199 1 year, the Sino-Japanese joint mountaineering team decided to challenge the most difficult mountain in the world. Before climbing the mountain, they met Tibetans and told them to leave, but they insisted on climbing this sacred mountain among the Tibetan population. Finally, this 17-person mountaineering team disappeared mysteriously when it was only more than 200 meters away from the top of the mountain. Finally, the main peak of Meili Snow Mountain was forbidden to climb. What happened to this mountaineering team? Why don't Tibetans let them go up the mountain? Today we will restore this famous event.
Meili Snow Mountain is a huge snow mountain group, located at the junction of China, Tibet and Yunnan, with a total length of150km. Meili Snow Mountain has 13 peaks more than 6 kilometers, of which the highest peak, Kawabog, is 6740 meters above sea level. Although there are not many peaks more than 8 kilometers high, Kawaborg Peak is a sharp pyramid shape and extremely steep. It is the most prominent part of the exercise activity in Meili Snow Mountain for millions of years, which is nearly 1000 meters higher than the surrounding mountains. This also shows the horror of this mountain.
But in the eyes of extreme mountaineers, this mountain is an excellent challenge. /kloc-At the end of 0/9, when the British first came to Tibet, they discovered Meili Snow Mountain and made a preliminary investigation of it. In the world at that time, European and American explorers were frantically exploring the north and south poles, while the British turned their attention to Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world. Before climbing the world's highest mountain, the British thought that Kawaburg Peak in Meili Snow Mountain, which is only 6740 meters above sea level, might be a better target. 1902, a British mountaineering team conquered several 6 km high mountains. Later, in order to accumulate experience, they climbed Mount Everest and went to Meili Snow Mountain in Tibet to practice their hands. As a result, they had just climbed halfway to Kawaberg when they encountered a big avalanche and suffered serious losses. The first landing of Meili Snow Mountain failed like this.
For many years, Fort Kawa seems to have been forgotten. Until 1987, Japanese climbers came here to climb. Like the British before, they gave up climbing because of an avalanche. 1988, the Korenchy mountaineering team of the United States also came to Kavabao Peak. They encountered an avalanche when they climbed to 4350 meters, and then gave up climbing. In other words, in the past 100 years, no one has successfully climbed to the top of Kava Castle. Among them, the Japanese mountaineering team reached the top of Kawaberg Peak the most times, which was also the most enthusiastic one.
As early as the 1970s, two Japanese scholars came here in the name of tourism. Dressed as tourists, they spent three months in Meili Snow Mountain. I made a detailed exploration and record here, and finally took two things from Meili Snow Mountain, a butterfly specimen and a branch. Only at that time, this behavior did not attract the attention of customs officers. A few years later, the two Japanese scholars came to Meili Snow Mountain again and took the same thing with them when they left, which attracted the attention of the relevant departments in China. Through investigation, the butterfly they took away was a four-tailed tricolor butterfly, a rare living fossil, which was only found in Meili Snow Mountain. And that branch is a kind of tree called Taxus chinensis, which is an excellent anticancer substance, only available in China. Since then, many visits to China in the name of tourism have been closely watched.
1990 The mountaineering team of Kyoto University in Japan applied to climb Kavabao Peak, the main peak of Meili Snow Mountain. However, because of the previous incident of Japanese scholars, it was not approved at first, which happened to be a friendly situation of Sino-Japanese diplomacy. After weighing the pros and cons, China approved Japanese mountaineering activities on one condition. It was this mountaineering activity that was jointly conducted by China and Japan. China will send elite mountaineers to climb Kava Castle with the Japanese. Although all previous summits have failed, this time I am confident that I have the absolute ability to climb Kawaberg. This Sino-Japanese mountaineering team consists of 18 people, including Japanese players 1 1 person and 7 Japanese players. The captain is Osamu Inoue Lang, a famous Japanese meteorologist, and the vice captain is Song Zhiyi, a mountaineer from China.
He successfully climbed many peaks over 6 kilometers. Moreover, this mountaineering activity is sponsored by Japanese medical and biological enterprises, equipped with advanced mountaineering equipment and communication equipment, and all materials are in place. The mountaineering team is determined to win, but its activities have caused great controversy in the local area. Because Kawa Peak is sacred in the hearts of Tibetans, it has always been a taboo place. Local Tibetans strongly oppose any mountaineering activities, and they even resort to violence and curses to force these mountaineering teams to retreat.
China and Japanese mountaineering teams made a lot of efforts, but the dispute was not resolved, and local residents began to obstruct the mountaineering team. They made an amazing move. 1990 65438+In February, in the cold winter, the Sino-Japanese joint mountaineering team came to the civilian village at the foot of the sacred mountain. The villagers thought that the expedition was conducting geological exploration, so they warmly received the mountaineering team as the captain and said that they would climb Meili Snow Mountain. The villagers have never heard of this name. They were shocked and angry when they learned that Meili Snow Mountain was Kavabao Peak. Because Kawa Peak of Meili Snow Mountain is the first of the four sacred mountains of Tibetan Buddhism, in the hearts of Tibetan people, Kawa Peak is the residence of mountain gods. Once someone reaches the top, the mountain god will leave him, and disaster will come. So mountain climbing is a no-no.
