In front of them, a glacial belt more than a kilometer wide and several kilometers long appeared in front of them.

This glacial belt goes from where they stand to the flat ground below the glacier, and their goal, the Ring Road of Iceland, is on that flat land, halfway between the bottom of the glacier belt and the seaside. 、

Now, hope is in front of them, but how to go about it has become a problem that plagues them.

If this were a cartoon, they could slide all the way down from the top of the glacier belt, accompanied by screams and cheers, to reach their destination.

It's a pity that this is a realistic film, so Liu Danqing and Xiao Weiwei can only look at the glacier belt in a daze.

The audience was amazed by the wonders of nature.

"It's magnificent! It's spectacular! The magic of nature is perfectly executed!"

"Isn't this an enlarged version of our kindergarten slide?

"The biggest slide in history, looking forward to the young man and the slightly shocking slide!"

"Icelandic amusement park! Crazy down the stairs! You deserve it!"

After watching for a while, Liu Danqing turned his head to discuss with Xiao Weiwei.

"Weiwei, let's go a little further north and go down the ridge over there. ”

"The terrain on both sides of this glacier belt is so steep that if we had a long rope, we would have considered that right now, there is no place to go down. ”

Xiao Weiwei nodded and replied, "You are an expert, listen to you, although it seems difficult to walk over there, as long as there is no snow, everything is not a problem." ”

Liu Danqing's favorite descent site is more than ten or twenty kilometers away from the glacier belt where they are located.

Although this section of the snow is relatively flat, the wind is not small, because of the lack of blockage, the strong northwest wind blows directly in front of the two people, making it still laborious to move forward.

A third of the way through, it was already dark, and the two had to find a leeward place to dig a hole to rest.

On the twelfth day on Vatnajökull glacier, the weather was still good, with strong northwesterly winds expelling the abundant water vapour from the warm Atlantic current, making it sunny and sunny.

But this is not good news for Liu Danqing and Xiao Weiwei, who still have to compete with the strong northwest wind.

The cold wind of minus 10 degrees Celsius was like a knife cutting at the faces of the two men, and the hats and sunglasses were completely unstoppable.

This time, after only walking for about an hour, the two had to stop, find a sheltered place, and sit down to repair.

The first thing the two of them did when they sat down was to rub their faces vigorously until their faces were red, then they stopped, and then covered their noses with their hands to warm up their noses.

"Huhu, my face finally has a little feeling, it was completely numb just now, this wind is too fierce. Xiao Weiwei gasped, shook her hands and complained, "Qingqing, are we going to keep going like this?"

Liu Danqing's face was also rubbed red at the same time, and he covered his nose and replied: "No way, we can only go north, yesterday I looked at the terrain, the distance from the glacier to the coastline is short in the south and long in the north." ”

"The shorter the distance, the steeper and more dangerous the descent down the mountain, so we had to go north, where the slope was a little gentler. ”

"However, we still have to think of some solutions, otherwise when we get to our destination, our faces will be wasted, and our muscles may be frozen to death. ”

Liu Danqing pulled open the jacket, pulled out the underwear worn in the innermost, cut off a hem of about ten centimeters with a Viking knife, and then stuffed the clothes back and pulled on the jacket.

Split the hem of the underwear in two and handed it to Xiao Weiwei, Liu Danqing explained: "Take this as a mask, fold it and block it under the sunglasses, it should be more comfortable." ”

While saying that, he started the demonstration himself.

Fold the underwear into a palm-sized trap and place it under the sunglasses to block your mouth and nose, and then take the hat to the minimum.

At this moment, the two of them looked like the most obscene tail men, and they saw a pair of sunglasses and a light gray mask on their faces.

On the road again, Xiao Weiwei's muffled voice came from the mask.

"Yes, it's a lot more comfortable, at least not that knife-scraping feeling, and the air inhaled is much more comfortable, and it doesn't make my throat feel like a knife. ”

This time, the two walked forward for about two hours before they stopped, hid in a sheltered place and began to drink water and replenish their energy.

By noon, the northwest wind had finally subsided, and the two of them were finally able to move much faster.

Finally, at around three o'clock in the afternoon, the two arrived at the previously selected descent point.

It is a huge east-west ridge that rises above the glacier at one end and connects to the bottom of the mountain, looking like the tentacles of the glacier sticking out.

And on this ridge, full of folds, like a cut half of a rough Russian loaf of bread.

In other words, it is a large east-west ridge, and above it are dozens of small ridges running north-south.

