Chapter 366: Expedition 2 (II)
"The little angel even has a demonic side!" Grandpa Pandey put the supplies on the horse's back, pulled the head of the old horse named Dick, looked at it and muttered, "If Grandpa Pandey is tortured to death, you will have to send me to the end!" β
The old horse obediently rubbed Pandy's head with his head, which made Pandey's mood a lot better, and he stroked the horse's neck: "I knew you were a good boy!" β
Chen Badai packed up his things and stuffed the reins into Dick's hand, and Dick protested exaggeratedly: "Hey! I'm the boss here! β
"I have to conserve my strength from now on, otherwise how can you cross that platform?" Chen dismissed Dick's protests.
βGODοΌ I've been reduced to a groom! Dick muttered.
Chen Badai climbed a boulder, he saw Wang Xingguo and Xia Ruobing looming in the canyon not far away, he stretched a long waist and stretched his body: "Finally, there is a place to prove that I am stronger than him!" β
Without the noise of those undead, Chen Badai slept much better last night, and after waking up this morning, he didn't have a headache, Chen Badai breathed a trace of humid air in the canyon, and felt much more relaxed.
"Oh!Is this kidding me?!" Two hours later, Grandpa Pandey led the old horse and stood in front of a stone wall, shouting incredulously.
It seems that the horses have waited for this end, and since the nearest route has been chosen, it is necessary to overcome insurmountable obstacles.
Mr. Min looked at his own position and felt a little strange, according to his understanding of the migration route of the Loulan people, they should have bypassed these cliff areas from another way, although it would take two or three times as much time, but it was safer.
Pandey had no choice but to unload the supplies from his horse and distribute them to his backpacks.
"Let's go back! Dick! Wait for Grandpa Pandey in the fortress! Pandey untied the reins and let the horse go, and the horse seemed to understand Pandey's words, and turned around and walked slowly out of the canyon.
Wang Xingguo looked at the altimeter on his watch, 3521 meters above sea level, this is the first platform, Chen Badai was sorting out the climbing equipment, Wang Xingguo walked over: "The first platform, who is the pioneer climbing?" β
Chen Badai glanced at Wang Xingguo, which meant that I was already ready.
"Seat belt finished! The main lock is complete! The secondary lock is complete! After the power rope was completed...... Wang Xingguo saw that Chen Badai was fully armed and ready, so he had to check his equipment.
"Put your helmets on, I don't want to wait for someone's head to be smashed!" Chen Badai is ready to climb first, and he will open a suitable route on the cliff wall and fix it along the way.
It felt so good to give orders, Chen Badai saw that everyone was wearing helmets, he pressed his palms and fingers, and climbed the first rock.
Then 3 meters away, is Wang Xingguo who is connected with an anti-fall power rope, Wang Xingguo has been the pioneer leader in the past, this time seeing Wang Xingguo following behind him, Chen Badai felt a sense of achievement.
This cliff is not too high, the difficulty is not too great, Chen Badai all the way to find the rock crack plug plug as a fixed point, and then hang the main lock, put on the flat belt, along the rope, this becomes a vertical channel, the follow-up people and materials will go up and down through the passage created by Chen Badai, Wang Xingguo followed behind, his task is to check and strengthen the fixed point made by Chen Badai, and for the pioneer climbers to do fall protection, 70 meters of the cliff wall was quickly opened by Chen Badai A passage, Chen Badai climbed to the top of the stone wall, This is a large platform, he followed the rope to a big stone, tied the rope in a knot to the stone, and after doing all this, Chen Badai looked at his watch - it took less than half an hour, which can be regarded as a speed record.
Wang Xingguo was also a little surprised by Chen Badai's speed, in many places he should have laid down two rock plugs, but he didn't know why Chen Badai only hit one, and there were some fixed points that should have been carefully checked, Chen Badai also checked very roughly, he didn't seem to care whether Wang Xingguo could keep up or not, and several times on the way, he had already tightened the anti-crash rope between the two.
Wang Xingguo also climbed on the platform, he saw Chen Badai sitting on the platform, he unscrewed the kettle and took a sip, handed it to Chen Badai, Chen Badai did not answer.
"I've double-checked and strengthened all the fixing points." According to the rules of rock climbing, Wang Xingguo had to report the situation to the pioneer.
"Okay." Chen Badai simply replied with two words, which made Wang Xingguo a little embarrassed.
The follow-up personnel climbed up through the opened passage one after another, and brought the supplies up, when Wang Xingguo went to help, Chen Badai did not go, he kept sitting on the ground, as if he was the irreplaceable leader of the team.
Pandey climbed onto the platform panting, his thick body was indeed not suitable for this kind of rock climbing activity, in order to bring more supplies, Pandey also carried a huge backpack, Tchaikov and Sherpa along the way, which finally dragged Pandey's 90 kilograms of old bones here.
"It's time for the to lose weight!" Pandey finally stepped onto the ground, slumped on the stones, padded his backpack, and tore open the placket of his chest, letting the wind blow away the hot sweat from his body.
"There's the next one." Seeing that everyone had come up, Chen Badai stood up and prepared to continue to set off.
"Huh?! And also?! Spare me this old bone! Pandey lamented.
Pandee really regretted that he should have made more money, if he had known that climbing was not as easy as it seemed, he should have prepared a Black Hawk helicopter first!
The next platform is not very difficult, only more than 30 meters high, Chen Badai quickly made the line and fixed, standing on the platform and shouting to Pan Di, who was still paralyzed on the next floor to rest: "Hurry up!" We're going to climb 300 meters today! β
βHATοΌοΌ 300 meters?! It's all like this? Pandey exclaimed exaggeratedly, and the sound bounced off the stone wall, forming an echo.
"How the hell did those guys get through here?!" Pan Di finally got up, looked at this rock wall, and killed him and didn't believe that those Loulan and Huns had passed through here in thousands to reach Heihe!
In fact, Pandey didn't know that the people of Loulan took a more tortuous and tortuous route, and although the road was relatively better, it was impassable once it snowed.
At an altitude of 3500 meters, there has been a thin layer of snow, the water melted by the snow flows down the rocks, and the stones in many places feel very cold when they touch it, here is the dividing line of 0 Β°, and then go up, that is the snow line, Wang Xingguo estimated the speed of Chen Badai, it is not a big problem to pass this platform today, but Wang Xingguo is a little worried, it is not a good thing to be too fast in technical climbing, Chen Badai seems to be pursuing speed, and he does not care very much about the safety of fixed points.
Maybe he felt that he was still checking with Wang Xingguo behind him, Wang Xingguo saw Chen Badai buckle the new rock plug and main lock on the seat belt, and followed him to check his equipment.
"Light eggs, we have enough time, slow down." After the inspection, Wang Xingguo reminded him softly.
"Why don't you come?" Chen Badai handed him the main lock full of rock plugs.
Wang Xingguo hesitated for a moment and took the main lock, Chen Badai smiled, stepped aside, and buckled the anti-crash rope onto his seat belt.