Chapter 399: Alpine Camp
After Bai Yi said a few words in English, he saw the Nepalese man's eyes sparkle, and then he opened his mouth to talk to a few of his companions in the local language, and the guy turned around and said a word of English to Bai Yi.
As soon as the Nepalese voice fell, I saw Bai Yi nodding without thinking, and spit out two words happily in his mouth.
"Deal."
You don't have to think much about it to know what Lu Dao Bai Yi said to Nepal.
No matter what country you are from, you will have one thing in common.
Avarice!
As the saying goes, there must be brave men under heavy rewards.
Bai Yi threw out an authentic Dollar, and these stacks of green Gesensen's tickets were piled up there, which made people feel dazzling.
If you have money, you said that you would let those Nepalese follow us to guard the camp.
Even if we're really terrorists, it's okay to tie bombs to them
But again.
Due to the special geographical environment, there are indeed many base elements who have nowhere to hide from the Americans' missiles, and have infiltrated Nepal from Afghanistan through the continuous northern mountains.
So, in the mountains of Nepal, there is still a good chance that we will actually meet some outlaws.
Therefore, Sima will distribute weapons and equipment to us in advance before entering the mountain.
Led by these improvised strong men, with the readiness to encounter terrorists at any time, and after several days of rapid marching in the rugged mountains, the group finally arrived at the Lhotse base camp at an altitude of 5,350 meters.
When you arrive here, you are actually not far from the location of the giant gate found in the aerial photos.
The next thing we need to do is to climb more than 600 meters from here to reach the No. 1 alpine camp at 5,950 meters, and then move laterally from there to detect the exact location of the giant gate buried by snow using miniature underground remote sensing equipment.
When he really stood at the foot of the snow-capped mountain and looked up at the top of the towering world.
I realized that the most dangerous and difficult journey was really about to begin.
Faced with this most dangerous journey, everyone in the team has a strong sense of uncertainty.
In fact, we can't expect our group of two-knife mountaineers, who have only undergone a month's emergency training, to have much confidence in conquering this fourth peak in the world.
Of the seven of us, Jasmine is the only one who has ever experienced extreme mountaineering, and she may have had some terrible things happen to the snowy mountains, which caused her to lose her memory, and she still has a visceral fear of the snowy mountains.
As for the other people, they dared to climb this snow-capped mountain, completely because of the courage of a horseman, and no one knew if they would be able to come back safely.
It was with this realization that after I set up camp, I persuaded Professor Chen to go up the mountain with us to join in the fun.
On the one hand, because he is indeed older, there is a greater possibility of danger in the mountains.
In addition, Professor Chen began to experience dizziness and nausea after we arrived at the Lhotse Peak base camp, these are all mild altitude sickness, I am really afraid that this old man went up the mountain with us, and before we could find the gate, he had already hung up.
However, Bai Yi and I tried our best to persuade Professor Chen not to go up the mountain with us, but the old man just didn't agree, and said that he was not willing to stay at the foot of the mountain with the Nepalese to guard the camp.
This Professor Chen is as stubborn as a donkey with no heart, and he is not interested in dollars, Bai Yi and I really have no way to make him change his mind, and he has to rely on the old man in the end.
When we arrived at Lhotse Base Camp, it was the end of October, and the weather conditions were very good, which was the best time to climb Lhotse.
After a few days of rest, the team chose a sunny day.
Led by Jasmine, a group of seven people finally embarked on the short but dangerous journey of more than 600 meters.
The distance of more than 600 meters leading to Camp No. 1 was covered with many ice and snow cracks, and we followed the path opened up by the other mountaineering advance teams before and began to charge at those ice and snow cracks like a kamikaze.
These ice and snow cracks are unpredictable during the day due to the effects of solar radiation.
There is always a danger of collapse, and if that happens, we will be greeted by an abyss of ice.
Luckily, we only had to climb to Camp No. 1, not actually summit Lhotse, so compared to other climbing teams, the climbing materials we carried this time were much lighter.
Even so, carrying dozens of kilograms of supplies on my back and climbing on top of a peak at an altitude of nearly five or six thousand meters is not an easy thing for my physical fitness.
Even more sad is that as the distance is climbed, it gets higher and higher.
In our two-knife mountaineering team, the essence of the old, weak, sick and disabled finally gradually revealed.
The first person who couldn't support it was Professor Chen, who I was most worried about.
The old man had obvious altitude sickness before climbing the mountain, and it seemed to be more serious at this time, not to mention out of breath, and the speed of movement was also very slow, and it was estimated that it would take more than ten minutes to rest when he took a step.
Soon after Professor Chen's situation, Jasmine and Chen Hudan also began to gradually develop physical deficiencies.
At this time, we have already traveled more than half of the distance, and if we go down the mountain at this time, we will definitely lose all our efforts.
In the end, he had to let Qu Fattou and Bai Yi take over Chen Hudan and Jasmine's backpacks respectively, and let the four of them support them together.
I, on the other hand, simply carried Professor Chen on my back and launched the most desperate assault on the No. 1 alpine camp on the mountainside.
The climb started at 6 a.m., and at 6 p.m., we finally moved safely to Camp No. 1, which is nearly 6,000 meters away.
After twelve hours of climbing, everyone was exhausted.
Generally, it takes a well-trained mountaineering team to reach this alpine camp from the base camp at the bottom of the mountain, and it takes at most five or six hours.
We used exactly twice that time.
However, I'm glad that this is me, not to mention anything else, our old, weak, sick and disabled miscellaneous fish troops can arrive safely, and if there is no loss of soldiers, it will be considered a great creation, and there will be so many heads.
After encamping at No. 1 Alpine Camp, Professor Chen's old idea had a head again, and the previous virtue of dying and living was gone, and it seemed that he had adapted to this altitude sickness.
"Brother Wang, this time it's really thanks to you. I didn't expect your physical fitness to be really strong, such a thin body, you just carried my old man on your back! ”
Professor Chen held an oxygen cylinder and took a few puffs from time to time, and said to me breathlessly