Chapter 1179 1164. Ice and Snow (5/5)

Chapter 1179 1164. Ice and Snow (55)

Wang Bo also meant the same thing. Alaska is not a fun place. This season is the coldest time of the year, and the temperature reaches minus 20 degrees, just like playing.

Eva didn't insist, she said: "Then I won't accompany you this time, dear, you have to take care of yourself there."

Wang Bo patted his chest and said, "Don't worry, you don't know me, your man? If there is danger, I will definitely be the first to run away."

Little Lolita said: "Brother-in-law, brother-in-law, you can take me with you, I will take care of you for my sister."

Primary school will be on holiday, and little Lolita 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 Dai'er, she was born in a world of ice and snow, and her skin is so thick, presumably the skin in other places is also thick, so she can't be frozen."

She likes little girls to go out and have a look around more often. Girls are rich, not the kind of "rich" that is meant to give more money, but to broaden their horizons and enrich their spiritual world, so that it will not be easy for people to step into society in the future. To be deceived, to be played by others.

If she was said to be thick-skinned in the past, little Lolita would have to reason about it. This time she accepted the statement honestly, nodded and said: "Yes, yes, Dai'er has a thick skin, and Dai'er is very cold-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 never bring it back."

Little Lolita swears in various ways, God, Bodhisattva, Buddha, Mantian gods and Buddhas, and Nordic gods have all been moved out.

In this way, the two embarked on the journey with two dogs, two big fat cats, and a fat snow fox.

The plane flew from Wellington to Lima, the capital of Peru, and then flew to Seattle, the United States after a stop in Lima, and then stopped again before flying to Juneau, the capital city of Alaska.

Alaska is located at the northwestern tip of the North American continent, bordering Canada to the east and surrounded by the Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea and the North Pacific on the other three sides.

The state has 17 of the 20 highest mountains in the United States, and the 6194-meter Denali is the highest peak in North America. Most of the active glaciers in the world are in Albania, and the largest Malaspina Glacier has a drainage area of ​​5,703 square kilometers.

The state covers an area of ​​1.71 million square kilometers and once belonged to the Russians.

After the outbreak of the Crimean War in 1853, Russia feared that the Alaska colony would be taken away by Britain, and proposed to sell Alaska to the United States. In April 1867, the two parties settled for $7.2 million.

In other words, the Russians sold this land to the Americans at a price of four yuan per square kilometer, so when it comes to the super prodigal sons of the world, the Russian Tsarist government always has something to say.

When it comes to Alaska, people think of ice and snow and howling winds. In fact, this piece of land is extremely vast. The southeast and central south have a temperate climate. The annual temperature is about 0°C to 15°C, which is not very cold.

Its inland has a continental climate, which can reach 26°C during the polar day in summer and -15°C during the polar night in winter. The really cold place is in the Arctic Circle, which is a polar climate. The temperature is below zero all year round, and minus 40 to 50 degrees is normal.

Iditarod is a route, not the name of an area. Originally, it was a supply road connecting seaside villages and inland mining camps. Various mail and supplies were imported into the inland, and at the same time, gold mines were continuously transported out. .

Back then, the work was done by sled dogs, so they have always had a special status in this area.

In 1925, the sled dogs ushered in a glorious moment. At that time, diphtheria was rampant, and the town of Nome, which had only 1,400 people, was in critical condition and called Anchorage for help.

At that time, in addition to the diphtheria virus raging in the Nome area, there were days of blizzards howling. At that time, small planes that still used open-air seats could not take off and land and cruise accurately.

At a critical moment, the governor of Alaska decided to use 20 dog sled teams to relay the serum to Nome. On January 26, 1925, the anti-diphtheria serum was transported by rail to the town of Nenana, west of Fairbanks. On the night of January 27, 1925, the first dog sled team set off.

The transportation line is near 64 degrees north latitude, which coincides with the polar night time of the year. Most of the road sections are carried out at night, and the temperature is below minus 35 degrees Celsius, and the lowest temperature is actually as low as minus 50 degrees Celsius.

At dawn on February 2, 1925, the first batch of serum was delivered to Nome. The journey of 1125 kilometers took a total of 127 hours, less than 5 days and 5 hours!

Now the competition is just to commemorate the great rescue of human nature in history. The competition route is different from that at that time. After all, the competition is really carried out in an environment of minus 30 to 40 degrees, and neither humans nor dogs can bear it.

There are many introductions about related competitions, but what is rarely introduced is that many sled dogs died on that route in order to rescue the town of Nome, mainly because of exhaustion...

What is going on now is a competition, not a life-and-death competition, so apart from the same length, everything else has changed.

After landing at Juneau International Airport, they have to take a car to downtown Anchorage, the largest city in Alaska where the game started.

Little Loli didn't understand, and asked, "Since the race starts from Anchorage, why don't we land there? Anchorage also has an airport, we learned geography."

Wang Bo said: "Because Anchorage is like Nome in 1925, there will be a blizzard and the plane cannot land, so we have to rush over by land."

They took a bus with dog seats, and many of them took their dogs with them.

This is a local characteristic. Dog sledding is an important means of transportation, but it is definitely more convenient and comfortable to take a car when you have a car.

But at this time, dogs cannot be thrown away, so special seats are set up for dogs on the bus, which are cages embedded in the back.

The bus moved slowly against the wind and snow, and everything in sight was covered with white snow.

Little Loli lay on the window and looked at it for a while, but Wang Bo pulled her back. After a long time, she would suffer from snow blindness, which hurts her eyes very much.

The little white fox and the fat cat brothers have been lying on the window looking out, looking at the whistling ice and snow outside is full of interest, while watching, they despise little loli: human beings are so fragile, they will go blind when they look at the snow scene.

After a day of trekking, at night, the bus finally entered the city of Anchorage.

This is a very large city with an area of ​​5,000 square kilometers and a population of over 300,000. But when they entered at night, Wang Bo thought he was in the wilderness. How could there be any people? !