Wilderness Challenge [Comprehensive British American American Entertainment]

Cruel but true is that the downsizing has virtually reduced the pressure on the players.

In the fifth round, only half of the team can advance. As long as 16 people are eliminated for one reason or another, the remaining people will naturally not have to face Mount Everest, let alone face other snow peaks that are more dangerous than Mount Everest.Based on this consideration, the 28 players who are still in the third camp often feel a little unnatural when they see each other.They are climbers with a competitive relationship, but the members of the business group who are also in the third camp but have no competitive relationship have not shown any extra sympathy.

The wilderness team isn't the only mountaineering team experiencing attrition, and the athletes aren't the only ones who are accustomed to attrition and death.Most mountain guides and climbers are well aware of the dangers of summiting, and even the "ordinary people" who occupy most of the seats on commercial mountaineering teams have no time to feel fear or dismay.

Yes, no time.

These people have the most common identities, some of them are white-collar workers who work from [-] to [-], some are young students, some just spend a little money to increase their conversation, and some spend their entire wealth to realize a dream.Even if they cry over the loss of a puppy or cat in the city, or feel sorry for a stranger's misfortune, these thoughts will be drained by the thin air at this moment.Standing at Camp No. [-], one can look down at the boundless snowfield and look up at the towering peaks. The closer the mountaineering team gets to the top of the mountain, the more treacherous the climbers will be.

Not even Jennifer.

On the morning of May 5, she got up early, got out of her sleeping bag, unzipped it and walked outside the tent.The cold wind made Dolores, who was still asleep, utter a few sleepy babbles, while Nandana beside her was still breathing heavily and laboriously.Jennifer quickly closed the tent, and even this small movement made her dizzy.

Last night, under Soden's order, everyone used oxygen tanks and masks. Sufficient oxygen supply brought many unsustainable players back from the brink of collapse.Take Nandina as an example. Yesterday afternoon, she could hardly walk anymore. It seemed that she might faint and fall off the cliff every minute. Jennifer thought that she might be unsustainable. Unexpectedly, when she entered the camp and was connected to oxygen, The whole person looks much more energetic.The difference between aerobic and anaerobic is so huge that Jennifer is in awe of those climbers who can rush up to 8000 meters without oxygen tanks.

While thinking, she greeted the busy guide group and asked if their satellite phones were available.

The communication between the various camps on Mount Everest depends entirely on satellite phones. Similarly, if mountaineers want to communicate with the outside world, they can only use satellite phones.This kind of equipment is expensive every time it is used, but most people who have the ability to climb the mountain will not care about this little money. In the past two days, there were quite a few people who called Soden.

In the words of Brazilian player Miguel, "When I was in the Amazon, the death crisis always happened suddenly, but in this ghost place, I felt like I was losing my life every minute. Who knows if I will be able to speak in two days?"

The whole team took his argument seriously, and Jennifer also thought about calling Bruce and the manager separately before rushing to Camp Four.The leader's tent is located in the middle area. When she walked over, she saw Soden commanding the guides to scatter inspections. The satellite phone was connected, as if the management of the base camp was inquiring about the situation.Behind Soden, the leader's tent was cracked, and hot smoke and a scent of instant noodles came out from inside. It should be that the guide who stayed behind was cooking with a stove and gas tank.

Seeing Jennifer approaching, Soden first subconsciously looked her up and down, and after confirming that there was nothing abnormal, he explained a few words to the phone, and then put down the phone. "What happened?" she asked, "Last night we were in the tent and heard a noise outside, louder than the wind. Has anyone found it?"

"I found it." Soden replied succinctly.He had a bad complexion, and even if he found it, it didn't mean he would definitely live. Jennifer immediately understood and stopped asking.She followed Soden to the team leader's tent, where the satellite phone was placed on a small high ground built with backpacks, two guides rolled instant noodles around a small boiler, and the other was eating dried yak meat and glutinous rice cakes, with snowflakes falling from his hair It melted into water, dripped down, and then turned back into ice slag.Seeing a contestant coming, the three enthusiastically cooked another pot of instant noodles.

Ten minutes later, Jennifer called with breakfast in hand.

Manager Maha wasn't very surprised when he received the call. After all, the camera crew had already started working, and anyone who paid a little attention to the live broadcast could know the players' movements, but Bruce was a little surprised.His voice was muffled, as if he had just been awakened from sleep, and of course it might be the effect of an anesthetic or something else.Jennifer didn't dare to think about it, and didn't dare to ask more questions in front of outsiders and cameras, and only asked some trivial matters in a hurry.

Bruce's answer was also very concise. He first said that there were "some clues" about the recent busy work, and then said that everything was normal at home, Alfred was fine, and Dick was fine. He never mentioned himself, and said that he knew that there were many accidents on the mountain. I hope to be more careful and don't have to force myself. Finally, I softened my throat and added "Bon voyage".

