At the tip of the poles, writing new stories of exploration and mutual help [Video]

BEIJING, June 27, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — A news report by China.org.cn on the 40^th anniversary of China’s polar expedition:

At the southernmost tip of the earth, a monstrosity of ice and snow measuring nearly 2,500 meters’ depth covers 14 million km² of land, resembling a gigantic hat. The crest of the “hat”, known as “Dome A” — is a freezing and mysterious structure, and is also considered to be a pole impassable to humans.

In this Dome A hides the key to numerous scientific myths, which also tells how people have explored the unknown of Antarctica.

Three shovels after two after one… On the eve of the Spring Festival, 1997, few knew that a Chinese man was digging a hole on the ice plateau of the Antarctica at a time of family gathering in China. The man, …