Chapter 9 Ice Bare Antarctica

Time/January 6︱10, 1997 Location/Antarctica (Larsman Hills) Zhongshan Station, China (Davis & Law Base, Australia) Soviet Progress Station, Russia Geographic location / Antarctic longitude 76 degrees︱78 degrees (76︱78 E) Latitude 68︱69 degrees south (68︱69 S) People/Reporter from People's Daily, member of Chinese Antarctic Expedition︱Kong Xiaoning Zhao Yue, deputy director of the Institute of Geology, Ministry of Geology and Mineral Resources of China, and member of the Chinese Antarctic Expedition Photographer, member of Chinese Antarctic Expedition︱Xue Guanchao Surgeon from Union Medical College Hospital Chinese Antarctic Expedition︱Wu Bin

Chinese wandering traveler, member of Chinese Antarctic Expedition︱Ma Zhongxin (Fred Ma) ◇ On January 6, 1997, the Chinese icebreaker Xuelong entered the Antarctic ︱ ︱ ︱ ︱ On January 6, 1997, the Chinese icebreaker Xuelong entered the sea ice area in the Antarctic Circle. After ten days of ice-breaking struggle, it moored on the frozen sea at the coordinates of 76 degrees east longitude and 68 degrees south latitude. At that time, the temperature was eight degrees below zero, and the distance from Zhongshan Station was 2,000 meters. The 20,000-ton Xuelong carries 55 members of the 13th Antarctic Expedition Team of China.Among them, there are 33 team members for summer (three months) and 22 team members for winter (one year), mainly composed of experts and scholars at home and abroad. The investigation projects are: glaciology, geology, geophysics, atmospheric science , Geodetic Mapping and Marine Biology, etc.

Accompanied by the welcoming procession of a large number of Adele penguins, the investigators on the Xuelong ship arrived at Zhongshan Station one after another after being transported by helicopter or walking on the ice sea. I was on a boat or on the ice, busy shooting from various angles.Suddenly, someone instructed me to immediately put on my equipment, go to the helipad on the aft deck, and wait for boarding.Half an hour later, I was sitting in the helicopter overlooking the magnificent Antarctic landscape, which was one of the important moments of the trip. The feeling of flying over Antarctica is a lot like an interstellar journey in outer space.In a space with almost zero pollution, absolutely pure blue sky and pure white ice and snow, with the changes of terrain, light, shadow and color, you can travel in a dreamlike and wonderful world.

The vast scene formed by the ice caps, glaciers, icebergs and ice seas on the Antarctic land below the plane is like a curious earth person who has arrived on another planet, exclaiming with extreme excitement!At this moment, thankfully, as a professional photographer, you can show your talents. The helicopter picked up a photographer Xue Guanchao from Harbin at Zhongshan Station.Lao Xue is fully armed, and besides the camera, there is also a movie camera.We flew to Davis station (Davis station) 140 kilometers away on the same plane for a photo interview. Every December and January are the periods of perpetual day at this latitude and longitude of the Antarctic.At three o'clock in the morning at Davis Station, the sun was shining, and we struggled to take pictures in the minus ten degrees temperature and strong wind.Although extremely sleepy, I still wandered around this foreign station area, hoping to shoot special content in such a special place and at a special moment.Lao Xue said: The most special thing here is the stones on the ground. It is said that they are all ancient relics two billion years ago. Take two back!

no!That's not good.Everything on the Antarctic, whether static or moving, has certain rules.Do not take away, do not disturb, do not touch!I have read the information on Davis's website, and I just took this opportunity to pass it on to Lao Xue. Of course, rules should be followed.However, it seems that the immovable objects refer to living things, such as penguins, seals, and small plants such as moss on rocks.You can touch this stone! You can touch it, but you can't take it away.What's more, this is the Davis station in Australia, and it's best to just look at and not touch anything on the station!

That's right.Just now I can't even smoke, I have to go to a designated smoking room, and I can only go out after smoking. It can be seen that Australia's Antarctic research station has minimized pollution, and we should learn from them! On January 7th, at nine o'clock in the morning, after breakfast at Davis Station, Lao Xue pointed to a photo on the wall and said: Ha!These foreigners took off their pants and showed their big buttocks. It's really interesting! It's a Scottish tradition to show off your butt to celebrate festivals.I saw Australians get married in Sydney last year, six groomsmen in Scottish skirts and no underwear.At the end of the wedding ceremony, lift up the skirt and show the buttocks, everyone is happy!

