We soon came to the foot of Mount Everest in a speeding flying saucer, but we did not rush to climb the mountain, naturally we had to eat and drink enough before setting off, and everyone followed the rich fragrance to find the past, which was the smell of pine forests and cypress forests in the warm afternoon sun of Tibet, mixed with earth, firewood, and the rich aroma of rice.

Sure enough, we were not disappointed, this family was cooking, and the roof was hung with colorful and colorful flags, which was very local.

These simple and lovely people were overjoyed to see us and warmly welcomed us in for a light meal.

This local Tibetan meal is particularly rich and delicious, make people linger, the staple food is tsampa, it is a kind of staple food unique to Tibetans, with barley or peas and so on fried and ground into flour, when eating, mix with butter tea and pinch into a ball to eat, can also be mixed with salt tea, yogurt or barley wine, as well as Tuba, with sweet silk radish, rape leaves and a little tsampa boiled into fragrant porridge, as well as a unique style of air-dried meat, this is a very distinctive Tibetan food.

At the end of each year, when the temperature is below freezing, Tibetans cut the beef and mutton into small strips, hang them in the shade, let them dry naturally, and then eat them.

After being air-dried, the meat is crunchy and has a very unique taste, which makes us eat with gusto.

Then we eat meat and drink butter tea, which is the main drink of the Tibetan people, and the hospitable Tibetans entertain us guests from afar with fragrant butter tea, which is the best nutritional and caloric supplement, easy to digest, Hunger and thirst, can even treat colds and the discomfort of the first arrival on the plateau, we feel that this tea is suddenly comfortable up and down, every pore is filled with the fragrance of butter tea, of course, good wine with good dishes, naturally indispensable unique flavor, mellow taste alcohol, the composition is very low, similar to beer barley wine - barley wine is made of barley with a very low degree of wine, Tibetan people, men and women and children like to drink, is a necessary drink for the festival.

The color of the barley wine is orange and yellow, the taste is sweet and sour, and this drinking barley wine is very particular about three sips of a cup, that is, drink one sip first, pour it full, then drink one sip, pour it full, drink the third sip, pour it full and dry a glass.

The hospitable Tibetan hosts also sang and danced for us, sang wine songs and toasted us, and danced to make the atmosphere even more lively.

After gluttonous local food, after eating and drinking, we reluctantly bid farewell to those black and red-faced, simple and lovely Tibetans, and soon came to the bottom of Mount Everest at a galloping speed.

A large snow-capped mountain in front of you, ice and snow, all white, endless, boundless white, a little dazzling to see, the peak is high and magnificent, the geographical environment is unique, because the minimum temperature at the peak is minus thirty or forty degrees Celsius all year round.

The mountain is covered with snow all the year round, all kinds, bizarre glaciers, ice slopes, ice towers can be seen everywhere, we did not immediately climb the mountain, but found the real conqueror of Mount Everest, standing on the top of the world's highest peak of the indigenous people living in the Himalayas - Sherpas, a black and red-skinned, honest and honest young man called Nawang Gongpo as our guide, he can also carry luggage, boil water and cook food and even climb over dangerous glaciers, build bridges and pave roads, punch tethers, carry related materials and equipment, Build metal ladders and camps, and erect safety ropes up to 7,000-8,000 meters.

He said that they lived in the Soren Khumbu region surrounded by mountains, glaciers and rivers in the foothills of the Himalayas all year round, building bridges and roads, building pavilions, opening up farmland, and raising yaks, believing that the mountains were the dwelling place of the gods, and the reason why they chose to live above 3,000 meters above sea level was to get closer to the gods, and cultivating in this difficult land was to hone and practice.

Therefore, natural selection, survival of the fittest, strong genes, and adaptability brought by years of living at high altitudes, Sherpas have far more oxygen delivery efficiency and stronger muscle contraction than ordinary people, so that every Sherpa is a natural mountaineer.

In addition, our ancestors have lived in the Khumbu area for generations, and are sometimes even more sensitive to changes in the weather than meteorological instruments, low temperatures, high reactions and thin oxygen, which are almost a natural test for us, and in the eyes of the Sherpas are not more difficult than climbing over ordinary ravines, Garfield felt that this was too much, and Dumbo said in a beaming voice: "Don't underestimate them who are not amazing and unknown, they are unnamed mountaineering heroes, and their role is not trivial."

