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Turn Left or go home

At 15:00, on a bitterly cold afternoon in December 2023, Porsche werks driver Romain Dumas had a decision to make: turn left or turn for home. But there are two catches. Turning around would mean failing to complete a mission four years in the making, and abandoning an agonizing, exhausting three-week-long expedition mere feet from its end. But turning left would mean traversing a narrow sheet of ice on a 45-degree incline, some 6,600 meters above sea level, below which is a near-vertical 500-meter drop. The three-time Le Mans winner and veteran off-road racer finds first gear and feeds in the clutch.