You can take it off in summer.But here is Antarctica, the coldest place in the world. It takes a lot of courage to take off and expose yourself, and you must not be afraid of freezing your body! I am not afraid!Didn't I just take off my shorts on the boat last Christmas?It was ten degrees below zero, the wind was ten degrees, and it was still snowing. I ran on the deck for a full hour.This is a test! OK!Ma, let's go back to the station, how about a winter swim?Old Xue actually challenged me, he found the right person. It's not winter swimming. In Antarctic winter swimming, you will become a popsicle before you take off your clothes.That's summer swimming, the water temperature in Antarctica is zero degrees in summer!

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the helicopter took the two of us back to Zhongshan Station.In my opinion, Lao Xue must be joking when he said that he wants to go swimming in winter. His brother is as skinny as a stick, and in the Antarctic summer, the temperature is below zero every day.However, I would like to find a chance to try: last year on the boat, I ran in shorts and did not enter the water Hello!Ma, congratulations!Beat the little Japanese doctor on board.After taking it off for three minutes, he couldn't take it anymore and ran back to the room. The whole ship saw it.You can do it!You are proud of the Chinese people!Hao Xiaoguang, a young literati, patted me on the shoulder and said.

yes!Ma, you defeated the Japanese, you are a hero!It turns out that the Japanese are more afraid of the cold than the Chinese, and their health is worse than the Chinese! "People's Daily" Overseas Edition reporter Kong Xiaoning encouraged me to speak. Thank you for your support.In Antarctica, in addition to doing my job well and contributing to China's Antarctic expedition, I also hope to test the limits of my body's cold resistance in the coldest place in the world.Old Kong, arrange a field interview tomorrow! OK!How about we invite Brother Zhao Yue, a geologist, to lead the team?

Lao Zhao often fights in the field and is a master of the long march in the field. We will follow him and we will be safe! All right!I will report to the leader later and set off early tomorrow morning!Master Zhao is straightforward.He is knowledgeable and popular, and he is a good gentleman of our expedition team. I also need to go!The one who spoke was the only female reporter on the team, Ms. Baishanshan from Chengdu. Old lady Bai, can you walk?Think about it!Kong Xiaoning was thinking of her, she was fifty years old, and she was small, if she followed us, she might not come back until midnight.

Don't worry about me, can you still take pictures if you don't go to Antarctica?What are you afraid of, walk slowly, it's not too late to come back in the middle of the night! The old lady is right. Those who engage in photography and interviews can do nothing without walking.We have brother Zhao Yue leading the team, brother Zhao can do a lot of work, even ten old ladies can handle it!Xue Guanchao added a task to Lao Zhao, and Lao Zhao laughed, not paying attention at all. After dinner in the evening, everyone talked about various legends about Antarctica in the restaurant.It is said that there is a huge city called Rainbow City under the ice layer thousands of meters thick in Antarctica. It was built by aliens three hundred years ago on the land under the ice layer. Building complexes in seven colors: each building has six floors, using hardened plastic building structures, and the light source uses solar energy and artificial lighting. In reality, six countries including the United States and Britain cooperated in drilling the Antarctic ice two years ago. Drilling under the meter, a subglacial lake was discovered that existed millions of years ago.This fact made the legend of Hongdu City even more plausible. While they were having a good time talking, suddenly, a chivalrous Mr. Ma Ying appeared in swimming trunks.It turned out that this male is a master of the Beijing Winter Swimming Team. When he arrived in Antarctica, he felt itchy all over his body without taking off his clothes.So I couldn't help but put on my swimming trunks, and planned to go for a summer swim in the big pool in our backyard after a week of detour. I was just happy to have a family member to accompany me, but unexpectedly Ma Daxia was stopped after less than half a circle around the field.It turns out that the big pool in the backyard where he wants to go into the water is the source of our drinking water. How can we let him go down?I immediately comforted him and said: The days ahead will be long, there are many pools around, each one is colder than the other, and there are plenty of opportunities.Only then did Ma Daxia feel relieved. We continue to talk about the legend of Antarctica.It is said that there is also an underground kingdom called Agroot. Several of its entrances are in the Antarctic. Follow them to reach the capital of Agroot, Shapolo. Under the valley.The novel "The Third Eye", which was once popular in Europe and America, mentioned