Four years after establishing the
Great Wall Station, China's first research base in Antarctica,
Guo Kun led another expedition to Antarctica, with the mission to establish a second base. The team set out from
Qingdao in November 1988 on the ship
Jidi. After reaching
Prydz Bay in Antarctica, the ship encountered a major
icefall in the night of 14 January 1989. She missed being directly hit by ice by just two or three meters, and became trapped by icebergs for seven days. Many team members wrote their wills and were ready to die. The icebergs shifted on the seventh day and temporarily created a 30-meter-wide opening, and the team escaped. The opening lasted for just two hours before being closed again. ==See also==