998, it has been 7 years since the death of 17 mountaineering team members. The villagers of Meili Snow Mountain were grazing, and their eyes were suddenly attracted by a bunch of brightly colored things in the distance.
When I walked closer, I found that those were all cold-proof clothes, and some were wrapped in human-shaped bones. The diary scattered beside the side recorded some weird words:
"I saw someone outside the tent, and I clearly heard the laughter of a woman and the cry of a baby, but there was no one."
"We were wrong, it was too late to go down the mountain, they came."
So, who are they? Are there anyone else on the snow mountain? What happened back then?
days of willingness to make people
996, the first registration period for Japan to climb Meili Snow Mountain has reached its last year. Kobayashi Shangli, who had survived the base camp, teamed up here again and knelt in front of the monument of "17 Chinese and Japanese mountaineering warriors" , solemnly promised: swear to reach the top of the death!
He always thought that avalanche was strange. Not only did the Meteorological Bureau not monitored in advance, but even the 17 seniors with advanced equipment and rich professional knowledge did not notice it. In the end, they were wiped out and disappeared silently on the top of the snow-capped mountains. Does really have divine power?
As a person who regards conquering the mountains as his lifelong career, he does not believe in the "God" mentioned by the Tibetans, so he wants to climb to the top to prove all this. In addition, he also prepared 17 body bags, determined to retrieve the bodies of the 17 warriors. After hearing this, Tibetans near
heard about it, they picked up the guy at hand and rushed over, blocked the mountaineering team, threatening: "If you come, throw one into Lancangjiang !" . Later, it was the contact officer of our country who came forward to reconcile, and the local police protected it, and the mountaineering team reentered the base camp of that year.
In order not to repeat the same mistakes, both China and Japan chose the departure date very carefully. The departure was not arranged until the major meteorological observatories could not find any risks.
Learn from one mistake and gain a lot of wisdom. This time, the climb was much more cautious than seven years ago. It took a month to arrive at Camp No. 4, which was about to reach the top of the year. The weather was clear and less than 500 meters away from the peak, as if they could conquer the mountain in just one step.
But just when they were planning to report good news to Tokyo, the meteorological observatories in Beijing, Yunnan and Tokyo sent an alarm about the coming blizzard, indicating that the cumulonimbus clouds in the South Pacific are moving in this direction. Once arrives, it will bring a greater snowfall than seven years ago.
The blue sky above the head is still calm, and the last peak is close. I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but they always feel that a dark cloud is faintly pressed away.
Because of the lessons from the past, the members of the entire mountaineering team felt the breath of death at that moment.
After looking at each other, they immediately lost everything they could on their bodies and ran down the mountain desperately. In the end, they only took one day and returned to the base camp.
However, the will of heaven was so good that they just walked into the camp at the foot of the mountain that the dark clouds disappeared. The Meteorological Bureau sent another notice saying that The dark clouds were blown away, and the weather was clear next time, suitable for reaching the top.
But the question is, can they still go up? Do you still dare to go up? Will that cloud that comes and leaves whenever you want, really come again?
997, the Kyoto University mountaineering team officially proposed that they would give up climbing the Meili Snow Mountain forever. Because no one could predict whether the tragedy of 1991 would repeat itself.
offense to the "sacred mountain"
Meili Snow Mountain has always been full of magic to the outside world. In 1987, Japan submitted an application to our country to climb the Meili Snow Mountain.Subsequently, the two sides reached an agreement and decided to send their respective mountaineering elites to form a joint mountaineering team to climb together.
The Japanese side sent the strongest Kyoto University mountaineering team. is supported by the consortium behind this team, and they use the top equipment, and most of the members have mountaineering experience of more than 8,000 meters. In order to deal with the sudden weather, meteorological professor Inoue Jiro was also sent.
Before departure, they went to the temple to ask for amulets and held a ceremony to ask the Japanese monks to consecrate and bless them. After arriving in China, China sent Song Zhiyi, a mountaineer who sets mountaineering records many times, as well as several experienced veterans in mountaineering associations.
