Chapter 659: Elworth Heights
After waking up early the next morning, Tang Feng only felt very uncomfortable all over his body. The sleeping bag just can't compare to a bed, and although it can keep warm, the comfort is really not good.
When I fell asleep, my back, my arms and legs were all sore -- on the ground.
Tang Feng glanced at the entrance of the cave, and the entrance of the cave was indeed not sealed, and the ice ballast frozen into one with the glacier below, like half a gate, blocked the entire entrance of the cave by more than half, leaving only a section of the cave about forty centimeters high.
Tang Feng climbed to the entrance of the cave and found that it was still a strong wind outside, although it was not as violent as yesterday, but it was obviously not a good choice to go out at this time.
Helpless, Tang Feng had to retract into the cave, wash up and make breakfast with peace of mind.
Last night, Tang Feng got up three times and added wood to the bonfire three times, so that the bonfire remained unextinguished, so the temperature in the cave at this time was still very good, compared with the ice and snow outside, the temperature inside the cave was at least forty degrees higher.
After yesterday's snowstorm, the temperature outside is at least minus 30 degrees Celsius, but the temperature in the cave is above 10 degrees.
One man, two dogs, and a big tiger stayed in this cave until lunch.
After lunch, the brightness in the cave began to increase significantly, Tang Feng put on a cold-proof suit and climbed to the entrance of the cave again to look out, but found that the sun didn't know when it had shown a smiling face, and the wind was much lighter.
"Oh also!" Tang Feng cheered excitedly, retracted into the cave and cleaned up the bonfire and everything, and then took Sanxiao to crawl out of the half-frozen cave entrance.
Woods was so excited that he had been suffocating in the cave for a day and a half, and he had already suffocated this guy. And it's not too cold, and as soon as it comes out of the hole, it spreads joy everywhere. Depp and Donnie wilted a lot, and it was too cold, and the temperature was very unsuitable for them.
The wind has weakened a lot, and although it is still very strong, it can still allow people to move in the wild.
The sun is very harsh. But the temperature outside is very low, and the ground is already freezing hard, and it will not be long before a new layer of glaciers will form here.
Tang Feng put on goggles, released the snowmobile, and after lighting the fire, Tang Feng looked back at the cliff and the half-cut hole, his mind suddenly moved, and he turned around and walked back there again. With his hands pressed against the cliff, the next moment, about a meter and a half away from the hole below, a new hole was formed.
At this height, there is no need to worry about the snow blocking the entrance to the cave, and this location is located on the route from the Antarctic Peninsula to the interior of Antarctica, no matter who comes here in the future. You can camp here with peace of mind, and it is definitely a campsite that is not worse than the scientific research station.
What Tang Feng didn't expect was. This whim of his mind made the cave a great place to stay in the future. All scientific expedition teams from the Antarctic Peninsula who want to enter the depths of the peninsula or the interior of Antarctica, after knowing the coordinates of this cave, regard this not very large cave as a campsite. As long as the scientific expedition team passing through this area will stay here for one night.
There were even two expedition teams that encountered a snowstorm on the way forward. It is precisely by relying on this cave that these two expedition teams have not been reduced, making this cave a famous "first camp in the wild" on the entire Antarctic continent!
The delay of nearly two days allowed Tang Feng to run at least 400 kilometers less. Although it is very helpless, it is a thing that cannot be helped. The climate of the Antarctic continent is the most gratuitous, and you can't ignore the weather in Antarctica. Because the weather is the most powerful killer weapon in Antarctica, if you don't pay attention, it will become a hard corpse, which will never decay
Back on the snowmobile again, Tang Feng began a long journey again. Two days ago, I ran about 400 kilometers, and now there is at least 1,300 kilometers in a straight line from Vincennes Peak, which is enough for Tang Feng to run for a week.
It seems that the blizzard completely vented the tyranny that the Antarctic continent had stored for several days, although the wind was still very strong, and it remained around eight or nine, but in the following trip, it was never encountered again with the same snowstorm as that day.
The weather is always very good, and Tang Feng can also enjoy the scenery of Antarctica while driving.
Frozen peaks, huge glaciers, these are difficult to see outside the Antarctic, of course, the bottomless glacier cracks are also quite terrifying, along the way, Tang Feng encountered at least six or seven ice cap cracks, the widest crack is more than ten meters wide, and the length is at least more than 100 kilometers.
Such fissures are not uncommon in Antarctic glaciers, and it is not known how long these fissures have been formed, perhaps because of the warm season, when the temperature in Antarctica is high enough to form such a huge fissure. These ice cap cracks are not even drizzle for the entire Antarctic, but for Tang Feng, these cracks are moats.
Just going around these cracks was enough for Tang Feng to spend an extra three days. It wasn't until Tang Feng completely walked out of the Antarctic Peninsula and really entered the inland area of Antarctica that such ice cap cracks gradually became fewer.
The ice cap here is much thicker than the Antarctic Peninsula, and the temperature in the inland areas is much lower than that of the Antarctic Peninsula, so there are very few ice cap cracks here.
In this way, Tang Feng finally saw a mountain range rising from the flat ground in the distance in front of him in the evening of the thirteenth day.
A few days ago, tall mountains always appeared on the left side of Tang Feng, that is, in the east, Tang Feng knew that they belonged to the east side of the Antarctic Peninsula, and geologists determined that these mountains on the Antarctic Peninsula were actually the same geological mountains as the South American Andes.
The mountain range in front of it is the famous Elworth Highlands.
Discovered in 1935 by the famous American explorer Ilworth, this highland is a piece of highland made up of several mountain ranges, and the name is naturally named after the surname of Ilworth, who discovered this highland.
Tang's destination is Vincennes, the main peak of the Isleworth Mountains, located on the southernmost side of the Isleworth Highlands. At 4,897 meters, the highest peak in Antarctica is not very high, but it is the last mountain to be climbed among the highest peaks on the seven continents.
Obviously, he won't be able to catch up with Vincent Peak today, but by tomorrow, as long as there are no big accidents, Tang Feng will completely understand the secret hidden at the bottom of Vincent Peak. (To be continued.) )