Chapter 27: The Climb
"Ah...... It's finally out."
At the top of a canyon in Yosemite National Park, a group of people were climbing up the rope one after another, and one of them, a bearded man who couldn't tell whether he was young or middle-aged, couldn't help but run in place and roared angrily, so as to release his depressed mood.
Seeing this, the people who climbed up behind also joined in one after another, and the originally depressed mood of everyone became cheerful after a while.
Yosemite National Park, located in the western state of California, is the first national park in the United States. It covers an area of about 1100 square miles. Located in the western foothills of the Sierra Nevada, the canyon is crossed by the Merced River. Trans-Mediterranean climate and plateau mountain climate, vegetation types mainly include subtropical coniferous forests. In 1984, it was included in the UNESCO World Natural Heritage List.
This group of people is here for outdoor activities, but what they didn't expect is that because of a small earthquake they were troubled in it, after more than ten days of self-rescue, in the case of two injured people, finally someone climbed to the top of one side of the canyon with bare hands in the way of unprotected rock climbing, put down the rope they carried, and let them get out of trouble together.
"Zhao, thank you. ”
"David, thank you......"
After releasing their affection, they thanked the first person who had climbed up and hugged them as they should have come.
"No thanks, this is what I should do, this is self-help. ”
Zhao Qing, whose face has been thinned, his eyes are prominent, and Zhao Qing, who has a little stubble on his lower lip, said with a smile in front of everyone.
In July, the first semester of classes at New York University officially ended, because Zhao Qing, who was concerned about the American stock market, did not return to Xiangjiang, but made a phone call to his mother and stayed in the United States.
It just so happened that at this time, some people in the outdoor interest group who did not want to continue to study or work organized such an event.
The wait was the most painful, although in just a few months, Zhao Qing officially became a real billionaire after filing his personal income tax return with the IRS in July, as the climbing and forward outlook of the S&P heavy stocks and the Dow Jones stock market index.
But the real highlight is far from coming, and the composure on the surface can't hide the fact that he is still a young man, and he must be calm when he is approaching the big war, but he can't, he is far from being truly immobile like a mountain.
When it was about to break out, Zhao Qing accepted Smith's invitation to go out for outdoor activities together, Zhao Qing thought about the memory in his mind, and found that the day before the crisis broke out, the market was still slowly rising by the bookmaker and a large amount of money, so he agreed.
Therefore, Yosemite National Park, which has just been listed as a World Natural Cultural Heritage Site, has become the first choice for their trip.
Loving outdoor sports and seeking a passionate life is the life that young people yearn for the most, not to mention that American students are self-reliant early and have their own ideas.
A group of people came here all the way by car, camping all the way.
At the beginning, they had a lot of fun and played very comfortably, and Zhao Qing gradually forgot about the torment of waiting, although he would take the time to call back and ask, and he didn't care too much about the single page.
After his assets exceeded 100 million yuan, he had already withdrawn some of his funds and deposited them in JPMorgan Chase Bank and Wells Fargo Bank, and let them lie there quietly, waiting for the layout at the last moment of September.
But what they didn't expect was that a small earthquake broke out when they were going to be in a hurry, but fortunately, no one among them was injured, and no one went missing because of panic.
Everyone camped in a clearing for three days, waiting for the aftershocks to completely subside, and made plans for the valley, but who would have thought that a small earthquake would change some parts of the canyon, so that they could not find their way back for a while.
After five or six days in the canyon, the food carried by the people was almost eaten, and at this time, the people began to panic, and there was a different kind of situation in the team.
In this era when communication is not very developed, even if the signal for help is released, it is not known when it will be discovered, not to mention that although it is a canyon, it is also a national park with wild forests.
It is impossible to start a fire, once the fire cannot be controlled, it is not a question of whether you can escape, but that life will be greatly threatened.
The youngest of the group, sixteen-year-old Kosmi, had been crying for two days straight, and his spirit began to languish, and the people began to mourn under his influence.
The love of the declining soldiers began to ravage the crowd continuously, and some of them no longer had the strength to survive in the face of difficulties.
Even Smith thought that he had made a great mistake this time and began to grieve with him.
The new billionaire Zhao Qing did not show a sad look at this time and did not give up, after all, he came over at a more difficult time than this, this time it was not a big problem, at least for him, this is just pediatrics.
