Two climbers who were buried in an avalanche and then caught in a blizzard in New Zealand earlier this week survived their ordeal by digging themselves out of the snow, building a snow cave and feeding on just muesli bars.
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This is not a year we ll look back on fondly. It began with Australia on fire and ends with more than 1.5 million dead in a pandemic. But there have been bright points in this
annus horribilis. While many of us saved lives by hunkering down at home watching Netflix, a communal act of selflessness that shouldn t be soon forgotten, progress was made in science, the environment, and even politics â Biden won! We can buy lab-grown meat! British beavers built a dam for the first time in 400 years! Here s our rundown of the best news to come out of 2020.