The Wester mountaineering team, a total of four men and two women, the bearded Sist, 42 years old, as the captain, this is his fourth organized team to conquer Edgar Peak.Edgar Peak, located in the Gongga Mountains south of Kangding, Sichuan Province, at an altitude of 6618 meters, although it seems not high enough, much lower than the world-famous Mount Everest, but the challenge is actually higher than Mount Everest, because it is steep and difficult to climb, and the lack of roads opened up by the predecessors, by the high number of professional climbers as the real object of the climbing challenge.

Siste failed three times before, and lost two friends in succession, both died on the way to climb the Edgar, this time he was determined to succeed, after a huge investment, ready a series of equipment, and then set off again.

After a lot of hard work, they finally came to a distance of less than 200 meters from the summit, and the other five people with them showed a smile.But Sist looked grim, and his two friends were killed at this distance.

This part of the road is very close to the peak, but it is more steep, and there are hidden glacier cracks in many places.The so-called hidden means that these cracks are covered with ice and snow, but once stepped on it, it will fall immediately.It is one of the great tests of nature for climbers, without excellent patience and eyepower, as well as rich experience, it is difficult to escape these cracks, once it falls, it is necessary to rely on their own luck, as well as the timely rescue of their companions.

Many times, people who fall down rely on the help of the backpack to get stuck in themselves, in order to persist until they are saved.

That’s why mountaineering teams often need local guides, and only if they can know where these traps are after years of exploration, can they rule out the risk in advance.The reason why this Edgar is more difficult to climb than Mount Everest, there is no guide here is also a reason.Compared to the world-famous Everest guide Sherpas, there are no locals here, and they will take people to climb Mount Edgar.

Sist took a deep breath, regained his physical strength, and called his companion to set out, suddenly with him, a blond woman, suddenly unable to suppress the tone, the voice slightly high, stretched out his finger in one direction, shouted "Look, there is a person climbing on it!"

“Shut up, Katie!”Seaster looked down, and how could he speak loudly on the snowy mountains was not enough, but then he knew why Katie was going to exclaim.

He followed the direction of the other finger and looked up, and the empty mountaintop was unobstructed, only a small and clear figure, climbing more than a hundred meters in front of them.

Sist, a professional mountaineer with more than two decades of mountaineering experience, saw at a glance that the man's movements were very irregular, but he was unusually flexible and relaxed, almost like the legendary snowman.

He was stunned, standing still, just there, looking up at each other climbing, less than 200 meters away, but in his view, but at least twenty minutes, every step of the foot, to think carefully, and the other side, but easily and flexibly over the glacier crack, climbing on the wall.

"Ah, he has not one piece of equipment for climbing, nor a backpack, and is completely empty-handed?" he found this terrible fact, and looked at his companions, and was stunned.

Because of his perennial movement in this wilderness, his vision is very good, although wearing a mountaineering mirror, but less than 200 meters away, and the background of the snow mountain is too prominent, he can see the man's movements.

He did not dare to imagine how this man had climbed here, without stipulation, without a climbing stick, without a steel cone, and without a rope, who appeared in this place.

Compared with this terrible fact, the other party's behavior of climbing to the top of the mountain did not surprise him.

They were standing there, looking motionless at the man at the top, and three or four minutes later the man was soon down.

Then the man came up to them, and as the distance drew nearer, they saw each other's facade.

It is a young and handsome man, he does not wear those professional equipment, in addition to a pair of sneakers, is a warm down jacket.

The two sides were close, and they could still hear the man sighing, saying in their mouths, "This is a mountain that is more difficult to climb than Mount Everest, but so, there is no crisis at all."

Sist can understand Chinese, because he often climbs mountains in China, and there is a Chinese in his team.

When he heard this sentence, he felt that his world view was challenged, so easy, he would not pay the sacrifice of two peers.

“Hello, can you ask me, how did you get to the top of the mountain?”Sister stopped the young man and thought about it.

This young man came to climb the mountain, looking for a breakthrough between life and death crisis, he also saw this group of climbers, heard the other side to call himself.

He just wanted to open his mouth, suddenly looked at me, reached out and waved, "Don't come, there is a crack in your foot."

Sist was surprised, and hurriedly took the climbing stick on his hand to play carefully in front of his body, and as the snow and ice peeled off, a curved and twisted crack appeared.

His heart is a peep, in fact, this is still good, the most afraid is that the kind of ice and snow, seemingly solid and ordinary, but once stepped on it, it collapsed the crack, which is the most terrible trap.

“Thank you for the reminder, can you answer my question,” Seaster cautiously crossed the crack and walked over to the young man.

"Oh, my experience you do not need to go, or step by step forward, but I just came down, the footprints are still left, you can mark it with a rope, so the mountain will be easy to climb a lot," Zhuo Chuan looked at these people, shook his head, he has his own secret, which seems difficult to climb the peak, but also so it is not so.

"Thank you," Seaster looked ahead, and a shallow footprint was on it, but before long, there would be snow and snow and bury the footprints."Hi," the blond woman came along, taking off the mountain mirror, revealing a pair of charming blue eyes, and asked doubtfully, "do you not need this?"Here is the mountain, it is easy to snow blind" Zhuo Chuan smiled, the other side is speaking English, if before, he can only see, can not listen too well, now there is no language barrier, not forget to bring, any heard words, you can instantly remember, and then slowly play back, so that the speed can also be understood."No, I don't need this," "you are very powerful, just this snowy mountain child" the blond woman with admiration, "my name is Katie, he is Sister, is our captain, we want to climb this mountain, but also want to be safe down, you can help us, of course we will pay you enough money" Westerners' feelings are very open, and very straightforward, Zhuo Chuan only see this from the network and books, instead of Eastern women, it is difficult to directly show this to a stranger.Zhuo Chuan just wanted to refuse, but turned around, or promised to come down, when a person, there is no difficulty, increase some people's words, is not equivalent to the scene difficulty increased?"OK" Zhuo Chuan does not care about what remuneration, but by the way, it can be some supplement, after all, now he has a tight time, many times to spend money to save time."Very well, if you are with you, we don't have to worry about this time," Katie is very happy, although she is only 26 years old this year, but also has a ten-year history of mountaineering, knowing the dangers of mountaineering, especially when down the mountain, when people's energy is too much, often more prone to accidents.In May 1998, American mountaineer Frances Astif became the first American woman to climb Mount Everest without auxiliary oxygen, but she fell 244 meters below Everest on the way down the mountain due to lack of oxygen.At that time, there were other mountaineering groups passing by her, but under harsh conditions, they could not bring her back to the base, and they gave up the summit to move the rescuers, but everyone knew that she could not insist on the rescuers.So the woman left the last sentence: "Please don't throw me" and died.So here to meet a skilled mountaineer, women's physical strength and endurance are poor, she can not help each other for help.