Most of the records related to Mount Everest were set by Sherpas: Edmund Hillary made his first ascent of Everest, and his guide Tenzing Nogai was a Sherpa man, while Sherpa guides Apa Tenzin and Puba Tassie accompanied different mountaineers to the summit of Mount Everest 21 times, a world record that no one could beat; It took Dorjee 8 hours and 10 minutes to reach the summit from the 5,400-meter-high summit camp, becoming the fastest person in history to reach the summit of Mount Everest, and the average trained climber takes about 4 days.

"We hurried to climb Mount Everest under the leadership of this young man, the air on the summit was thin, the oxygen content of the air was only a quarter of that of the plains, and the wind blew the snow, splashing and flying in all directions, filling the sky. It's winter, with a minimum temperature of -50°C and an average temperature of around -30°C, making it known as the third pole of the world due to its extremely cold climate. Although we have put on a thick down jacket, but the cold air is still pervasive, from the gap in the clothes unscrupulously penetrated into, feel the cold to the bone, the wild strong northwest wind whirring from our body, almost blowing us down, here often blowing seven or eight winds, twelve winds are not uncommon, really high mountains and winds are also big, and the climate of the peak is complex and changeable, even in one day, it is often unpredictable, clouds and rain, clouds and mist, ice and snow raging. I heard that the average person who climbs Mount Everest needs to prepare, and the process takes 3~4 years. The first step, low-altitude outdoor activities, physical training, and basic technical learning, is mainly physical endurance, cardiopulmonary function, leg and waist and abdominal strength, and carrying capacity training. If a newbie is able to use all the weekends, this stage can be completed in a year. Fortunately, we are all martial arts practitioners, so this step is directly omitted. We were in high spirits, panting and struggling to walk on the snow-capped mountains on the plateau, when suddenly Hu Jiaojiao screamed in a fuss, and she said with a lost face; What was it that I just stepped on?

Nearly tripped me up.

When we looked closely at her feet, it turned out to be a hard, frozen corpse, which was shocking, and Garfield pointed to another corpse not far away, saying that there was one too. It is really shocking, terrifying, and the corpses of these unfortunate people who climbed Mount Everest have become the signposts we have to encounter when climbing the mountain, and their bodies and souls are forced to stay in the lonely and cold ice and snow for a long time. But why do they want to climb the mountain? Knowing that there are tigers in the mountains, they prefer to go to the tiger mountains. For climbers, each has its own answer. But the most famous slogan is because the mountains are there. This is really a mountain of death, the young man on the side kindly reminded us that Mount Everest has a myriad of climates, fickle, unpredictable, we must be careful, except for the danger of sudden blizzards, avalanches, and ice avalanches without warning, here are full of snow-capped mountains full of deep cracks and hanging ice towers, and there are many dangers. Especially at an altitude of 5,400-5,900 meters above sea level, the Khumbu Glacier, the most dangerous section of the climb to Mount Everest, is full of dangers, testing the lives of our climbers all the time. But as long as I have the bridges and ladders I have built and the ropes I have laid, I can turn the moat into a thoroughfare. Xiao Fei whispered to me: "There are still relatively few people who know about Mount Everest in ancient times, and most of the people who died are estimated to be locals, and there are more people who die on Mount Everest in modern society, on September 28, 2012, a plane crashing on the coast of the Vishnumati River in Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, crashed on the banks of the Vishnumati River in Kathmandu, killing 19 people. On April 18, 2014, a major avalanche on a mountaineering route on the Nepalese side of Mount Everest killed 13 Nepalese Sherpa guides and left three others missing. In April 2017, veteran Swiss mountaineer Jülly Stockke was killed while slipping and falling while climbing Nuzi Peak near Mount Everest. Not long ago, it may be a sad day for South Koreans to mark on the calendar in gray - the well-known mountaineer Kim Chang-ho and his nine-member mountaineering team were suddenly killed in a snowstorm on the Gulga Peak in the Himalayas, and five team members and four guides did not survive. It is also the worst mountaineering accident in Nepal since the avalanche accident of the 2015 Everest earthquake. From the beginning of the conquest of Mount Everest, to the opening of Everest tourism business in Nepal in the 50s of the 20th century, and now, if the millennium is the boundary, before 2000, a total of 1,169 people have reached the summit and 170 people have been killed, accounting for 14.5% of the total number of people who have reached the summit, and from 2000 to 2015, when the severe avalanche accident occurred, a total of 5,832 people have reached the summit and 112 people have been killed, accounting for 1.9% of the total number of people. But there is no doubt that compared to the dreading death toll in the Alps, the Himalayas, which seem to be Jedi of life, are safer, so don't worry too much, we are still very safe at this ratio. ”