Early the next morning, Chen Mu and Phuntso Tashi took a plane and flew directly to Skardu.
The straight-line distance from Islamabad to Skardu is actually very short, less than 300 kilometers. If there is a highway, it will take more than two hours to drive.
But because Skardu is located in the Karakoram Mountains, if you really want to drive there from Islamabad, it will take at least two days and two nights.
As the gateway to the Karakoram Mountains, Skardu has a small airport. If you take a plane from Islamabad, the flight will take about an hour. Compared with driving, there is a huge gap.
Sitting on the plane, the weather was surprisingly good today, and Chen Mu could clearly see the endless mountains below through the window of the plane.
The Karakoram Mountains are the tallest mountains with the most developed glaciers in the world, with many snow peaks and huge glaciers.
On the plane, Chen Mu saw many snow-white mountain peaks, layer upon layer, extremely spectacular.
In ancient times, the surrounding area was called Congling, which included five huge mountain ranges, the Karakoram Mountains, the Himalayas, the Tian Shan Mountains, the Kunlun Mountains and the Hindu Kush Mountains, covering an area of 100,000 square kilometers, which is very vast.
Among these five mountain ranges, the Karakoram and the Himalayas are the most famous from a global perspective.
The reason is simple, because there are a total of 14 peaks with an altitude of more than 8,000 meters on the earth, all of which are in these two mountain ranges.
Among them, four are in Karakoram and ten are in the Himalayas.
Not only that, except for the four 8,000-meter peaks, in the depths of the Karakoram Mountains, there are more than 20 peaks with an altitude of more than 7,000 meters, and there are countless peaks with an altitude of more than 6,000 meters. Many of them don’t even have names. Not to mention more than five thousand.
Just imagine, the Freedom Peak of Kilimanjaro in Africa, known as the highest peak in Africa, is one of the "7 Summits in the world".
I think back then, how many scumbags in the society held a copy of "The Snow of Kilimanjaro" in their hands, and tricked the girls into bed, so that they hated and cursed that it was not "Kilimanjaro" after many years. Majaro's snow", but "Kilimanjaro's blood".
You taste, you taste carefully.
Although there is only one word difference, what a sad accusation it represents, it is simply unbearable to hear.
In fact, anyone who really understands knows that Kilimanjaro is a small snow peak with a pitiful 5,895 meters above sea level. It is an unnamed peak in the Karakoram Mountains, which is not a big deal at all.
Therefore, Kilimanjaro, the little boy, has a good life, grows in the right place, and has an amazing flow. Compared with these peaks in the Karakoram Mountains, he can only obediently call his father one after another.
Foolishly lying in front of the window and looking at it for a while, his eyes were full of snow peaks, and he would feel bored after watching too much, so Chen Mu withdrew his attention.
At this time, Phuntso Tashi was already chatting with a white foreigner next to him.
It has to be said that this plane is a relatively small passenger plane with not many passengers, and the majority of the cabin is white.
Pengcuo Zhaxi and the white foreigner talked in English. As a person with a high level of English, Chen Mu felt that their oral English was very bad, and they could barely communicate with each other.
Phuntsok Tashi’s English does not speak grammar, but only key words. Anyway, listening to him, you have to guess what he means. If English is a native speaker, it should be no problem to communicate with him.
It's a pity that the white foreigner is a Yitaili person, and his English is mixed with the vocabulary of their hometown, and he keeps jumping out. Bulu Bulu, Phuntsok Tashi is hard to hear, and the white foreigner can't understand Phuntsok Tashi's words. .
After listening to it for a while, Chen Mu couldn't bear it anymore. After all, it would be a pity not to show off his skills for such a good opportunity, so he took the initiative to help Phuntso Tashi and said: "We are going to climb mountains. ,you too?"
"Yes, we're going to climb Broad Peak."
The white foreigner breathed a sigh of relief. He was the one who struck up a conversation with Phuntso Tashi just now. Who knew that the communication between the two was so difficult, and he was embarrassed. Now he felt that someone could understand what he said, so he asked again. :"what about you?"
"Let's go to K2."
Chen Mu glanced at Phuntso Tashi and saw that Comrade Guidance had no intention of telling him to hide it, so he said it straight.
"Oh, then we all happen to be going to the same place, maybe we can meet on the way."
The Caucasian foreigner was very happy, said something with a smile, then stretched out his hand and introduced himself: "I'm Piero, nice to meet you."
Broad Peak is also at the end of the Baltoro Glacier. It is one of the four peaks in the Karakoram Mountains with an altitude of more than 8,000 meters. It is the third highest with an altitude of 8051.
"Hi, I'm Chen Mu, you can call me Mu."
After a slight pause, Chen Mu introduced Phuntso Tashi again: "He is my guide, Phuntso Tashi, you can call him Pitt."
The Caucasian foreigner shook hands with Chen Mu and Phuntso Tashi respectively, pointed at Phuntso Tashi and said, "I knew that when I saw Pitt just now, I knew he was a mountain guide, so I talked to him, um, He should be a Tibetan, right?"
Phuntso Tashi nodded and asked, "Do you know friends in Tibet?"
Piero said: "My previous mountaineering guides were basically Tibetans, except for the guide who came to climb K2 last time, who was from Pakistan."
Chen Mu asked curiously: "Oh, have you climbed K2 before?"
"Yes, five years ago, I successfully climbed to the top."
Piero showed a proud look on his face, and said: "I have successfully climbed six 8,000 meters, and K2 is my second... Well, my dream in this life is to climb all 8,000 meters, May God bless me and let me succeed."
Chen Mu was a little surprised. He didn't expect this guy to have climbed six 8,000-meter peaks.
It feels like his dream is like collecting stamps, to conquer all 8,000-meter peaks.
Chen Mu didn't know how good this person's mountaineering skills were, but he thought about himself, one K2 would cost almost one million, if he really wanted to climb down all fourteen 8,000-meter peaks, the easiest way would be to climb them all. multiplication, that is 14 million... Nima, dreams are so expensive!
The plane quickly entered the depths of the Karakoram Mountains, and the altitude of the plane did not change when looking at the instruments, but looking out the window, it seemed that the plane was flying very low, as if it was flying close to the mountains.
There can only be one reason for this, that is, the mountain has become higher, and it is almost attached to the wings of the plane.
An hour later, the plane landed and parked safely at the airport.