Happy Tycoon

"Hey, Doug, come here, let me introduce you to the distinguished guests on the Blue Whale." Old Kyle pointed to a tall, middle-aged white man with a beard and a tall stature, who at first glance looked like a savage. Waved and said.

The big guy trot over quickly. Before Kyle could introduce him, he smiled and shook hands with Yang Jing, "Hey, Albert, and the beautiful Miss Sophia, welcome you to Alle Special, I’m Douglas Henry, the head of the Allett Meteorological Observatory of Environment Canada. You can call me Doug."

This big man is far from being as rude as his appearance. On the contrary, Yang Jing thinks that the word polite is very appropriate on him.

Captain Andre obviously didn't know this big man. It is estimated that when he came last time, Douglas had not yet come here as the director of the weather station.

After another greeting, Old Kyle smiled and said, "Doug, Albert and Sophia have brought us so many foods. Should we prepare for it? It's all past four now, and there are less than two. Hours are when we have dinner. I think we should hold a grand bonfire party to welcome friends on the Blue Whale."

"Kyle, as you wish, my side is ready, and I am waiting for your order." The big man saluted the old Kyle playfully.

Old Kyle smiled on his face and patted his hands vigorously. After attracting everyone’s attention, he said, "Guys, let us move and welcome the Blue Whale with our greatest enthusiasm. Friends on the ship came to Alter as a guest."

More than twenty people around responded with a bang, and the military ensign also said a few words to the walkie-talkie. After a while, the roar of the car motor came from the military base.

Around Alert in mid-July, there is no ice or snow, but in the distance to the west, the towering peaks are still covered with thick glaciers. The glaciers there are permanent glaciers, and even in the hottest July and August, those glaciers will not melt.

The bonfire dinner is indeed a bonfire dinner. After a few strong 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 these people juggled a lot of dry wood from the back of the room, and the two strong men took off their vests, and then started to chop the wood with a sharp axe.

Old Kyle smiled and explained to the side: "Although there are fuel and gas in the base, wood is still indispensable. Every summer, when the sea routes are opened, there will be freighters from the Port of Churchill for us. Bring enough wood for the camp to use for a year and a half. No way, we don’t have a single tree within a few hundred miles around here, not even a single tree on Ellesmere Island. So, what we need Wood for heating or other purposes must be transported by ship from the southern mainland."

After a pause, Old Kyle pointed to the wood and continued: "Use it with confidence, the wood accumulated here is enough for us to use it luxuriously for several years."

Grid asked curiously: "Professor, isn't Alter now without a permanent population? Why are there so many people here?"

Old Kyle laughed and said: "Indeed, since the last five permanent residents left here in 2009, Alert is no longer a real human settlement. Most of the people living here now live in the cold. After the season is over, I will fly over, and then wait until the warm season is about to end, and then fly back. In the cold season, there are only a few people living here. Because I want to do a research on the polar atmosphere, So I have stayed here for more than two years. But in September of this year, my research is about to end, and I can finally go back to reunite with my family. Well, it’s not easy for those soldiers. Last year, Luo Lieutenant Deman led four soldiers with me through the long cold season and four months of polar night."

Yang Jing stretched out a big thumb and praised: "Professor, you are really admirable. If you change me, I will not see the sun for four months, I am afraid I will go crazy."

Alter is located in a high latitude area of ​​82 degrees north latitude. Here, four months of a year are all night, and similarly, there are four months of all day. It's like now, the sun doesn't fall for 24 hours, and the night cannot be seen in one day.

"Hehe, in fact, it’s fine if you get used to it. The polar night here is actually very beautiful. Although there is no sun, you can see the gorgeous aurora almost every day. It’s very beautiful. Albert, Sophia, if you are in If you have time in winter, you can try to live here for a period of time. Not only can you see the beautiful aurora, but also let you experience the loneliness of this planet. Sometimes, loneliness reaches a limit, but it is a kind of indescribable Enjoyment."

Yang Jing and Ge Ge looked at each other and shook their heads involuntarily. Both of them understand that this kind of life is not something they can enjoy.

