Squat, stand up, swing a pickaxe, and repeat.

Du Xiaosheng's ice climbing skills are not only German technical ice climbing, but also French ice climbing skills in the process of climbing.

In the face of the debris of ice falling from the sky, Du Xiaosheng did not turn his head sideways to dodge, like some ice climbers, but skillfully used his helmet to make the ice slag slide off his head.

The German ice climbing technique has been developed quite perfectly, mainly using two technical pickaxes to take turns hitting the ice wall, and working with crampons to achieve the rising or falling effect similar to that of a gecko.

Three points are fixed, one point is moving. This is a rule of ice climbing, which means that when the ice climber is moving on the ice wall, keep one hand moving, and the other two feet and the other hand should firmly grasp the ice wall. In the same way, while one foot is to be moved, both hands and one foot should be tightly fixed to keep the body in a safe movement at all times.

The reason why Du Xiaosheng is praised by Sherpas for his superb skills is because he moves very fast, not only always maintains the three-point fixed, one-point moving ice climbing rule, but also has a very strong overall view.

The route he climbs up is not vertical, but consciously avoids some dangerous ice surfaces.

The ice wall on the north side has been climbed too many times, and in some places there are many ice holes and cracks knocked out by other summit teams.

Especially the 11-member commercial mountaineering team that went up just now, although their ice climbing skills are not bad, compared to Sherpa and their team leader John, the technical level is still not good, and the ice wall destroyed by the ice axe is either too deep or too shallow, leaving many ice cracks.

Although the path they had traveled was easier to climb, Du Xiaosheng chose to avoid the places they had climbed as much as possible.

"Click!" Du Xiaosheng kicked the crampons with his left foot into the ice at this time, stepped on the right foot up, raised his left hand, and with a crisp sound of the ice wall breaking, Du Xiaosheng used the arc of the ice wall to support the ice wall, forming a downward pull stuck grip, he pulled the pickaxe and waved it out with the other hand, and pulled the pectoral muscles from the butterfly bone in the same way, the triceps brachii exerted force the biceps brachii bulge, and the big arm linked the lower arm to throw the wrist.

The strength of the wrist was not too large, and the ice axe dug vertically into the ice without a trace of shaking.

Du Xiaosheng uses the same technique as Mark Sinnott from New Hampshire, who has 30 years of ice climbing experience.

Mark pointed out that during ice climbing, if your right hand is a regular hand, then be sure to wave your left hand first to try to fix.

At this point, his wrist forcefully descends the ice axe vertically without a trace, and after making sure that it is stable, he holds the ice axe with both hands as a fulcrum to straighten his body, and uses the forward kick to fix it on the ice to provide maximum support for himself.

Move horizontally, diagonally, crouch and walk on the ice.

The six-person ascension team below was completely stunned.

Scratch, pick, pull, hold, push!

Swell, kick, straddle, hang, step!

Ten movements switch back and forth, and his skills are not confined to one family!

In this person, you can see different techniques from seven mountaineering masters in the world!

This person is a little handsome.

"Who the hell is he?!"

"Why didn't the Sherpas make a way for him? Just he rushed to the top alone? He's crazy, isn't he? ”

"Hehe, based on the strength he has shown, do you think he needs Sherpas to be his guide? If you look closely at his movements, gravity always falls on his legs, the strength of his arms is very economical, and his movements are unbelievably standard. This person should be a master climber. Look, Giggs! The coordination of his body is simply ridiculously high! ”

The people below even forgot the preciousness of the time to reach the top, and stood below and talked about it.

Indeed, the person who analyzes Du Xiaosheng's movements below is also an excellent mountain guide, if he conquers Qiaogori Peak, then he will have climbed five snowy peaks at an altitude of 8,000 meters!

The layman looks at the bustle, and the insider looks at the doorway.

Du Xiaosheng's flexibility is a hundred times more difficult on the almost vertical ice surface!

The people below just watched Du Xiaosheng on the craggy ice wall, quickly moving up and climbing.

Not a single extra pickaxe, not a single step in the air.

"This guy...... It's really amazing. ”

"I know all the people in the base camp, but I haven't heard of anyone who wants to challenge K2 by himself!"

"Have you noticed, this man climbed hundreds of meters of ice wall and didn't take in oxygen once!"

"My God, oxygen-free? Impossible, absolutely impossible, the oxygen consumption is too great, he will die on the ice cliff because of the excessive oxygen consumption! ”

……

The six-person team below has been dumped by Du Xiaosheng without a trace.

As you go higher and higher, the higher the altitude, the more complex the terrain and the thinner the air.

The higher the ice wall goes, the more the ice-rock hybrid structure and the large number of ice towers increase.

Ice towers are also known as ice forests. Refers to the tower-shaped icicles that line the surface of a glacier. It is caused by the differential ablation of the glacier surface over a long period of time.

The low latitude, high altitude, and high angle of incidence of sunlight make the terrain of the ice towers here very complex, some of which are likely to have ice rifts underneath, and some of which hide small ice towers like steel cones, which are deadly traps! If one accidentally falls on it, it will cause unimaginable disasters.

After twelve hours of high-intensity climbing, it was noon.

The wind is very strong during the day at an altitude of 7000 meters.

At this time, the deafening sound of the wind in the sky had made Du Xiaosheng completely give up interacting with the fans live broadcast, the gale was cut by the ice towers standing one after another, turning into a howling of ghosts and wolves, and the snow hidden under the ice towers was blown up by the wind, rolling like waves, and the strong wind blowing from behind almost threw people into the air.

Grains of snow poured down on each team that climbed to the summit of K2, hitting them in the face like the tip of a knife, their eyes were stuffed with snow particles, the snow was deep under their feet, and the visibility around them was extremely low, making it impossible to see the way during the climb.

If there is a Sherpa auxiliary road that has been repaired in advance, it is good to follow the rope up or down.

But Du Xiaosheng was alone, and the lack of oxygen made his brain a little sluggish, his head was as painful as being pierced by thousands of steel needles, and his weak hands and feet began to flutter.

Approaching the bottleneck of the final sprint, groping his way up the ice tower for hours on end had already weakened his body to the extreme.

Du Xiaosheng rested on an ice tower, because of the lack of oxygen, his physical strength was seriously overdrawn, if he didn't rest for a while, to alleviate his hypoxia, I am afraid that after a while, purple spots will appear on his body, and his consciousness will begin to blur.

Just when Du Xiaosheng was resting on his stomach, something seemed to fall directly above his head.

He immediately raised his head vigilantly, but the snow waves blown by the wind covered the entire sky above Chogoli Peak, and even if he raised his head, he couldn't see anything!

With a keen sense of danger coming, Du Xiaosheng hurriedly got up and turned over to the snow ditch on one side!

However, the speed of the falling thing was really amazing, although Du Xiaosheng dodged out, he only felt a tightness on his waist, and an orange figure appeared in front of him!

Du Xiaosheng's pupils shrank, he never expected that the person who fell was actually John, the strongest captain of the previous commercial mountaineering team.

John's icebreaker frantically swung around in an attempt to slow down, but his ice axe hooked on Du Xiaosheng's safety rope!

"Hat happened?" Du Xiaosheng asked loudly before being dragged down.

"finish," John yelled in despair, then pulled his rope and led Du Xiaosheng down the abyss of eight thousand meters...... [.]