"Hey, Doug, come here, I'll introduce you to the honored guests on the Blue Whale."
Old Kyle waved at a tall middle-aged white man with a full beard and a tall figure who at first glance looked like a savage.
The big man quickly trotted over, and before Kyle could introduce him, he shook Yang Jing's hand with a smile, "Hey, Albert, and beautiful Miss Sophia, welcome to Alett, I'm Douglas Henry, the head of the Alett Meteorological Observatory of Environment Canada, you can call me Doug." ” This big man is far from being as rude as he looks on the outside, on the contrary, Yang Jing thinks that the word polite is still very appropriate for him.
Captain Andre obviously didn't know the big man, and it is estimated that when he came last time, Douglas had not yet come here to serve as the director of the meteorological station.
After another greeting, Old Kyle smiled and said, "Doug, Albert and Sophia have brought us so much food, shouldn't we prepare it, it's past four o'clock, and we have less than two hours to go to dinner, I think we should have a big bonfire to welcome our friends on the Blue Whale." ” "Kyle, as you wish, I'm ready to give you orders."
The big man playfully saluted old Kyle.
Old Kyle smiled and clapped his hands vigorously, and only when he had attracted everyone's attention did he say, "Guys, let's get moving, and welcome our friends aboard the Blue Whale to Alette with our greatest enthusiasm." ” More than 20 people around responded violently, and the second lieutenant of the military also said a few words into the walkie-talkie, and after a while, the roar of the car motor came from the military base.
In mid-July, there is no snow or ice around Alet, but in the distance to the west, the towering peaks are still covered with heavy glaciers.
The glaciers there are permanent glaciers that do not melt even in the hottest months of July and August.
The bonfire dinner was indeed a bonfire dinner, and after a few sturdy men removed a few stones in the middle of the square, a large pit more than one meter deep and about two meters in diameter appeared.
Then the men pulled out a lot of dry wood from the back of the room like a juggler, and the two strong men stripped naked and left their vests, and then began to chop the wood with sharp axes.
Kyle Sr. smiled and explained, "Although there is oil and gas in the base, wood is still indispensable.
Every summer, when the sea route is opened, a freighter from Churchill Harbour brings us enough wood for a year and a half to use in the camp.
No way, we don't have a single tree within a few hundred miles of here, not even the entire island of Ellesmere.
Therefore, all the wood we need for heating or other purposes has to be transported by ship from the southern mainland. ” After a pause, Old Kyle pointed to the wood and continued, "Don't worry, use it boldly, the wood accumulated here is enough for us to use luxuriously for several years." ” Gege asked curiously, "Professor, isn't Alette now without a resident population?"
Why are there so many people here?
” "Indeed, since the last five permanent residents left in 2009, Arlett has not been a human settlement in the true sense of the word.
Most of the people who live here now come by plane just after the end of the cold season, and then wait until the end of the warm season to fly back.
During the cold season, only a limited number of people live here.
I've been here for more than two years because I'm going to do a study on the polar atmosphere.
But in September of this year, my research will be over, and I will finally be able to go back to my family.
Well, and those military men are also not easy.
Last year, Second Lieutenant Rodman led four soldiers to accompany me through the long cold season and the polar nights for four months. ” Yang Jing stretched out a thumbs up and praised: "Professor, you are really admirable, if I am replaced, I will not see the sun for four months, I am afraid I will go crazy." ” Alert is located at a high latitude of 82 degrees north latitude, where four months of the year are all night, and likewise, four months are all day.
It's as if the sun doesn't set 24 hours a day, and you can't see night in a day.
"Hehe, in fact, it would be nice if you got used to it.
The polar night here is actually very beautiful, and although there is no sun, you can see the brilliant aurora almost every day, which is very beautiful.
Albert, Sophia, if you have time in winter, you can try to live here for a while, not only to see the beautiful aurora, but also to experience the loneliness of this planet.
Sometimes, loneliness reaches an extreme, but it is a kind of unstoppable enjoyment. ” Yang Jing and Gege glanced at each other, and both shook their heads involuntarily.
They both knew very well that this kind of day was not something they could enjoy.
It is the so-called inch of time and an inch of gold, and the so-called life is short, and it is time to be happy.
