Found scarred and half-mad, he raves about being attacked by 'demons () ' during his recuperation, he begins to exhibit dramatic physical changes, and begins taking an interest in local cave systems. After a crash, he finds his navigator brutally assaulted, is menaced by an unseen enemy, and is himself badly injured by his unit's supporting fire. The soldiers first assume that Serb () soldiers are trying to destroy the evidence of their atrocities () a US () Army Aviation () officer named Elias Branch leads a reconnaissance-helicopter flight to gather evidence. Several years later, the scene shifts to a UN () military base in Bosnia (), where multinational soldiers are guarding a forensic team excavating a huge mass grave, which satellite imagery shows being disturbed every night. As thee blizzard not letting up, the party pushes deeper into the network, discovering the trophy-like remains of a slaughtered ancient army and a trail of gold coins becoming separated, the members begin to be killed horribly by an unseen enemy, until only the mountain guides Ike and Kora remain. How the pilot had made it across the mountains is a mystery, but a diagram among the tattoos suggests that the cave the party is trapped may be part of a larger network, one that might have a outlet elsewhere. What is the premise of this story? I am waaaaay too lazy to google right now.Ī group of new-age () trekkers in Nepal () are trapped in a cave by a snowstorm and stumble across a mutilated, mummified corpse, covered with cryptic tattoos in both English and undecipherable symbols the party interprets the former to mean that the body was that of a RAF () pilot who had crashed on the other side of the Himalayas () in the 1940s.

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