The 42-year-old bearded Sist, the captain of the Sistt Mountaineering Team, four men and two women, is the fourth time he has organized a team to conquer Edgar Peak. Edgar Peak, located in the Gongga Mountains south of Kangding in Sichuan Province, is 6,618 meters above sea level, although it seems not high enough, much lower than the world-famous Mount Everest, but the challenge is actually higher than Mount Everest, because it is steep and difficult to climb, and lacks the road opened up by predecessors, and is regarded as the real object of mountaineering challenge by professional mountaineers.

Having failed the first three times, and losing two friends in quick succession, both of them on the way to Edgar's peak, Silst was determined to succeed, and after a huge investment and a series of equipment, he set off again.

After going through a lot of hardships, they finally came to a distance less than 200 meters from the peak, and the other five people in the same group smiled one after another. But Sist's expression was grim, and his two friends were killed one after another at this distance.

This part of the road is close to the summit, but it is more steep, and there are hidden glacial crevasses in many places. By hidden, these cracks are covered with snow and ice, but once you step on them, they immediately fall. It is one of the great tests that nature gives to climbers, without excellent patience and eyesight, as well as rich experience, it is difficult to avoid these cracks, once you fall, it is all up to your own luck, as well as the timely rescue of your companions.

Many times, the person who fell was able to persevere until he was saved by relying on the help of his backpack to get stuck in himself.

That's why mountaineering teams often need local guides, who can only know where these traps are after years of exploration and eliminate the risks in advance. And the reason why Edgar is more difficult to climb than Everest is that there is no guide here. Compared to the world-famous Sherpas of Everest, there are no locals here who will take people to climb Edgar.

Sistt took a deep breath, regained his strength, and was about to call his companion to go, when suddenly the climber who was traveling with him, a blonde woman, suddenly couldn't suppress her voice, her voice was slightly high, stretched out her finger in one direction, and shouted, "Look, there's a guy climbing up there!" ”

"Be quiet, Katie!" Sist's face sank, how could he speak loudly on the snowy mountain, it was not good to be a little bigger, but then he knew why Katie was exclaiming.

He followed the direction of the other party's finger and looked up, and the empty top of the mountain was unobstructed, and he saw a small but clear figure, climbing more than a hundred meters in front of them.

Sixt, a professional mountaineer with more than 20 years of mountaineering experience, could tell at a glance that the man's movements were very irregular, but he was unusually agile and relaxed, almost like the legendary snowman.

He was stunned, standing still, just there, looking up at the other party climbing, less than 200 meters away, in his opinion, but it takes at least more than twenty minutes, every step to land, must be carefully considered, and the other party, but easily and flexibly crossed one glacier crack after another, climbing on the cliff.

"Ah, he doesn't have any equipment for mountaineering, no backpack, and he's completely empty-handed?!" When he discovered this terrible fact, he was also dumbfounded when he looked at his companions.

Because of the perennial exercise in this wilderness, his eyesight was well trained, and although he wore hiking goggles, he was less than 200 meters away, and the background of the snow-capped mountains was too prominent for him to see the man's movements.

He couldn't imagine how this man had climbed here, and he had appeared in this place without provisions, without trekking poles, without steel cones, and without ropes.

Compared to this terrible fact, the other party's behavior of climbing to the top did not surprise him.

They just stood there, motionless and looking up at the man on the summit, and after three or four minutes, the man was quickly descending.

The man walked towards them, and as they got closer, they saw each other's faces.

It was a young and handsome man, he didn't wear any professional equipment at all, except for a pair of sneakers, a warm down jacket.

As the two sides got closer, they could still hear the man sighing and saying, "This so-called mountain that is more difficult to climb than Mount Everest is nothing more than that, and I don't feel any danger at all."

Sistt could understand Mandarin because he often came to China to climb mountains, and he had a Chinese in his team.

When he heard this, he felt that his worldview had been challenged, and if it was so easy, he would not have paid the price of the sacrifice of his two companions.

"Hello, can you ask how you got to the top of the mountain?" Sistt stopped the young man and wanted to go over.

This young man was Zhuo Chuan, who had come to climb the mountain and looked for a breakthrough in the life-and-death crisis, and he also saw this group of climbers and heard the other party stop him.

He was just about to speak, when his eyes suddenly froze, and he stretched out his hand and waved, "Don't come here, there's a crack under your feet"

Startled, Sist hurriedly used the trekking pole in his hand to carefully fiddle in front of him, and as the ice and snow peeled away, a twisting crack appeared.

He was in his heart, in fact, this is still good, what he is most afraid of is the kind of crack that can't move the ice and snow, it seems to be solid and normal, but as soon as you step on it, it collapses, that is the most terrible trap.

"Thank you for the reminder, can you answer my question" Heath cautiously stepped over the crack and walked over to the young man.

"Hehe, you don't need my experience, let's move forward step by step, but I just came down, the footprints are still left, you can mark them with a rope, so that the mountain will be much easier" Zhuo Chuan looked at these people and shook his head, he has his own secrets, this seems to be a dangerous peak that is difficult to climb, but that's it

"Thank you," said Sist, looking ahead, a shallow footprint remained, but it wasn't long before a snowstorm passed by, burying the footprints. "Hi," the blonde woman also walked over, she took off her hiking goggles, revealing a pair of charming blue eyes, and asked suspiciously, "don't you need this?" It's a high mountain here, it's easy to be snow blind" Zhuo Chuan smiled, the other party spoke in English, if it was before, he could only see, can't understand too clearly, but now there is no such language barrier at all, what you don't forget is that any words you hear can be memorized instantly, and then slowly played back, so that no matter how fast the speed of speech can be understood. "No, I don't need this," "You are very powerful, you are simply a child of this snowy mountain" The blonde woman said with adoration in her tone, "My name is Katie, he is Sist, we are our captain, we want to climb this mountain, and we also want to come down unharmed, can you help us, of course we will pay you enough" Westerners are very open-minded and very straightforward, Zhuo Chuan only saw this from the Internet and books, and it is difficult to behave like this directly to a stranger if she is an Oriental woman. Zhuo Chuan just wanted to refuse, but after thinking about it, he still agreed, when he was alone, there was no difficulty, and if he added some people, wouldn't it be equivalent to an increase in the difficulty of the scene? "OK" Zhuo Chuan doesn't care about any remuneration, but by the way, it is good to have some additions, after all, he is short of time now, and many times he has to spend money to save time. "Great, if you're here, we won't have to worry about it this time" Katie is very happy, although she is only twenty-six years old this year, but she also has a ten-year history of mountaineering, and knows the dangers of mountaineering, especially when descending the mountain, when people's energy is too much and often more prone to accidents. In May 1998, American female mountaineer Frances Asentife became the first American woman to climb Mount Everest without supplemental oxygen, but she collapsed 244 meters below the mountain due to lack of oxygen on the way down. At that time, other climbing teams passed by her, but under the harsh conditions, they could not bring her back to the base, and they gave up climbing to the top to go to the base to move the rescuers, but everyone knew that she could not hold out until the rescuers came. So the woman left the last words, "Please don't leave me" and died. So when you meet a clever mountaineer here, the woman's physical strength and endurance are already poor, and it is impossible for her not to ask the other party for help.