Wilderness Challenge [Comprehensive British American American Entertainment]

The training team set off in the early morning.

It was not yet full light, and the entire glacier was gray, with only a few smoother areas reflecting the skylight of the stars.The smell of excrement and garbage gradually dissipated after leaving the camp for hundreds of meters, revealing the smell that should have been in the extremely cold place.At lower altitudes, you can still see stone tablets engraved with the names of climbers, and further up, there are only corpses buried in the ice and snow that cannot be removed-people regard these victims as road signs on Mount Everest.

The altitude of Mount Everest Base Camp is more than 5000 meters. Jennifer felt that everything was fine three days before the hike, and then began to struggle slowly.The heart of nature has fallen into a long sleep, and only the will of the earth is constantly calling through the huge Mount Everest. This call is very light and far away, like the wings of a butterfly vibrating over the water.The day before she arrived at base camp, she suffered a sudden headache, so severe that she almost asked the team doctor to contact the helicopter to fly her back to Kathmandu, if the pain did not improve the next day.

The team of "Wilderness Challenge" has been in the base camp for three weeks of adaptation training. Several guides lead the team to practice back and forth on the glacier every morning, and from time to time sprint from the base camp to the first camp and then to the base camp.

The most dangerous part of the road is the Khumbu Glacier itself, where 30% of the victims died.

There are large and small fractures and ice avalanches here every day. When the team went up the mountain for the second time, ice cones and ice blocks several people high fell from a high place, and a Sherpa was hit on the head before he could dodge.The luck of the players is not much better than him. A Tanzanian player accidentally fell into the ice crevasse on the return journey-to be honest, there are bottomless cracks everywhere on the glacier-if it wasn't for the team leader Soden's quick eyesight and quick hands , I'm afraid this guy can't even find his body.

Jennifer stood by a boulder.

This training session is the last practice before the start of the summit push. Soon, May, the most suitable month for climbing, will come, and they will really embark on the scheduled pilgrimage.

The wilderness team isn't the only one, there are more than five teams across Everest waiting for their chance. The tragedy that happened in 96 changed a lot of things, and it seems that nothing has changed. It was one of the "coincidences" that led to the disaster when several teams rushed to the summit. Today, the traffic jam on Mount Everest has changed from a coincidence to a must. the elements of.In recent years, the number of mountaineering permits issued by Nepal has been increasing, the number of commercial teams has only increased, and more and more people are willing to risk their lives to reach the summit—but there are only so many window periods for storms and snowstorms.

"Stand up!" Jennifer heard a shout from the back of the line.She looked back and saw that the contestant Axim was being picked up from the ground by the Sherpas, and he stumbled forward with the crowd.

Axim is the oldest player among the players, he will be 51 years old in July this year. At the age of 51, Jennifer thought that even with a lot of survival knowledge, the body is a bit powerless at an age, but somehow, sometimes people can find a way against the sky from the laws of nature.

"Let's go, let's go!" the team leader Soden shouted from the front of the line.

The Khumbu Glacier at the foot makes dull noises all the time, and a long dusty ice crystal floats out from the top of Mount Everest in the distance, like a goddess's ribbon.It looked breathtakingly beautiful from the ground, but Jennifer knew that meant the summit was being battered by high winds.

She wondered what it was like to stand in the wind.

The area above 8000 meters is not suitable for human habitation, not even for human footsteps. Once a person enters here, he will die slowly. The only important thing is whether the climber can set foot on the third pole of the world before "death", and Evacuate safely from the summit.

Later the whole team returned to Everest Base Camp.

The three women of the 32 contestants shared a tent, and Jennifer slept between Dolores and Nandana, sometimes acting as a "buffer" for the two contestants.Nandana had long resented Dolores' high-sightedness, and the latter's resentment of his affectation, and Jennifer sometimes wondered if they resented her, too.

This is normal.

On the first day of arriving at the Everest base camp, everyone was like a brother, a sister, and a sister. The longer they stayed on the mountain, the more trivial things were magnified.It is difficult for a person to maintain calm thinking while suffering from low oxygen and low temperature environment, and it is also difficult to care about public image, let alone personal image, while trekking and trekking with dizziness.

