Amongst a bed of thick, pitch-black seaweed,
Pavel Nikolskiy, a palaeontologist and senior researcher
at the Moscow Geological Institute, is crouched down,
searching for artefacts from the Pleistocene period.
Above him, a grey, icy cliff is splintering and falling
apart, cascading down in small pieces, and falling
into the Laptev Sea.Lyakhovsky
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