"Hey, Doug, come here quickly, I'll introduce you to the distinguished guest on the Blue Whale." Old Kyle waved at a middle-aged white man with a bearded face and tall figure who looked similar to a savage at first glance.

The big man soon trotted over. Before Kyle could introduce him, he smiled and shook hands with Yang Jing, "Hey, Albert, and the beautiful Miss Sophia, welcome you to Alet, I am Douglas Henry, the head of the Alet Meteorological Observatory of the Canadian Environment Agency, you can call me Doug."

This big man is far less rude than his appearance. On the contrary, Yang Jing believes that the word "being polite" is very appropriate to him.

Captain Andre obviously did not know this big man. It is estimated that Douglas had not come here to serve as the director of the meteorological observatory when he came last time.

After another greeting, Old Kyle smiled and said, "Doug, Albert and Sophia have brought us so many delicious foods. Should we prepare it? It's past four o'clock now, and it's less than two hours left for us to have dinner. I think we should hold a grand bonfire party to welcome friends on the Blue Whale."

"Kyle, as you wish, I'm ready, and I'm waiting for you to give orders." The big man saluted Old Kyle playfully.

Old Kyle smiled and patted his hands hard. After he caught everyone's attention, he said, "People, let's move, and use our greatest enthusiasm to welcome friends on the Blue Whale to Alert as a guest."

More than twenty people around responded loudly, and the military lieutenant also said a few words to the walkie-talkie. In a short while, the roar of the car motor came from the military base.

There is no ice or snow around Alet in mid-July, but in the far west, the towering peaks are still covered with heavy glaciers. The glaciers there are permanent glaciers, and even in the hottest July and August, the glaciers will not melt.

The bonfire dinner was indeed a bonfire dinner. After a few strong men moved away the stones in the middle of the square, a large pit with a diameter of about two meters appeared more than one meter deep. Then these people used magic to pull out a lot of dry wood from the back of the room. The two strong men took off all their vests and then held up sharp axes to start chopping the wood.

Old Kyle smiled and explained, "Although there is fuel and gas in the base, wood is still indispensable. Every summer, when the routes on the sea are opened, there will be cargo ships from Churchill Port, which will transport us enough wood for a year and a half to use in the camp. There is no way, there is no tree within a few hundred miles around us, and there is not even a tree on the entire Elsmere Island. Therefore, the heating or other wood we need must be transported from the southern continent by boat."

After a pause, Old Kyle pointed to the wood and continued, "Don't worry and use it boldly. The wood accumulated here is enough for us to use it for several years."

Princess asked curiously: "Professor, isn't Alert no longer a permanent population now? Why are there so many people here now?"

Old Kyle smiled and said, "Indeed, since the last five permanent residents left here in 2009, Alert has not been a real human settlement. Most of the people living here are flying over just after the cold season, and then when the warm season is about to end, they will fly back. During the cold season, there are only a limited number of people living here. I have been staying here for more than two years because I have to do a study on polar atmosphere. But in September this year, my research is about to end, and I can finally go back and reunite with my family. Well, it is not easy for those soldiers to go. Last year, Lieutenant Rodman led four soldiers to accompany me through the long cold season and the four-month polar night."

Yang Jing extended a thumbs up and praised: "Professor, you are really admirable. If I had changed to me, I would have gone crazy if I could not see the sun for four months."

Alert is located in a high latitude of 82 degrees north latitude. Here, there are four months of night in a year, and four months are all day. Just like now, the sun does not set for twenty-four hours, and the night cannot be seen in one day.

"Haha, it would be great if you get used to it. The extreme night here is actually very beautiful. Although there is no sun, you can see gorgeous aurora almost every day, which is very beautiful. Albert, Sophia, if you have time in winter, you can try to live here for a while. Not only can you see the beautiful aurora, but you can also experience the loneliness of this planet. Sometimes, loneliness reaches an extreme, but it is a kind of enjoyment that makes people unable to stop."

Yang Jing and the princess looked at each other and shook their heads involuntarily. They both understood that such days were not something they could enjoy.