in detail the existence of Tibet's underground space.I traveled to Tibet for the third time in 1992, and confirmed the existence of the underground lake. The entrance may be at the Sakya Monastery, the Nianchu River, or even the Jokhang Temple.It is also said that the entrance to the underground lake has long been sealed.These seem to indicate that there may be a space underground in Tibet. Of course, it is not the same thing as the legendary underground kingdom. In the legend about the Antarctic, it is also said that Hitler had actively searched for the entrance to the Antarctic of the Hongdu City and the Underground Kingdom.It is said that he had made an Antarctic expedition plan. After the defeat, he would retreat to the Antarctic and establish the so-called secret base of the last brigade of superhumans. At the end of the century, he would unite with the underground kingdom Agroot to conquer mankind in one fell swoop. The starting point was somewhere in the Antarctic continent. , it may be an abandoned research station in the Soviet Union. So, the topic turned to where the Antarctic entrance of the underground kingdom would be. I guess, it’s at the Soviet Union’s Progressive Second Station, one kilometer away from Zhongshan Station. Since the Soviet Union abandoned the station in 1991, no one has lived there for six years. It’s like a ghost town, very mysterious. Progressive Station, five kilometers away, is more likely, it is on the edge of the great ice sheet, and there are cliffs, cliffs and ice caves! There is also an abandoned airport in the Soviet Union in that direction. Our first survey of the inland ice sheet this year will start from Progress Station, pass through the airport, and then go deep into the ice sheet continent for 300 kilometers. Everyone talked, talked and laughed. Tomorrow we will go to the largest botanical garden in the Lasman Hills via Progress 2 Station and Law Base. When we return, we will pass Progress 1 Station, where we can see the abandoned airport of the Soviet Union in the distance.Zhao Yue made pre-arrangements for the next day's itinerary. He knew the topography of this area well, and he was worthy of being a first-class geologist in China. At 8 o'clock in the morning on January 8th, we climbed over the hilly highlands, and climbed to the top of the mountain after passing the green and high mountains of the Second Progress Station. We saw the whole picture of the Soviet Union Station, which had been abandoned for six years. There was a new second floor that had not yet been used. Buildings, garages, clinics, various vehicles, a large number of rusty iron barrels, pipelines, machines, etc.People go to the empty building, giving people a feeling of infinite desolation. After climbing over the mountains, walking down a large snow slope, and passing through the highlands of two hilly slopes, Australia's unmanaged labor base appeared in front of us.It is composed of a square living room and three circular living rooms, and it is specially used for short-term scientific investigation and research accommodation in this area.It does not lock the door, and there is everything you can eat, drink, use, even heating and cooking equipment inside, and it is completely open.It can be provided to any national (including private) expedition team members who need to stay here, and the expedition team members can take refuge here for a short stay in case they are hit by a snowstorm nearby. After Law Base, we passed a huge waterhole.When passing along the shore, I found that there were snow-white wings left by swallowed petrels on the rocks and snowdrifts on the ground.I carefully picked them up and kept them. Zhao Yue pointed out and explained the cave where Xue Haiyan lived and grew up. The climbing terrain became more and more steep, and finally reached a slope below a high mountain, where there was a botanical garden formed by extremely rare Antarctic lichens distributed on the rock surface, with bright green, dark brown, orange red, gray and black and other colors.Zhao Yue detailed the reasons and process of the formation of such lichens.By the way, we climbed to the top of the mountain to admire the honeycomb rocks that have been eroded by strong winds for thousands of years. The return journey no longer passes through the Lao Base, but passes through a large water pool that is melting ice, and walks along the bank of the water pool.The shallow gravel beach is crystal clear.The snow water was icy cold, and the temperature in the space at that time was about minus three degrees; because of the higher terrain, the larger area exposed to the wind, and the sun exposure all day, the melting temperature of the ice and snow was about zero degrees (that is, around the freezing point). I looked at the cold and transparent pool water, took a few sips of it with both hands, and immediately felt a cool and sweet feeling.Facing the sun, I took off the down jacket first, and then the trousers, leaving only the top and shorts.Standing against the wind for a while, I didn't feel that the cold was unbearable, so