In the winter of early 1943, 12 Norwegian resistance members crossed the Hardangervidda to put a stop to the creation of an atomic bomb, in what has become one of history’s most astounding and beloved adventure tales.

Now, exactly 80 years after the event, an international expeditionary team retrace their footsteps, from the assault on the Rjukan valley, across Europe’s highest and wildest plateau, and over the Swedish border hundreds of kilometres away.

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