Although Tibetans tried their best to dissuade the mountaineering team, they could not change their will. When the weather is good, the top of Kavabao Peak in Meili Snow Mountain will be exposed, and the golden dome will be exposed under the sunlight, which is called Rizhao Jinshan.
There is only a short time to see it in a year, so it is no wonder that local Tibetans regard it as the first sacredness in their minds. In order to ensure a successful summit, the Chinese and Japanese mountaineering teams found the best route to climb Meili Snow Mountain after more than two years of investigation preparation and route planning, and also made a detailed study on the climatic conditions on Meili Snow Mountain. They think 65438+the end of February is the best window to climb the summit, so don't give up easily. What's more, the captain is a famous meteorologist in Japan, as well as a geographer and a top player who has climbed the 8 km peak. Knowing that the behavior of the mountaineering team could not be changed, people in Xizang made an amazing move. They mobilized more than 20,000 local people to pray on a large scale in the temple at the foot of the mountain. They don't pray for the mountaineering team to reach the top successfully, but hope that the mountain god can punish the mountaineering team.
Although the behavior of Tibetans has brought great psychological pressure to the mountaineering team, the team members all think that these are just Tibetan superstitions, and they just want to break this superstition. On February 28th, 65438, the Sino-Japanese joint mountaineering team began to climb Meili Snow Mountain. The weather on this day is very good, and the team members are extremely excited and have begun to look forward to the joy after the summit. If they succeed in climbing the summit, they will create the history of the most difficult mountain climbing for mankind.
At first, the mountaineering team went very smoothly and made rapid progress. After climbing to an altitude of 3400 meters, the base camp was built as a transit station for going up and down the mountain, and four small camps were set up at 4900 meters, 5 100 meters, 5300 meters and 5900 meters respectively. In other words, the fifth camp is only 800 meters away from the top of the mountain, and the summit is just around the corner. There is no strange thing in any rumor. You know, before this, many mountaineering teams only reached the height of 5 100 meters, and easily reached 5900 meters. The players are in a good mood, but danger often comes inadvertently.
In fact, there was an episode in this process. When the mountaineering team camped at 5 100 meters, the members of the two countries had great differences. China members are conservative and think that the camp should be built far away from the ridge to avoid avalanches. The Japanese side believes that the climate window of Meili Snow Mountain is very short, and the camp should be built on the top of the mountain. This can reduce the time of climbing the mountain. Just when everyone was deadlocked, the captain Inoue decided to compromise, and the camp was built in the middle of the site selection between China and Japan.
However, not long after the camp was built, an avalanche occurred in Meili Snow Mountain, and a large area of Xue Hai instantly covered everything in sight. The team members came to their senses and found that heavy snow had covered the ridge. If the camp had been built on the ridge, the mountaineering activities would have ended long ago. This incident should attract attention, which shows that the climate of Meili Snow Mountain is changeable. At this time, they should stay put or attack another day. However, thousands of Tibetans at the foot of the mountain are still praying. If they come back here again, I'm afraid they won't have a chance to come here again and climb the only summit. When the mountaineering team reached 5900 meters, it was only 800 meters away from the top of the mountain. To be on the safe side, they decided to send five commandos, including the captain Wolf Inoue, to try to rush to the top at the first time. The rest of the team members returned to the base camp of 3,400 meters and waited for them when the five team members climbed to 6,470 meters.
When it was only 270 meters away from the top of the mountain, the weather suddenly deteriorated sharply, and the snowstorm hit hard, forcing it to the top of the mountain, which was extremely risky. Five players waited for four hours in the snowstorm and had no choice but to return. But the terrible thing is that the route back has been covered by heavy snow, and they will not find the route back for a while. The snowstorm has come at night, so it is impossible to venture down the mountain. Everyone decided to camp on the spot and wait for the weather to improve. The blizzard didn't stop all night. The next day, five players took advantage of the high visibility in the morning and quickly got off and returned to the base camp. This snowstorm and previous avalanches are a warning to the mountaineering team. Meili Snow Mountain is really full of danger, and it may be fatal if you are not careful.
After a day's observation at the base camp, the mountaineering team found that the weather began to improve. After the previous five commandos tried to reach the summit, they thought it was no problem. In this case, Captain Wolf Inoue drew up a telegram of successful summit and handed it to a China player named Zhang Jun at that time, and asked him to send it as soon as he received the telegram of successful summit. Unexpectedly, Zhang Jun became the only survivor of this Sino-Japanese mountaineering activity. After that, 17 members of the mountaineering team set off again, only to find that the previous roads were all covered and the snow thickness reached 1.5 meters. It took them only one day to reach the height of 5900 meters, but it took them three days to consume a lot of physical strength and the weather began to get worse. Zhang Jun, who arrived at the base camp at this time, would contact the players every once in a while.