Finally, mountaineering operation was led by the Japanese side . 11 Japanese and 6 Chinese team formed this 17-person China-Japan mountaineering joint team, with Jiro Inoue as the captain and Song Zhiyi as the deputy captain.
990, the mountaineering team's off-road vehicle drove into the foot of Meili Snow Mountain. Local Tibetans heard that they were here to climb the mountain, and they were also the Meili Snow Mountain that they had never heard of before. They immediately felt awe-inspiring and were very enthusiastic about these "warriors" and "scientists". Every household took out good wine and meat to entertain them.
A few days later, the mountaineering team sent several people as advance teams to explore the way. The curious villagers saw each other all the way, and when they walked to the bottom of the snow-capped mountain, they realized that the Meili Snow Mountain that these people were going to climb was their sacred mountain Kavagbo .
This is the first of the eight major sacred mountains in Tibet. In Tibetan classics, it is called "Yunzan Kawagbo" . According to legend, this was once a demon mountain that harmed the world. Guru Padmasambhava experienced eight major disasters before subduing it and making it a Buddhist guardian, commanding the seven sacred mountains, and protecting one side.
So Tibetans only surround the mountains, not climb mountains. Until now, they still have the custom of surrounding mountains. In their culture, everything they have is brought by Kawagbo. Just walk around Kawagbo for three times and kowtow to pray can eliminate karma.
As they watched their gods and faith be "trampled" under their feet, the smiles of Tibetans turned into horror in a blink of an eye, and they anxiously advised them not to offend the sacred mountain. Once they were disrespectful to the sacred mountain and lost the protection of God, disasters and suffering would come.
But they could not stop these mountaineering team members, so they could only watch them walk in. But I didn't go too far this way, and I soon returned home because of the wrong route. I didn't set off again until December.
This time, nearly 20,000 Tibetans knelt at the foot of Kavagbo, burning incense, chanting scriptures, and kowtowed. prayed to Grandpa Snow Mountain to use his magical power to drive the mountaineering team down and prevent them from climbing.
Science-minded mountaineering teams do not care about this because they are optimistic. The weather will be very good in the future. The height and difficulty of climbing this mountain are not as good as those peaks in the past. It is a matter of time before.
As they thought, the trip was going well. On December 8, they built Camp No. 1 at an altitude of 4,500 meters. A week later, they arrived at 5,300 meters and built Camp No. 2.
But when deciding on Camp No. 3, members of China and Japan had differences. Based on the principle of safety first, China recommends building the camps away from the ridges to avoid encountering avalanches due to climate instability.
said that it is precisely because of the unstable climate that we must take advantage of the low temperature period to build the camp near the ridge to save time and complete the summit as soon as possible. The two sides quarreled for a whole week, and finally took a step back and built Camp No. 3 in the middle of the two locations.
This method seems to be "fair", but it is actually useless. Perhaps only when disaster strikes, they will realize that this place is still very close to the avalanche.The site selection of camp No.
Avalanche
was not difficult, and it was soon built at an altitude of 5,900 meters. On December 28, the five strongest team members formed a commando team and arrived at the 6400-meter position first, breaking the climbing record of Kavaguebo.
At this time, there was only more than 200 meters left before reaching the top. According to the survey of the terrain by various "experts", there was no difficulty to stop them, so they immediately used the intercom to inform their teammates in Camp No. 3 and could be ready to go to the top at any time.
But at this moment, the sky suddenly changed, the clouds rolled, and gusts of strong wind whistled by. brought a blizzard in a blink of an eye, and the visibility suddenly dropped to 2 meters.
It is impossible to move forward. The team members wanted to evacuate, but the captain Jiro Inoue was unwilling to give up and insisted on letting them stand on time and wait until they received the weather forecast from the Meteorological Bureau.
At around 2 pm, the meteorological observatory sent a forecast for a blizzard, but Jiro Inoue waited until 4 o'clock before he had no choice but to order the five team members to return to Camp No. 3.
He thought the weather was temporary, after all, the forecasts from several days ago showed that there will be no abnormal weather in the recent weather, But even he, a doctor, couldn't figure out why the sunny day suddenly had a blizzard.
