Chapter 677: Il-76

When Tang Feng arrived at the Patriot Mountain camp, it caused quite a stir. Since the camp was built, it has been rare to see explorers driving snowmobiles from the coast to get here, and even those who have traveled such a long distance on the Antarctic continent have rarely been seen. Especially when Tang Feng was accompanied by two German Mu and a Siberian Ussuri snow tiger, this was even rarer.

Nowadays, whether it is an explorer who crosses the pole or a mountaineer who climbs Vincennes, the vast majority of them fly directly to the Patriot Mountain camp, and then transfer from here.

Not to mention that Tang Feng still drove all the way from the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula, nearly 2,000 kilometers away, which is definitely a feat at the moment.

Therefore, Tang Feng's arrival not only aroused the onlookers of those tourists in the camp, but also made the camp staff also treated as guests - Tang Feng got a chance to have a free lunch.

The Smiths family of four were also in camp waiting for the planes to arrive, having returned to Patriot Hill Camp from Vinson Peak last night. Of course, they didn't climb Vincennes, they came to the South Pole just to satisfy the curiosity of Jamiri and Dale, and as for climbing Vinson, the difficulty was too great for their family.

Maybe when Jamiry and Dale grow up, the siblings may have a chance to accomplish this feat for their parents.

Tang Feng and the Smith family met again, which naturally made both parties very happy, and as for Jamie and Dale, they even hugged Depp and Downey's necks, and they were very affectionate.

The arrival of these three big guys also caused a commotion in the tent that served as a restaurant. But the Siberian Ussuri snow tiger is a rarity, and Woods is extremely calm, and his dexterity amazes the tourists who are eating in the restaurant tents.

Tang Feng sent Depp and the three of them out to play with Jamie and Dale, while Tang Feng sat in the dining room and talked to the Smiths.

"Don, didn't you say you were going to cross the pole. Why did you come back so soon? ”

Tang Feng shook his head with a smile and said, "There is a bit of an urgent matter at home, I need to go back and deal with it, won't I return halfway?" In fact, it doesn't matter if I don't get to the pole, I walked all the way from the northern tip of the Antarctic Peninsula here, and I have enjoyed the scenery that I should have enjoyed, and the storm that I should have encountered has also been encountered, except that I did not occupy that point, the purpose of my coming to Antarctica has basically been achieved, so. It's okay not to go there. ”

Mrs. Smith next to her asked curiously, "Don, did you come here to plan to fly back?" ”

Tang Feng nodded and said, "That's right, this can save some time." By the way, how is your family playing at Vincennes? ”

Hearing Tang Feng ask about this, the Smiths became excited, and told Tang Feng about the various things they encountered at Vincennes, especially the brothers from St. Petersburg, Russia. unexpectedly succeeded in reaching the top and became the only two people in their group to reach the top. Others. Basically, I gave up climbing halfway up the mountain.

Although the altitude of Vincennes is not high, the difficulty of climbing is extremely difficult, and it is a small miracle that the brothers from Russia were able to successfully reach the summit. You must know that most of the people who climb the summit of Vincennes are well-trained professional mountaineers. It is really difficult for amateur mountaineers to climb the first peak of Antarctica.

After an hour of talking with Mr. and Mrs. Smith, the people in the dining room heard a "buzzing" sound outside, and as the sound grew louder, the staff at Patriot Mountain Camp reminded them that the transport plane had arrived for the day.

Between the Monte Patriot camp and Punta Arenas, Chile, there is a regular daily flight. Punta Arenas is half past nine a.m. local time. A large transport plane would take off from the airport and travel 3,500 kilometers after a nearly five-hour flight to Patriot Mountain Camp with all kinds of supplies and tourists.

The plane then stayed at the Mount Patriot camp for two to three hours and returned to Punta Arenas in the evening of the same day.

Tang Feng followed Mr. and Mrs. Smith out of the restaurant tent and found a white Il-76 transport plane gliding slowly on the solid ice about a kilometer away.

This big guy also made Tang Feng a little embarrassed, he really didn't expect that the large transport plane between Penta Arenas and the Patriot Mountain camp turned out to be Lao Maozi's Il-76, you must know that the take-off weight of this big guy can be as high as 210 tons, and it can transport 60 tons of payload to a destination 4200 kilometers away at one time, which is a real air transport giant.

The reason why Tang Feng was able to recognize this as an Il-76 had a lot to do with the unique "glass goldfish tank" under the nose of the Il-76. The glass compartment under the nose of the Il-76 is actually reserved for the navigator, and at present, only the Il-76 and Huaxia's Yun-8 have this design, but the navigator cabin of the Y-8 is different from the Il-76, so Tang Feng can recognize at a glance that this is a four-engine large Il-76.

"Don, wait more than two hours, and we can go back with this big guy. When we came, we were also taking this big guy, this big guy in addition to the comfort is not as good as the passenger plane, other aspects are good, at least the space inside is large enough, in the journey can also stand up and move. Mr. Smith said to Tang Feng with some excitement. For these foreigners, they go out to take passenger planes a lot, but the opportunity to fly such a large transport plane is very rare, so Mr. Smith seems a little excited.

As soon as Smith said this, Tang Feng remembered that he hadn't even discussed with the people at the Patriot Mountain Camp about taking a plane back, thinking of this, Tang Feng could only apologize to the Smith couple, and then found the director of the Patriot Mountain Camp through the camp staff.

The charm of the Amex black gold card is really endless, the supervisor is also an American, naturally knows who the people who have this kind of high-grade black card are, and again, Tang Feng also agreed to leave his Prinoci snowmobile worth more than 20,000 US dollars in the camp, which can be regarded as a donation to the camp, so the director very happily agreed to Tang Feng's request to follow this Il-76 back to Punta Arenas.

As for the price of the air ticket, this is nothing to Tang Feng, with Tang Feng's net worth, even if he buys the entire camp and the Il-76, it will only be a drizzle. (To be continued.) )