It's early April, and we're just over a month away from our planned trip to the snowy mountains to find Little Fuso.

At this time, the best time to enter Tibet is from May to September, if you enter the snow mountain, May is too early, but we are worried about the long night and many dreams, and we dare not delay. In order to enter Tibet smoothly, we checked a lot of relevant information before that. At that time, the area where the Zeng team went is still a no-man's land, and the average altitude around that area is about 5,000 meters, and not everyone can go there. Most people will have altitude sickness when they go, and severe sudden death is possible.

When Tan Jian and Zhou Xuanye were young, it should be said that they had been to Tibet around the age of twenty-five or sixteen, but they only stayed at an altitude of more than 3,000 meters, and they had slight altitude sickness and indirect headaches, but there were no other problems.

And if the altitude is directly increased to 5,000, Zhou Xuanye estimates that with our physique, I am afraid it will be enough. The geological expedition team led by the Zeng team had been conducting investigations in Tibetan areas for a long time, so they adapted to the high-altitude area, and only then did they have the physical fitness to enter that uninhabited area.

In the end, Zhou Xuanye made a plan and decided to enter Tibet in advance, live in Tibetan areas for half a month, carry out indirect exercises, and forcibly improve his adaptability.

I heard the word altitude sickness, but to be honest, I haven't been to any high-altitude places, so when I saw Zhou Xuanye say it so seriously, in fact, I was a little drumming in my heart, and my heart said that it was so serious? Is altitude sickness really so bad? Thinking so, I asked.

Zhou Xuanye thought for a while and said to me: "When I was twenty-five years old, I went to Tibet once, and I went there by plane, and I didn't feel anything in the plane, but after I got off the plane, the world was spinning and I almost fell. ”

I was a little surprised: "Brother Zhou, are you so unhelpful?" ”

Zhou Xuanye smiled and said: "Many people are the same as me, so the best way to enter Tibet is to go cross-country or take the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, gradually adapt to the altitude, take a plane over, the altitude rises too fast, and most people will have this reaction." After a pause, he said: "Don't underestimate altitude sickness, 3,000 altitudes are just pediatrics, up to 4,000, most people can't stand it, up to 5,000, only a small number of people can stay often, more than 6,000, that belongs to the extreme environment, except for professional mountaineering teams, ordinary people can't go." ”

"What happens if you go?"

Zhou Xuanye suddenly stopped talking, but smiled slightly, took out a map from the desk, and pointed to a location in the Tibetan area to show me.

I couldn't help but widen my eyes, could this be the area we're going to cross?

In an instant, I understood why Zhou Xuanye had such a smiling expression, yes, he didn't need to answer me, because it wasn't long before I was going to try that outcome in person.

After discussing the itinerary, we packed some of our things, and Tang Linlin came back in early March, so we handed over the shop to her to take care of. I felt a little strange when I left, this girl usually likes to join in the fun, if it was usual, she would have been shouting to go with us, why did she stay so obediently this time?

I was curious and asked, "Linlin, why don't you plan to follow this time?" ”

She shrugged her shoulders, spread her hands, and said, "I think that when Miss Ben was still a rich man, where did she not go?" **Well...... I went there once, when I watched a TV documentary, and as soon as my brain was hot, I took the people to Hoh Xili. ”

I said, "And then?" ”

"Then I was bleeding from my nostrils and my face was purple, and I was carried back," she said. After speaking, he made a bow gesture to me and smiled: "Every day, you go, even if you die violently in that place, I will be widowed for you, and I will definitely not go to find a handsome guy soon after you die." ”

I think she's willing! Decide! Yes!

However, her words still made me a little nervous, and on the same day, we flew directly from Shenzhen to Chengdu, and in the afternoon, from Chengdu to Gonggar Airport in Lhasa. Since I have always taken a plane, the sky is white, so I also didn't experience the beautiful scenery of the Sichuan-Tibet line that went all the way to the plains and the rapids to enjoy the snow-capped mountains and grasslands on TV.

When I actually got off the plane and arrived in Lhasa, at that moment, as Zhou Xuanye described, my whole body shook, as if the blood in my body had been drained. This sudden reaction made me stop immediately, and I stood in place with a dazzle in front of me, and it took a lot of self-control to not fall.

It is said that Gonggar Airport is one of the highest civil airports at an altitude of more than 3,600 meters, and I had some psychological preparations before I came, but I did not expect altitude sickness to be such a painful thing. For the rest of the day, I didn't even get to appreciate the local scenery, and I was walking with my head covered all the way, and the pain of throbbing and throbbing made it impossible for you to be distracted by anything.

