It has been more than half a month since Huana Mountaineering team set off in early April, walking on the epic hiking road EBC, trekking on the rocky and dangerous peaks, overlooking Phnom Penh Everest, being hit by overnight snowstorm, feeling tired from cold and risks, enjoying nature and experiencing humanity all the way, don't say how far the dream is, starting is a transformation.
Photo: Huannai Mountaineering team arrives at Everest base Camp
Once upon a time, Mount Everest has been closely associated with courage, the pursuit of dreams, the pursuit of a secret seems to be a huge attraction for people who dare to challenge themselves to admire, yearn for. By April 18, all the team members had completed LOBUCHE Peak and reached Qomolangma Base Camp, which was set up to protect the core area of Qomolangma and is known as the closest place for ordinary people to reach Qomolangma.
Photo: Everest Base Camp
Life on Mount Qomolangma of Huannai Mountaineering Team -- Facing the sea of peaks, beaming eyes
Huanai Mountaineering team is fully equipped and in place before departure. At the Everest base camp, everyone has an independent tent, so that they can have a full rest after a day of tired technical training. "Good rest" is very important for the successful summit of Everest.
Photo: Nuzi Peak at 7,861 meters is right outside our door
Photo: Our kitchen tent
Photo: Our entertainment tent
Simmering ceremony
On the third day at Everest base camp, the camp held a traditional burning ceremony to pray heaven for the safety of the climb.
It is generally done on the mulberry Yantai platform. First, cypress branches and herbs are piled on the hill or on the simmering platform. After burning to a certain extent, articles such as fried noodles, ghee, kula and white sugar, which are ground with barley, are put on the cypress branches and vanilla pile, and then sprinkled with some water or wine, and let them slowly spontaneously burn to offer sacrifices to the gods. As the fire burns, the fragrance of cypress, oil and food wafts slowly through the air. Simple people believe that burning the aroma of pine and cypress branches during the simmering process will make both gods and people feel comfortable, and then people will be blessed by gods and Buddhas.
It is a very joyous process to simmer the plants, especially in the ceremony at Everest base camp, where highland barley wine is poured, zanba is spread across shoulders, faces and foreheads to bless each other, and finally the enthusiastic guzhuang jumps up. Put oneself in it, fully feel the atmosphere of mutual understanding and mutual trust, truly do with teammates as a family, sharing ups and downs, facing the unknown high point together.
Photo: Simmering ceremony
Khumbu glacier
After a few days of adjustment and rest, the calm life of the base camp is over, and the Huannai Mountaineering team enters the Khumbu Glacier for technical climbing training. They are approaching the Qomolangma with pious steps step by step.
Walking on the Khumbu Glacier requires long and short suspension stairs of various sizes. This simple aluminum suspension ladder is wobbly when walking. Crampons should be firmly fastened on the suspension ladder and the center of gravity should be adjusted slowly while grasping the protective ropes, so as to avoid "a single step may become eternal."
Photo: Huanai Mountaineering team members in the glacier technical climbing training
Khumbu Glacier, this magnificent and dangerous glacier, is known as the "terror glacier" by Chinese people. Since records, a total of 80 climbing accidents have occurred on the south slope of Qomolangma, 30% of which are on Khumbu Glacier. The Khumbu Glacier is difficult because it is prone to avalanches, ice avalanches, sliding into cracks in the ice, and breaking Bridges that connect cracks in the ice, which can kill climbers at any time. At the same time, melting glaciers and changing seasons make the Khumbu glacier more unpredictable.
The climbing route to C1, called the route, is to choose a relatively simple "road" between large and small crevres, step over or over, if it is not possible, take a dangling ladder to walk over. These glaciers, like active volcanoes, no one knows when they will collapse, only to pray that the moment they step on it is safe. Listen to the crampons into the ice issued by the "click", with broken ice splash, let a person's blood spurt.
Photo: Overlooking Mount Qomolangma, the peak of the Goddess of tranquility
[About Huannai Mountaineering Team · Endless Expedition 7+2]
As the first enterprise mountaineering team in China's household industry, Huannai Mountaineering team successfully climbed the 5,396-meter Haba Snow Mountain on the third day after its establishment. Since 2013, he has reached the summit of Uhuru Kilimanjaro (5,895 meters above sea level), Mount Elbrus (5,642 meters above sea level), Aconcagua (6,964 meters above sea level), Mount McKinley (6,193 meters above sea level), and the North Pole in 2016. And a pass to Mount Qomolangma, the peak of the Pamir Plateau at 7,546 meters. Because the expedition is endless, because the mountain is in the heart, the brave Huanai people set off again. This time, they set foot on the journey of climbing the commanding heights of the world. This courage and obsession inspire every Huanai people to keep moving forward and make unremitting efforts to create a better ecological environment of Chinese home.
