On the eighth day, the camp at an altitude of 6000 meters once again ushered in several large groups of troops. In front of the camp, the Sherpas were carrying a lot of luggage on the mountain road dotted with ice and snow, while in the back there were several teams coming up at the same time.
Ren He has a sharp eye. He can see many Asian faces at a glance, but he is not sure which country he belongs to. There are also two teams with black faces. They may be African teams. Before Ren he heard from smier, African mountaineering teams are not easy to deal with, and their tempers are not very good.
When they got closer, Ren he heard the Taiwanese accent and standard Mandarin. It turned out that these two teams of Asian Americans were all Chinese. Ren He was very glad to see so many compatriots here at the same time.
Smier introduced to them, one is the Chinese team, the other is the Taiwan team. The leader of the Chinese team is great, called Xia Boyu. Although he has failed to climb Mount Everest four times, he never gave up. Once he came back from a storm, and once the earthquake in Nepal caused the Nepalese government to stop all mountaineering activities... His luck always seems to run counter to him.
Ren He takes a deep look at Xia Boyu and finds that he is already over 50 years old. Can he really climb Mount Everest at such a big age?
People always remember the winners and forget the losers, so Ren He thinks that there must be something extraordinary about people who are remembered even if they fail. At least at his age, he is still fighting to conquer Mount Everest. It's really not easy.
What Ren He didn't expect was that the thunder and safety of his team knew Xia Boyu. One of them was a mountaineering enthusiast, the other was a travel magazine reporter, and he had rich mountaineering experience. This old man named Xia Boyu must be very famous in the domestic circle. After all, the people who could lead the team to Mount Everest were not ordinary people in China.
Ren He asked an Si if he knew him. An Si said that he had heard of the old man's foot. Now it looks ok, but it's actually a prosthesis. When he first climbed Mt. Everest, he was 24 years old. At that time, when he sprinted from 7900 meters to the peak, he ran into a storm. Fortunately, he returned to the camp at 7900 meters in time, but one of his teammates lost his sleeping bag, and he kindly let his sleeping bag out.
Finally, his own feet were frozen from red to purple in extremely cold weather, and finally turned black from purple, so he had to amputate.
But even so, he didn't give up his dream of conquering Everest, but he missed Everest every time.
When someone asked him why he must insist on his dream to climb Mount Everest, Xia Boyu's answer was very interesting: "because the mountain is there."
Ren He was thrilled after listening to the introduction of an Si. After a careful look, it turned out that it was really a prosthesis!
Such people have not given up, how can they give up?!
Under the friendship of thunder and security, Ren He's team, Xia Boyu's team and Taiwan's team decided to start joint training activities in the next week. In this way, they can take care of each other when they hit the altitude of 7600 meters. There are still five days to go before the collective training time, which is the adaptation time for the Chinese team and Taiwan team when they first arrived.
Smier doesn't have any objection to this, but he thinks it can save him a little more trouble
The 7600 meter altitude training is the farthest one you have ever walked. It will last for several days, and even take you several times to camp in the ice and snow.
In fact, the impact of Everest is far from as simple as ordinary people's mountaineering. They can climb a mountain in half a day, have a cup of tea at the top of the mountain, and then go down the mountain leisurely.
On the road of conquering Mount Everest, everyone must be prepared for a long-term battle. After his body really adapts to the plateau, he will finally launch the final impact at one go!
However, at the beginning of the new week, when everyone got together in the morning to prepare for the training plan, the Taiwan team did not move. There was no one.
When they couldn't see them at 10 a.m., they went to the camp of the Taiwan team and found that they were still sleeping.
Xia Boyu questioned why the Taiwan team was still sleeping when they agreed to start together? The leader of Taiwan team said slowly, "our Sherpa guide didn't wake us up in time. If you want to blame him, blame him."
"That's your attitude to Mount Everest?" Xia Boyu's face turned black at that time. Climbing Mount Everest has become the most important thing in his life for Xia Boyu. He can't accept the fact that others are not serious.
"We have conquered two snow mountains with an altitude of 8000 meters. Maybe you Chinese will find it difficult to climb Mt. Everest, but we don't think so," the leader of the Taiwan team said with a smile.
As soon as Ren he heard that he said "you Chinese people", his eyebrows were just like a pick. Yo, this is to do something. Are the people of Taiwan Province so arrogant?
Other Chinese on the scene were also a little angry, but no one really had a fight at the altitude of 6000 meters.
Fighting also needs physical strength and oxygen. Fighting is lack of oxygen. What's the meaning of fighting?
But Ren He is different
Of course, he also understood that, in fact, other people who have climbed the 8000 meter snow mountain will not take Everest seriously. After all, there is no need to climb the vertical ice wall here, and there is no real danger that is difficult for human beings to conquer. There are some good roads to open up.
But if they really underestimate Mt. Everest after climbing other peaks, they will certainly pay a great price. When the Taiwanese just arrived at the 6000 meter camp, they seemed to be in a better state than most people, but what Ren He cared about was not these... But... What these people were trying to split the motherland. Can they bear it? Although Ren He was not as angry as an Si, he would never be vague on such matters. Let alone the values and historical problems, Ren He can't listen to them. If you say you have altitude sickness, you will. Are you afraid? Because of the Taiwan team's backwardness, the 7600 meter sprint was shelved. Smier actively contacted other teams, hoping to pass. At this time, we still hope to have more people, and even if we encounter sudden weather changes in this location, we will have enough time to return to the camp at the foot of the mountain. Everything here is normal, but there is something wrong with the Taiwan team... Ren He would go to the Taiwan team for a walk every day. As a result, three people in the Taiwan team shed tears and three people vomited for more than 20 minutes every day. Ren He didn't care whether the disease was consistent or not. Anyway, he just threw out his skills and went back to the camp to chat with Yang Xi and an Si. So the Taiwan team is also very confused. Today they are crying and others are vomiting, but the next day they are vomiting and others are crying. There is no sign and no rule... All the teams on the 6000 meter platform are surprised. What's the disease of Taiwan team crying and vomiting?! And the people who cry and vomit every day are different. The altitude reaction is too serious, and the psychological quality is not so good! Before, I said that I had climbed several 8000 meter snow mountains, but they were all boastful, right Good night, everyone