At 4 a.m. on April 8, when Zhang Helai's team officially set off from the fifth camp, there were only 12 people left in the team.
They set off in three teams. There were supposed to be 20 people, but eight of them developed severe physical discomfort while resting at the fourth camp. It was not vomiting blood or other serious symptoms, but they were lying lazily on the ground as if they were drunk.
He was so confused that even if he forced himself to stand up, he couldn't tell the difference between shoes and a thermos bottle - yes, one guy picked up a boot and stuffed it into his mouth, wondering why there was no water.
In this situation, they could only stay in the fourth camp and wait for the Kamiya people to escort them down the mountain.
Because they are on Mount Hyjal, which is more than 8,000 meters above sea level, the oxygen here is only one-third of that on the ground. Even if they wear oxygen masks when sleeping at night, they cannot suppress the insufficiency produced in their bodies.
Compared with them, Zhang Helai was lucky in that he could remain conscious and continue to persevere; but it was also unfortunate that his physical fitness reached the limit and he had to consume more oxygen to maintain his skills.
Even though they had rested for six hours in the fifth camp, which was as big as a football field, Zhang Helai felt that his body was extremely heavy when he woke up.
When they set off together, the team members next to them could also see that Zhang Helai was carrying more oxygen bottles than they were carrying - this was a very dangerous value. Someone patted Zhang Helai on the shoulder and pointed to the oxygen bottle. Zhang Helai shook his head, so
No one continued to persuade me.
They must cherish the power of speaking and fulfill their human obligations: to persuade others to cherish their own lives.
Anyone who dares to conquer Mount Hyjal must be responsible for themselves. Even though the climbing process of Mount Hyjal has been set up to be very safe, they can see many corpses buried in the snow and ice waterfalls along the way - except
Some of the bodies were difficult to collect because their locations were too strange, and the rest were of climbers who died on the road due to various reasons in the past two years.
There is no doubt that Mount Hyjal is a natural ice coffin. The rate of decay here is extremely slow, and because climbers are often fully equipped with cold-proof equipment, those who come after seeing the corpse will not see the rotting flesh and bones, only the rotten flesh and bones.
Come to the road sign and corpse monument standing on the snow-white glacier.
This is the truth about Mount Hyjal, a mountaineering road above 9,000 meters: every road is built step by step with the lives of countless climbers. Some of them are not even roads, because they are on the cliff at an angle of nearly 90°.
, rely on experienced hands to nail the ropes and slowly climb over. Sometimes when encountering a collapsed mountain road, the experienced people have to fix the ropes and place the boards, and the people behind will slowly climb over the 9,000-meter cliff. If there is a mistake, even the body will be lost.
Not found.
At first they would have some complex emotions such as fear towards this kind of corpse monument, but in the end they were completely relieved and nodded slightly as a greeting when passing by - after all, they might also become a part of it, so now it was considered as early as possible to say hello.
Say hello to neighbors.
Either conquer nature, become nature, or give up. If you dare to come here, no one will be responsible for your life.
All climbers have their own desires, whether they want to have an experience that they can show off, or for fame and wealth, or because of dreams, but at the highest altitude in the world above 9,000 meters, they only have one idea left: conquer it.
Then live on!
At around 8:50 on April 9, they had followed the mountain road to the signpost at an altitude of 9,810 meters. It would take at most two hours to climb to the summit of Mount Hyjal. After taking pictures, they arrived at 1 p.m.
You can smoothly descend the mountain and return to the fifth camp before clicking this point.
The latest descent time for Mount Hyjal is 13:00. If it is any later, the unpredictable weather will prevent the climbers from returning to the camp before dark, or even being stranded halfway. Zhang He came to the 9810-meter road sign they saw.
, there is a corpse buried in the snow next to it - no one knows whether he froze to death because he was trapped here by the weather.
At this time, Zhang Helai developed severe nausea, paleness, cold sweats and other symptoms, and slowly fell behind the team. His oxygen tank was also depleted - he was suffering from severe hypoxia symptoms.
Even if he could persist until he climbed the mountain, he would still be unable to descend due to lack of oxygen. He overestimated his physical strength and consumed oxygen too quickly during the climb, and now he was finally at the end of his rope.
It was impossible for him to return now, so he held up his body and took heavy steps, thinking that even if he died, he would die at an altitude of 10,000 meters - the future life security of his family, which he had arranged before choosing to come to Mount Hyjal.
alright.
No one will help him here. The most they can do is to tell the Kamiya people the location of Zhang Helai's body after going down the mountain, and ask the Kamiya people to bring his body back and notify his family to take the body back for burial.
The lack of oxygen made Zhang Helai's body heavier and heavier, and the equipment on his body seemed to turn into chains extending from the mountain, trying to keep him in this natural burial place forever.
At that time, he didn't have many thoughts in his mind - ordinary people have a way to get back to him before they die. People who are hypoxic will slowly lose consciousness due to insufficient oxygen supply to the brain before they die. Even the luxury operation of 'recalling' is not possible.
does not exist.