There are still a lot of good days waiting to be enjoyed in the flower world outside, but you can't waste too much time in this kind of place.
There are more than 100 days of snow falling in this place of 365 days a year, but in fact it is still very arid and belongs to a semi-arid area.
So the fine pine wood shipped from Canada has long been air-dried and can be split with an axe.
The chopped firewood was set aside, and one of the men, who was sweating in a vest, put more than a dozen smaller pieces of firewood into the pit, then poured some gasoline on them, lit a match, and threw them in.
"Bang!"
With the sound of gasoline bursting, the flames suddenly emerged from the pit, and the dried firewood made a "crackling" sound under the scorching flames, as if to welcome their glory in the flames.
When the bonfire was completely burned, nearly fifty people had gathered in the entire small square, and even the soldiers of the Royal Canadian Army on duty were all led by the second lieutenant Rodman.
As for the guard, go to his sister's, although Lao Tzu is a soldier, but at this time, a soldier is also a normal person, isn't it?
It doesn't matter if you listen to the radio for a while.
Including the seven soldiers of the Royal Canadian Army led by Second Lieutenant Rodman, there were a total of twenty-seven personnel in the entire Alept settlement, and four of them came from as far away as Los Angeles.
After talking, Yang Jing and Gege agreed that these four adventurers were definitely worthy of the word "great".
The four of them have been trekking across the North American continent since last September, and then in the winter, taking advantage of the freezing seas, they used dog sleds across the ice-frozen straits between the Arctic islands to reach Gracefjord, a small town on the southern tip of Ellesmere Island.
After a week of repairing in Gricefjord, the four of them continued to cross Ellesmere Island in dog sledding, and finally arrived in Alett in mid-June, a journey of more than 8,000 kilometers and 5,000 miles in nine months!
Although the whole feat is not as far as the Long March road taken by the Chinese old-timers back then, in terms of hardship, it is definitely better than the Long March.
You know, when the four of them crossed the entire North American continent, they spent six months in the northern part of the North American continent in extreme cold.
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In the Arctic archipelago in the cold season, it can definitely kill people.
But these four people crossed the entire North American continent so stubbornly, almost from the southwest corner of the North American continent to the northeast corner.
However, Yang Jing and Gege were relieved when they learned that the four of them risked their lives to complete this trip, and each of them would receive a prize of one million US dollars.
It turned out that the four of them participated in a reality show event hosted by Fox TV.
The name of this reality show is "Pushing the Limits".
The show isn't very popular among the general viewer in North America, but it has a high standing among some people who love to travel.
According to the requirements of the program, the participants of this program must set off from Los Angeles, and the whole process cannot rely on the power of machinery, but can only rely on their legs or horseback riding, dog sledding, sailboats and other ways to move forward.
There were many groups of people who participated in the show, ranging from a few people traveling around the world on a sailboat to a group of people traveling along the Cordillera Mountains to the southernmost tip of the South American continent.
And the group composed of the four of them is the most difficult group among them, as long as they can reach Alert smoothly, then the program team will pay them a million dollars in bonuses.
Of course, they have to film their trip every day with a tiny digital camera and transmit it back to Fox via satellite.
These recorded footage, with a slight edit, is the most realistic content and footage of the day's program.
But even for a million-dollar prize, the four of them can cross the entire North American continent in this way, and they can definitely be described as "great".
Yang Jing thought that he could not accomplish such a feat But just because he doesn't want to play like this doesn't mean that the other person doesn't want to play like this.
Gege hugged Yang Jing's arm and coquettishly, "Husband, do you want us to find a chance to have a hike like this, okay?"
For example, we can cross the entire Antarctic continent during the coldest month of July in the Southern Hemisphere; Well, or we could also cross the entire Sahara Desert during the hottest month of July in the Northern Hemisphere, wow, just the two of us, Chris and none of them, I think it's pretty romantic. ” Yang Jing hated to sew this girl's mouth shut.
If you want to die, you can't take such a method, right?
Whether it's crossing the Sahara or the Antarctic continent in July, it's not much better than touching the electric gate This girl must have been poisoned!
No, you have to stay away from these four guys!