I took off my shirt.These movements are only a matter of a minute or two. Ma, why take off your clothes, beware of catching a cold, this is Antarctica!Kong Xiaoning expressed kindness, he always cared about his friends. Thank you for your concern!Today is a good day!It's not cold! While talking, I took off my shoes and waded through the icy water, walking along the shallows to the deep center of the pool. After a while, the icy water submerged my thighs, but I still didn’t feel cold. Hello!Old horse, let's go into the water!Are you sure? It's not good to take this risk and break your body. While talking, Kong Xiaoning picked up the camera and snapped snaps.Swimming in an ice pool surrounded by ice and snow in Antarctica, theoretically, you will lose consciousness in at most five minutes, and you may not be able to save it in ten minutes. But it doesn't seem to be the case.When the icy water reached my thighs, I plopped into the icy water and swam.A few breaststroke swims and two freestyle swims; swimming to the depths of the pool, and then back to the shallows, is so satisfying! It's really enjoyable, the whole body is frozen so that I can't feel it anymore, but the consciousness must still be there.After swimming vigorously for more than ten minutes, I slowly went ashore and walked back to the shallows.The comrades on the shore were stunned and had nothing to say. Old Kong had said everything he needed to say. Now it's up to me to say something after I swim ashore. Wow!so comfortable!I have always taken ice water baths in winter, and after taking a bath, my whole body feels comfortable and warm.Hello!Old lady please turn back a moment, I have to take off the only wet shorts and put on long pants. After taking off my shorts, I stood naked on the ice in sub-zero temperatures for a few minutes.Then, dry your body and put on dry clothes slowly. look!Am I not good?Don't worry, it's okay, it's fine now, it's fine at night, tomorrow will be better! The comrades around are very nervous, worried that I will be bedridden tonight or tomorrow morning.Because the outdoor temperature in Antarctica is always below zero, it takes great courage to take off your clothes in the severe cold.And taking off your clothes and swimming in the ice water is another level of confidence and courage. On the way back, Xue Guanchao was wearing a thick Antarctic down jacket on his ribbed frame, and was also equipped with a full set of advanced photographic equipment.He chatted with me energetically, and said, "Lao Ma, it was wonderful to see you swimming in the ice pool naked just now. It can be seen that there is nothing impossible in the world. It depends on man's effort!"All you need is courage and strength.I have work to do tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, I have made an appointment with Wu Bin, and the three of us will go to Seal Cape at Progress 2 Station to explore the iceberg with an ice cave in the sea.Go now while the ice is still firm, or it may be dangerous if you are late. I think it's a good plan, but be careful.good!To take great photos, you have to take some risks.In Antarctica, you must take sure risks and not trouble your leaders. The progress of the Soviet Union was one stop, empty and empty, only two dilapidated houses remained for decoration. The Soviet Union was one of the first countries to conduct Antarctic expeditions. It set up the most stations in Antarctica, and the stations were located at the highest altitude. It once measured a record-breaking low temperature of minus 90 degrees on Earth at the Vostok Station at an altitude of 3,600 meters.However, after the disintegration of the Soviet Union, Progress 1 and Progress 2, which was four kilometers away from it and near Seal Point on the coast, were abandoned at the same time.At the one-stop ice cap airport, there are only two old living buildings, an oil tank truck buried by six years of snow with only the roof remaining, and a large number of oil barrels. Ma, let's take a posthumous photo of this Russian car!Xue Guanchao was talking while taking pictures. He didn't expect that I was already ready and took pictures of him and the car.Of course, it’s not good to tell him it’s a posthumous photo.This kind of joke can't be played here. There are many legends, strange things and accidents here.Speech should feel like walking on thin ice like walking on the Antarctic ice sea, and you must not fall into the ice sea. In a few years, this Russian car will be lost as a relic under the ice.If the legend is true, the Underground Kingdom might be auctioned off as an antique. Looking at this car, I was deeply moved.Once upon a time, what an important mission it had!Now it lies at rest, buried year by year by the relentless ice and snow; no one came to rescue it, including us; and watched it sink, frozen forever, and turned into legend. Antarctica is cold, and due to regulations and reality, we can only watch anything that does not belong to us, anything that is irrelevant and harmless to us. An old seal was on the ice healing its wounds and was dying, attracting