Xiao Weiwei stood on the snow cliff, and the maker said, "Look, it should be the No. 1 Ring Road in Iceland, right?"

Xiao San immediately gave a close-up over there, and sure enough, it was a highway that meandered along the seaside.

Liu Danqing looked at the highway and said: "That's our goal, the ring road, when we get to the highway, we can return to human society by stopping the car." ”

Looking at the sky and the terrain in front of him, Liu Danqing said: "Let's go down from here today, and then camp in a place that looks like a snow pit." ”

The snow pit, separated from the huge world of ice and snow they were in, was separated by a ridge, and it took more than an hour to walk through it.

The two of them didn't care about resting and set off immediately.

"Now, we're officially heading towards the Ring Road, and although the terrain here is fairly flat and not too steep, there is snow and ice on the ground, and we have to go around the ice and walk through the snow. ”

"Look, there was another piece of ice in front of us the size of a dozen football fields, and we walked around it, and this kind of sloping ice surface made it difficult to brake after the slide. ”

Circling around the gaps in the ice, it took the two more time than expected to get to the bare rocky ridge.

At this time, the sky had begun to darken, and Liu Danqing had no choice but to say: "The small goal we set is too big, it seems that it can't be completed today, Weiwei, let's find a place to camp here." ”

Fortunately, the two of them are now at the eastern foot of the glacier, so although the two of them are on a huge ridge, the wind is still not too strong, and the two of them are in the folds, and the leeward is still relatively easy to find.

Early in the morning, Liu Danqing and Xiao Weiwei packed up and started the live broadcast room.

"Hello everyone, welcome to the wilderness survival couple - Land of Ice and Fire, today is our thirteenth day at the Watona Glacier, I am Danqing, and now, we will be able to keep our feet on the ground. ”

"Hello everyone, I'm Weiwei, and now we are in a very good mood because we will be able to officially leave this ice and snow purgatory soon. ”

Even the Ice and Snow Purgatory has been spoken, and the psychological shadow brought to Xiao Weiwei by this Watona Glacier is really not small.

That being said, for most of the thirteenth day, I actually walked on the snow, and it wasn't until about two o'clock in the afternoon that I really got rid of the ice and snow.

Standing on a small ridge in the north-south direction, Liu Danqing pointed to the front and said: "Look at that, now there are few patches of white in front of us, which means that we have really left the ice and snow, and we can move forward in a down-to-earth manner in the future." ”

"Then what are you waiting for? let's go down, it's hard to walk on this ridge, but look below, the terrain is flat, and it's going to be much easier. ”

Below Xiao Weiwei pointed to the valley between two mountain ridges, in summer and autumn, the melting glacial water forms a stream of water from this valley, and when the temperature drops, the ice and snow no longer melt, these valley floors either dry up, or accumulate some iceberg water, frozen into ice.

"Not today, we need to continue drilling the snow cave in the evening. ”

Liu Danqing shook his head, rejected Xiao Weiwei's proposal, and explained: "Our altitude is still very high now, and there is no vegetation in those canyons, which means that we can't make a fire, it's too cold at night, and we can't survive." ”

"Tomorrow morning, we'll go down to the bottom, we'll go there, and in the afternoon, we'll look for shelter. ”

Rounding a small ridge again, the two found a large snow pit, dug an eleventh snow hole, and slipped into it for the night.

Early in the morning of the fourteenth day, the two of them went down to the bottom of the valley and advanced, and at this time the speed of the two of them increased.

Although the valley floor was full of gravel, there was no snow and ice on their feet, and the steps of both of them were much lighter.

In one morning, they walked more than the previous two days combined.

Now, mosses have appeared on the hillsides on either side of them, and occasionally a few wild grasses are mixed in.

And the bottom of the valley where they walked was bare, and there was nothing left.

This is because the valley floor is a waterway in summer and autumn, and in winter and spring it turns rocky again, so even the most vigorous bryophytes cannot survive.

At noon, the two of them ate half of the venison that was left to be less than a kilogram, drank two sips of water with great cherishment, and set out on their way again.

Now out of the snow, they face a new problem, a lack of water.

A few months ago, there was a raging current under their feet, but now, nothing but stones are stones.

When the sun began to set westward, Liu Danqing and Xiao Weiwei began to climb up the ridge next to them.

They had to find a suitable place to build shelter, and the valley without snow and ice was comfortable to walk in, but not insulated from the low temperature.

Although there are mosses and a few wild grasses on the slopes on both sides, it is not easy to make a mattress, let alone start a fire, with these sparse vegetation.

(End of chapter)