In this regard, the team leader Soden commented: "At least you are all experts in outdoor survival. The Nepalese government has not set a clear standard for climbing the south slope. As long as they have money, they will issue mountaineering certificates to almost anyone. There were several A guy who has only climbed entry-level hills went to the summit with us, and last year the regiment took two prosthetic veterans who climbed the damn mountain. Don't get me wrong, I don't say this because I don't think they don't I have full respect for the qualifications to reach the summit. I have full respect for those guys who are disabled and have dreams. There is a set of social standards, but on a mountain over 8000 meters? Nothing."

Yes, nothing.

Compared with those members who are not familiar with each other, the "Wilderness Challenge" team also has conflicts of interest in addition to being unfamiliar with each other.This conflict of interests is the reason why some players who first landed on the island refused to provide help to the players who drifted to the island. It was the reason why some players in the forest teamed up to attack other teams. It was because some players in the desert seized all the resource points. The reason is also the reason why some contestants in the rainforest snatch others' medals.

If nothing happened on the snow mountain, Jennifer would really doubt her eyes.

And "strange things" did happen very quickly.

One evening long-distance runner Turner coughed a few times at dinner and then threw up everything in the dining tent, which attracted the attention of the entire medical team and the attention of the entire runner team.During the evening meeting, Jennifer found that she couldn't help noticing the faint excitement on the faces of some people. Only 16 people could enter the sixth round. You can climb a few snow-capped mountains less and suffer less.

"How's Turner doing?" someone finally cleared his throat when the oxygen tank instruction was over. "You know, we're all worried about him... Everest is dangerous after all, Respiratory problems may be more dangerous, you are the team leader, you are the team doctor, and the program crew, you are responsible for the lives of everyone here. You have climbed so many mountains, Dolores, what do you say?"

Dolores nodded despite usually not dealing with him: "He will be out of breath in higher places."

Dr. Li scanned the contestants from under his round glasses. "The situation is indeed not stable, and there are indeed hidden dangers if we continue on the mountain—" he said with a drawn out voice.Jennifer immediately saw the uncomfortable expressions on the faces of several contestants sitting directly opposite her, the kind of weird expressions that actors often make on the podium to suppress ecstasy. "—But the player himself decided to move on. We gave him the necessary medicine and decided to respect his choice."

"You can't do that," someone muttered.

"Oh, yes, we can, sir, and we are about to do so." Dr. Li said calmly, "The team does not wait until lives are at stake to act, we give responsible advice every day, and you , the contestants are all adults and they have signed contracts. To be precise, we are not a regular commercial mountaineering group, and you are not regular mountaineering team members. Rather than saying that we have to be responsible for your lives, Rather, you must be held accountable for your every action."

"This is Mount Everest, not a joke." The leader Soden said sternly.

He looked around, taking in every player's expression.The camera group that is always flying in the tent can "see" more clearly than him. After a while, when the players return to the city safely, a few people will stop cursing the harsh environment on the third pole of the world and thank the cold Make each of them wear thick clothes, with the neckline pulled to the face, so that the expression will not be fully exposed.

Jennifer lazily leaned back in her chair, determined not to pin her hopes on her teammates.

Whatever they were hoping for, this time their prayers would fail.

Rhinitis and sore throat are common symptoms on Xuefeng, and some people even suffer from a more serious dry cough.The medical team tried every means to calm Turner down, and the base camp allowed the climber to get a good night's sleep, and he had recovered before the actual climb.

Turner, who is in good health, was overjoyed by this. On the side of the bonfire the night before the team set off, he yelled to the mountain wind the famous saying of a great man many years ago-"I come, I see, I conquer!"

At that time, everyone was putting down their defenses and packing their luggage together outside the tent, cheering and laughing.They use "adventure" to encourage themselves, use "conquest" to soothe their bodies shivering from the cold and panic, and use "rich rewards" and "realization of life dreams" to fill up the dangers and hidden dangers one after another on the way forward. .

Jennifer followed Dolores and Nandana out of the tent, followed by a Sherpa.Jennifer saw him shaking his head and sighing, with an uneven expression on his face, and kept saluting to the huge and dark mountains in the distance.

She waited a few steps and asked, "Why?"

At first he was reluctant to speak, and after asking three times and four times, he confided his heart in broken English. "Never be disrespectful to the mountain. People can't conquer the mountain. We can only snuggle into her arm briefly with the mountain's permission, and look into the distance through her shoulder."

"I see." Jennifer said.

She didn't know at this moment that a Sherpa guide would sigh like this three years later-"I know, I knew a long time ago, Mount Everest will punish me one day because I stepped on her. "

At this moment, she doesn't know that there are two things that will always happen inadvertently in the world, that is, love and death.