferry
Going home
Cause of the crash
The Miracle on the Hudson
New York City skyline over Hudson River. A perfect day for flying
Onlookers line the hillside as rescue workers surround the US Airways Airbus A320, Flight number 1549, which crashed into the Hudson River
Captain Sullenberger (left), the pilot of the US Airways Flight 1549 that crashed into the Hudson River, accepts the Key to New York City from New York Mayor Bloomberg at City Hall, New York
Sully saves the day
Jet engine vs goose
Journey from the Centre of the Earth
The fifth rescuer, Patricio Sepúlveda, is in the rescue capsule and is being lowered into the mine, during ‘Operación San Lorenzo’ Entombed
First rescue attempts
President Piñera holds the message sent by the miners ‘Estamos bien en el refugio los 33’. (We are all right in the shelter, the 33 [of us].) Daily life in a half-mile deep hole
Breakthrough
Getting ready for the rescue
Extraction
Luis Urzúa, the leader of the trapped miners and the last of the thirty-three to be lifted to freedom, celebrates with President Piñera
The Survivor of Circumstance
The tail section of the Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330 passenger plane which crashed on landing at Tripoli airport. Why did one boy survive?
Countdown to a dream
No reason to crash
Catastrophic damage
The saddest day
Nine-year old Ruben van Assouw at El Khadra Hospital in Tripoli, Libya on 20 May 2010, before his transfer to The Netherlands. Many little strokes of luck
Entombed for Two Weeks
A Dominican search and rescue team search for survivors in the rubble of Port-au-Prince after the earthquake. The ghost girl
The start of a new life
A national and personal disaster
Too long to survive
How she survived
The return home
Charmed by a Renegade Queen
Lochleven Castle. The queen in the high castle
Background to Mary’s imprisonment
The inside men
The diversion
Ground floor plan of Lochleven Castle
After the escape
Flight of the Philosopher
The Nieuwe Kerk (New Church) in Delft, final resting place of Hugo Grotius. The academic action hero
A dangerous philosophy
Imprisoned
The forgotten philosopher
Sowing the seeds
The medieval castle of Loevestein (Slot Loevestein) in the Netherlands
The escape
Statue of Hugo Grotius, made by Franciscus Leonardus Stracké in 1886 and placed at Grote Markt in Delft
Together in exile
Escape from Devil’s Island
Devil’s Island, French Guiana. Escape from Devil’s Island
First escape
Solitary confinement cells once used to hold some of France’s worst criminals, stand overgrown with jungle vegetation on the island of St Joseph off the French Guiana coast. Breakout from a Colombian prison
Cells of the penal colony in St-Laurent-du-Maroni, French Guiana
The prison of St-Laurent-du-Maroni in 1954
Henri Charrière, ‘Papillon’ (1906-73) The ‘insane’ escape
Papillon’s prison cells, Devil’s Island, French Guiana
The Escape from Alcatraz
The Rock is a small island located in the middle of San Francisco Bay in California, United States. It served as a lighthouse, then a military fortification, then a prison. A route off the rock
The escapees
Planning the escape
Mug shots of the three prisoners that made a rare escape from Alcatraz Island. From left to right:Clarence Anglin, John William Anglin and Frank Lee Morris
The plan in action
One of the escape holes created behind a ventillation grille in the cells
Did they make it?
