Wilderness Challenge [Comprehensive British American American Entertainment]

Two days after the start of the fifth round, the program team moved from Monzo to Nanche Bazaar.

The Southeast Ridge route is easier, more fully built, and more traveled than the other dozen or so routes.This person refers not only to mountaineering enthusiasts who are planning to climb Mount Everest, but also trekking enthusiasts heading towards the base camp of Mount Everest from other places in Nepal. The program team met people from excursions around the world.

Nanche Bazaar is a small town lying on the mountainside, surrounded by green like a mother's hand holding it in her arms, and like an open pan with colorful and colorful diced vegetables lying in it.The accommodation conditions in this small town are very average, and things are sold very expensive, even more expensive than the capital Kathmandu.Most people will choose to take a small plane from Kathmandu to Lukla at an altitude of 2840 meters, transfer from Lukla to Monzo at an altitude of 2850 meters, and then go up to Nanche Bazaar at an altitude of 3440 meters. Tianboche Temple, and finally arrived at the Everest Base Camp at an altitude of 3860 meters.It is precisely because Nanche Bazaar is the only place to climb Mount Everest from the southeast ridge, and it is also the last town before the base camp that can replenish mountaineering materials. Tourists will generate a considerable amount of income for it every year.

Jennifer walked on the uneven road with her luggage.

The material under the feet is said to be stone slabs, but in fact it is more like a knotted clod. The right side has been trampled by visitors all the year round and looks relatively flat, while the left side is raised upward due to the problem of the mountain.There is no dirty muddy water here, only dry dust.

The end of March is the beginning of the spring climbing season of Mt. Everest. Spring is the season when most people choose to climb to the summit. Only a few climbers who are more experienced, skilled and physically strong will choose winter climbing, and some will even challenge anaerobic winter climbing and anaerobic winter climbing. Oxygen winter speed climbing.Jennifer is very happy that she does not have to face the severe cold and snowstorm of more than minus 30 degrees Celsius in winter. If the weather is good and the players have a long enough window when they are climbing to the summit, she will be even happier.

The program team arranged the contestants in a relatively remote residence.Considering that Nanche Bazaar is only that big in total, Jennifer can't really say that the director's efforts to hope that everyone can live and sleep well have paid off, but she does enjoy waking up to the smell of the bakery and the sound of wind chimes from the grocery store.Nanche Bazaar is the commercial center of the Sherpas, but the bakery is the product of the locals to entertain foreign tourists, and the grocery store sells small objects and various tools made by the locals for foreigners. To some extent reflect the living conditions of the nation.

Since the world's first summit of Mount Everest, Sherpas have attracted international attention as mountain guides and laborers.Originally they lived at the foot of the Himalayas. Although they were poor, they lived and worked in peace and contentment. However, with the development of commercial mountaineering on Mount Everest, now any Sherpa who is a bit promising has to climb the snow peak dozens of times a year. Wages that are not proportional to the danger at all-the Nepalese government starts to make profits from the issuance of mountaineering permits, and draws high remuneration from tourists paying group fees.

The program team hired a group of the best Sherpa guides and laborers.

Jennifer can't say if the move was right or wrong, but she's at least glad these people got what they deserved.Arranging Sherpas to follow the team may seem less exciting to the audience, but Mount Everest is the first stop of the fifth round of "Straight to the Sky", and it is also a relatively simple stop. Even the climbing method pays more attention to teamwork and more Commercialized Himalayan climbing (Himalayan style), that is, multiple people climbing up and down to adapt to the environment and transport materials and tools for a long time, rather than A-style mountaineering (Alpine style), that is, light and fast mountaineering in the form of individuals or small groups .

The team leader Soden Baichen is from Australia, and the guide Puba is a native Sherpa who speaks with some accents.Soden has led his team members to climb Mount Everest many times without oxygen, but he still dare not guarantee the summit of this full-time oxygen supply.In fact, no one dares to take the 8000-meter class as a guarantee.

"You are all the best players, and Pubba's is also the best guide, so what?" Soden said at the small meeting, "The team will put all the supplies on the mountain in advance, and there will be people on the way through Go ahead and resurface and make sure you minimize the risk. But mountains are mountains, you can get altitude sickness, you can freeze your toes off, you can even be buried here, and once you’re out on the snow, sometimes there’s no turning back.”

"It sounded like it was scaring us," said Nandana Singh, a contestant from India.Since the second round, this female contestant has attracted everyone's attention because of her identity. During the two years of the competition, she often travels between rounds to promote equal rights and oppose violence in India.Her skin is almost as fair as Jennifer's, and "Singh" is a typical surname belonging to the Brahmin caste. It is not difficult to imagine how much Nandana's activities will be questioned and hindered, and it is not difficult to understand why people often criticize her in India. She said with her nose that she was "putting on a show".

