A Cold War Mystery - Death in Ice Valley (99)

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Ian Sanders

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🗓️ 21 December 2019

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

There’s an area near Bergen, Norway known as Isdalen (“Ice Valley”), but also nicknamed "Death Valley", due to the area's history of suicides in the Middle Ages, and more recent hiking accidents. In November 1970 a man and his two young daughters noting an unusual burning smell and to their horror discovered the charred body of a woman, located among some scree. Now if this podcast was a magazine you wouldn’t mind paying a few quid or dollars a week so I’m asking you to support us for the bargain price of $3 a month. In the last few weeks Pete Hobson, Richard Goyette, Hamish Macintyre, Alastair Bassett, David Roberts, James Marks and Richard Harvey have joined in helping to cover the show’s increasing costs and keep us on the air, plus they’ve got the sought after CWC coaster too. Just go to https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/ So back to today’s episode – We speak with Marit Higraff, an investigative reporter for the Norwegian broadcaster NRK, who has investigated this case and is the co-presenter of the Death in Ice Valley podcast. Welcome Marit to our Cold War conversation Well I hope that’s whetted your appetite to explore the Death in Ice Valley podcast. There’s further information and links on this episode in our show notes, which can also be found as a link in your podcast app. https://coldwarconversations.com/episode99/ If you like what you are hearing please leave reviews in Apple podcasts and share us on social media. If you can’t wait for next week’s episode do visit our facebook discussion group where guests and listeners continue the Cold War Conversation. Just search "Cold War Conversations" in facebook. Thank you very much for listening, it is really appreciated – goodbye. Support the project! https://coldwarconversations.com/donate/ Follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/ColdWarPod Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/coldwarpod/ Instagram https://www.instagram.com/coldwarconversations/ Youtube https://youtube.com/@ColdWarConversations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:02.1	There's an area near Bergen, Norway, known as the Ice Darling of the Ice Valley.
1:08.9	It's also nicknamed Death Valley, due to the area's history of suicides
1:13.1	in the Middle Ages and more recently hiking accidents. In November 1970 a man and his two young
1:20.5	daughters noted an unusual burning smell and to their horror discovered the charred body of a woman
1:27.1	located among some screen.
1:30.4	Now if this podcast was a magazine, you wouldn't mind paying a few quid or dollars a month.
1:36.7	So I'm asking you to support us for the bargain price of three US dollars a month.
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