In 1921, Ada Blackjack and four men embarked on an expedition to a remote Siberian island. Only one of them returned.
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Perched on the ridges of a valley in Berdzor (Lachin), we sit in the sparse living area of a three-storey base camp. Here, Narine Asatryan tells me that finding a landmine is a feeling like no other. She is one of The HALO Trust’s de-miners, and has found two anti-personnel mines so far. For her, […]
