Chapter 673: Hunger
The audience can guess the result, after all, they know the riddle, and it is not difficult to push backwards.
On the fourth day of departure, Scott's crawler tractor was already broken, and in the bitter cold environment, the oil injection system was completely pumped to death, unable to be repaired, unable to be refueled, and the crawler tractor became a pile of scrap metal.
Subsequently, the supply on the tractor was transferred to the pony.
In extremely low temperatures, ponies have poor cold tolerance and are unable to adapt to the harsh environment of the Antarctic Plateau, and even when food and drinking water are abundant, they are physically unable to cope with the constant low temperatures and high loads of loads.
One by one, the ponies fell, and in desperation, the members of Scott's expedition could only use manpower to drag supplies in the wind and snow themselves on the ice fields of the ravines.
At the same time, Amundsen's expedition, which had set out from Walvis Bay two months later than Scott, had already far outpaced them and was heading towards the South Pole at a speed they could not have imagined.
[Rub, there are such details]
[I've just heard of it before, but I didn't expect it to be so complicated]
The audience already had a premonition in their hearts when they heard this.
Bi Fang tugged at the dog that was trying to jump out, and continued to talk along the train of thought.
Nature does not discriminate, and the Amundsen expedition faced no less problems and difficulties than the Scott expedition.
Frostbite on the skin and feet, reduced supplies, and even the snow reflected by the polar regions during the journey made it impossible to open your eyes.
These are all difficulties that Bi Fang himself has encountered, but because his own protection is relatively good, except for the weakness caused by not eating for a long time, there is not much damage.
But it was different for Amundsen a hundred years ago, backward productive forces corresponded to backward means of protection.
And said to be an adventurer, but judging from the level of science and technology at that time, most of them were still empiricist, and if you really want to talk about the means of survival, it is still a lot worse than Bi Fanglai.
However, the huskies' hardiness and endurance ensured Amundsen's daily journey, and the whole team still maintained the ability to travel 30 kilometers a day at high speeds, and the progress of the trip was not slowed down by half a minute.
For the first half of the nearly 700-kilometre journey, Amundsen's team wore Eskimo fur coats and traveled on dog sleds and skis.
The second half of the journey was mainly a climb over the mountains, and despite encountering many high mountains, deep valleys, ice crevasses and other dangers, Amundsen's team was not fatally hindered due to the thorough preparation in advance and the ability of the huskies to move.
[Awesome]
[The PAW team has made a great contribution! 】
[I can't see it, my family's Erha will only demolish the house]
[Erha who will not demolish the house is not a good Erha]
After nearly two months of marching on the ice fields, the weather was bad again, and the snowstorm blew for five days and five nights.
Just 25 kilometres from the pole, Scott's team was hit by bad weather and a lack of preparation for the set.
Their Siberian ponies all froze to death in the bitter cold.
The tractor breaks down, the pony freezes to death, and Scott's team loses all means of transportation.
Day and night, they kept dragging supplies in the bitter cold environment, so that their feet were all frozen, and their faces were full of chilblains, and the slightest touch was a heart-piercing pain.
In such a situation, there is no doubt that you will lose.
Bi Fang touched the rich dog's head, and the body temperature was transmitted to the palm of his hand through the hair, which was warm.
Before, the audience only knew a rough ending, but they didn't know the details of the adventure, but at this time, after listening to Fang's more detailed review, they were quite emotional.
[Awesome, what is an explorer, this is an explorer]
【The spirit is worth learning】
Polar adventures are like this, where no one notices, often with a big hole.
I really feel that with good equipment, I can ignore the natural environment and wave casually, and I will have frozen into a popsicle a long time ago.
"Actually, before I came, the captain of the cruise ship also told me an interesting story, not long ago, just last year."
Bi Fang remembered some new things that the old captain had told him when he was chatting.
"Two-thirds of the Arctic Ocean is covered with snow and ice all year round, which is fun and natural for tourists who come here, but for the crew, they have often lived on the same ship for a long time and see the same scenery every day."
"In addition to the ice, there is only ice here, everywhere the ship goes, it is a white expanse, the scenery is tired of watching, and there are only a few old acquaintances who can talk, so the extremely bored crew can only look at the ice every day in a daze when they are idle."
"At first, he thought he had encountered a polar bear, which is a common thing, so he didn't pay much attention to it, but when the ship got closer, he found that it was much smaller than a polar bear."
"Finally, when I brought the binoculars, I found out that it was actually a dog."
The crew couldn't believe their eyes, but if you look closely, even though the hair and background are almost integrated, it's really a dog!
The lonely dog walked and stopped on the uneven ice, and unconsciously wagged its tail under the cruise ship, revealing a look that wanted to approach but did not dare to approach.
"At that time, the captain ordered the boarding ladder to be lowered and used food as bait, but the dog immediately came up, and then the crew recorded a video of the dog to see if any locals knew her, and it turned out that the original owner was found."
[Damn, can I pick up dogs when I go to the North Pole now?] 】
【Arctic Adoption Center, right?】
[Do these three dogs also have owners?]
"Perhaps." Bi Fang was noncommittal.
Even if it is a large sheep farmer, many of them sneak away every year, let alone dogs.
But looking at the three people in front of him who took the initiative to come over, maybe they didn't escape on their own initiative, Bi Fang actually had some guesses in his heart.
As he originally told the audience, even in modern times, there will be cases where Inuit people are found frozen to death in their houses.
Just like the primitive people who still live in the primeval forests in modern times, some Inuit people are unable to integrate into modern life normally, and still maintain their original appearance, and if they cannot stock up on enough food, their lives are also in danger.
Even if you are adapted, you need to save enough money to survive.
Thanks to the "blessing" of some people, the Inuit who entered the modern society no longer need to stock up on a large amount of food, but turn their reserves into money, and through the qualification of legally hunting polar bears and other animals, they can sell furs and save enough money to support the purchase and sale of goods when the winter freighter arrives.
It's just that if you don't have enough food, you will starve to death.
And if you don't have enough money, you can only starve to death.
There does not seem to be an essential difference between the two, and the latter is even more naked.
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