Chapter 267: Everest Base Camp
Dorjee told us that this was the Jiuwula Pass, and I was busy looking out the car window, under the clear blue sky, surrounded by peaks in the distance, and countless snow-capped mountains seemed to be close in front of me. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć infoFour of the peaks are over 8,000 meters, and the highest of them is Mount Everest.
These snow-capped mountains are almost the same length to me, to Dorjee, he can clearly say the name of each snow-capped mountain, he tells us, which one is Lhotse and which one is Makalu......
I looked at the majestic and atmospheric snow-capped mountains in the distance, and even I, a guy who didn't know anything about mountaineering, had to admit that nature was great, and our human beings were too small compared to it.
When I went down the mountain, I took a strange route, and Dorjee told me that it was called a washboard road, and when he said this, I felt like a washboard, back and forth.
This section of the road was extremely difficult to walk, the car kept jolting on it, and my head, which had just been a little sober, began to faint again. It took us more than four hours in the car to reach the 5,200-meter Everest base camp.
Now this season is a good season for mountaineering, so the Everest base camp has become very lively, many are professional mountaineering teams, Dorjee even met a few familiar peers, they greeted each other warmly.
Suddenly, a man walked towards us with a shocked face, he stared at Huo Changlin with a look of disbelief, "Changsong...... You're not ......."
Huo Changlin was a little embarrassed by him, shook his head at him and said, "I'm sorry, I think you may have made a mistake, I am Huo Changlin, Huo Changsong and my twin brother." ā
The man's expression immediately dimmed, and then patted Huo Changlin on the shoulder and said, "I'm sorry, I'm a college classmate of Changsong, we have been running a mountaineering club together since the beginning of college, and I heard that he has an identical younger brother, and it's better to meet when I see him today!"
Huo Changlin listened. Stretched out his hand and shook his hand and said, "Are you Song Bo?"
The man nodded, shook his hand heavily, and said, "Yes, your brother mentioned me?"
"Of course, when I was sick at that time, he came to see me and often told me about your mountaineering club! At that time, we were very envious of you, but unfortunately I was not in good health at that time, so I couldn't participate in any outdoor sports at all, otherwise I would definitely go with you!" Huo Changlin said excitedly.
We saw that the two of them were chatting energetically, and Dorjee and his colleagues had been greeting, so the three of us had to put up the tent first, otherwise the flat place would be occupied by others for a while.
When Dorjee came back, we learned that not all of them were challenging Mount Everest, some of them were just ordinary tourists, staying in the base camp for one night and returning the next day. There are also some who have been on this route for many years, and they are in very good health.
And don't look at the number of people now, there are few people who can really go to 6000 meters tomorrow, in his words, there are not many people on this line in China, because this line is not very mature, and compared to the desertion of the Chinese line, Nepal is much more lively on that line.
At this time of year, hundreds of mountaineers from all over the world gather there, but most of them are foreigners, and few Chinese go.
Dorjee borrowed a small pot from one of his guide friends, and we were finally able to eat some noodles and make some milk tea. Although the breeze was swishing outside, a few of us were eating hot instant noodles and drinking sweet and delicious hot milk tea in the tent, and we felt quite warm.
The only fly in the ointment is that the smell of burnt cow dung fills the air......
I poured Dorjee a cup of milk tea, but he said he should warm up with some wine. Ding Yi and Uncle Li tore the jerky we brought and shared a little for everyone, and when we were almost finished, Huo Changlin returned to us, I saw that his face was not very good, so I tore a piece of jerky for him and poured a cup of hot milk tea.
"What's wrong?" I asked, confused.
He shook his head and said, "It's okay, it's just that I heard Song Bo say something about my brother, and I couldn't help but feel a little sad in my heart......"
I comforted him and said, "Don't think about it so much, as long as we can find his body this time and let him be buried in peace, isn't that the best consolation for him?"
Huo Changlin nodded and didn't say anything else.
After eating, we went back to our respective tents and got ready for sleep. Before I came, I heard Huo Changlin say that ordinary tourists can't go any further when they go to the Everest base camp, and if they want to go further, they must apply a month in advance.
But we came in a hurry, we didn't apply in advance at all, fortunately, Huo Changlincoln spent money, and our purpose this time was not to climb to the top, but to find Huo Changsong, so we wouldn't go up 8,000 meters at all.
Dorjee also told me that the threshold for climbing the peak is very low now, as long as you are willing to spend money, you can still apply for it without 8,000 meters of climbing experience. When I heard this, I couldn't help but sigh, what a rich man can make a ghost grind!
Before going to bed, Duoji let me inhale a small jar of oxygen, and I said a little embarrassedly: "Didn't I suck all the oxygen, Huo Changlin didn't use it?"
Dorjee was also surprised at this, and he said that he didn't expect Huo Changlin's physical fitness to be so good, not at all like a first-time mountaineer. It's me...... It fully meets all the characteristics of a mountaineering rookie.
At this time, I looked back at Huo Changlin, who was adding cow dung to the fire, he was skillful, and he didn't dislike the smell of cow dung at all, I was really ashamed of myself!
The next morning, everyone got up very early, Song Bo and their 10-person team was ready to set off, he came to say goodbye to Huo Changlin before leaving, and then told him a few precautions when climbing the mountain.
I know that from today onwards, it is the time to really test me, although we don't have to go straight to 8000 meters like them, but there is still a distance from the base camp to the first camp, before all there were plate oil roads, take a big car, now we have to really rely on our own 11 road!
In order to have enough strength for a while, I ate a lot of jerky in the morning, in Dorjee's words, this thing is the most hungry, it is a good thing necessary for mountaineering, it has a long storage time and is easy to carry, that is, the taste is a little more unpalatable than the air-dried beef jerky I ate before......
Before we set off, we all changed into thick hiking clothes, and in order to prevent snow blindness, we all brought professional ski goggles. I look at my professional outfit and it feels like that.