"Mu, I wish you good luck, see you at the summit."
"Mu, I guess you will be slower than us. We will leave directly after we descend. Come to Ruidian to find me in the future. I will introduce some friends to you."
"Boy, be careful on the mountain, don't lose your life, I will make coffee, and you can try it when you come down."
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On the day when he was about to go up the mountain, all of Chen Mu's friends hugged him and said a few words of blessing before letting him go.
During the window period, apart from their climbing team, other climbing teams have to seize the time to go up the mountain. However, due to the different routes of each other, they will not be seen when climbing the mountain, and the time to reach the summit will probably be different.
At Zaher's order, everyone pulled out the village and set off.
In the concept of many people, mountaineering is to climb up all at once until reaching the peak and successfully reaching the summit.
But in fact, mountain climbing is a very see-saw process. Before the window period is obtained, one must continue to climb the mountain to adapt to the rhythm of climbing, and then wait until the window period before officially going up.
During the climbing process, the climbing task will be completed step by step according to the climbing plan formulated by the predecessors, and we will settle in a fixed camp every day, as if we have made a battle plan and completed it bit by bit.
There are five sections of the entire route, and each section has a fixed camp.
That is to say, after the fourth camp, they will go all out to reach the summit until they reach the summit.
Of course, this is the subdivision of professional climbers.
In fact, at the level of Chen Mu and the others, various situations are likely to occur, so there will be more divisions, and try to make their burden less heavy.
During the previous training process, Zaher led the mountaineering team to the first camp, let them adapt, and then came down again, so they had no problem going up the mountain on the first day.
The altitude of the first camp was around 6,000 meters just now, and the vertical height was 1,000 meters, which is considered a huge change.
After camping, he and Zhang Jiahui lived in a tent.
When the two were going up the mountain, they were always one in front and one behind, and they cooperated quite tacitly.
Pengcuo Tashi was supposed to be with Chen Mu, but seeing Chen Mu's request, he didn't insist.
"Really cold!"
The two of them ate something warm, and then each got into their sleeping bags and huddled their bodies inside.
Even though there is a tent to block the wind, it still feels cold.
Zhang Jiahui closed his eyes while talking.
Today's journey was not slow, he was a bit exhausted, and fell asleep as soon as his body touched the ground.
Chen Mu didn't feel how tired he was, so he specially summoned the map and looked at it again.
The focus of the thin line on the map should be near Camp IV, just above the side of the black pyramid.
The route that Chen Mu and the others said to take is called the Cesen route, which is very close to another most commonly used route, the Abruzzi branch line, and the two routes will overlap after the fourth camp.
The reason why the Abruzzi branch line is more difficult is that during the climbing process, you will encounter a pile of rock mass, which is like an inverted pyramid, which is very difficult to climb.
And that piece of rock is black as a whole, so it is called the Black Pyramid.
Chen Mu's route successfully avoided the black pyramid, which reduced the difficulty of climbing and was more suitable for beginners.
Chen Mu didn't know what kind of situation the place pointed by the thin line was, whether it was the entrance or what, so he felt a little uneasy.
He is now worried about what to do if that place is a hanging cliff, and it will be very difficult to get in.
Get up the next day and keep going.
The second camp is at around 6400, with a vertical rise of less than 500 meters.
However, it was not easy today because we were afraid of some rock masses. When we arrived at the camp, everyone was too tired to speak.
Manny looked better, but Lin Yuanchun and Zhang Jiahui were not doing well. They coughed a few times from time to time, and every movement was very slow. They didn't even eat anything and went straight into the tent to sleep.
Chen Mu was still not tired, so he summoned the map to check it out, and went to sleep after eating.
Several guides and assistants sat together to discuss tomorrow's itinerary. Dorje Wangdui said: "The situation of customers No. 1 and No. 3 is not very good. They will go up 7,000 meters tomorrow. They may start to give oxygen."
The mountaineering team has been pulling the oxygen cylinder, which is generally used on the last day of the summit, and then itching enough on the top of the mountain, and then descending.
But because this is a commercial mountaineering team, the situation is different. Several assistants in the team are here to move the oxygen cylinders, and in case of any problems with the customers, they can also be assigned to take care of them.
Therefore, their oxygen cylinders are very sufficient.
Zaher frowned and asked, "Is it too early to give oxygen now?"
Dorje Wangdui shook his head: "It's getting late, customer No. 1 has already mentioned it to me today, he said he couldn't breathe and wanted to take some oxygen, I didn't agree, I just advised him to rely on himself as much as possible, otherwise it will be worse later." Difficult, he even complained a bit."
After a slight pause, he said again: "He prefers to complain, in order to avoid any unpleasant things happening in the team, please try to satisfy him."
With that said, no one else spoke.
Since it's a business, the customer is always the priority, that's not to say.
From the next day, Lin Yuanchun and Zhang Jiahui began to inhale oxygen.
Dorje Wangdui and Phuntso Tashi also asked Manni and Chen Mu if they wanted it. Of course Chen Mu would not want it. Manni thought about it, but she didn't want it. Anaerobic climbing.
In the mountaineering world, some people have always believed that anaerobic mountaineering is the real mountaineering, and the modern popular mountaineering with oxygen cylinders on its back is not considered mountaineering.
Therefore, many people who really love mountaineering will use oxygen cylinders as little as possible.
Manny obviously has such a concept.
Camping at an altitude of 7,200 meters, not only exercise will burden the body, but even breathing becomes extremely difficult. No matter how hard you inhale, it seems that you can’t inhale anything.
Moreover, the solar radiation here has become severe.
Before being at the bottom, because there was a lot of dust blocking it, the sun's rays shone on people very comfortably and warmly.
But at this time, it becomes different. It is a bit scorching on the body, making people only feel hot, and it is easy to get sunburned if the skin is exposed.
On the fourth day, finally arrived at the fourth camp.
Chen Mu stood on the side of the camp, looking at the crack in the ice below, and remained silent for a long time.
"Save me, save me, save me..."
In the ears, it seems to hear whispers, with prayers, and temptations...
Chen Mu didn't know if he was hallucinating, but he knew that the voice came from the depths of this gloomy ice crevasse.
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Only he can hear it.