The experience he received as a child was even more desperate than this, he didn't survive it, it was just a small test.
At this time, he showed a stronger organizational ability than the organizer, and relied on flickering and cheering to let three people who were also unwilling to wait for death to accompany him to explore the way.
At this time, after he came to the United States, he practiced his climbing skills for a semester and came in handy, and when others had to come down due to injuries or other reasons while climbing with their bare hands, he started to climb by himself according to the path that others had explored.
After eating a meal of wild vegetables, filling his hungry stomach, and taking a bottle of water with the rope that had been picked up on his back, he began his road to self-help.
When you are tired, you can use your iron claws to fix it tightly on the stone, stop for a while, or take a sip of water to relieve your fatigue.
The fingers of his weak hands were cut by stones, the blood and fluid could not stop him, his mother and sister were waiting for him, he was their hope, he couldn't have an accident, and he couldn't have an accident, once he had an accident, his sister's future would definitely be miserable.
He wants to live strong for them and build a better future for them.
His knee was also broken, and he couldn't stop at this time, he knew that once he stopped, he wouldn't have the courage to continue climbing, and even if his hand loosened, he might be doomed.
Can't look down, he is already far away from the ground, a trance may have an accident, he can only keep looking up, his hands have become numb, just mechanically continue to grasp the place that can support his arms and whole body, the pair of hiking shoes on his feet have also cracked, and his toes have begun to poke his head out, wanting to see how wonderful the outside world is.
Gradually, Zhao Qing seemed to see the end, it was not far from him, and the cheers below also came, and Smith's hoarse voice became high at this moment, and he began to tear his throat to cheer Zhao Qing.
At this time, Zhao Qing's eyes were already dizzy, and he didn't feel any sense of the cheers below, and he wouldn't pay attention to it.
At this time, he had only one thought in his heart, he had to climb to the top of the canyon, where to find the exit, and where to completely relax.
At this time, although Zhao Qing's eyes were dizzy from the sun, he still shook his head hard, trying to make his side clearer.
In that moment, let him clearly visualize, almost ten meters high, and the valley close to two hundred meters high was about to be conquered by him.
Conquer it, then there is nothing he can't conquer in the future, he has to persevere, the final sprint moment, the darkness is about to pass, and the dawn is coming.
As long as he passes this hurdle, he believes that a beautiful picture of life will unfold from now on, which is just a small obstacle to his life to climb to the top.
A small obstacle can't stop his heart from wanting to hit a higher peak, and his future can't be stopped by a small frustration obstacle.
There are many other things in life, at this time he also encountered an accident, a stone grasped by his arm was loosened, Zhao Qing's dizzy eyes immediately focused at this time, quickly checked the situation in front of him with his eyes, used his left foot to support his calf to exert force, and rushed up, his arm stretched out and tightly grasped another fixed stone in front of him that exposed a little bit of small head.
After confirming that there was no problem with the stone, his heart was relieved, and his sense of crisis dropped a lot, and the iron claw was thrown out, and it was not fixed twice in a row, but at this moment he was not anxious but calmed down, this is a big bay slope, he must use the iron claw to go up, this is no longer a human can go up, once you are not careful, it will be a tragedy to fall.
Heaven still favored him, two times, three times, three times, four times, when he was about to exhaust the little strength he had, the iron claw finally stabilized on the stones or trees above, Zhao Qing tied his upper body with a rope with one hand, began to grasp the rope with both hands, and began to kick the stone wall with his feet, and walked up a little carefully, the last ten meters of distance was like a century of distance.
When Zhao Qing's hands had already touched the earth, his heart did not relax, but he didn't know where the strength came from to speed up the pace of climbing, and he knew that the moment his feet hit the ground, the genius completely fell to the ground.
At this moment, he felt so real and so beautiful, and Zhao Qing's success made the people waiting below cheer.
After waiting for more than ten minutes to regain a little strength, and sprinkled all the last water on his head to regain his senses, Zhao Qing didn't care about the wound that had already formed a scar but cracked, stood up and untied the rope on his body, tied it with the iron claw, and made sure that there was no problem, before poking his head out, gesturing, and throwing the rope and protective tools down together.