Chapter 34: The Sigh of Time and Space (Part II)
With Zhuo Chuan's help, the remaining two hundred meters, they only took more than ten minutes to come up.
The group stood at the top of the peak, silently watching the scenery at the top of the mountain.
At this time, everyone wanted to shout at the vast snow scene in the distance, but no one dared to do so, because this was a snow-capped mountain.
Patches of clouds are at your feet, low peaks in the distance, layers of forests, and the wonder and magnificence of snow-capped mountains overshadow all written descriptions.
Zhuo Chuan had come up for the second time, and the shock was much smaller, and the other six people, although they were all professional mountaineers, had seen more magnificent scenery than this, but they were still excited.
They took out their cameras and captured the scenery as evidence of their own conquest of the peak.
Soon after, they began to descend the mountain, after all, this is a peak of more than 6,000 meters, and they also did not use auxiliary oxygen, so it is impossible for them to stay on it for long.
When it came time to go down, when he hit a steep slope, Siste arranged his climbing rope according to his custom, and he still used the customary double rope descent method, and then began to descend from the top.
Zhuo Chuan didn't pay attention for a while, and it wasn't until Katie also began to descend along the rope that Heath had arranged that he realized that the rope used by the other party was the one he found problematic.
He didn't dare to shout loudly, because now Katie was on her way to land, and she was already three meters away from the top, and she was still about ten meters away from the foothold below.
Suddenly, at this time, the wind was a little stronger, and Katie, who was hanging in mid-air, inevitably swayed, and after the rope hit the cliff several times, it began to tear, and the slight tearing sound was so inconspicuous in the cold wind howling, but the seven people who were paying attention to it here seemed to hear the tearing sound.
Whether it was Zhuo Chuan and the others who stayed above, or Sister who had already descended to the foothold below, they all saw this scene.
Especially Sist, his face suddenly turned pale, because he immediately thought that this rope was the one that Zhuo Chuan discarded when he was climbing up, but he didn't really care, and used it to assist in landing.
Katie, who was hanging in the air, naturally understood what the consequences would be, she clung to the rope tightly, regardless of the consequences, and shouted loudly in spite of all the consequences, regardless of the absolute prohibition that the snow mountains could not shout, "help! ”
Zhuo Chuan hurriedly snatched a rope from Yuan Xiaobing behind him and threw it down accurately.
He did it all so quickly that Yuan didn't react yet.
Katie swayed in the air, but fortunately Takukawa threw it very accurately, and the rope was directly on her body.
When she grabbed the rope that Zhuo Chuan had thrown, the rope that had been used to assist in landing suddenly broke, "whoosh"
Under the pull of gravity, it slid over her shoulder, her center of gravity suddenly shifted, sank downward, and slammed into the cliff, she desperately grabbed the rope thrown by Zhuo Chuan, dizzy, and continued to scream in fright, "Pull me up." ”
"Don't panic"
Zhuo Chuan didn't care about the ban on not being able to speak, he and the other mountaineers pulled the rope, "We will put you down slowly, don't move, try to stick to the cliff"
Fortunately, Katie also has ten years of mountaineering experience, and after getting through the early panic, with the rope in her hands, she calmed down a little and slowly began to pedal down the cliff.
The distance of more than ten meters soon landed, and she was relieved, and was about to thank the above, but suddenly saw Zhuo Chuan sticking out his head, with a panicked face.
"Avalanche!!"
Two words appeared in the mouth of Zhuo Chuan, and Katie's exclamation just now had angered the god of the snowy mountains, and he began to roar, using an avalanche to punish these people who offended him.
Katie's heart was cold, she looked at Sist, the other party was also panicked, even experienced mountaineers, in the face of avalanche such a natural wrath, there is nothing they can do, they can only do the most basic countermeasures, and the rest is left to fate.
Zhuo Chuan, who was above, no longer had the heart to care about how the two people below should save themselves, the snow on the peak was beginning to slide, and soon it was about to be overwhelmed with thunderous momentum, he quickly swept to the back of a rock, which was towering, and the back was relatively wide, just suitable for hiding.
He had already memorized the nearby terrain in his mind.
He hurried to the big rock and hid behind, and after him, the four climbers who had not yet gone down also ran over.
Unfortunately, however, the black mountaineer was so panicked that he accidentally fell half of his body into a crack in the glacier.
"Help me"
The black mountaineer struggled in vain, and with despair on his face, he looked at his companions, who had long been hiding behind the rocks, a dozen meters away.
Zhuo Chuan, who was hiding behind the rocks, looked at each other with the other three climbers, who had already heard the loud sound of snow rushing in, and perhaps in the next second, the snow would rush to the top.
Now hide behind the rocks, if there is still a chance of survival, then go out to save people, and be pressed from the top of the snow without a barrier, then there is no hope of survival at all.
Just a dozen meters, at this moment, it is the distance between life and death, and the other three mountaineers all hardened their hearts and turned their faces.
Zhuo Chuan has seen too many endangered people die in front of him in the past two months, so even if this black man is crushed to death by the snow in front of his eyes, he will not really be surprised or shocked.
But for a moment, he seemed to have come to his senses, and immediately escaped from the shelter of the rocks and ran towards the black team.
The other three mountaineers were stunned by his actions, especially the native named Yuan Xiaobing, he couldn't believe it, on the high mountain, if he wanted to save people, let alone encounter an avalanche, even in normal times, it was almost impossible.
The corpse on Mount Everest, which serves as a signpost, is the best proof of this.
Zhuo Chuan didn't care so much, he felt his mind very clear at this time, the snow rumbled over, and he even felt the splash of snowflakes on his face.
And the black mountaineer, who was already desperate, had already fallen off his climbing goggles at this time, and he looked at this young man who had just met with tears in his eyes.
It took less than two seconds for Zhuo Chuan to jump to his side, and then with a single force, he pulled him out of the crack.
Just then, a violent snow rushed in.
"We're finished"
The black man only had time to shout, but he felt a flower in front of him, as if everything was still, and then in the next moment, he and Zhuo Chuan were behind the rock, and the violent snow overflowed the rock.
The other three people hiding behind the rocks didn't see what had just happened, and when the snow spilled over the rocks, they only had time to cling to the rocks, and at the same time subconsciously stretched the space under their feet, and the snow still overflowed their backs.
I don't know how long it took, but the surging snow seemed to stop.
"Hurry up and pick up the snow and open a passage"
Zhuo Chuan was the first to feel that the avalanche had stopped, because they were leaning against the rocks and blocked by the rocks, they were not washed down by the snow, so the direction was easy to judge, if they were exposed outside, they would be washed by the snow, and their bodies would be upside down, so they needed to use saliva to determine the direction of up and down before they could excavate.
"Good"
The black team member responded, he heard a trace of tiredness from Zhuo Chuan's tone, which he couldn't see at all when he was climbing the mountain before, and he thought that it should be because the other party had spent too much physical strength to save himself.
He took out the shovel from his bag, reluctantly turned around, and began to dig outward, this is not the time to conserve strength, if they can't dig a passage to the outside air in half an hour, they will be very dangerous.