several ferocious giant petrels waiting for an opportunity to sneak attack.After a violent and relentless attack, the seal stopped struggling.The giant petrel unceremoniously penetrates into the seal body with its sharp and sharp long mouth. When it pulls out the bloody dirty mouth, it pulls out a shredded meat and chews it.After a while, it proudly spread its huge wings, jumped to another part of the seal, and continued to pass in and out with its blood-red dirty mouth. We silently observe this cruel scene, we can save it but we don’t have to, and we even say we can’t or shouldn’t.Because this is Antarctica, the most unpolluted place on earth, including benevolent pollution, we can't destroy the ecological balance of Antarctica!Just as human beings are constantly pursuing peace, but wars cannot be avoided. This is a human tragedy.In Antarctica, the ferocity of giant petrels satirizes human nature! For hundreds of millions of years, Seal Point has repeatedly staged countless stories of spontaneous reincarnation.It wasn't until 1988 that the stage here was finally printed with human footprints, and the second station of progress was moved from the first station of progress.People are busy and lively, and there are puppies as companions!Seals, seagulls mingle with penguins and humans, and live in peace. But the established reincarnation of life and death is still performed: the dexterous and vigorous Xuehaiyan is eaten up to only two white wings, and the honest and lively Adile penguin has lost its body, leaving only two lovely wings.Occasionally, a Weddell seal with a broken body and few remaining can be found on the sea ice, and it will disappear without a trace with the floating ice floes after a while. Human beings are also performing tragedies: a companion puppy died, and a doctor died. One day in 1991, all of a sudden, the human beings left in a hurry.People are missing, but the breakfast on the table is not finished yet! You see, this is their dining room and entertainment room. The bread on the table is still there, but half of the apples have been peeled but not eaten. It has been dried apples for six years, but they are not bad.The food here is almost indestructible, rice, flour, bread, all good, but hard and crumbly The big reporter Kong Xiaoning was the first to step into the room that was two stations ahead.The plates, knives and forks and food on several dining tables were kept intact; a pile of colored balls on the ball table seemed to have just started playing; old-fashioned movie projectors; Finally, I decided not to take them away; six cartoons of emperor penguins were posted on the wall, written in Russian, and I can read them by looking at the pictures, and I know that they are about welcome and friendly eulogies. It's been six years, and it looks like it just left this morning, won't there be a Russian Big Brother popping up!Xue Guanchao wanted to scare people.At this moment, we heard old lady Bai screaming outside, and we hurried away. Of course it was a false alarm. What's the matter, met that drunk Russian guy? No, of course not.As soon as I entered the room, I saw two big black shoes in the bedroom, and saw that there seemed to be someone under the quilt on the bed, and I screamed instinctively.look!These things seem to have been used just now, and people still feel like they are still in the house.It's scary, let's go! The old lady Bai is a little flustered, woman! Don't be afraid, old lady, there has been no one here for six years.There are people, only us.If anyone else, it's aliens from the Underworld.We can try to find the entrance of the underground tunnel, maybe it's in this mysterious and terrifying second station of progress! Nonsense, what kind of underground aliens, I have to go. When we walked on the only avenue in this ghost town (Ghost town), we looked back and looked around, looking at the living room, dormitory room, dining room, infirmary, mechanical garage, vehicle garage and all kinds of buildings on both sides of the avenue. Instrument room, research room, telecommunications room, storage room, etc.By the way, there is a new row of two-story dormitory buildings near the seaside rocks.Judging from all this, this place should be very lively and popular! Old horse, don't be reluctant.Tomorrow we have to pass here to go to the big iceberg at Seal Point, there are so many opportunities! Brother Guanchao, I always feel that the second station of progress is a bit evil: the doctor died, there was an iron coffin on the top of the mountain, a cross was erected by the sea, all the personnel left early in the morning, and some materials were not taken away.Very strange! What's the matter, the Soviet Union disintegrated and fell apart, and the people here also scattered.As for the iron coffin and cross All right!Let's talk about it tomorrow, let's do our part first, legends are legends after all, let's just listen to them! On the day of January 9, all the inspection team members received transportation, sorted out equipment, arranged for daily life, and got to know the small environment and the