Live Wilderness Adventure

Chapter 676 Hunger

The audience has guessed the result. After all, they know the answer, so it is not difficult to deduce it backwards.

On the fourth day of departure, Scott’s crawler tractor was already broken down. In the severe cold environment, the oil injection system was completely pumped out, unable to be repaired, unable to refuel, and the crawler tractor became a pile of scrap iron.

The supplies from the tractor were then transferred to the pony.

In the extremely low temperature environment, the poor cold resistance of ponies can hardly adapt to the harsh environment of the Antarctic Plateau. Even when food and drinking water are sufficient, their physical strength cannot cope with the continuous low temperature and high load. the bearer.

The ponies fell one by one. In desperation, the members of Scott's expedition team could only use human power, dragging supplies by themselves in the snowstorm and moving forward on the ice field with ravines and gullies.

At the same time, Amundsen's expedition, which set off from Walvis Bay two months later than Scott, had already far surpassed them and was heading towards the South Pole at an unimaginable speed.

[Wipe, there are such details]

[I have only heard of it before, but I didn't expect it to be so complicated]

The audience already had a premonition in their hearts when they heard this.

Bi Fang tugged at the dog who was trying to jump out, and continued to talk along the train of thought.

Nature treats all people equally, and the problems and difficulties faced by Amundsen's expedition were not much less than those faced by Scott's expedition.

Frostbite on the skin and feet, reduced supplies, and even being blinded by the reflected snow light from the polar regions during the journey.

These are all difficulties that Bi Fang himself has encountered, but because he has done a good job of protecting himself, apart from the weakness caused by not eating for a long time, there is not much damage.

But it was different for Amundsen a hundred years ago. The backward productivity corresponds to the backward protection methods.

And if you are an adventurer, judging from the level of technology at that time, most of them are still empirical. If you really want to talk about the means of survival, they are still much worse than Bi Fang.

However, the cold resistance and endurance of the Huskies ensured Amundsen's daily travel. The whole team still maintained the high-speed travel ability of 30 kilometers a day, and the progress of the trip was not slowed down by half a minute.

For the first half of the nearly 700-kilometer journey, Amundsen's team wore Eskimo fur coats on dog sleds and on snowboards.

The second half of the journey was mainly climbing and crossing mountains. Despite encountering many obstacles such as high mountains, deep valleys, and ice crevasses, Amundsen's team was not fatally hindered due to adequate preparations in advance and the mobility of the huskies.

【Amazing】

[The Wang Wang team has made great contributions! 】

[I can't see it, my Erha will only tear down the house]

[A erha who can't tear down a house is not a good erha]

After nearly two months of marching on the ice sheet, the weather was severe again, and the snowstorm continued for five days and five nights. In order to rush to the Antarctic first, Amundsen carried the snowboard and guided the dog sled to move on.

When Amundsen was only 25 kilometers away from the pole, Scott's team had already encountered the double blow of bad weather and insufficient preparation for departure.

Their Siberian ponies all froze to death in the freezing weather.

The tractor broke down, the ponies froze to death, and Scott's team lost all means of transportation.

Day and night, dragging supplies in the freezing environment made their feet all rotten from the cold, and their faces were covered with chilblains, and even the slightest touch was painful.

In such a situation, there is no doubt that they will lose.

Bi Fang touched Fugui's dog's head, and the body temperature was transmitted to the palm through the hair, which was very warm.

Before the audience only knew a general ending, but did not know the details of the adventure. Now after listening to the more detailed replay, they were quite emotional.

[Awesome, what is an explorer, this is an explorer]

【Spirit is worth learning】

This is the case with polar adventures, where there is often a big hole left where no one will notice.

I really feel that with good equipment, I can ignore the natural environment and surf casually, and I have long been frozen into a popsicle.

"Actually, before I came here, the captain of the cruise ship also told me an interesting story. It wasn't too long ago, just last year."

Bi Fang remembered some new things that the old captain had said when chatting with him.

"Two-thirds of the Arctic Ocean is covered with ice and snow that cannot be melted all year round. For tourists who come here, they naturally find it novel and interesting, but for the crew, they often have lived on a ship for a long time. The scenery you see every day is the same.”

"Except for the ice layer, there is only the ice layer here. Wherever the ship goes, it is a vast expanse of whiteness. The scenery is tiresome to look at. There are only a few old acquaintances who can talk, so the extremely boring crew members are idle. When I came down, I could only stare at the ice every day in a daze."

"As a result, when a crew member was looking into the distance again, he suddenly saw something moving. At first he thought he had encountered a polar bear. This is a common thing, so he didn't pay much attention to it. But when the ship When he got closer, he realized that it was much smaller than a polar bear."

"It was only after I got the telescope that I realized it was a dog."

At that time, the crew couldn't believe their eyes, but after a closer look, even though the hair and the background had almost merged into one, it was really a dog!

The lonely dog ​​walked up and down on the uneven ice surface, unknowingly wagging its tail and came under the cruise ship, showing a look of wanting to get close but not daring.

"At that time, the captain ordered the boarding ladder to be lowered and used food as bait. As a result, the dog came up immediately. Later, the crew recorded a video of the dog to see if any local people knew her, and finally found her. original owner."

[Damn, can I still pick up dogs when I go to the North Pole? 】

【North Pole Adoption Center】

[Do these three dogs also have owners?]

"Perhaps." Bi Fang was noncommittal.

Even if they are big sheep farmers, there will be many sneak away every year, let alone dogs.

But looking at the way the three of them approached proactively, maybe they didn't escape on their own initiative, Bi Fang actually had some guesses in his heart.

As he said to the audience at the beginning, even in modern times, there will be situations where Inuit people are found frozen to death in the house.

Just like the primitive people who still exist in the primitive forest in modern times, some Inuit people cannot normally integrate into modern life and still maintain their original appearance. If they cannot store enough food, their lives are also in danger.

Even if you are adapted, you need to save enough money to survive.

Thanks to the "blessing" of some people, the Inuit who have entered the modern society no longer need to store a large amount of food, but turn their reserves into money. Through the qualifications of legally hunting polar bears and other animals, they sell fur and save enough money. Money to support the purchase and sale of supplies when the winter freighter arrives.

It's just that if there is not enough food, you will starve to death.

And if you don't have enough money, you can only starve to death.

There seems to be no essential difference between the two, and the latter is even more naked.