On the evening of October 3rd, 65438/KLOC-0, Zhang Jun learned that the players had reached the height of 6400 meters, and had been waiting in the tent for an attack the next morning. But the next day, Zhang Jun couldn't contact any climbers. He sent an urgent notice to the headquarters at the foot of the mountain, and the headquarters decided to send a helicopter to search and rescue immediately. This is also the American Black Hawk helicopter introduced by China in the 1980s. It is the only helicopter that can perform tasks at high altitude. However, just as the helicopter was about to take off, the snowstorm came again until June 7, 65438, the sixth day when the mountaineering team lost contact. The headquarters decided to send two rescue teams to the mountain for rescue. However, the weather in Meili Snow Mountain did not improve, and only the Tibet rescue team arrived at Camp 3 at an altitude of 5 100 meters. When they were ready to continue climbing, another avalanche occurred in Meili Snow Mountain. Finally, in order to avoid further casualties, the headquarters ordered the mountaineering team to go down the mountain immediately.
This bad weather didn't stop until 65438+1October 22, and it hasn't happened at different times in the past few years. In other words, the climate prediction that the mountaineering team spent several years making is totally unreliable here. After that, the photos taken by the helicopter along the top of the mountain showed that the entire Kawaberg Mountain was covered with thick snow and there were no signs of survivors. At this time, it has been more than 20 days since the 17 climbers disappeared, and no one can survive. The headquarters announced that the joint mountaineering operation failed, so what happened to the 17 team members who were more than 200 meters away from the top of the mountain? Did they make it to the top? It was not until eight years later that an accidental diary solved the mystery.
1One day in July, 998, a herder in Meili Snow Mountain was herding sheep in a pasture at an altitude of 3,800 meters. After the ice melted, he found something in the crack of the ice. After careful observation, he found that these were all mountaineering equipment, and he immediately reported the news to the relevant departments.
So the rescue team came to a large number of equipment 16 The bodies of the members of the Chinese mountaineering team were found, and only one body was missing. Among the relics of these members, there is a diary of a Japanese member, which explains what happened to the mountaineering team that year.
The diary shows that on June 5438+099 1, 1, 1, the only Japanese female member of the mountaineering team suddenly had a high fever. In the evening, the team member began to say something irrational, saying that they were coming, coming soon, and we were going home. The players thought that he was hallucinating because of a high fever and asked him to take antipyretics to rest. On June 3rd, 65438+, the snowstorm continued. The diary says that he really came. We can't go down the mountain. This diary is chilling.
Why do you always mention "them"? Later, I thought that these players were confused because of lack of oxygen and cold. Combined with the Tibetan mountain gods, there is an illusion. There is no new record in the diary after the 3rd. It is speculated that 17 team members are camping at 6400 meters and have been waiting for the weather to improve. But an avalanche completely buried them. That's why all the walkie-talkies couldn't be contacted the next day, and all the players were killed overnight. After they were frozen into a big ice by all the recording equipment, the weather improved, and the continuous avalanche brought the ice wrapped around them to the glacier pasture of 3800 meters. After several years of melting, it was discovered by herders.
Some people say that the Sino-Japanese joint mountaineering failed because 20,000 Tibetans prayed at the foot of the mountain, causing an avalanche. Later, after research, it was found that although the height of Kavabao Peak in Meili Snow Mountain was only 6740 meters. However, due to the shape of the mountain, the snow on the top of the mountain is not only thick, but also extremely soft, and it is easy to cause avalanches when encountering strong winds and vibrations. In other words, the mountain structure here is not suitable for mountaineering, and any activity may trigger an avalanche. This is why five commandos had a small avalanche more than 200 meters near the top of the mountain. Later 17 people went up the mountain, and their actions definitely caused a bigger avalanche. Coupled with the global warming effect, the glaciers in Meili Snow Mountain have begun to degenerate, and avalanches will only become more frequent, and climbing up will only be more dangerous.
After 200 1, Meili Snow Mountain was forbidden to climb and became a forbidden area. On the one hand, it is for security reasons, on the other hand, it is to respect the beliefs of local Tibetans, which also makes Meili Snow Mountain the peak that human beings have not reached so far. Meili Snow Mountain is called Shenshan precisely because of its unfathomable charm and unpredictable magic. As a true climber, we should respect nature, not just to conquer it. In case of force majeure, we can only change ourselves, not try to change nature.
Then the question is, Meili Snow Mountain is not forbidden to climb. Will it be successful to conquer the Kawaberg summit with today's scientific and technological level? Welcome to leave a message in the comments section.