Chapter 673 Hunger
The audience can guess the result. After all, now that they know the answer, it is not difficult to work backwards.
On the fourth day after the departure, Scott's crawler tractor was already broken down. In the severe cold environment, the oil injection system was completely pumped out and could not be repaired or refueled. The crawler tractor became a pile of scrap metal.
The supplies from the tractor were then transferred to the ponies.
In extremely low temperature environments, ponies' poor cold tolerance makes it difficult for them to adapt to the harsh environment of the Antarctic plateau. Even when there is sufficient food and drinking water, their physical strength is unable to cope with the continued low temperatures and high loads of loads.
The ponies fell one by one, and in desperation, the members of Scott's expedition could only use manpower to drag their supplies through the wind and snow and struggle forward on the ice field full of gullies and creatures.
At the same time, Amundsen's expedition, which set out from the Bay of Walvis two months later than Scott, had already far surpassed them and was heading towards the South Pole at a speed they could hardly imagine.
[Damn, there are details like this]
[I had only heard of it before, but I didn’t expect it to be so complicated]
When the audience heard this, they already had a premonition in their hearts.
Bifang pulled Goudan who was trying to jump out, and continued speaking along the same line of thought.
Nature treats everyone equally. The problems and difficulties faced by Amundsen's expedition were no less than those faced by Scott's expedition.
The skin and feet were frostbitten, the supplies were reduced, and they were even unable to open their eyes due to the light reflected from the snow in the polar regions during the journey.
These were difficulties that Bifang himself had also encountered, but because he had done a good job of protecting himself, apart from the physical weakness caused by not eating for a long time, he did not suffer any major injuries.
But it was different for Amundsen a hundred years ago. The backward productivity corresponded to backward means of protection.
Although he is an adventurer, judging from the level of technology at that time, he was mostly an empiricist. When it comes to means of survival, he is still far inferior to Bifang.
However, the Eskimo dogs' resistance to cold and endurance ensured Amundsen's daily progress. The entire team still maintained the ability to travel at a high speed of 30 kilometers a day, and the progress of the journey was not slowed down at all.
For the first half of the journey, which was nearly 700 kilometers, Amundsen's team traveled on dog sleds and skis wearing Eskimo fur coats.
The second half of the journey was mainly climbing and crossing mountains. Although they encountered many dangerous obstacles such as high mountains, deep valleys, and ice cracks, Amundsen's team still did not encounter fatal obstacles due to their thorough preparation and the mobility of the Eskimo dogs.
[Awesome]
【PAW Patrol has made great achievements! 】
[You can’t tell, my Husky only knows how to destroy the house]
[A Husky that doesn’t destroy your house is not a good Husky]
After nearly two months of marching on the ice field, the weather became bad again, with a blizzard lasting five days and five nights. In order to reach the South Pole first, Amundsen carried his snowboard and guided the dog sled to continue moving forward.
When Amundsen was only 25 kilometers away from the pole, Scott's team had suffered the double blow of bad weather and insufficient preparation for the departure.
All their Siberian ponies froze to death in the severe cold.
The tractor broke down, the ponies froze to death, and Scott's team lost all means of transportation.
Dragging supplies in the freezing cold day and night made their feet all frozen and their faces covered with frostbite, which hurt so much at the slightest touch.
In such a situation, we are bound to lose.
Bifang touched Fugui's dog head, and his body temperature was transmitted to his palm through the hair, which was warm.
Previously, the audience only knew a general ending but did not know the details of the adventure. After listening to Fang’s more detailed review, they were quite moved.
[Awesome! What is an explorer? This is an explorer.]
【Spirit worth learning】
That's what polar adventures are like. There is often a big hole in a place where no one would notice.
If I really thought that I could ignore the natural environment and travel around freely just because I had good equipment, I would have been frozen into a popsicle long ago.
"In fact, before I came here, the captain of the cruise ship also told me an interesting story. It happened not too long ago, just last year."
Bifang remembered some new things the old captain had told him when they were chatting.
"Two-thirds of the Arctic Ocean is covered with ice and snow all year round. For tourists, it is naturally novel and interesting, but for the crew, they have often lived on a ship for a long time and see the same scenery every day."
"There is nothing but ice here. Wherever the ship goes, it is all white. The scenery is boring. There are only a few old acquaintances who can talk. So when the extremely bored crew members are free, they can only stare at the ice in a daze every day."
"As a result, when one of the crew members was looking far away, he suddenly saw something moving. At first he thought he had encountered a polar bear, which is a common occurrence, so he didn't pay much attention to it. But when the ship got closer, he found that the thing was much smaller than a polar bear."
"Finally, I used a telescope to find out that it was actually a dog."
The crew members at the time couldn't believe their eyes, but when they looked closely, even though the fur and the background had almost merged into one, it was indeed a dog!
The lonely dog walked and stopped on the uneven ice surface, and unknowingly came to the cruise ship, wagging its tail, looking like it wanted to get closer but didn't dare to.
"The captain ordered the boarding ladder to be lowered and used food as bait, and the dog came up immediately. Later, the crew recorded a video of the dog to see if any locals knew her, and they actually found her original owner."
[Damn, if I go to the North Pole now, can I also pick up a dog? ]
[Arctic Adoption Center, right?]
[Do these three dogs have owners?]
"Maybe." Bifang did not comment.
Even large sheep farmers will have many sheep escape secretly every year, not to mention dogs.
But seeing the three creatures coming towards him on their own initiative, Bifang actually had some guesses in his heart that perhaps they were not escaping on their own initiative.
As he initially told the audience, even in modern times, there have been cases of Inuit being found frozen to death in their homes.
Just like the primitive people who still live in the primeval forests today, some Inuit are unable to integrate into modern life normally and still maintain their original appearance. If they cannot store enough food, their lives are also in danger.
Even if you have adapted, you still need to save enough money to survive.
Thanks to some people, the Inuit who have entered modern society no longer need to store large amounts of food. Instead, they can turn their reserves into money, obtain legal hunting qualifications for animals such as polar bears, sell their furs, and save enough money to support the sale of supplies when cargo ships arrive in winter.
But if there is not enough food, then we will starve to death.
If you don’t have enough money, you will starve to death.
There seems to be no essential difference between the two, and the latter is even more naked.