It was the beginning of April, the temperature was still a little low, the temperature difference between day and night was also large, and the average daily temperature hovered between 1 and 16 degrees each day, so we found a local hotel for a night, and when we woke up the next day, this reaction was suppressed.

In fact, Lhasa is still far from our destination, but Tibet is vast and sparsely populated, and most of it is still uninhabited, which is not suitable for long-term tourism. As the capital of the city, Sara is a well-developed place, and we can live here permanently. Since there are many high-altitude snow-capped peaks in Tibetan areas, there are many mountaineering adventure tours, and you can also buy a variety of complete outdoor equipment in Lhasa, but the price is relatively expensive.

According to the original plan, we now live in Lhasa for more than 10 days, do some emergency training for high resistance, and then go on the national highway, stay in Kunsha at a higher altitude for half a month, gradually enhance the adaptability to the plateau, and finally enter the mountains.

In the next few days, I think it's actually quite cool, and there are three impressions on me here: clean, vast and pure, as if it doesn't belong to the world. The magnificence of nature and the Tibetan humanity combine to create a space full of mysteries.

During this process, what we did every day was to keep walking higher, farther, and wider places, and every time we walked, we were out of breath as if we were going to pass out before stopping. The clear blue sky, the vast plateau, the clear lakes, and the figure of the Tibetans turning to worship the Buddha are like washing people all over again, and the whole body has become thorough.

Of course, this feeling disappeared after only ten days.

It took us three days and a lot of money to buy outdoor equipment. Tan Jian didn't forget to say to me: This trip is for you, and all expenses will be accounted for from your salary. I think I'll have to pay them three years for free.

Then, we packed our gear, rented a car and boarded National Highway 318 towards Kunsha.

From here to Kunsha, it takes more than a day, and the fare is about 3,000 yuan, but the 318 National Highway is not long, because later, when we arrived at a fork, the Han driver began to say to us: "Young men, be in good spirits, let's get on 219." "This person is a Han Chinese, who specializes in sports car business here, and has probably stayed for a long time, and has been contaminated with the warm and generous character of Tibetan compatriots.

I was looking out of the car window with my face peeled, the scenery of this place was too beautiful, I couldn't get tired of seeing it for more than ten days, the car was driving on the national highway, there were plateaus on both sides, could I still see a large area of blue Haizi Lake, and occasionally there were herds of cattle, Tibetan antelopes passing by, looking at us from afar.

The sparse population, the vast and clean world, people never get tired of seeing, no wonder people describe ** as a place to cleanse people's hearts, this is true.

As soon as the driver spoke, he interrupted my efforts to see the scenery, and I asked, "What 219?" ”

The driver said, "You didn't do your homework, did you?" National Highway 219! 219 You don't know, you always know the Xin-Tibet Highway and the Xin-Tibet Line, right? As he spoke, he gave us another slip: "Driving the Xinzang line is no less difficult than Shu Road." The reservoir is dangerous, like a ghost gate; Maza Osaka tip, steep rise 5,003; Black Card Osaka Swirl, Ninety-Nine Bays; The boundary mountain Osaka bends, and you can touch the sky with your hand...... Have you heard of it? The line we are taking now is built from Xinjiang, let me tell you this, this road is built across the Kunlun Mountains! ”

I was suddenly surprised, from the new construction through the Kunlun Mountains to repair? This is bragging, right?

Otherwise, the driver is one of the most talkative professions in the world, sitting in the driver's seat every day, there is nothing else to do except talk, so he is very active in the role of a tour guide and introduces us to it.

The Xinzang line, numbered G219, is the G219 national highway. It starts from Yecheng in Xinjiang, crosses the world-famous Kunlun Mountain, Karakoram Mountain, Gangdis Mountain, Himalayas, climbs over 5000 meters or more 5 mountains along the way, 16 icebergs up to 16, 44 glaciers, most of the sections of the whole line are "no man's land", the average altitude of the whole road is more than 4500 meters, it is the highest altitude road in the world, the most dangerous road condition and the worst environment of the plateau highway.

This line is the most dangerous and at the same time the most fascinating, and countless explorers have gone crazy for it. Along the way, the cross-border sacred mountain Kailash, the holy lake Mapanyongco, and the glacier and snow peaks are carved out of a terrifying road.

This road is rarely finished, such as our this time, we just along the 219 National Highway, to Kunsha, the biggest challenge along the way is the high and low roller coaster like the altitude, and will not encounter too much danger, the real dangerous road, is in the Kunlun Mountain, the glacier snow peak glacier and the signal can not be connected to drive for a day and a night can not meet the loneliness of the companions, plus more than 5,000 or even close to 6,000 altitude, absolutely not everyone can run.