A Weekend in 2461 (Novella) Zhang Baotong 2018.9.11

While he was talking, the train entered the station. The levitating magnetic train runs in a fully encapsulated vacuum, and at this point, the vacuum tube opens a boarding and landing door, and they enter the car.

The car was quickly moving, and they entered a box. There are two sleepers inside. As soon as they put their bags on the luggage rack, they collapsed onto the sleepers. The train was running very fast, but it was very smooth, and sleeping on the sleeper was like sleeping in a hotel bed, so they fell asleep quickly. However, He Jia didn't sleep well, when the train arrived at Chengdu Station, he opened his eyes and looked at his watch, the time was only ten o'clock, he closed his eyes and continued to sleep. When the train arrived at Lhasa Station, it was eleven o'clock. Although he was still a little sleepy, he was eager to see the scenery of the train on its way through the Himalayas. Moreover, the train passes through the Everest Tunnel, the longest in the world. The total length of the tunnel is 128 kilometers, which shortens the distance from Lhasa to Kathmandu by hundreds of kilometers.

He sat at the window and looked out. The scenery outside the tempered glass of the vacuum pipe flashed by rapidly, and only the scenery in the distance could be seen. Outside the window, the mountains are one after another, and many of the peaks are covered with snow, even ice and snow. Just looking at these peaks, you can feel the difficulty of climbing Mount Everest. He asked Li Mingxiu to get up and look at the scenery outside the window, but Li Mingxiu was still asleep. He thought that they were here to climb the mountain anyway, and there were many mountain peaks to be seen, so it was better to let her sleep well.

The train kept burrowing, out of one cave, and into another. Half an hour later, the train arrived at Kathmandu station in front of the announcement. He Jia pulled Li Mingxiu and said, "Get up, I'm going to get off at the station." ”

Lee Myung-so sat up and felt much better. She looked out the window and said, "Why did you get there so quickly?"

He Jia said, "It's half past eleven now, and it will be eleven forty in a few minutes." ”

The two picked up their travel bags from the luggage rack and began to change their clothes. He Jia changed into a long-sleeved shirt and pants. Because the summer temperature in Nepal is generally 18-28 degrees, it is still a bit cool to wear a short-sleeved shirt. Li Mingxiu took off her thin and transparent long skirt and changed into long-sleeved clothes and pants.

The car finally arrived. The two of them got out of the car. The station is very small, much smaller than Xi'an Station, like a small subway station in Xi'an. When they left the station, they felt that the sky was very bright, and the sunlight was even a little dazzling, making people a little unable to open their eyes. There is a narrow street outside the station, and next to it stand two rows of sparse little red houses. Some of the facades of the houses are written in Chinese and some in English. When I walked to a larger street, I felt that the view was much wider, and I could see that the hillside was covered with patches of small red houses. There are clearly more people on the streets than in Xi'an, with groups of people walking through the streets from time to time, but most of them are not locals, but tourists from Europe, the Americas and China.

Walking through the streets, you can hear the wind blowing in your ears, and the temperature is noticeably cooler. They went to a small restaurant with a sign that read "Padang People's House" and asked for a beef roasted potato and a small bowl of rice to eat. Maybe they are really hungry, and the food tastes very good. After eating, they turned on the navigation and under the guidance of the navigation, they came to the four-story building called the International Mountaineering Association. They knocked on the door in front of the office with a sign that read "International Mountaineering Association Everest Mountaineering Tour".

The door opened, and a local waitress asked, "Hello, sir, my name is Geeta, is there anything wrong with you?" and the waitress spoke very fluent Mandarin.

He Jia said, "We are here to climb Mount Everest, and we have already registered yesterday and have also received your approval." As he spoke, he took out his ID card and showed it to the waitress.

The waitress Geeta has seen their ID cards and is going to check their gold cards. The two of them took out the gold card and asked Geeta to check it. Because climbing Mount Everest is the most expensive trip in the world, the ticket to the summit is 130,000 yuan at a time, and a deposit of 130,000 yuan in the gold card is not allowed, of course, it can also be paid in dollars, euros and pounds.

Geeta looked at their gold cards, found their registration information from the electronic message, and immediately arranged for them to go to the second floor for a medical examination. Because climbing Mount Everest requires very high physical health, climbers are required to have no heart, lung, brain diseases, chronic diseases and other diseases that are not suitable for high-altitude activities. The physical examination is located on the second floor of this building, and there are subjects for physical examination in front of the door of each room, including chest X-ray, electrocardiogram, cardiac color ultrasound, blood pressure, height, weight, spine, skin, vision, hearing, and oral mucosa. And Li Mingxiu's physical examination also included some gynecological items. Because of the large number of items to be inspected, it takes a long time. Therefore, when they returned to the office of the Everest Mountaineering Travel Agency on the first floor with the physical examination report after the physical examination, it was already more than two o'clock in the afternoon.

After reading the medical reports of the two of them, Geeta asked them to sit on a bench in front of the office door and wait, taking their documents to the eligibility office. The two of them sat on the bench for only a moment, and Geeta came down from the stairs with their papers and said to them, "You've been approved." ”

He Jia said happily, "Great." ”

Geeta then called them into her office and called a Sherpa named Tenzin. The Tibetan word for Sherpa is a person from the East. They are scattered on both sides of the Himalayas, mainly in Nepal. Of course, there are also a few residents scattered in China, India and Bhutan, with a population of about 40,000. They live in the mountains and forests, almost isolated from the rest of the world, but they are famous for being guides or porters for mountaineering teams from all over the world who climb Mount Everest. Tenzin is a middle-aged man in his 300s, about 175 cm tall, thin, and no different from the Tibetan mountain people.

Geeta introduces Tenzin to He Jia and Lee Myung-so, and asks Tenzin to be their guide to climb Mount Everest. Geeta said Tenzin was the best guide for their travel agency, adding that he had led professional mountaineers to the summit 87 times from the base camp at 4,910 meters, not counting the 8,000-meter assault camp by helicopter. Almost the most people who have climbed Mount Everest. If he applies for Guinness World Records, I'm afraid he doesn't know how many world records he has broken. However, in the history of Everest mountaineering, the name of the Sherpa has never appeared on the list of glory to climb Mount Everest. It seems that they can only be regarded as guides and porters of mountaineers, and cannot share the glory of conquering Mount Everest with mountaineers.

He Jia and Li Mingxiu hurriedly bowed to Tenzin and expressed their respect. Tenzin said in fluent Mandarin, "You're welcome. ”

Next, Geeta asked He Jia and Lee Myung-so to discuss with Tenzin the time and plan to reach the summit of Mount Everest. He Jia immediately said to Gitta, "Tenzin is an expert, and everything is up to him." ”

Geeta let Tenzin decide. Tenzin said, "Based on the usual situation and today's meteorological data, I think we will start the operation at 10 o'clock in the evening." ”

Geeta said to He Jia and Lee Myung-so, "Okay, you guys will start at 10 o'clock in the evening." After speaking, he took He Jia and Li Mingxiu to the fourth floor. This is a hotel for climbers. Geeta arranged Li Mingxiu in room 417 and He Jia in room 425, and told the two of them, "Don't disturb each other, you two should sleep well, and at eight o'clock in the evening, I will come and wake you up." ”

After Geeta left, He Jia entered room 425. The room was a tiny single room with only a small bed and a small bathroom, and nothing else. Staying in a room like this, you can't do anything but sleep. He Jia put the travel bag on the bedside table and began to undress and sleep.

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