big environment. It was a busy day. After lunch, take a walk in the station area with your teammates.When walking towards the rock pile by the sea, I saw an Attila penguin standing coldly and silently, its body trembling slightly.When I got closer, it was still motionless.We could clearly see that its left foot was injured and bleeding, looking pitiful.No one can bear this situation, and hope to help it. Let's ask Qi Yong or Wu Bin, the surgeons on the team, to treat its feet!OK?I'm not quite used to the Antarctic rule of no mercy: just watch anything that doesn't concern us.What's more, this seems to involve the cruel ecological balance. no!We are in violation of Antarctic Treaty regulations by being so close to penguins.Any animal in Antarctica cannot be approached and disturbed, and it is a heinous crime to touch it. How can we heal its feet! What?This is too inhumane!You can't help but die, let alone right in front of you. No way, ecological balance!Let it run its course, this is Antarctica! If you can't save it by looking at it, it's better not to look at it. At ten o'clock in the afternoon, it was still not dark, so I went to see it again, hoping that it would be better, and maybe it had left by itself.Unfortunately, it remained where it was, motionless, shaking and bleeding.I can't do anything.At this time, I suddenly realized the contradictions and absurdities of human beings: to show love in order to protect animals, to show cruelty or even lose humanity in order to abide by the regulations on animal protection, it is really terrible!Fortunately, this is Antarctica. Antarctica allows me to discover new knowledge, gain insight into mystery, learn to be a human being, and observe life.Every day here is novel and precious, and must be cherished and grasped! January 10, fine weather, very like a day to do a great thing.In Antarctica, I look forward to having such a good day every day, so that I can take good photos every day. At seven o'clock in the morning, Xue Guanchao and I equipped a full set of photographic equipment.Wu Bin is a doctor who only brought a Minolta camera. He helped Lao Xue carry the heavy tripod on his back.Our three-person trip, the goal is to progress to the second station and its nearby Seal Cape Ice Sea and the icebergs on the Ice Sea.There is a hollow hole in the middle of this iceberg, and the ice sea, glaciers and ice-covered continents behind it can be observed. At 7:30, I walked down the ridge, passed a large number of rusted iron pipes, oil drums, and a crane truck that seemed to be suddenly stopped during operation, and passed a group of communication antennas and lines that seemed to be in good condition. A metal room locked with a large lock, which may contain important or valuable equipment.Otherwise, I joked that this might be the entrance to the secret underground base.Before long, we found several more locked rooms. In Antarctica, there is an unwritten rule that the parties to the Antarctic Treaty must abide by: that is, any national station area must be open for anyone who lands in Antarctica at any time for food and housing; houses built there belong to The living room or dormitory room cannot be locked, so as to provide the convenience of free entry and exit for Antarctic explorers.But here it violates the rules, which is very puzzling. Around 1990, the Great Wall Station of China hosted a family that had survived on their own in Antarctica for ten years.The Australian couple who voluntarily came to live in Antarctica even raised three children.People are very amazed, how did they survive and raise their children in this isolated and harsh place that is not suitable for human survival at all?Although there are more than 40 winter and summer research stations in Antarctica and a large number of simple refuge rooms, in fact, they are not suitable for non-research personnel.The family may have adopted the Eskimo way of life, or it may have been partly assisted by expeditions from various countries.It is said that only one man took the test, lived alone in Antarctica for several years, occasionally appeared on the research stations of some countries, but later disappeared, and people never saw him again.It is estimated that he died in the ice sea, or lay down somewhere and was buried forever. Most of the rooms in Progress II Station are open, and can be used by expedition members or Antarctic wanderers.However, this station has been abandoned for a long time. Although there are basic living conditions, there is no electricity, heating, or firewood. The only way is to hunt animals, which is not allowed in Antarctica.The temperature here is minus 10 degrees in summer, and it is as cold as minus 50 degrees in winter. It is better to live in northern Canada. look!This two-story dormitory is still brand new and has not yet been opened.How nice are these rooms!There are beds, chairs, and tables, and the bathroom equipment is also brand new.No less than our research station!Wu Bin said. It is estimated that they left in a hurry due to the impact of the disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991, but