It is really difficult for personal power to change anything. Perhaps this is the reason why many ordinary people yearn for superheroes, strength and power.

But no matter how famous Nandana was, the efforts to liven up the atmosphere at this moment were somewhat inappropriate. At least Dolores Hart was very straightforward and showed her contempt.

"Threat?" Soden made a grimace, "Ma'am, I lost a few fingers on K2 myself." He took off his thick cashmere gloves, and raised his hands to show the contestants like a king showing a crown Let's see.The left ring finger, little finger and right little finger have disappeared, leaving only the grown flesh. "Mountain peaks will always be imprinted on my hands." Soden said.

This kind of scene is often used by him to alert the team members, but it can only make them sigh in front of the players who have seen the reptile potion.Jennifer realized that the previous rounds of the ring of life had spoiled them, any wound—as long as it didn’t die suddenly, any disease—as long as it wasn’t incurable, it would be a piece of cake in front of the ring of life.

She turned her gaze to the snow-capped mountains in the clouds in the distance.

Soden signaled the guides to send some information to the players, and said: "We will set off for Mount Everest Base Camp the day after tomorrow. I hope you will seize the remaining time to check the climbing equipment. Last year, a member of the team didn't inform us of his identity until before going up the mountain." One-piece mountain boots don’t seal well, ladies and gentlemen, I don’t think you would want to lose a leg in the cold.”

The crowd should be one after another.

"In addition, our team doctor, Mr. Li, hopes that everyone can take the time to conduct a test and explain to you what signs are worth noting. The altitude of Nanche Bazaar is not high, and the team will march to Mount Everest in the next few days The base camp, where the altitude is as high as more than 5000 meters, will cause serious adverse reactions to many athletes who are not used to high altitudes. Yes, altitude sickness, don’t take it seriously, and climbers die every year because of it.”

The phrase altitude sickness aroused the awe of the audience.

To put it simply, places with high altitudes are usually low-pressure and low-oxygen environments. If people suddenly enter such environments from normal pressure environments or stay in such environments for a long time, they are likely to develop various acute or chronic diseases.Acute altitude sickness is very common for people who are not adapted to the high altitude environment. Patients usually feel dizzy, headache or out of breath, sometimes have arrhythmia, and even cause pulmonary edema or cerebral edema.Gary Ball, a famous mountain guide and Aucklander, died of high-altitude cerebral edema while climbing Dhaulagiri.

The disease is uncontrollable for the players. It is not like frostbite, which can be avoided by keeping warm in people's opinion, but it will attack at an unknown time.A person may be fine a few days ago, but dizzy in the next few days, and his brain becomes disfigured due to low pressure in the skull.

If everyone was still immersed in the aftertaste of the ring of life and didn't take it seriously just now, everyone is now turning their attention to Dr. Li.Dr. Li Jinrong is an expert invited by the program team from City B. He was a voluntary doctor for Tibetans in Tibetan areas in his early years. He was influenced by Tibetans on Mother Mountain and published several medical papers on climbing Mount Everest.The permanent presence of Dr. Li and the entire medical team is a boost to all the players, especially the player Zhao. Jennifer has never seen this country Z player so happy.

With a team, laborers, guides, and team doctors, the difficulty of this climb should be less than that of traveling through the Amazon rainforest. success on the peak.Thinking of this, Jennifer flipped through the information, distracted herself, and slid her fingers along the map while listening to Soden's explanation.

The southeast ridge route marked by the program team is a very clear route.The contestants went from Nanche Bazaar to Tianboche Temple, and then hiked to the base camp on the south slope of Mount Everest, followed by Camp No. 5900 at an altitude of 6400 meters, Camp No. 7500 at an altitude of 7950 meters, and Camp No. [-] at an altitude of [-] meters. And Camp No. [-] at [-] meters, and finally reached the summit.This section of the road is relatively flat compared to the north slope in the early stage. There is the notorious Khumbu Icefall between the base camp and the first camp. The campground has the South Col and the Hillary Step...  

One level after another.

After the meeting, Jennifer went back to her residence with the other two contestants. Some contestants chose to go shopping, or walk around the town with a live camera group to gain some popularity, but she didn't think it was a good idea.

From the moment she saw Mount Everest from afar, she was attacked by waves of ice crystal-like coldness.As the altitude gradually rises and the distance from the original snow-capped mountains gradually narrows, this ancient chill wakes up more and more from its slumber.It's hard to say whether this power comes from the creatures on the snow mountain or the snow mountain itself, and it's also hard to say whether it's the heart of nature or the will of the earth echoing her.If power succession had a progress bar, Jennifer could almost feel the progress bar moving.

She had a strong premonition that Mount Everest, the third pole of the world, if she had the opportunity to get close to its core, whether standing on the top of the mountain or close to the mountain, she would hear the heartbeat of the earth again.

On April 4, the whole huge mountaineering group arrived at the base camp of Mount Everest.