Wilderness Challenge [Comprehensive British American American Entertainment]

Jennifer took the last few steps, shuffling her legs.

The crampons hooked in the snow and splashed large and small ice flakes and snowflakes, leaving several deep stab marks.At the beginning, this set of equipment made several athletes who had never lifted ice climbing love it. After just a few hours of training, they declared that they could not imagine how to advance on the snow mountain without crampons, but after a long trek, they also let them Feeling tired and achy.Experienced ice climbers will only use crampons on the toes to climb in some areas, while inexperienced ice climbers will fall heavily every time, consuming unnecessary strength.Jennifer dare not say that she is already a qualified climber, nor that she has chosen a suitable walking method on each section of the road, let alone that she is the group with the best physical strength, but after she walked into the tent area It was a lot of onlookers.

Without him, the whole mountaineering team had just walked through the Khumbu Icefall. Including the time when the ice crevasse was added, she rescued her teammates three times in total—a total of three times.

One of the teams was climbing the highest ice wall, where there were four aluminum ladders connected end to end, and people would swing back and forth in the air with the strong mountain wind.Nandina accidentally slipped and fell in the middle of the aluminum ladder. If it wasn’t for Jennifer who was following her to pick her up in time, it would be hard to say what would happen next; when the third accident happened, the team was passing through an ice tower. Passing through, in fact, is more like they slipped carefully and tremblingly from the sloping mountain.Out of nowhere, a piece of flying ice fell, and if Jennifer hadn't pulled back the Sherpa beside her, the team might have faced attrition again.

In the city, fame and status are admired; in the wilderness, strength and agility are admired.

After three rescues, even the team leader Soden treated Jennifer differently and allowed her to walk at the forefront of the team with Puba.

Like the style of many commercial mountaineering teams, Soden grouped the stronger and more able to take care of themselves into one group, allowing them to freely decide which wave to follow.Although due to the rules given by the program group, the guides and laborers cannot help the players in action, and are only allowed to give guidance and health supervision, but for those players with poor physical fitness or showing signs of illness and fatigue, Soden still pays special attention to— — Being selected as the general guide of the fifth round of Mount Everest in "Wilderness Challenge" has already made him famous in the mountaineering world. If most people can successfully climb to the summit, it will be a huge bonus to the reputation of him and the team.

The Kumbu Icefall brought great troubles to the mountaineering team, but the leader Soden didn't know that bigger troubles were yet to come.

On May 5, that is, the day when the ice crevasse accident occurred, the Everest Base Camp received a weather forecast from the meteorological unit, indicating that there may be extremely unstable weather for a long time in the future, and the time available for climbing to the summit suddenly changed from half to half. Months reduced to weeks.As if the situation wasn't bad enough, a violent brawl erupted at Base Camp, and by the 12th most of the climbing teams that had been willing to postpone to avoid the summit set off for Camp 14.The base camp explained all the situation when contacting the wilderness mountaineering team. Soden knew that the situation was beyond expectations when he arrived at the No. 12 camp at noon on the 14th, but he didn’t know how serious the matter was until the [-]th. At that time, the athletes were already in the No. [-] camp Stagnated for two days.

In order to save energy and reach the peak as quickly as possible, the commercial mountaineering team will not stay at the No. 6400 camp, but will directly choose to sprint to the No. [-] camp at an altitude of about [-] meters.After the fast climb, one day was taken out to rest and adjust, but the extra day was completely accidental.

Axim, the oldest among the players, felt exhausted before the start, and it took him a lot of energy to climb over several near-vertical ice walls between the Khumbu Icefall and the No. 12 and No. [-] camps.According to the later memories of the contestants in the same tent, Axim felt that he had difficulty breathing when he lay down on the night of the [-]th. He couldn't sleep because of the howling mountain wind early in the next morning, so he got up to check his companions (at least according to his words) , found that Axim's sleeping bag had spit out a puddle of frozen blood foam, and Soden and Puba immediately judged that it was alpine pulmonary edema.

Alpine pulmonary edema, also known as HAPE, is a common mountain sickness that affects more than half of all mountain climbers to some extent.The pressure in the lungs of a person under hypoxic and low pressure conditions increases, causing pulmonary hypertension, increased pulmonary blood volume, and increased fluid, resulting in coughing, hemoptysis, dyspnea, coma, and even life-threatening in severe cases.Its fatal time is very short, and many patients will be misdiagnosed as a cold, posing a great threat to climbers.

Axim must be sent to a lower altitude immediately, everyone agrees on this, but unfortunately, the team is in a high mountain of 6400 meters, and the helicopter cannot fly to this altitude; even if there are planes in the world that can reach this altitude, They were never allowed to enter the airspace either. In the early morning of the 13th, Soden contacted the base camp via satellite phone and asked the other party to prepare a hyperbaric oxygen chamber. Four Sherpas will use oxygen bags to escort Axim down the mountain.