it is a pity.The cost of this research station is at least hundreds of millions of dollars, why give up so easily?I thought it would be too much of a loss to give up this station. The former Soviet Union was a superpower with advanced technology. Abandoning this station may have other purposes. This is a secret!Old Xue played tricks and said. When I passed the mysterious cross by the sea, I found that it was surrounded by hard stones, not like a tomb.The dead doctor may have been buried at sea, or put his body in an iron coffin on the mountain, and he didn't have time to take it away! right!It's possible.Ma, we should set off to walk the ice sea and go up the iceberg!Xue Guanchao didn't forget that he was a photographer, and that work was the most important thing, so he took advantage of the sunshine now. We walked out of the dormitory building, crossed the chaotic rocks, stood on the rocks on the ice sea, observed and studied, and considered which way was safer.The big iceberg 500 meters away seems to be beckoning to us warmly. It is really spectacular from a distance.The iceberg has a strange shape, and there is an ice cave underneath, tempting us to go and find out; in Antarctica, photographers can't help but be tempted! The old Xue Yigao was bold, stepped into the ice and snowdrifts, and walked towards the iceberg step by step.Wu Bin and I followed in his footsteps, step by step.If there were hidden cracks and ice caves in this sea of ​​ice, it would undoubtedly be Lao Xue who fell first.However, it seems that he is scheming and smooth, and this ice sea can't help him.Although the sun hangs high at this time, the temperature is ten degrees below zero, so there is no need to worry about the unexpected situation of sea ice melting or icebergs breaking. Seal Point is indeed famous for its seals.Standing on the top of the iceberg, I can see the surrounding distance, dots and spots, and there are black and brown seals everywhere on the ice sea.Occasionally, a few Attila penguins popped out of the ice sea and swaggered past us. Seals and penguins reach the ice surface through ice caves in the ice sea.These ice caves, like ice crevasses, pose a threat to the safety of inspectors.In order to take wonderful photos, photographers must venture in and out between the ice sea and icebergs, and do it freely without any mistakes. In this large ice sea and iceberg area, it is the world of the three of us and the surrounding animals for the time being, and no outsiders or other animals will break in.It's silent, isolated.But the air is clean, and people's minds are sober that they can give full play to their thoughts and actions, so as to prove that human beings are great: if they can conquer and surpass nature, human beings must be the masters of nature! The ice sheet covering 95% of the Antarctic landmass has an average thickness of 2,000 meters and a maximum thickness of 4,000 meters.The ice sheet moves around to form glaciers, icebergs and enter the ice sea.Humans seem to be able to face them, to conquer them, to surpass them. This is the face of human beings exploring the Antarctic.Human beings set up research stations in Antarctica in an attempt to conquer it.But how can it be surpassed?We all know that humans cannot lift ice sheets; humans cannot block glaciers; humans flee in panic when they see icebergs; humans cannot prevent seas from freezing.Human beings are great, but nature is not inferior. Therefore, it is absolutely spiritual to transcend nature in Antarctica, and this spirit is one of the great strengths of human beings.The combination that produces this power is fresh air, a clean environment and a pure mind, that is, returning to nature. This is a portrayal of Antarctica. When human beings face and conquer nature, they must return to nature. Only in this way can they go further beyond nature. Being in the Antarctic must have another feeling: facing such a pure and innocent world of ice and snow (penguins and seals have nothing to do with the world), can you not return to the original? Walking step by step in the sea of ​​ice, facing the spectacular and peculiar icebergs, I have a wonderful feeling of worshiping the sacred ice mountain and returning to the original, thinking that this is Antarctica. I stood on the sea ice, facing the holy iceberg, and shouted piously in my heart: I came to Antarctica, challenged Antarctica, and surpassed Antarctica.I want to purify my naked mind and body in a temperature below zero degrees Celsius, and accept the test of the extreme cold of the polar region! So, I took off my clothes and put them neatly on the ice.Naked, let my feet step on the ice and walk in the snow; for a long time, there is no cold feeling. At this time, it feels like the whole person's spiritual body, the whole body, is completely integrated with the natural body of the ice sea and iceberg. In this empty and cold ice sea altar in Antarctica, it proves that the spiritual connotation and physical limit of human beings can surpass nature! Someone said a word from behind: Yes!This is the man.