As the saying goes, time is worth every inch, and life is short, and you can enjoy it in time. There are still many good days waiting for you to enjoy in the outside world. You can’t spend too much time in such a place.

Although the snow falls in Alert for more than 100 days a year, it is actually very arid and is a semi-arid area. Therefore, these good pine trees from Canada have already been completely dried up and can be split with an axe.

The chopped firewood was put aside, and one of the men who was sweating in a vest put more than ten smaller pieces of firewood into the big pit, then poured some gasoline on it, lit a match and threw it in.

"Bang!" Accompanied by the sound of gasoline explosion, the blazing flames suddenly emerged from the pit. The already dry firewood made a "crackling" sound under the burning of the flames, as if using this sound to welcome their glory in the flames.

When the bonfire was completely burning, nearly fifty people had gathered in the entire square. Even the soldiers of the Royal Canadian Army who were on duty came here under the leadership of the Second Lieutenant Rodman. As for the on-duty, go to his sister. Although I am a soldier, at this time, the soldiers are also normal people, right? It doesn’t matter if you monitor the radio for a while.

Including the seven Royal Canadian Army soldiers led by Lieutenant Rodman, there were twenty-seven people in the entire Aler specific settlement, and four of them came from far away Los Angeles.

After talking, Yang Jing and Gege agreed that these four adventurers could definitely afford the word "great". The four of them started hiking across the entire North American continent since September last year, and then in winter, taking advantage of the frozen sea surface and dog-sledding to cross the straits between the Arctic Islands by dog-sledding, and finally arrived at the small town of Gricefjord at the southern end of Elsmere Island.

After a week of renovation in Grycefjord, the four of them continued to cross the entire Elsmere Island by dogsledding, and finally arrived in Alert in mid-June. The journey took nine months, with a journey of more than eight thousand kilometers and more than five thousand miles!

Although the entire feat is not as far as the Long March journey taken by the old Chinese predecessors back then, in terms of the degree of difficulty, it is definitely even better than the Long March.

You know, when the four of them crossed the entire North American continent, they were in the northern part of the extremely cold North American continent for six months. In the Arctic Islands in the cold season, it would definitely cost people a life. But these four people actually crossed the entire North American continent, almost from the southwest corner of the North American continent to the northeast corner.

However, when Yang Jing and Princess learned that the four of them risked their lives to complete this trip, each of them would receive a prize of one million US dollars.

It turned out that these four participated in a reality show event held by Fox TV. The name of this reality show is "Challenge the Limits". This show is not very popular among the ordinary viewers in North America, but it has a high status among some people who love traveling.

According to the requirements of the program, those participating in the program must start from Los Angeles. They cannot rely on the power of machinery throughout the process, and can only rely on legs or horse riding, dog sledding, and sailing to move forward.

There were many groups of people participating in this program, some of whom were traveling around the world on a sailboat, while others were walking along the Cordillera Mountains to the southernmost tip of the South American continent.

The group composed of the four of them is the most difficult one. As long as they can arrive in Alet, the program team will pay them a million dollars in bonus.

Of course, they have to use miniature digital cameras to record their trips every day and rely on satellite signals to transmit them back to Fox TV. With a slight edit of these recorded shots, they are the most realistic content and shots in the program that day.

But even for the one million dollar bonus, the four of them can cross the entire North American continent in this way, which is definitely worthy of being a "great" to describe.

Yang Jing thought he could not accomplish such a feat...

But his not wanting to play like this does not mean that the other person doesn't want to play like this.

The princess hugged Yang Jing's arm and acted coquettishly, "Husband, would we also find an opportunity to take such a hike? For example, we can cross the entire Antarctic continent at the coldest time in July in the southern hemisphere; well, or we can cross the entire Sahara Desert when the hottest time in July in the northern hemisphere...Wow, we are just two of us, Chris and the others, and I think this is a pretty romantic thing."

Yang Jing wished he could not sew the girl's mouth. If he wanted to do something, he could not take such a method, right? In July, whether it was crossing the Sahara or the Antarctic continent, it was not much better than touching the electric gate...
Chapter completed!