As the saying goes, one inch of time and one inch of gold, but also the so-called life is too short, and to have fun in time. There are still a lot of good days in the outside world of Huahua waiting to be enjoyed by yourself, but you can't spend too much time in such a place.

Although there are more than 100 days of snowfall in Alter's 365 days a year, it is actually very arid and belongs to a semi-arid area. So these fine pine woods shipped from Canada are already air-dried and can be split with an axe.

The chopped firewood was set aside. One of the guys wearing a vest sweating and sweating put more than a dozen smaller pieces of wood into the big pit, then poured some gasoline on it, and struck a match. Threw it in.

"Bang!" With the sound of gasoline deflagration, a raging flame suddenly appeared from the big pit. The dry wood made a "cracking" sound under the burning of the flame, which seemed to be used. A voice to welcome their glory in the flames.

When the bonfire was completely burned, nearly fifty people had gathered in the entire small square. Even the soldiers of the Royal Canadian Army on duty came here under the leadership of Lieutenant Rodman. As for the guard, go to his sister. Although Lao Tzu is a soldier, at this time, the soldier is also a normal person, isn't it? It doesn't matter to monitor the radio for a while.

Counting the seven Royal Canadian Army soldiers led by Lieutenant Rodman, there are a total of 27 personnel in the entire Aare settlement, and there are four others who came from far away Los Angeles.

After talking, Yang Jing and Grid agreed that these four adventurers definitely deserve the word "great". The four of them started walking across the entire North American continent since September last year, and then took advantage of the freezing of the sea during the winter, using dog sleds, crossing the straits frozen by ice and snow between the Arctic islands, and finally Arrived at Grice Fjord, a small city on the southern tip of Ellesmere Island.

After the four of them were repaired in the Grice Fjord for a week, they continued to sled across the entire Ellesmere Island, and finally arrived in Alter in mid-June. The journey took nine months. The travel distance is more than 8,000 kilometers and more than 5,000 miles!

Although the whole feat is not as far away as the Long March journey taken by the Chinese seniors, it is definitely more difficult than the Long March in terms of difficulty.

You know, when the four of them traversed the entire North American continent, they spent six months in the extremely cold northern part of the North American continent. In the Arctic archipelago in the cold season, it can definitely kill people. But these four people actually traversed the entire North American continent like this abruptly, almost from the southwest corner of the North American continent to the northeast corner.

But when Yang Jing and Grid learned that the four of them risked their lives to finish this trip, they would each receive a $1 million bonus.

It turned out that these four participated in a reality show hosted by Fox TV. The name of this reality show is called "Challenge the Limits". This program is not very popular among the general audience in North America, but it has a high status among some people who love to travel.

According to the requirements of the program, people participating in this program must start from Los Angeles. They cannot rely on mechanical power during the whole process, but can only rely on legs or horse riding, dog sledding, sailing, etc. to move forward.

There are many groups of people participating in this show, some of them travel around the world on a sailing boat, and some groups of people walk along the Cordillera mountain system to the southernmost part of the South American continent.

And this group of the four of them is the most difficult group among them. As long as they can reach Alter smoothly, the program group will pay them one million dollars in prize money.

Of course, they use miniature digital cameras to record their itineraries every day, and rely on satellite signals to send them back to Fox TV ~www.readwn.com~ These recorded shots are slightly edited, which is the most authentic content and content of the program of the day. Lens.

But even for the prize of one million dollars, the four of them can traverse the entire North American continent in this way, and they can definitely be called a "great".

Yang Jing thinks that he can't accomplish such a feat...

But he doesn't want to play like this, it doesn't mean that the other person doesn't want to play like this.

Grid hugged Yang Jing's arm and acted like a baby. "Husband, would we also find a chance to take a hike like this? For example, we can traverse the entire Antarctic continent during the coldest month of July in the Southern Hemisphere; well, or we You can also traverse the Sahara Desert during the hottest month of July in the northern hemisphere...Wow, just the two of us, Chris didn't bring either of them. I think this is quite a romantic thing. "

Yang Jing wanted to sew this girl's mouth. If you want to die, you can't take this approach, right? Whether it’s crossing the Sahara or the Antarctic continent in July, it’s not much better than touching a switch...

This girl must have been poisoned! No, you have to stay away from these four guys!