13: Kent Brooks: “Mayday, mayday, mayday, helicopter going down”

Update: 2020-09-22

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In this episode, we hear from Kent Brooks, Emeritus Professor at the Geological Museum in Copenhagen, about a very close call while working for a mineral exploration company in East Greenland in the early 1970s.

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13: Kent Brooks: “Mayday, mayday, mayday, helicopter going down”

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13: Kent Brooks: “Mayday, mayday, mayday, helicopter going down”