1164.Ice and Snow (5/5)
Wang Bo also means this, Alaska is not a fun place, this season is the coldest time of the year, and the temperature reaches minus 20 degrees Celsius. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
Eva didn't insist, she said, "Then I won't go with you this time, my dear, you have to take care of yourself there." ”
Wang Bo patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, you don't know your man and me?" If there was danger, I would be the first to run. ”
Little Lori said: "Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, you can take me, I will take care of you for my sister." ”
There will be a holiday in elementary school, and little Lori is really fine, but Lao Wang is afraid that something will happen to her, so he still refuses to take her out.
Eva said, "Take Dale with you, she was born in the snow and ice, and she has such a thick skin, presumably the skin in other places is also thick, and she can't freeze her." ”
She likes the little girl to go out for a walk and see, the girl is rich, not to say that she is 'rich' to give more money, but to broaden her horizons and enrich the spiritual world, so that it is not easy to be deceived and played with when she steps into society in the future.
If it was said that she was thick-skinned in the past, Xiao Lori must theorize, this time she accepted this statement very honestly, nodded and said: "Yes, yes, Dai'er is thick-skinned, Dai'er is very frost-resistant!" ”
Wang Bo gave her a slight brain collapse and said, "But you must be obedient after you go, otherwise I will throw it there and not bring it back." ”
Little Lori swore all kinds of oaths, God, Bodhisattva, Buddha, the gods and Buddhas and the Norse gods were all moved out.
In this way, the two embarked on a journey with two dogs, two big fat cats, and a fat snow fox.
The plane flew from Wellington to Lima, Peru, and from Lima to Seattle in the United States, and then made another stop before flying to Juno, the capital city of Alaska.
Alaska is located at the northwest tip of the North American continent, bordered by Canada to the east and the Arctic Ocean, the Bering Sea and the North Pacific Ocean on three sides.
The state is home to 17 of the 20 highest mountains in the United States, and the 6,194-meter McKinley Peak is the highest peak in North America. Most of the world's active glaciers are in Alberta, with the largest glacier basin in the Malaspina glacier basin covering an area of 5,703 square kilometres.
The area of this state is 1,710,000 square kilometers and once belonged to the Russians.
After the outbreak of the Crimean War in 1853, Russia, fearing that the Alaska colony would be taken away by the British, proposed to sell Alaska to the United States, and the two sides closed for $7.2 million in April 1867.
That is, the Russians sold this land to the Americans at that time for four dollars per square kilometer, so when it comes to the super losers in the world, the Russian tsarist government always has something to say.
When it comes to Alaska, people have the impression of ice and snow and cold winds, but in fact, this land is extremely vast, and the southeast and central south have a temperate climate, and the annual temperature is about 0C to 15C, which is not very cold.
Its inland climate is continental, reaching 26C during the polar day in summer and -15C during the polar night in winter. The really cold place is in the Arctic Circle, which is a polar climate, where the temperature is below zero all year round, and minus forty or fifty degrees Celsius is the norm.
Editarod is a route, not the name of a region, but originally a supply route connecting seaside towns and inland mining camps, from which mail and supplies of all kinds were brought inland and gold was transported out of the mines.
At that time, these tasks were done by sled dogs, so sled dogs have always had an unusual place in the area.
In 1925, the sled dogs had a moment of glory when diphtheria was raging and the town of Nome, with only 1,400 people, was in critical condition and turned to Anchorage for help.
At that time, in addition to the diphtheria virus raging in the Nome area, there were also days of snowstorms howling, and at that time, small planes that still used open-air seats could not take off and land and cruise accurately.
At the critical moment, the governor of Alaska decided to use a team of 20 dogs to pull a sled team to transport the serum to Nome. On January 26, 1925, the anti-diphtheria serum was transported by rail to the town of Ninana, west of Fairbanks, and on the night of January 27, 1925, the first dog sledding team departed.
The route is near 64 degrees north latitude, during the polar night of the year, and most of the road is carried out in the dark, the temperature is below -35 degrees Celsius, and the lowest temperature is as low as -50 degrees Celsius.
At dawn on February 2, 1925, the first batch of serum was delivered to Nome, a journey of 1,125 kilometers that took 127 hours, less than 5 days and 5 hours!
Now the race is just to commemorate the great rescue of humanity in history, and the race route is not the same as at that time, after all, the race is really held in an environment of minus thirty or forty degrees, and neither humans nor dogs can stand it.
There is a lot of information about the competition, but what is rarely introduced is that at that time, in order to rescue the town of Nome, many sled dogs died on that route, mainly from exhaustion......
Nowadays, it is an event, not a game, so except for the same length, everything else has changed.
After landing at Juneau International Airport, they will take a bus to downtown Anchorage, where the race takes place in Alaska's largest city.
Little Lori didn't understand and asked, "Since it's from Anchorage City, why don't we land there?" The city of Anchorage also has an airport, which we studied geography about. ”
"Because Anchorage was like Nome in 1925, there was a snowstorm and planes couldn't land, so we had to get over by land," Wang said. ”
They were on a bus with dog seats, and many people brought their dogs on the bus.
This is a local specialty, and dog sledding is an important means of transportation, but when you have a car, it is definitely more convenient and comfortable to take a car.
But at this time, the dog can't be thrown away, so the bus has set up a special seat for the dog, which is a cage embedded in the back.
The bus moved slowly against the wind and snow, and there was snow everywhere as far as the eye could see.
Little Lori leaned on the window and watched for a while, Wang Bo pulled her back, and after a long time, she would get snow blindness, which hurt her eyes very much.
The little white fox and the fat cat brothers have been lying on the window and looking out, looking at the whistling ice and snow outside, which is full of interest, and they despise the little Lori while watching: human beings are really fragile, and they will be blind when they see a snow scene.
After a day's trek, the bus finally entered the city of Anchorage at night.
This is a very large city, covering an area of 5,000 square kilometers and a population of more than 300,000, but when they entered at night, Wang Bo thought that he was in the wilderness, how could there be any people?! (To be continued.) )