The Dan Cooper Hijack
Crew members of the hijacked Northwest Airlines 727 jet. Stewardess Tina Mucklow (right), 22, described the hijacker as ‘not nervous.’ ‘He seemed rather nice, and he was never cruel or nasty,’ she said. Captain Bill Scott (centre) said, ‘We first knew he was not aboard when we arrived in Reno.’ Also in the picture is First Officer Bill Rataczak (left) The hijack
The FBI released this artist’s drawing of ‘Dan Cooper,’ the suspected skyjacker, who parachuted from a Northwest Airlines 727 jet after collecting $200,000 ransom in Seattle
The escape
FBI agent Ralph Himmelsbach (2nd right) asks questions of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Dwayne Ingram (left) at FBI offices where it was announced that the Ingram’s son Brian, 8, had found the Dan Cooper hijacking money while on a family outing on the north shore of the Columbia River
The manhunt
FBI agents dig in sand on the north shore of the Columbia River, where a portion of the Dan Cooper hijack money was found by the Harold Dwayne Ingram family
The badly decomposed $20 dollar bills were shown to newsmen after a check of their serial numbers showed that they were identical to the bills given to hijacker Dan Cooper. The money was found by Brian Ingram, 8, on the north shore of the Columbia River, partially buried in the sand
The Storming of Fresnes
Skyline of Paris from Notre Dame
Little big man
Playing cops and robbers
The assault on Fresnes Prison
La Santé Prison (centre), Paris
The Paris courthouse on 31 August 2010 before the beginning of the appeal trial of Antonio Ferrara and seven other people. Flight and recapture
French lawyer Karim Achoui (centre) arrives at the Paris courthouse on 2 October 2008 before the beginning of the trial of his former client, Antonio Ferrara. Paying the price
The Man who Might be King
Memorial cairn commemorating the Battle of Culloden in 1746 at which the Jacobite forces were routed by Government troops ending the Stuart dynasty’s campaign for power. Downfall of a dream
The Young Pretender
Rowing into the storm
The net closes
The Anthony Stones sculpture of Bonnie Prince Charlie in Derby, England
The prince in petticoats
Hounds at his heels
The Glenfinnan Monument, on the shore of Loch Shiel, was erected in 1815 as a memorial to the soldiers who died for the Jacobite cause
A heroic deception
A rebellious spirit crushed
The Last of the Sixteen Thousand
Modern Kabul, situated 1,800 m (5,900 ft) above sea level in a narrow valley, wedged between the Hindu Kush mountains along the Kabul River. The man on the dying horse
Auckland’s folly
Massacre
The modern Jalalabad Road from Kabul to Jalalabad, Afghanistan
The long road ahead
Death in the icy passes
William Brydon, the sole survivor of the massacre of Kabul, finally reaches Jalalabad. And then there was one
Sole survivor
Not safe yet
A peaceful life
Back to the Fatherland
Donington Hall, Leicestershire. Hero on the run
Stately imprisonment
The accidental escaper
Down and out in London
The stowaway
The War on the Run
Hitler in Vienna, March 1938. Violence in Vienna
The surge of hate
Calm before the storm
Leo’s second escape
Trier, where Leo arrived after fleeing Vienna, and from where he crossed the Sauer to Luxembourg. Thwarted by a new war
More bad news
Into Switzerland
The hell-hole at Drancy
Jumping from the Auschwitz Express
Leo found refuge in Antwerp until May 1940
Another escape
One last close call
A railway wagon used to transport prisoners to Auschwitz II-Birkenau extermination camp
A Midget Submarine and Malaria
Naturalist, adventurer and unsung hero of the Second World War, Freddy Spencer Chapman (far left) The born survivalist…
…and naturalist
Born tough
Life in a wartime jungle
A most gentlemanly escape
The submarine HMSStatesmanon which Freddy made his final escape
Rescued by a mini-sub
Canoeing into History
Canoeing in open waters. Big problems in wine country
An audacious plan
The Cockleshell Heroes
The worst possible start
