September and October are the peak tourist seasons in Urumqi. After leaving the breakfast shop, Ye Tian walked along the road for less than five minutes and found a travel agency.
"Young man, you can take a two-day tour of Tianshan Mountains, including food and accommodation, and stay in Tianchi Scenic Area at night. Including round-trip transportation, it only costs 588 yuan, which is a good deal!"
Hearing that Ye Tian was going to travel to Tianshan, the manager-looking man immediately brought a picture book and introduced it to Ye Tian.
"When are you leaving?"
Ye Tian had no objection to the price. The key was the departure time. If it was too late, he would rather take a taxi. After all, it was only 70 or 80 kilometers away from Urumqi.
Seeing Ye Tian's intention to go there early, the manager said, "Now that you've paid the money, a group will leave at 10 o'clock, and we'll be there at noon..."
"Okay, I'll sign up!"
Ye Tian nodded, counted out six hundred yuan and handed it over. After completing the formalities, the manager learned that Ye Tian had nowhere to go, so he called a tour guide to take Ye Tian to the bus and wait.
The tour guide who picked up the group was a Uighur girl in her twenties. No one had arrived yet. When she saw Ye Tian, she brought a simple backpack and got on the bus. She couldn't help but asked strangely: "You are traveling alone?"
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"Yeah, I want to go to Tianchi to see if there are any monsters?"
Ye Tian laughed. There was a report on the news some time ago, saying that a prehistoric monster appeared in Tianchi. The number of people traveling to the sky increased greatly, but no one could see the monster again.
"How can there be any monsters..." the Uyghur girl murmured in a low voice and said kindly: "The weather here is to wear a cotton-padded jacket in the morning and a gauze in the afternoon. It gets even colder when you get to Tianchi. You wear too few clothes!"
"It's okay. There must be people who rent coats there. I'll just rent one when the time comes."
Ye Tian has traveled to many places, and he knows that in some tourist attractions with huge temperature differences, there is a business of renting coats. It only costs a small amount of money and saves him the trouble of carrying large and small bags.
"You know very well." The Uyghur tour guide glanced at Ye Tian in surprise. At that moment, other guests got on the bus, and he quickly went up to greet them.
By 10 o'clock, the car was already full of people and it drove out of the parking lot on time.
As the car drove out of the city, there was an endless open space with vast expanses of cotton planted on both sides of the road. After more than half an hour, the car started climbing.
It takes a certain amount of courage to drive on this kind of mountainous road. Even the faint of heart dare not look down the car because as far as the eye can see, there are steep cliffs, clouds passing by the car window, and the winding mountain road.
September is also the season just after flash floods. From the car, you can see a rushing stream at the foot of the mountain. The clear stream water stirs up white waves when it hits the rocks. It seems that you can clearly feel it from a hundred meters away.
“Dear tourists, Tianchi, the Tianshan Mountain we are going to now, is located in the central part of Xinjiang Province and consists of three rows of parallel folded mountains running from east to west.
Tianchi is located under the Bogda Peak in the Tianshan Mountains. It is an alpine barrier lake formed by ancient glacial debris flows that blocked the river channel. It is surrounded by snow peaks, and the melted snow on the mountains is the source of the pond water.
Of course, there is also a beautiful myth and legend here. It is said that the Big Tianchi is the place where the Queen Mother bathes, and the Little Tianchi is the footbath for the Queen Mother..."
After the car went up the mountain, the Uighur tour guide also began to explain. Unlike the tourists in the car who were excitedly taking pictures with their cameras, Ye Tian sat quietly in the back, feeling the rich vitality of heaven and earth.
According to Taoist understanding, vitality can be absorbed into the body, but ordinary people do not know how to refine it, and often waste the most precious thing in the world. In this way, the less populated primitive areas, the less vitality will be.
It's thick.
Ye Tian didn't know if this theory made sense, but he had been to many places and found that the vitality in cities was relatively thin, while in rural areas and in the wild, the quantity and quality of vitality were obviously much higher.
Just like now when the car is driving in the foggy mountains, Ye Tian feels particularly comfortable with every breath he takes. If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't practice in the scenic spot and it was difficult to survive in the wild, Ye Tian would have thought of staying here for a long time.
At noon, the car stopped at the Tianchi Scenic Area, and when the car got off, Ye Tian couldn't help but lose his mind for a while because of the beautiful scenery in the distance.
The blue waves shrouded in mist hang halfway up the mountain, green pines and cypresses dot the coast, and the Bogda Peak in the distance is covered in silver, looming.
Tall spruce trees, white birch trees, and willow trees grow on the surrounding hillsides of Tianchi Lake. Exquisite pavilions and pavilions are built on the west bank. The calm and clear lake water reflects the green mountains and snow-capped peaks. The scenery is beautiful, like a fairyland.
"This is our Tianshan specialty snow lotus. If you like it, you can buy some..."
As soon as everyone got off the bus, several little flower sellers gathered around them. In their baskets were some yellow-green flowers. They were not expensive at all, only 10 yuan a flower. Of course, it was impossible.