Just when he was about to lose consciousness and close his eyes, Zhang Helai heard a strange sound coming from below amid the howling of the cold wind.
That was the sound of sand and gravel produced by the collision of rock formations.
Did something fall? Or did the wind blow up the icefall?
Zhang Helai reluctantly opened his eyes, and in his hazy vision, he saw a figure appearing below him.
Below...the figure...?
Zhang Helai was walking on a mountain road, and below him was a slope of nearly 80°!
In a daze, Zhang Helai thought he was experiencing auditory and visual hallucinations due to lack of oxygen. However, soon the figure quickly approached him and lifted his oxygen mask!
The air like wind and cold sword instantly covered his face. Without the oxygen bottle, he almost fainted with his eyes closed. However, in the next second, another oxygen mask was stuffed on his face. Zhang Helai took a deep breath subconsciously.
The full amount of oxygen instantly relieved his hypoxic symptoms and brought him back from the brink of unconsciousness.
"Who saved me?" Zhang Helai regained consciousness and immediately thought: "How could someone give me his oxygen bottle?"
Everyone should carry at most one oxygen bottle, otherwise the load would be too high and they would be unable to move. The oxygen Zhang Helai was breathing was naturally someone else's oxygen. He opened his eyes and turned his head, only to see a face he didn't recognize.
The wind and snow in the sky covered her blond hair with frost, and her exposed fair skin was turned red by the cold. Her thin clothes were like useless armor in the biting wind and cold sword, and only served as a body cover. Although her delicate face was sluggish
He was thin, but the light in his eyes shone like sunshine into the depths of Zhang Helai's heart.
She held an oxygen mask in her right hand to cover Zhang Helai's face, and held an oxygen bottle in her left hand. There was a rope wrapped around her waist, but nothing else.
A... blonde girl.
A climber...without an oxygen tank.
A climber who climbs rocks directly without taking the mountain trail.
A... climber who was climbing in a high mountain at an altitude of 9,000 meters without wearing any cold-proof clothes, with bare hands, feet and face!
Without cold-proof clothing or oxygen bottles, what is the concept?
According to the concept of a 6-degree decrease in altitude for every 1,000 meters of altitude, it is now spring in the Tidamia Plains, which is about 20 degrees. So above 9,000 meters above sea level, it is at least minus 34 degrees. In fact, when they set off from the fifth camp at 9,600 meters,
The measured temperature was minus 40°.
What is the concept of minus 40°? When you spit, the saliva freezes before it hits the ground. If a normal person does not wear cold-proof relics in minus 40°, his body temperature will drop below 25° due to heat loss in less than an hour. Body temperature regulation
Central function failure, respiratory and heartbeat depression, blood pressure almost plummeting, various reflexes disappear, no response to external stimuli, eventually leading to paralysis of the vasomotor center and respiratory center and death.
To put it simply, this blond girl should have turned into an ice sculpture. Her limbs are as fragile and stiff as popsicles, and it is impossible to move!
What's more, she doesn't have an oxygen tank!?
Although among extreme mountaineering enthusiasts, some people believe that human potential is unlimited. After all, many climbers can gradually adapt to the plateau climate through training at an altitude of 6,000 meters. The partial pressure of oxygen in the alveoli and the partial pressure of arterial blood oxygen of people in plain areas
It is 10 millimeters of mercury, but the Kamiya people in the plateau area have 1 millimeter of mercury. They need less oxygen in the mountains and can climb higher.
Therefore, some people believe that as long as someone adapts to the plateau for a long time, they can climb the 10,000-meter peak of Mount Hyjal, where the oxygen content is less than one-third, without an oxygen bottle!
However, this is ultimately false. Let alone 10,000 meters, no one can climb the third camp at 8,400 meters without relying on oxygen bottles, not even the Kamiya people who have lived on the plateau for generations!
Then, this blond girl still didn't take the usual path and climbed on the cliff at an angle of nearly 70°~90° with her bare hands...
Countless complex thoughts kept colliding, and finally settled into one sentence in Zhang Helai's mouth: "Thank you."
He didn't think that he was so charming that the blond girl sacrificed herself to save him, so the reason was very natural - the blond girl saw that he was about to die and just helped him.
The blond girl smiled, helped him remove the oxygen bottle from his back, and put the oxygen bottle in his hand on top.
Zhang Helai didn't stop him, and he didn't stand up to stop him either - worried that the blond girl would give him the oxygen bottle, causing her to die from lack of oxygen?
Shit, Zhang Helai could tell with his eyes that the blond girl was in better condition than him!
"At that time, you should also know that the person in front of you..." Black Vest asked: "Probably not an ordinary person."
"To describe her as superhuman is not an exaggeration." Zhang Helai said with a smile, "She is simply... the goddess of Mount Hyjal, a being that mortals can only look up to."