Major Herbert ‘Blondie’ Hasler (left) and Corporal Bill Sparks (right), visit the English Church of St Nicholas in Bordeaux for a memorial service to the Cockleshell Heroes, 3 April 1966
Into enemy waters
The run upriver
Deadly silent
Escape
A monument commemorating Operation Frankton, overlooking the Gironde estuary at Saint-Georges-de-Didonne, France. And then there were two
The fate of their fellows
A worthy sacrifice
The Incredible Journey of Jan Baalsrud
The snow-covered landscape in north Norway. The wrong man
On the run
Evasion
Lost in the storm
The Lyngen Alps, a mountain range east of Tromsø, in north Norway
Two weeks in the Hotel Savoy
Across the frozen plateau
Lake Kilpisjärvi, Finland
DIY surgery
Over the ice to freedom
Aftermath
The Great Escape
Prisoner of war camp Stalag Luft III which was run by the Luftwaffe for captured airmen until its liberation on 29 April 1945. The camp
The master plan
The problems
Tunnel construction
The end of the ‘Harry’ tunnel, showing how close the exit was to the camp fence
The disposal problem
Crawling to freedom
Setbacks
Kommandant Friedrich Wilhelm von Lindeiner-Wildau, of Stalag Luft III
Tough going
After the escape
The memorial to ‘The Fifty’ Allied airmen executed after the ‘Great Escape’
The five who made it
Across the Roof of the World
A river in the Spiti Valley, Himachal Pradesh. Height of ambition
Imprisoned in India
Escape
Heading for Tibet
‘The Roof of the World’ at Lhasa-Xining, Tibet
Fugitives in an unknown country
Again into Tibet
The Potala Palace and Buddhist stupas in Lhasa, Tibet
The Village of Happiness
A detour towards death
Taken in by royalty
The start of a greater adventure
Escape from a Siberian Gulag
The mountain landscape of the Chukchi Peninsula in Siberia. The unbelievable journey
The forgotten soldiers
The end of the Earth
Ruins of the gulag on the Chukchi Peninsula in Siberia. The surrogate escapee
Out of the frozen east
Life as a nomad
The prospectors
Left for dead
Riding the rails
A false step
Last throw of the die
The Six Escapes of ‘Farra the Para’
Freedom Bridge over the Imjin River between North and South Korea. The battle that started it all
Escape No. 1
Escape No. 2
Lt. Col. Anthony Farrar-Hockley (left) with Major Anthony Ward-Booth (right), during military operations
Escape No. 3
Escape No. 4
Escape No. 5
Torture
Escape No. 6
The Demilitarized Zone between North and South Korea looking from south to north. Betrayal
Final steps to freedom
Across the Killing Fields
Angkor Wat Temple, Siem Reap, Cambodia. The life of an interpreter
Caught in the civil war crossfire
A life-saving intervention
A mass grave of the Killing Fields victims in Choeung Ek, Cambodia
Skulls from a mass grave of Khmer Rouge victims in Choeung Ek, the Killing Fields near Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Year Zero
Living a lie
Dith Pran and Sydney Schanberg in New York, 28 November 1984. The Vietnamese restore control
A commemorative stupa filled with the skulls of the victims at Choeung Ek, Phnom Penh. Walking to the west
Aftermath
The Jungle and the Genocide
The jungle landscape of Sierra Leone. Into the lion’s den
A day’s work
The siege
UN peacekeepers at a checkpoint
The escape
A UN soldier watches as an RAF Chinook returns to the International airport at Freetown, Sierra Leone. Hope from the skies
Going home
The aftermath
The Trials of the Wager
Cape Horn, South America. The voyage of pride and greed
Disease runs rampant
The Centurion off Cape Horn, South America. The wreck of the Wager
The mutineers
The Pacific coastline of Chiloe Island, Chile, South America. Cheap’s party
Return to England
After the Mutiny
Tropical beach on Tahiti. An unfamiliar tale
The voyage out
All is ship shape
Tempted by paradise
The revolt in paradise
Jagged rocks surround the rim of Bounty Bay, Pitcairn Island
More hostility
The captain to the rescue
Sailing blind
Land at last
Out of the frying pan…
The loyal men return
Shipwreck, Slavery and the Burning Sand
Essaouira (Swearah), an old Portuguese city in Morocco. Trading places