Because the team members had difficulty distinguishing the direction, they did not return to Camp No. 3 until 11 o'clock in the evening. And at this time, the snow just stopped. Even the weather was incredibly good for the next few days.
Tibetans saw the weather clearing up and went to the nearest Feilai Temple and cried at Kawagbo. If they no longer use Shenwei to drive these people down, they will no longer believe in Kawagbo.
The mountain climbing team on the mountain did not know all this. They have set the peak time to the first day of 1991 based on the new weather report. However, on January 1st, it was as if it were intentional, the good weather disappeared again and heavy snow fell again.
The next day, the snow flooded the tent, and the team members had to go out to sweep the snow every two hours. By 10:30 p.m. on the third day, the thickness of the snow had exceeded 1.6 meters, and the signal was getting worse and worse. During the last call between the base camp and Camp No. 3, several team members were saying that they saw a magnificent temple.
Later, according to the wife of mountaineering member Li Zhiyun, it was at this time that their son suddenly woke up crying in a dream, and kept saying to her: "Dad was buried in the snow."
htmlOn November 4, Zhang Jun, who used to wake up in the noise of the intercom, suddenly felt something was wrong. After seeing the intercom, he realized that today was too quiet. But when he called 17 members one by one, he did not receive a single response.
He immediately requested rescue from his superiors, but due to the unstable weather conditions of Kavaguebo, the team members lost contact with the high altitude and insufficient oxygen content, and the helicopters were unable to participate in the rescue. The reconnaissance aircraft was also unable to obtain too much effective information because of its low visibility and could only rely on manual labor.
However, high altitude photos show that a serious avalanche occurred at the location of Camp No. 3, and there are more than 300,000 tons of cloud-shaped snow above it. The avalanche air waves uprooted more than 1,000 square meters of fir forest , let alone humans?
But this is the "God of Snow Mountain". The mountaineering team is already the most elite in the mountaineering field. Even they have encountered an accident. Can others still go up?
Facts have proved that people are still small in front of nature. The most experienced and physically strong Tibet mountaineering team was eventually stopped at Camp No. 2, and other teams were even more difficult to reach Camp No. 1, let alone launching rescue.
htmlOn November 22, the rescue command announced that it would give up the rescue and all people were evacuated. When everyone evacuated Kavagbo, the families of the victims also received the news.
Just as they cried to Kavagbo, the snow stopped and the golden glow illuminated the entire snow-capped mountain.
Out of care, our country retained the first right to Kyoto University for five years, but they still failed in the climb in 1996.
As Kyoto University announced that it would give up climbing forever, Kavagobo returned to his calmness, and the answer from seven years ago was finally sent to the foot of the mountain by the snow mountain.
diary
998, Tibetans who went up the mountain to collect herbs found many scattered clothes, cameras, watches, diaries, and the remains of 10 people on the glacier. After verification, these people were all mountaineering team members seven years ago.
One of the Japanese team members named Sato wrote in their diary that they all had a dream in early December, with a golden horned buck in the dream, followed by a gray wolf. The buck looked at them with contemptuous eyes and turned around and left. They thought this was a good omen, so they insisted on climbing up.
He also wrote that on January 1, the only female team member suddenly had a high fever and kept muttering: "I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm coming, I'm going home while there is still time." And at the end of the diary, he wrote down by himself:
"They are here, save me! It's too late to go down the mountain, we're wrong, I don't want to die!"
Local Tibetans explained that those who disrespect Kavagbo will be arrested as servants for seven years. From 1991 to 1998, it was exactly seven years, so they were sent back.
But experts say that the diary records only the illusions that the mountaineering team members have due to altitude sickness. As for what happened on the mountain, no one knows yet.
In 2001, Yunnan Province officially issued a document prohibiting anyone from climbing the Meili Snow Mountain. Kavagbo has also become the only forbidden mountain that cannot be conquered so far.
It uses its existence to tell everyone that you may be able to stand on the top of a mountain of 8,000 meters, but you cannot conquer the Kavaguebo at an altitude of 6,740 meters.
Because there is a kind of mountain, it is born to be respected.
