Wilderness Challenge [Comprehensive British American American Entertainment]

In the early morning of the 15th, Soden and several guides returned to Camp No. [-] together.

Most of the people looked the same when they went down the mountain, and they were the same when they went up the mountain. At most, they looked a little tired and haggard, except for one of the young Sherpas.Tashi, a young Sherpa, was sunburned when he passed the Xikumu Ice Cirque. Although he claimed that this would not affect his progress, Soden still excluded him from the summit list and only allowed him to do support work in the camp below. .Not being able to make it to the top means not being able to become famous. For freshman guides, sometimes it is not so famous. Clients will always prefer those teams that have made great achievements.As soon as Soden finished speaking, Tashi looked frustrated, but he accepted the decision relatively calmly.

Another team didn't have such good luck than the wilderness team.A European team heading for the summit later encountered an avalanche in the loose layer below Camp II. Despite the best efforts of the guides, two climbers left the team due to serious injuries.Fortunately in the misfortune, both of them were injured when they were carried down by pine snow in the passing area. After the incident, the guides sighed repeatedly: If they were washed into the avalanche accumulation area, it would be impossible for gods to save them.

Later in the day, the wilderness team who had stayed at the No. 6000 camp for a long time and several teams who had just arrived at the camp almost started back and forth.Jennifer has seen many ridiculous sights in the past, and seeing a long queue at an altitude of more than [-] meters is definitely one of them.

From Camp No. [-] to Camp No. [-], you need to climb the west face of Lhotse Peak. This section of the road is a huge test for the physical strength of climbers.Lhotse Peak is like the loyal guard of Mount Everest. It blocks the footsteps of tourists with its ice and snow walls that go straight into the sky. Visible deadly traps - avalanches, landslides, falling rocks... On snowy mountains, every minute of delay may greatly increase the probability of tragedy.

After a period of climbing, the climbers had to stop and rest.

The three female members found a relatively flat snow to sit down.There were several cans of energy drinks in Jennifer's backpack. She was thirsty and hungry at the moment, and she almost wanted to drink them all. Thinking of the guide's instructions, she swallowed them in small sips.The weather is clear today, and the sun in the sky is very dazzling, but from where she sits, she can see a small tip of Mount Everest, where the violent snowflakes are drawn into a banner of ice.

White, white, white, the white of ice and snow everywhere, occasionally revealing the dark color of mountain rocks.The only colors as far as the eye can see come from the mountaineering uniforms of different colors, which either belong to the climbers who are still moving, or belong to the climbers who have long been integrated with Mount Everest.

Death here is as common as eating and drinking.

Below the base camp, there are steles to commemorate more than a hundred victims, and further up, there are more victims who fell here but could not be transported away.The first body was found when the team crossed the Khumbu Icefall. It was hard to say whether it was a body or a part of it, but it was not difficult for the contestants to imagine what happened to this poor man - just look up and see the height of tens of meters The ice tower will know.After that, the team found the No. 2 victim after passing through the Westcomb Ice Cirque. The climber in the blue mountaineering suit was sitting quietly on the side of the road, with his coat off in the distance.Later they found more under and on the ice wall of Lhotse Peak.These corpses are called "road signs" on Mount Everest. They are fine at low altitudes, and each of the corpses at high altitudes even has a "nickname", each symbolizing an altitude number.

The team marched in the cold wind for several days, and the team members also changed from being active at the beginning to being silent.No one dares not to respect and sympathize with these predecessors, but no one wants to be a member of the "silent ones".As the altitude rises, the physiological reaction intensifies, and a little factor that may affect the summit may become a fuse that ignites the temper, not to mention the most dangerous congestion that is visible to the naked eye when climbing to the summit.

The three women sit opposite each other for a while, with the camera crew flying around them, all covered in frost.

"What the hell!" Dolores said first, "Tell me that there shouldn't be so many mountaineering permits issued every year, look at these people... If a wet snowboard falls off the mountain now, it is estimated that tomorrow all of us will It's all in the news. No, without a wet snowboard, one rock can kill several."

It was a very blunt and offensive statement, but Jennifer decided not to argue with her.

Dolores' mountaineering suit was torn. At about 6800 meters, a rock fell from the sky and fell silently from a high place, barely brushing past her.When the team leader Soden caught up with the team halfway, he heard Dolores swearing loudly, so he had to spend his energy to teach her a lesson.On the one hand, Jennifer was amazed that her competitors and companions still had the strength to yell and waste energy at this altitude, but on the other hand, she could somewhat understand the other party's feelings: a few inches away from the stone would be another story.

Likewise, Nandana chose not to argue with her roommate.

Unlike Jennifer, Nandana simply didn't have the strength to care about it anymore.Her skin exposed outside the mask was as pale as a dead person, her breathing was heavy like a bellows, and a moan was squeezed out of her throat with every movement. "God," she cried weakly, "I'm done, I'm done."