Trading people
Life in the boat
A camel train in the unforgiving Sahara Desert landscape
A savage journey
The desert trader
The long road to Swearah
The bluff is called
Going home
The Whale and the Pacific
A sperm whale blowing at sea. Hard work on the open sea
The whale that fought back
A rocky hard place
Drifting with death
The beach at Henderson Island, Pitcairn Islands
The most horrible lottery
Skeletons and bones
An illustration by A. Burnham Shute, for the novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville
Fact as strange as fiction
The Teenage Captain
The Trafalgar. Alone at the wheel
A strong ship
The port of death
A rough journey into manhood
In the teeth of the tempest
The modest hero
Not a Man was Lost
Ernest Shackleton’s ship, Endurance, trapped in the ice. The Endurance
First steps to safety
Launching the James Caird from the shore of Elephant Island, 24 April 1916. The incredibly cramped living quarters for six men for the next seventeen days at sea. The open-boat journey
Memorial cross for Sir Ernest Shackleton, Hope Point, Cumberland East Bay, South Georgia
Where no man had gone before
1,700 Miles of Ocean
The beautiful landscape of Mauritius in the Indian Ocean. The great storm
A heavy metal cargo
A leader among men
Adrift in open boats
Ships that part in the night
The second boat
Over the reef to safety
The return home
The Two who were Spared
Caribbean island of Eleuthera, Bahamas. Torpedoed and left to die
Cast adrift
Seven men in a boat
Madness takes over
Nature’s rations
Clear across the ocean
Tragic aftermath
A poor sort of justice
The Longest Journey
The castaway
A home in the middle of the ocean
Down but not out
A balanced diet
Ships that pass
Across the Atlantic
Returning a hero
Five Days in a Deadly Sea
The paradise island of Guam, the largest and southernmost of the Mariana Islands. The deadliest mission
Death from below
Afloat on a burning sea
Five days with the sharks
Sharks were a notorious hazard for the survivors in the warm waters of the ocean
Three-quarter port bow view of the USS Indianapolis at sea
Lost at sea
A heroic rescue
Lieutenant Marks was piloting a PBY Catalina seaplane when he received a call to assist in the rescue of the men. Marks and his crew saved the lives of fifty-six men
Nailed to the mast
The Widowmaker
Coastline of the volcanic island of Jan Mayen, Norway. A baptism of fire
Fixing a hole
Heading south
The price of survival
Unlucky or just badly built?
The Russian Hotel class nuclear submarine K – 19, pictured in the Atlantic during its journey back to Russia, 1 March 1972. It was crippled by a fire off Newfoundland and had to be towed home
Another near disaster
A third tragedy
Together Alone
Maurice and Maralyn Bailey with the sextant and life raft which helped them to survive four months afloat. They told their incredible story in the book 117 Days Adrift. The dream
The long float
A Green Turtle, the species the Bailey’s managed to catch and eat to stay alive
The first few days
March
April
May
June
Maurice and Maralyn Bailey relive their ordeal at the London Boat Show, January 1974. 30 June, day 118
Going home
The Life Raft
Yacht at high speed. One man against an ocean
The dream
The race
Calm before the storm
Alone and unheard
The right attitude
A yacht in choppy waters off the coast of Gran Canaria, Canary Islands
Triggerfish became part of Callahan’s diet whilst drifting across the Atlantic Ocean
Islands of Les Saintes, Guadeloupe
Spotted
The Last Friend
Sea view from the island of Porquerolles in the South of France. The victory voyage
The quiet storm
Speeding up
Slowing down
Yachts in Porquerolles harbour
High waves during a storm in the Mediterranean Sea. Climbing up to hell
Hanging in the hatch
One by one
Hanging on… and on
A man being hoisted to safety after a helicopter rescue at sea. Hoisted back to life
The pain of recovery
The once-in-a-lifetime storm
Six Years in Beirut
An aerial view across the city of Beirut, Lebanon. A quiet sort of courage
A land tearing itself apart
