Slowly, the training cycle began to intensify, and he even went on a few hikes, but the effect was the same for Ren He, and he was not able to challenge his physical limit.
After everyone returned to the camp, they would be mentally retarded and even physically ill, but Ren He and Yang Xi still sat on the big rocks to watch the sunset, whispering from time to time. Only when the weather was extremely bad would they stop publicly showing affection.
Behavior.
Gradually, everyone began to feel a little confused. Hasn’t this guy never been to an altitude of 6,000 meters? Why does it seem like nothing happened?
Even experienced climbers will experience discomfort, more or less, in the process of slowly adapting to training, but no one is immune.
When Yang Xi and An Si first came up, they would feel dizzy just doing nothing in the camp at an altitude of 6,000 meters, let alone Ren He after exercising.
The white youths looked at Ren He's back sitting on the stone through the tent, feeling like a sunken dog in their hearts: "Can he survive without oxygen?"
It was such a slap in the face. After several days of training, everyone seemed to have lost half their lives, including Smail himself. However, only Ren He was still fine.
Even An Si was confused: "Are you still human? Didn't you say that you have never been to a snow-capped mountain environment at an altitude of 6,000 meters?" In the evening, An Si, Ren He, and Yang Xi gathered around to hold a small pot.
An Si asked while cooking bread and porridge.
"Yeah, never before," Ren He replied matter-of-factly while stirring the torn bread in the pot. He almost vomited after eating bread every day. It was so dry that he couldn't eat it. Altitude sickness wasn't a problem here.
To stop him, eating made him sick.
There were soft vegetable leaves in the bread porridge to supplement vitamins. Looking at this small pot, Ren He felt that he had to make up for himself when he returned to Kyoto.
An Si was very sure that Ren He was still fine after training for such a long time!
So slowly everyone in the team began to realize a problem... What Ren He said before about his physical fitness being stronger than everyone else was probably not an angry word during a quarrel, but a statement made out of confidence...
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Now the team has been jokingly called the American team and the Chinese team by the deputy team leader, and the American team slowly started to shut up at this time. During this morning's training excursion, Ren He still had the energy to run elsewhere and watch.
Look at the scenery, what's going on?
Ren He didn't think anything of it. He came here just to wait to reach the roof of the world. Everything else was secondary.
He had had an erotic dream before, and did some indescribable things with Yang Xi in the base camp at an altitude of 6,000 meters...
In the past few days, he and Yang Xi slept in the same tent, hugging Yang Xi from behind to sleep. Yang Xi would huddle together in the middle of the night because she felt the cold. The two of them squeezed together to keep warm.
Ren He couldn't help but feel a little ready to make a move.
As a result, before the two of them started doing anything in the tent, Yang Xi was out of breath and started to feel dizzy...
Damn it, reality is indeed much crueler than dreams!
On the seventh day, a member of the US team began to have physical problems. When he returned to the camp after training, he was a little confused. He started coughing a few days ago, and today he has started to cough up from time to time.
Pink bloodshot foam.
This symptom is very typical, so Smail knew at a glance that the white American team member suffered from high-altitude pulmonary edema, which is characterized by an acute onset and rapid progression of the disease. If diagnosed and treated in time, it can be completely cured.
In fact, many people will develop this symptom and even die at an altitude of more than 4,000 meters. It is easy to treat, but that is when medical facilities are ready. When this disease is discovered at an altitude of 6,000 meters, they It will take 3 days before the Sherpas can lift him up. Whether it can be cured by then is a big question.
Ren He and the others gathered around him and heard the white young man's breathing sound like sucking the bottom of the bottle when drinking yogurt. Hearing this sound, they knew how serious the condition was.
In fact, high-altitude pulmonary edema is known for its rapid onset.
Even helicopters can't fly to this place. Only those pilots who are brave, brave and skilled dare to try it, but you have to pay at least 20,000 US dollars for this flight before anyone is willing to try it.
Smail went to the Adventure Consulting Company to borrow a satellite phone and called Yamashita Helicopter Company. However, there was no suspense that the other party was not willing to take the risk.
"We can only let the Sherpas carry him down. I hope he can resist," Smail sighed. In fact, he knew in his heart that if the other party's illness could not be treated until three days later, even if he could be rescued, it would be impossible. You will basically become disabled.
The body functions of white young people will decline and their muscles will slowly begin to atrophy. This is still a situation that can only be rescued.
There are already four teams at the base camp at an altitude of 6,000 meters. Now is the most suitable time to climb to the summit. Professional mountaineering teams from all over the world are on their way.
Everyone watched as the white young man was carried down the mountain on the stretcher. This was the price of climbing Mount Everest. The white young man lay on the stretcher while struggling with tears flowing from the corners of his eyes to the side of his face. He failed. In his heart, He failed.
Everyone has this ambition before going up. They believe that they are healthy enough, they believe that they are not the unlucky ones, and they believe that climbing Mount Everest will definitely become their lifelong honor.
Some people have counted the number of deaths on the summit of Mount Everest, and some have counted the number of people who have successfully climbed Mount Everest, but no one has counted the number of people who gave up halfway...
In fact, this number is quite huge. Only when some people come here will they realize that they may have no hope of ever going to the top of the mountain.
Death is not scary. What is scary is that we are only one step away from our dreams, but that distance is eternal and we can no longer take one step forward.
At this time, the American team and the Chinese team in the Smile team finally began to get along peacefully. Everyone was shocked by the depressing power. Even An Si would sigh from time to time. Unexpectedly, he was just accompanying Ren He came to Mount Everest and saw such a shocking scene.
Whenever something like this happens, it takes a night for everyone to slowly recover.
On this day, everyone got into their sleeping bags early. Only Ren He and Yang Xi were still sitting on the big rocks and watching the sunrise in a daze.
Someone was looking at the two of them silently through the gap in the tent, with genuine envy.
Smail glanced at Ren He and Yang Xi, then silently took out his camera and photographed their backs in the sunset.
In the fixed focus, the setting sun is projected from the west, passing through the white snow-capped mountains, burning the clouds in the sky red. Yang Xi obediently leans into Ren He's arms without saying a word, just like the desolation on the ruins of post-war reconstruction.
Ren He, on the other hand, still had his back straight, like a stubborn and tenacious mountain.
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Something happened tonight, maybe the update will be later, I'm not sure... You can watch it tomorrow morning if you can't wait.