"You need some oxygen," Dolores said.

"Sorden said that we will be equipped with oxygen cylinders starting tonight." Jennifer said, "I just hope that there will be enough oxygen on the mountain. When we go up to 8000 meters, or when we go to the summit, if the oxygen can't keep up... .”

"There are still too many people." Dolores put the finished can back into the bag, took off his thick outer gloves and moved his fingers.She didn't dare to expose her hands to the cold wind for too long, and stuffed them back into the gloves after a few strokes. "God knows what to issue so many climbing permits a year. I can't imagine what will happen to the Hillary Step."

After the words fell, they all fell into silence.

Jennifer struggled to catch her breath, thinking about what she had heard as she stood up.In her previous life, she was not an ice climbing expert, but nearly a month of training gave her a lot of insight into sprinting to snow peaks. Above 8000 meters is called the forbidden area of ​​life. People don't have to move, but they are slowly dying at this height.Although anaerobic climbing is considered by many experts in the mountaineering industry to be an orthodox and non-cheating climbing, but at this height, without oxygen support, most people have difficulty making progress, and even lose their lives.There are so many people who want to climb to the top, and no one is willing to give up first. What should we do when we reach the top of the mountain?

The more I think about it, the colder I feel.

Jennifer held on to the rope, doing her best to keep up with the peloton.She gradually felt that a storm was gathering on Mount Everest-and she was not the only one who felt the storm coming. Most climbers were worried about the phenomenon of long queues, but they had no choice but to climb. Go faster, keep rising, and secretly pray that you won't be the one that gets blocked.

Eight hours later, the crowd climbed the last few feet of pine snow and arrived at Camp No. [-].

When Jennifer arrived, she saw a few Sherpa guides hitting the ice with ice axes in the distance, and some were counting oxygen tanks. In other teams, there were guides helping the team members to move forward, and some laborers were pulling them with waist ropes. The team members moved forward, but the wilderness team was strictly prohibited from doing this kind of behavior. Except for a few with excellent physical strength, everyone was more or less staggering.

Even more despondent than the exhaustion and the splitting headache was the scene at Camp Three.

If Mount Everest Base Camp is a main city, then Camp No. 45 is a small town, Camp No. [-] is a market, and Camp No. [-] is at most a picnic center.Yellow and blue tents dot the snowy slopes, buried up to the heels of the tents, reminiscent of yellow cakes buried in white icing sugar.There are not many tents, at least nothing compared to the base camp, but it seems too much to mobilize the crowd when placed on the west wall of Lhotse Mountain, which is inclined at [-] degrees.

"God!" Jennifer heard Thorden curse.

"I've never seen anything like this," Pubba said at last, after checking the tent.

The lively scene at an altitude of 7500 meters is really extraordinary. Not to mention the climbers on the mountain, even the audience on the other side of the screen are stunned.

Before they saw it with their own eyes, their imagination of Mount Everest was a towering and lonely snow mountain, perhaps surrounded by storms, perhaps surrounded by clouds and mist, a very small black spot, or it could be a red spot, a blue spot, whatever. , in short, represents the climber, moving slowly like ants on the ice wall.After today, their impression of Mount Everest will completely change.

"This is a summit record that has never been done before." A commentator commented in the live broadcast room, "In the past we learned about the appearance of Mount Everest from many legends and biographies, and we have heard many inspirational or It is a sad climbing story, but we have never had the opportunity to witness the majesty of the mountain and the struggle of people, and we have never had the opportunity to see the whole sprint so closely."

The fifth round also received a lot of media attention.Coincidentally, one of the media wrote: Many years ago, "Into Thin Air" touched every one of us, but now, with the development of technology, we can have zero-distance contact with the third pole of the world and see it with our own eyes. When I saw how altitude sickness destroys the human body, I saw with my own eyes how the traffic jam in the mountains happened.

At the end of the report, the media appealed to the team on Mount Everest to cooperate sincerely, seize the last chance to coordinate the schedule to reach the summit, and avoid the tragedy caused by multiple coincidences in 96.

Everyone is concerned about what will happen if there are too many climbers, but not everyone realizes the real protagonist of this big show.

But overnight, Everest threw five climbers off her, two of whom belonged to wilderness teams.

On the evening of the 15th, a player accidentally slipped and fell while walking, and immediately developed symptoms of headache and vomiting.Soden had to send guides to escort him down the mountain again. In the early morning of the 16th, a gust of wind suddenly blew up. When another contestant came out of the toilet tent, he was accidentally brought down by the gust of wind and fell to the bottom of the ice wall.Soden organized a search together with Sherpas from several other teams, and finally found the dying young man lying in the snow the next day, and sent him down the mountain as well.

So far, the wilderness team has been reduced from 32 players to 28.