"Watch out, Rama's team is closing in on us!" Satan immediately warned the six members of his team.
Five hundred meters is neither near nor far. The terrain of the Siberian ice sheet is not flat everywhere; even in this extreme, frigid environment, trees still grow. Coupled with uneven terrain, teams cannot always see one another, forcing them to rely on the highly sensitive experts within their ranks to judge the distance between their own party and others.
There is a certain etiquette to this distance. Almost every team maintains at least two or three hundred meters of separation. If two teams come within two hundred meters, a conflict could erupt at any moment.
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