It is a real wild snow lotus.
"It would be okay if this thing was really old."
Ye Tian picked up a snow lotus and smelled the faint fragrance, then put it back. Snow lotus has the effect of activating blood circulation and unblocking meridians, dissipating cold and dehumidifying, and can cure all cold diseases. If there really is a thousand-year-old snow lotus, it will be beneficial to Ye Tian's injuries.
Recovery is still very beneficial.
After having lunch with the tourists in the same car, Ye Tian did not follow them by boat to Tianchi Lake. Instead, he asked the tour guide for the room key and stayed in the wooden house with the characteristics of ethnic minorities.
"How did these people get into the mountains?"
Ye Tian frowned slightly. He had not seen the off-road vehicle in the parking lot just now. After this deduction, he discovered that "Boss Jia" and several others were already on a mountain peak more than 20 kilometers away from here.
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After thinking for a while, Ye Tian picked up his bag again and went out to find a staff member of the scenic spot.
"Do you want to climb a snow mountain?"
The staff member looked at Ye Tian, shook his head repeatedly and said: "You are not good at this. You were frozen before you even went to the snow mountain. The people from their mountaineering team will not take you there..."
Tianchi is a transit supply station for expeditions to climb Bogda Peak and several other snow-capped mountains. During the months with good weather, people go on climbing expeditions almost every day.
However, it was the first time for this staff member to see people like Ye Tian who wanted to go up the mountain wearing a jacket and walking shoes. As he said, when he got to the foot of the mountain, he would probably be too cold even before climbing.
Ye Tian frowned when he heard this and asked, "Do you sell mountaineering clothes and equipment here?"
There is a famous mountaineering team in Huaqing Garden. The boss Xu Zhennan joined the mountaineering team after he got tired of playing basketball. Therefore, Ye Tian knew a lot about mountaineering, but he never had the opportunity to put it into practice.
"There is indeed one, and there is also a mountaineering instructor. Come on, I will take you there!"
When he heard that Ye Tian wanted to buy mountaineering equipment, the staff member immediately became happy. A set of mountaineering equipment was worth a lot of money, and he would also get a commission after selling it.
"Damn, it's so dark..."
After coming out of the mountaineering shop, Ye Tian really felt a chill. The reason was very simple. He only bought a mountaineering bag, a set of warm clothes and a field tent, as well as a fifty-meter-long rope and an ice hammer.
It cost Ye Tian a total of 4,600 yuan.
If it weren't for Ye Tianlin's aunt giving him another two thousand yuan when he went out, Ye Tianlin wouldn't even be able to come up with the four thousand six. Even so, Ye Tian only has a few hundred yuan left in his pocket now.
But the only thing that gave him some relief was that after buying something, the mountaineering instructor in the store would take these "mountaineering enthusiasts" to the No. 1 Glacier for free.
Cars are no longer allowed to go up Tianshan from Tianchi. After taking a scenic car from the west bank of Tianchi to the southern end of the lake, you need to change to horses.
Ye Tian's eyes swept across the small parking lot and immediately spotted the off-road vehicle from the morning. He knew that the route he was following was not wrong.
Five or six people rode horses up the Dadong Valley. The valley was gentle and open. The valley bottom and shady slopes were densely covered with spruce trees, and the sunny slopes were covered with bushes. However, it was late autumn and the bushes were already a bit withered.
Going up the valley, you can see well-preserved ancient moraine and glacial erosion landforms everywhere. Standing on the Guban Bogda Pass and looking out, Bogda Peak and a large glacier on its north slope can be seen at a glance.
The destination of Ye Tian and others is a glacier on the north slope of Bogda Peak. It is also the largest glacier in the Bogda Peak area. Its snow area is very steep, but the glacier tongue is relatively gentle. The cracks are crisscrossed and dense like a spider web.
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Standing on the grass on a high slope, looking at the deep meandering stream that was three to four meters wide and five to six meters deep, the sound of water roaring was endless. Even Ye Tian's scalp was numb. If he fell, he would probably lose his body.
Can't find it.
"Okay, everyone can move around freely and don't go too far. We'll camp here tonight..."
The mountaineering instructor was obviously not very responsible. He took everyone here to herd the sheep, and then ran to a hillside to bask in the sun and smoke a cigarette.
After riding for a long time, the other people also felt tired. No one noticed that Ye Tian was climbing up the mountain from a side path while carrying a mountaineering bag that was half a person tall.
On the mountainside above Ye Tian's head, a team was climbing to the top of the mountain through the snow. Although Di Wang was the oldest, he was also the fastest in his movements. From time to time, he turned back and whispered to the people below.
After looking at the map in his hand, Di Wang shouted in a low voice: "Hurry up, we are going to climb over Bogda Peak tonight, there is a place to camp there!"
At an altitude of more than 4,000 meters, there is already snow all over the place. If you speak louder, it may cause an avalanche.
However, unlike Ye Tian's blindness, Di Wang had the climbing route provided by the British in his hand, and even every suitable camping spot was clearly marked.
