In September 2017, when I climbed to the top of Que'er Mountain, the danger I experienced was vivid as if it was yesterday. This year, I received an invitation from Mr. Cen of Fenix Flashlight to climb the west top of Queer Mountain. Another new route challenge. It was September again. We set off from Chengdu to Ganzi to gather. We arrived in Ganzi County one day in advance to adapt to the altitude. Since we arrived one day earlier, we Drive to Yaqing Temple to adapt to the altitude (Yaqing Temple is about 200 kilometers away from Ganzi, or you can take a bus to it, with an altitude of more than 4,000 meters). You can return on the same day
Teammates arrived in Ganzi one after another because they could not land in Kangding and transferred to Chengdu chartered cars, and they also chartered cars to Seda. They entered the new road sea base camp to adapt to the altitude, and learned the simple way of passing the Mao point and lowering the protector. In my spare time, I took a few teammates to the residence of Barefoot Daxian. I met last year and came to visit Daxian again this year.
The weather in the past few days has not been very good. It has been raining. It is estimated that it will snow on the mountain. The weather forecast will snow in the next few days. The key is that the weather on the day of the summit on the 7th is not very good. As a photographer, I am most worried Unfortunately, without good weather, good films cannot be made.
Altitude adaptation is very good, we set off on schedule, Hada prayed
From the base camp to c1, porters are needed. For the first time, I saw that they used lottery to decide who would carry the bag. Those who got the light backpack were very excited.
The c1 base camp has been covered by heavy snow. It is painful to go to the open-air toilet in the heavy snow. It is very likely to fall into the snow-covered steps. ice walking technique
From c1 to c2, you have to go through a section of ice crevasses. Since the large troops can walk according to their own pace at the beginning, the ice crevasses must be connected. When they arrive at the c2 camp in the wind and snow, they can’t stay outside in the cold wind, so they can only quickly enter the tent and stay there. After more than ten hours, the tent was also buried by the wind and snow. The ventilating windows in the tent should be opened to prevent the air from being thin and prone to lack of oxygen during night rest, causing unnecessary altitude sickness and other adverse symptoms.
The distance from c2 to c3 is relatively short, mainly because there is an ice wall near the camp, about 60-70 meters, the scenery of the camp is beautiful, and it is still snowy, and the hands are frozen after taking pictures for a few minutes
I got up at 1:30 in the morning on a snowy and windy night. Because the zippers of my hiking boots were broken, I kept pouring snow into them and gave up on the summit. In the end, the whole team of 20 people and six people reached the summit, and it was only one o'clock in the afternoon when we descended to the base camp. , Return to Ganzi on the same day. looking forward to the next climb
