Chapter 240: Arrival at the base camp and bad news
The world only knows that Mount Everest is the world's highest peak, but they don't know that climbing the world's second highest peak, Chogori, is more than three times more likely to die than climbing Mount Everest!
Live climb to the "top of hell"! Du Xiaosheng will reveal the whole process of challenging the world's most difficult snow peak.
"Damn, didn't you say you were going to climb Mount Everest? How did it become Chogori Peak? I think the anchor is crazy, right? β
"The chance of dying is 27%, which means that for every four mountaineers who climb Chogori Peak, one person dies!"
"Speaking of climbing Mount Everest, I still believe that as long as you have money on Mount Everest, give him money to hire four or five Sherpas, and carry you up the whole process of oxygen inhalation, which is very simple. But to talk about climbing the world's first peak of mortality? Unbelief! β
"No matter how good the anchor is, I don't believe that he can challenge K2 as a mountaineer trained by a crash course."
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Although Du Xiaosheng has done so many shocking things, climbing the snowy mountain is no joke, the continuous cold, changeable weather, brittle ice walls, dense ice cracks, as long as you are not careful, you will sleep forever on Qiaogeli Peak, and it is difficult to even bring the corpse back.
At this time, the little soldier Liu Xuanzhu, who was standing behind Du Xiaosheng, saw the crazy rolling barrage, and everyone was already stupid.
"Oh my God, more than 6 million people watched your live broadcast! You're so famous, huh? Liu Xuanzhu smiled in surprise.
Du Xiaosheng laughed and said to the audience: "Because it was a temporary change and decided not to climb Mount Everest, but to climb K2, I didn't prepare at all, these three brothers are the people's soldiers of our country, and this time they escorted me to Qiaogoli Peak as a guide." β
After introducing the whole situation to the audience, Du Xiaosheng followed the team and said to the audience in the live broadcast room: "The Kunlun Mountains are more than 2,500 kilometers long, 130~200 kilometers wide, with an average altitude of 5,500~6,000 meters, narrow in the west and wide in the east, with a total area of more than 500,000 square kilometers. β
"Don't look at the fact that although this is a forbidden area for humans, it is a paradise for animals, and there are not only nearly a thousand species of animals in the no-man's land, but even some dangerous creatures! So don't take it lightly. β
Du Xiaosheng said while answering the questions left by fans on the live broadcast screen: "Some netizens asked me how many kinds of animals there are here. There are too many, there are wild yaks, snowy wild asses, Tibetan antelopes, Tibetan wolves, Tibetan foxes, alpine vultures, snow leopards, Tibetan palms, lynxes, rabbits, Tibetan snowcocks, black-necked cranes, golden eagles, white-lipped deer, stone martens, jackals, buzzards, kestrels, falcons, rock sheep, argali, etc., there are 118 species of mammals known to us alone, more than 400 species of birds, 49 species of reptiles, 44 species of amphibians, more than 60 kinds of fish, and as many as 2,300 species of insects!
Although most of these animals live in the relatively low altitude of the tropics, we still need to explore the mysteries of nature with a heart of awe. β
Along the way, not only the audience who watched the live broadcast couldn't help but admire Du Xiaosheng's erudition, but even the soldiers Liu Xuanzhu and Xu Dongqing, who stayed on duty in the snow all the year round, were dumbfounded, and felt that they had learned a lot of knowledge!
To get to Chogori Base Camp, you have to climb over the Agleda Tomb at an altitude of 4,800 meters and enter the Krezing Valley.
Several people walked quickly along the way, and Du Xiaosheng followed behind the three people, constantly switching back and forth in English, Chinese, and Portuguese Chinese to answer the questions raised by fans.
Soon four hours passed, and Du Xiaosheng's sailors found that Xu Dongqing, Liu Xuanzhu and even Tenzin were already a little out of breath, but Du Xiaosheng, who had said all the way, still looked so energetic, and he was not tired at all.
The oxygen content in high-altitude mountainous areas is relatively low, and the internal rate and blood lactate content of people will gradually increase with the increase of altitude.
Therefore, at high altitudes, people are more likely to be tired and dizzy.
During the live broadcast, Du Xiaosheng did not squander his physical strength brainlessly. Instead, he increases his oxygen consumption by speaking, and then closely monitors his body's state in the state of hypoxia in the body status bar of the parkour system.
[The number of red blood cells increases, and the blood concentration rises......]
[The fluctuation chart of human lactate accumulation is as follows]
γLow altitude sickness syndromeγ
[Normal cerebral blood supply index]
[Physical Condition: Good]
Single-minded, while answering questions and chatting, Du Xiaosheng has already done a detailed and comprehensive examination of his body in the virtual space!
The endless beautiful scenery, the endless chat, the vast starry sky without light pollution, the peculiar landscape in the depths of the no-man's land, as well as various climbing skills, fire skills, and ways to find water sources, make the audience can't help but have a desire to go to Tibet.
A few days passed in a flash, and because of the escort of Xu Dongqing and the three of them, several people soon arrived at the base camp of Qiaogeli Peak.
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The majestic Chogori Peak towers into the sky, the snow dances on the summit, and the sound of rumbling like thunder can be heard in the distance.
"Did you hear that? The muffled thunderous sound was an avalanche on a snow-capped mountain in the distance! "Looking in the direction where the sound of the avalanche came from, I saw that the snow waves on the mountains in the distance were like thousands of horses galloping, and the rumbling pouring instantly brought up a large area of snow and mist to cover the mountainside.
"Avalanches are sudden, fast, and destructive. It can destroy vast swathes of forest, bury houses, transport lines, communications and vehicles, and even block rivers. β
"On snowy mountains, avalanches are very easy to form, and a single avalanche trigger, whether it is an animal running, rolling rocks, wind, a slight shaking, or even a shout in the valley, as long as the pressure exceeds the cohesion that condenses the snow particles into clumps, is enough to trigger a catastrophic avalanche."
Holding a snow pole in his hand, standing not far from the base camp and watching the avalanche, many members of the base camp couldn't help but take a breath and said, "With such a large-scale avalanche, if someone is caught in it, I'm afraid they will die in an instant, right?" β
"I decided to give up, just two days ago a group of international mountaineering team was killed, from the feedback information, it should be a person who slipped while climbing the ice, and as a result, he dragged the other three teammates down the abyss......
"It reminds me of the avalanche that killed 11 of 17 climbers in '08 when they returned from reaching the summit." As soon as I arrived at the base camp, I heard that a team of people was wiped out, and the entire live broadcast room fell silent.
"Anchor, otherwise forget it! It's too dangerous. β
"I just checked on the Internet, and the person who came out of the base camp is indeed telling the truth."
"It's still fate, don't get away with it!"
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Although Du Xiaosheng's mood was also a little heavy, he had long known how high the mortality rate of Qiaoge Peak was, so when he heard that a small group of people had just been wiped out, although he was also a little apprehensive, he still said calmly: "It's all here, let's go to the base camp first and have a look." β