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Walk across the ice to that helicopter, which can only take 15 people at a time. so it would be very difficult. in the meantime if the weather does improve, the aurora astralis, which is the toughest of the ice breakers involved, may make another attempt to get alongside and carve a part out of the sheet ice for it. those onboard remain optimistic that they will eventually get out of there. listen here. >> as you can see the weather's a bit sus today, minus 1 and blowing snow. we're all in a really good mood because the other ship is only 20 miles away and we're looking forward to seeing her. ...

>> there is a chinese icebreaker getting closer to a russian ship that is stuck in theoise since christmas morning. johnathon what is the latest. >> greg, that icebreaker, the snow dragon could be getting very, very close to the stricken expedition ship. eight hours ago, members of that expedition, you can so them. first caught sight of the icebreaker and snow dragon on the horr otherwison. about nine miles from where they were. nine miles of sheet ice that are 12 foot thick. it is clearly slow going and everybody on board including the professor turny who is leading the expedition was happy t...