When Jennifer passed by after fetching water, she saw a guide injecting Axim with dexamethasone in the tent, while another guide tried hard to put him in a hyperbaric oxygen bag.She saw the contestant who lived with him slumped beside his sleeping bag with his arms folded, seemingly determined not to help.She hesitated for a moment, then walked over and patted Soden on the shoulder, who shook his head at her. "We've got to get him down the mountain," said the leader. "You've got to sit on the edge and have a good day's rest."

No one asked the climbers to escort Axim. At an altitude of 6400 meters, any unplanned high-intensity physical activity may have an incalculable impact on the follow-up.Knowing this, Jennifer stood aside comprehendingly.She carefully looked at Axim's face, this strong man was breathing in terror.For a few seconds she tried to come up with the right metaphor, whether it was blowing a bellows or sucking yogurt, but at this moment she was completely confused by the sound - it sounded like a The sounds lungs and a windpipe stuffed with bloody phlegm should make.

Somehow, Axim was still able to use the respirator to prop himself up and speak before being stuffed into an oxygen bag. "I've got to climb this damn mountain!" he mumbled. "This damn, damn, mountain!"

Jennifer looked at him for a moment, then at the mountains that lay across her head.

That cold will is even stronger.

She didn't dare to stay any longer, so she went back to the tent to make noodles with Dolores.The instant noodles are taken at the base camp. There are some unfamiliar square characters written on the package, and the taste is also very strong. It is said that the North Slope Base Camp provides more.The boiled water is boiled early in the morning by the Sherpas who pried open the ice and brought it from the glacier. At this altitude, the water cannot be boiled very much, but it is barely usable.

Nandena also used a camera group outside the tent to broadcast the view of Mount Everest to the audience. From this point of view, this woman is far more "powerful" than many men in the camp. When she was in the snow outside the camp and naked When they were running around on the rocks, they all nested in their tents like plague chickens.

The two sighed in unison after the half-boiled water was poured into the instant noodle box with plastic film.

"Do you think... he'll survive?" Dolores asked.

"I can't tell." Jennifer turned the instant noodles in the plastic bowl with a fork.Of course she knew that if there was no external force interfering with those changes at the micro level, Axim's life would be easily killed, but modern science is always solving the problems given by the heart of nature. If not, the heart of nature would have been hundreds of years ago can control the number of human beings.

Perception can only be used by contestants and a very small number of animals on the snowy mountain. With her conscious control, Jennifer is no different from other contestants most of the time.Far from natural life, the power that the heart of nature provides her is not enough to save a person from danger.Rather, the will of the earth, or part of the will of the earth, the snow-capped mountains and the earth itself, are always resonating with her in their own way.

Powerless, on the afternoon of the 13th, another guide was sent down the mountain due to alpine cerebral edema (HACE). So far, the staff left on the mountain is not enough to provide protection and guidance for a large team of more than 30 people. The wilderness team and ordinary The business group is different, and there is still competition between the players. In order to ensure fairness, the original plan to leave for the No. 14 camp in the early morning of the [-]th was shelved.

On the evening of the 14th, Camp No. [-] ushered in the second and third batches of residents again.

"Too bad," Dolores said to Jennifer as the rest of the team arrived.Jennifer didn't answer, but felt the same way her roommate did—it was too bad.

She remembered a conversation she had heard after going up the mountain.

At that time, several Sherpas were wielding ice axes to reinforce the base of the tent for the coming large troops. She and Puba, who had arrived first, sat and rested in front of the completed tent, while Soden stood aside and talked on the satellite phone.

"There are a lot of people this year." He said, "I have no idea how to arrange so many mountaineering teams on more than a dozen routes to the summit, let alone there are individual tourists traveling light. The big congestion is 8000 Meters above is deadly, I mean, oh my god, think about the Hillary Step, think about all the things that have happened in the past ... we have no time to waste."

The other person didn't know what to reply, he took off his mask and frowned, and said: "Yes, yes, we encountered a little trouble in Kumbu, and you know Kumbu... Poor Christopher... .We lost Wanger there last year ... but I bet they'll do better than last year's guys."

This made Jennifer laugh.

Puba, the honest Sherpa guide, agrees.

The members of the wilderness mountaineering team are all survival experts and sports players. They have experienced the tests of islands, highland forests, deserts and tropical rainforests.Even Thorden has to admit that these players are the most "hard-working" team he has ever led. Most of them can move at the fastest speed planned in advance, and they can also endure all kinds of pain caused by the environment.

Soden maintained his admiration for the players, and the players obeyed him. Few people publicly contradicted his ideas with the knowledge of survival.

Stagnation changed that.

In other words, stagnation changed everything.