The driver also told us that in recent years, the best tourism has become more and more popular year by year, and some young people who have watched documentaries or adventure novels do not know the height of the sky, and have an off-road vehicle, so they think that they can be invincible in the world, and call friends to go to the new Tibetan line, and the result? Until the opening of the Xin-Tibet line, more than 5,000 people have asked for rescue, and there are many people who have died on this road, there are all kinds of ways to die, ice and snow slipped, fell off cliffs, avalanches were buried, and those who died because of the rapid change in altitude and died of acute altitude sickness.

Therefore, on this road, except for some young people who come to explore without doing their homework, most of them are like us, and they will not be able to complete the journey, and those who can drive the whole distance are people with professional quality and some lucky ones.

Of course, don't try to block your luck, once you are in distress, you are the luckiest to be rescued, and if you don't get rescue, you never know how you will die.

Then, as the driver said, the Xinzang Line is indeed a dangerous and extremely magnificent road, with magnificent glaciers and snow-capped mountains in the distance, which is simply fascinating. I almost always saw it at night before resting with my eyes closed.

At about seven o'clock the next morning, we arrived at Kunsha Township. In fact, there is a newly built airport here, but the ticket is not easy to book, and secondly, we are originally here to adapt to the plateau environment, not in a hurry, so it is a better choice to take the Xinzang line.

The development of Kunsha is not very good, and this good is actually relative. It is in a more remote place, sparsely populated, not as 'prosperous' as Lhasa, and the surrounding hotels are also Tibetan residences, that is, home-based hotels run by local Tibetans themselves.

Except for a small number of simple tourists, most of the people who come here to stay here are just like us, carrying large bags of equipment to explore.

Every young person has a restless heart, and I used to be similar, envious of the main characters in adventure movies, but after experiencing it a few times, I feel quite happy to be an ordinary tourist. There weren't many people in the collector's hotel we were staying in, but as far as I could see, there were four waves of people living in total.

The first wave of people should be a large group of travelers, who look very professional, and all kinds of equipment are the same as ours, but they have the advantage of being more numerous. As for where this wave of people is going, I don't know, ** is a very vast place, you can set off in all directions, and every direction can become a new route, so here, the route is planned by yourself. However, judging from the equipment they carried, I estimated that there was a good chance that they were going to climb the snowy mountains.

They look very professional, four or five thousand meters of snow-capped mountains are not a problem, Ali area, there are many snow-capped mountains above six thousand altitude, I guess they are going for those.

The second group of people is a mobile individual tourist, coming and going, the number of people is not fixed, they are all ordinary tourists, the characteristics are very different, there is not much equipment, taking pictures everywhere, and the photography technology is not very high. The third wave of people are mainly photographers, **is a photographer's paradise**, these people are mostly raunchy, with heavy camera equipment, admiring and very silent.

The fourth wave of people is, of course, ourselves, and we are more popular with the hosts of the Tibetan dwelling, because we are permanent residents, and we have to stay for half a month, and it is better to be entertained by permanent residents than individual guests.

In the next ten days, we were doing the same physical training as before, and we were still climbing the nearest snow peak more than 4,000 meters high. Then, we set off to the farther snow peaks, and gradually challenged the two snow peaks with an altitude of more than 5,000 meters.

Half a month later, at the beginning of May, we decided to go.

The place we are going to is located in the northeast of Longmu Co, from Longmu Co, through a no-man's land, we will reach a place called Guo Za Co. No, in Tibetan it means lake. Longmu Tso and Guo Za Tso are both lakes.

There are no roads in that no-man's land, and there are plateaus and hills with rolling glaciers and snow peaks along the way, and off-road vehicles can drive part of it, but if you want to go deeper, you can only rely on foot, which takes four or five days. We estimated the overall distance, and if nothing else, it was at least about twenty days.

Twenty days, the rations of the three of us are a big problem, which makes the equipment of the three of us have to be very refined and simple, and even then, the weight is quite large, but there is no way, the time span we will have to stay in the mountains is too long. Necessary equipment such as cold protection, emergency mountaineering, camping, food, medicine, etc., are all indispensable.

On the morning before parting, we had our last breakfast in the Tibetan house. For breakfast, we use a large kind of long table to put together, and the diners are all together. Of the three groups of people I mentioned earlier, except for the second wave, which is mobile, the first and third waves are actually relatively stable.

The first wave of the group numbered eight, six men and two women, some young and some in the prime of life about forty years old. The gang would occasionally disappear for a few days, and then come back to this hideaway, and after a few audits, I knew that this was a professional mountaineering expedition, and like us, they were also climbing the snowy mountains during this time, but they were climbing to warm up, and during breakfast and conversation, I heard them talk about a place called Kamaru Peak, and it seemed that the next destination was there.

I was a little curious, and asked Tan Jian in a low voice, "Boss, where is Kamaru?" Is it high? ”

Tan Jian glanced at the group of people opposite, and only said one sentence to me: "The fifth highest peak in the world, 8463 above sea level" paused, and he added: "Mount Everest and it are distant and can be regarded as neighbors." ”

I was stunned, silently eating my breakfast, tsampa Tibetan noodles and meat cakes and butter tea, it was still quite hearty, I am not a picky eater, as long as it is not too dirty or disgusting, I can eat it, and I think this thing is quite delicious. At the same time, the image of the group of people on the other side instantly grew taller in my heart.

Then, the three of us continued to have breakfast, chatting about the route from time to time, and did not listen to what the gang on the other side said. Just as we were about to finish eating, the beautiful woman in their line in her thirties suddenly said to me, "Hello. ”

I was stuffing it with tsamba in my mouth, and when I heard this, I quickly said, "Ni Hi (hello) ......"

Tan Jian slapped me on the head: "Talk after eating, take you out, you will lose face for eight lifetimes." ”

The woman on the other side snorted: "Haha, that's interesting." It's okay, this stuff is delicious, isn't it? That's the case, I just heard you mention Longmu Wrong, what's the matter, do you also want to go to Longmu Wrong? "The more I talk, the more I get beaten, I'd better not keep quiet.

Zhou Xuanye nodded and said with a smile: "Yes, what's wrong?" ”

The woman smiled and said, "I see that your equipment is very good, are you going to climb 5312?" ”

7312 I know that there is a snow-capped mountain belt in the southeast of the no-man's land, and there are many glaciers around, and there are many unnamed snow peaks there, so some explorers directly name them by height.

Zhou Xuanye said: "No. ”

I feel a little curious, 5312, it seems to be a little less difficult for these people, what are they doing there?

As if to see my doubts, the woman smiled: "Although 5312 is not high, the terrain is very steep, quite dangerous, and the difficulty is very high." There's only that snowy peak there, so I thought you were among the same people. ”

Zhou Xuanye smiled and didn't speak again.

Our perfect equipment obviously aroused the curiosity of this wave of people, and another younger girl in the team asked, "If you don't go to 5312, then where are you going?" There doesn't seem to be a challenge around Long Mucuo, you equipment is overkill. ”

Zhou Xuanye is a more polite person, and besides, we are not going to do anything unseemly, so he said bluntly: "We are going to enter the snowy region north of Guo Zhacuo." ”

As soon as these words came out, except for those individual customers who were not very knowledgeable, the rest of the people at the table, including several photographers, were stunned, and their eyes were all staring at the three of us, as if we had said something terrible.