Kangnam Mountains, Democratic People’s Republic of (North) Korea
Hanging dangerously close to the end of his climbing rope, Mike Stokey used his penlight to inspect the hole in the cliff face. It isn’t deep but its damn sure dark, he thought, and it’ll have to do for now. The other end of the rope was secured to the trunk of a thick tree about 30 feet above where Lee sat resting his aching leg. There was a rock ledge about halfway down the sheer cliff and just above the little cave that should hide them from anyone looking over the edge into the snow-covered valley below the mountain. If they stayed deep enough in the small cut, they’d be invisible to anyone looking up from below the cliff. What happened after they got themselves out of sight, Stokey hadn’t quite determined yet. First thi