Game, set and match
The start
A picture composed from six Polaroid images released to the press on 15 May 1985 in Beirut by the Islamic Jihad Organization, showing six Western hostages kidnapped by the Jihad. From left to right: Father Lawrence Jenco (USA), William Buckley (USA), journalist Terry Anderson (USA), two French diplomats Marcel Carton and Marcel Fontaine and Reverend Benjamin Weir (USA) Alone in the darkness
‘I’m not an animal’
For nearly seven years, Terry Anderson was moved from cell to cell around the war-torn city of Beirut, Lebanon
A picture of hostage Terry Anderson issued by his kidnappers
The end of the nightmare
Former hostage Terry Anderson meets with Associated Press colleagues in New York upon his release from captivity in December 1991. Return to the Lion’s Den
The Girl from the Secret Cellar
A video-screen image shows Natascha Kampusch during her first interview after escape in 2006. Snatched on the way to school
The police start searching
Eight years underground
Survivor’s spirit
The hidden room and hiding place of kidnapped Natascha Kampusch
Escape
The house where kidnapped Natascha Kampusch was found after eight years captivity
A new life
Ten Years as a Secret Slave
Naheed’s ordeal took her from the urban landscape of Glasgow, Scotland, to the rural wilderness of the Swat Valley, Pakistan, in a matter of weeks. Going home alone
‘Your flight has been cancelled’
The first two months
The gun girls
Salvation from nowhere
The landscape of the Swat River valley in Pakistan
Naheeda Bi with her father Akram Hussain and mother Rabia Bi at the family home in Glasgow, Scotland, on 6 June 2010
Reason for release
Kidnapped by the FARC
A checkpoint held by young guerrillas from FARC on the road where Íngrid Betancourt was kidnapped. Ideals worth dying for
FARC
The fearless candidate
On the road to Florencia, where Íngrid Betancourt was kidnapped with her campaign advisor Clara Rojas by members of FARC. The bus blocking the road is full of explosives and the graffiti spells out, ‘Watch out, landmine, Viva FARC!’
The danger of rescue
Political pinball
Betancourt in ill health in 2007 whilst being held hostage in a secret jungle camp
Harsh life as a hostage
Pressure mounts
An audacious endgame
Bait and switch
Betancourt (centre) talks with her children Melanie (left) and Lorenzo Delloye (right) after being rescued by the Colombian army in the jungle of the eastern department of Guaviare
Liberation
Buried Alive
The skyline of Baghdad. Business as usual
The greatest fear
Entombed
Surviving in his mind
The hostage business
A view across the suburbs of Baghdad
US Army Apache helicopters fly on patrol over Baghdad’s Green Zone. The agony of waiting
Delta force
US citizen Roy Hallums (centre) is seen shaking hands with Air Force Brigadier General Frank Gorenc before boarding a flight home from Iraq
Going home
Christmas Day Heroics
Flying home for Christmas
The underpants assassin
Our plane is on fire
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, shown in this booking photograph released by the US Marshals Service on 28 December 2009
The bomb that failed
Jasper Schuringa (left) receives a special medal from Amsterdam deputy mayor Lodewijk Asscher (right) on 21 May 2010
Into custody
The Hostages who Fought Back
The US Maersk Alabama container ship, docked at the Kenyan coastal sea port of Mombasa. Lawless waters
The hijacking
Ready for action
Engineers turn action heroes
The USS Bainbridge tows the lifeboat from the Maersk Alabama to the USS Boxer (in background) to be processed for evidence after the successful rescue of Captain Richard Phillips
The hostages take control
Here come the big boys
Stand off
Hard bargaining
Captain Richard Phillips (right) master of the cargo ship Maersk Alabama, stands alongside US Navy Commander Frank Castellano (left), commanding officer of the USS Bainbridge, after being rescued by US Naval Forces off the coast of Somalia. Endgame
The last pirate
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