Stories about explorers a Chinese, a foreign .

Wegener's story.

Born on November 1, 1880 in Berlin, Germany, Wegener was fond of fantasy and adventure from an early age.

When he was a full-time student, he loved to read the stories of explorers, and the famous British explorer John Franklin became his idol. In order to prepare for future expeditions. He studied meteorology.

In 1905, at the age of 25, Wegener received a doctorate in meteorology. In 1906, he finally fulfilled his boyhood ambitions and joined the famous Danish expedition to Greenland, where he conducted meteorological and glacial surveys. In order to find more evidence, in April 1930, Wegener led an expedition to Greenland for the fourth time in the face of the Arctic blizzard.

In the freezing cold of minus 65, most of the people lost their courage, and only he and two other followers continued to make it to the central Esmit base in triumph. On November 1, he ventured back to the West Coast base after celebrating his 50th birthday. In the white ice and snow, he lost his trace.

His body was not found until April of the following year. He froze like a stone and became one with the glacier.

Zhang Qian's story.

In 139 BC, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian to the kingdom of the Great Yue Clan. His mission was to help the people of the region rise up against the invaders. Zhang Qian was captured and imprisoned by the Xiongnu for 11 years, but after his release, he went on an expedition west of China.

His travel route passed through Afghanistan, and no one had ever traveled as far west of China at the time. After Zhang Qian's return, the Han Emperor heard for the first time about India, the Middle East, and the countries of Europe.

Zhang Qian was the first Chinese to travel across Afghanistan, and later Chinese merchants carried silk and jade along the route Zhang Qian had taken, over mountains and mountains to northwest China and through the Gobi Desert. This route came to be known as the "Silk Road".

Xu Hongzu (1586-1641), known as Zhenzhi and Xiake, was a native of Jiangyin, Jiangsu, and was an outstanding geographer and traveler in the Ming Dynasty. Xu Xiake has been in love with the mountains and rivers of China all his life. In the feudal era of "learning and excelling", he overcame unimaginable difficulties and traveled all over the country from the age of twenty-two.

Liu Yutian was the first professional explorer in Chinese history. Born on February 26, 1942 in Changge County, Henan Province, he was originally a cadre of the Urumqi Railway Bureau in Xinjiang.

Faced with the challenge of foreigners, in May 1984, he resolutely gave up everything and began to hike the Great Wall. After more than a year of arduous trekking, he completed the feat and became the first person in the world to complete the Great Wall on foot. After that, he hiked the Silk Road, the Loess Plateau, Lop Nur in Xinjiang, climbed the Gradandong and Kunlun Snow Mountains, inspected the Shennongjia Savage, the Himalayan Snowman, and the Rongbu Glacier, traveled along the Himalayas and the Brahmaputra River, tried to climb Mount Everest, and crossed the Taklamakan Sea of Death and Gurbantunggut three times through the five major deserts in China.

To date, he has completed 43 expeditions. Hundreds of newspapers, magazines, and television stations in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and the world reported his adventures, and he was called "a rare traveler and explorer in the world in the 20th century."

Downs! In the past ten years, he has braved the desert alone, walked the Gobi, climbed dangerous mountains, and waded through big rivers, and filled a gap in exploration for the motherland with his blood, tears and sweat.

Life and death! He took more than 10,000 black-and-white color photographs with his own hands, and wrote more than 2 million words of expedition diaries, covering a variety of fields such as politics, history, geography, literature, philosophy, art, and archaeology. Several of his works have been published one after another, and have won many national awards, and some have been selected as patriotic textbooks in junior high school textbooks, and the books to be published are "The Great Wall", "Silk Road Chronicle", "The Mysterious Lop Nur", "Crossing the Sea of Death", "Exploration of the Third Pole of the World", "Exploration Career" and so on.