Perhaps Batman himself didn't realize how precious this phrase "bon voyage" was to the team members who went up the mountain in the spring climbing season of 2012.

An hour after hanging up the phone, Jennifer and the wilderness team embarked on the journey towards Camp Four.

From Camp No. [-] to Camp No. [-], it is necessary to continue climbing the Lhotse mountain wall. The slope of the snow slope is slightly slower than the day before, and Jennifer's climbing is not as desperate as before.The oxygen tank steadily provided the oxygen necessary for life, and she opened the oxygen valve when she ran out of gas several times, not daring to save at all.

After the snow slope is a section of slope that tests mountaineering skills, which is the infamous "yellow belt".

The yellow belt is full of sharp and brittle rocks, white ice and snow mixed with gray-brown rocks alternately, in some places large areas of rock walls are exposed, and in some places there is a layer of smooth and hard ice.Jennifer gradually found that it was difficult to kick the crampons into the ice and snow. If the Sherpa guides had not set up a coherent rope section on the entire route in advance, people would hardly know how to walk up steadily.

She's not the worst player.

Nandina hovered dangerously about twenty feet below her feet, her feet kicking the ice almost mechanically, her hands clinging to the rope, the safety rope at her waist taut.The ropes are fixed on the ice wall by ice picks, and some anchors are as long as half an arm. They are strong, but they are not invulnerable.Dolores looked up from a lower place, and Jennifer found that her face was full of fear. She didn't know whether she was worried about the situation of her companions or feared that the people above would fall and hit her head.

To be honest, Jennifer didn't think Nandina could continue to persevere at the time, but shortly after she dragged her heavy steps over the Lhotse ridge and rushed to the South Col, she saw Nandna walking into the Heap of tents.She didn't look well, really, and as Jennifer unzipped the tent she took the last two steps and collapsed on the side of her sleeping bag, completely exhausted. "It was like a dead person." The Sherpa guide Puba recalled in an interview later.

Out of friendship for her co-residents and respect for other female contestants, Jennifer stepped forward to check the oxygen facilities for Nandena, and found that the other party's oxygen was exhausted, but when she tried to replace the oxygen tank or When pulling down the mask to prevent suffocation, the latter firmly grasped the mask, as if it was the last lifeline.

"You have to go down." Jennifer said immediately.She drew back the curtains of the tent to call for the guide, but Nandana began to shake her head.The cold and lack of oxygen left her barely able to speak, and she shivered uncontrollably, but the lips did move up and down. "What?" Jennifer leaned closer to listen.From this distance, she could clearly see the fear in the eyes of the Indian players, but there was something buried deeper beneath that fear that was burning vigorously at the moment. "Only 800 meters left." Nandina panted.

Involuntarily, Jennifer was repelled by the burning thing, and just silently changed the oxygen tank for her roommate.

Camp No. 70 was built on the South Col of Mount Everest. The strong wind passing through the mountain pass blows the snow on the rocks to the north, exposing the rocks with uneven layers underneath.The wind speed of nearly [-] kilometers per hour made it difficult for people to walk normally, and the scattered tents were blown to one side or the other, all relying on heavy oxygen tanks and other fixed objects to survive.

8000 meters, this is a slow death zone just lying down, almost no one can eat anything this afternoon, Jennifer and Dolores are leaning on both sides of the tent, the only sound in their ears is the sound of the tent being blown. No other sounds can be heard.But the weather forecast couldn’t lie, and after a few more hours, when she fell into a coma due to lack of oxygen, the sound of the wind in her ears was finally replaced by some other strange noises.Jennifer opened her eyes with difficulty, only to see that the curtain of the tent had opened a small corner, and Dolores was looking helpless.

Seeing Jennifer wake up, Dolores straightened her back as if she had found an ally.

"What's going on?" Jennifer asked vaguely.

"It's Nandana," Dolores said, "Sorden wanted some guys to take her down the mountain, but she didn't want to, so they gave her a little dexamethasone and put her on high-concentration oxygen. .....It's not fair for me to say that." It means that Nandena can take medicine, while other players don't take medicine because of their physical fitness and adaptability.

Normally, Jennifer's mind can still move, but at a height of 8000 meters, her thinking is unavoidably a little sluggish.At Dolores' accusation, she just blinked slowly, tried to move her stiff tongue, and said, "Commercial mountaineering teams have that."

Dolores breathed out through her nose.

Her resentment came to a head when the night team was preparing to set off, and thanks to medication and oxygen, Nandana was able to stagger behind the others to pack up and set off.The three female climbers walked in front and back as usual. Jennifer's head was a mess, and she really couldn't tell the emotions of the others. She could only hear Dolores humming incessantly, while Nandina Then he kept chanting something behind his back, which sounded like "800 meters".

Jennifer opened the top of her head and took her first steps in the dark.

The silent wind suddenly blew up around her again.

At this moment, she clearly heard her own heartbeat and a louder voice from the wind.

Come, said the voice, come to me.