Chapter 384 Heaven
“Is this really edible?”
Yao Jun held the plastic basin and looked at the sticky food inside. He felt his stomach churning and had no appetite at all.
Bifang picked up the spoon and took a sip. The taste was bland. Moreover, due to the boiling point problem, even after being cooked for a long time, the noodles were still a bit hard. Combined with the mushy vegetables, it felt like uncooked instant noodles mixed with marshmallows. It was indeed difficult to swallow.
[Why does it look like pig food (dog head)?]
[Ah, can't we eat something good? ]
【Let’s eat grilled Tibetan snow chicken! 】
[Let’s not talk about chickens, let’s be civilized]
Rob also sat down with his rice bowl. After a hard day, he didn't care about that. He picked up the rice bowl and gulped down most of it. After finishing, he said, "Every two days, Sherpas will bring fresh bread and vegetables here. They are all sent by our company. They are healthy and nutritious, and they are all free. But there will also be people selling some food, but believe me, those things are not much better and are more expensive."
The supplies here are all transported from long distances, so whether it is a pancake or an egg, the price is extremely high, and it is not surprising that it is ten times the price. And even so, they are still scarce. Being able to eat a bowl of white porridge makes people feel very happy.
Yao Jun sighed, knowing that he couldn't expect too much, so he picked it up and drank it all in one gulp. After finishing, he smacked his lips and looked at the Sherpa beside him: "Did you add salt? Why does it taste so bland?"
The Sherpa was confused, dipped his little finger into the plate, and then nodded affirmatively.
"Hey, that's strange, why doesn't it taste salty at all?" Yao Jun scratched his head.
"Because the high altitude will make your sense of taste dull." Bifang drank a bowl of sticky food, which also tasted bland, as if there was no oil or water. It was very unpleasant, but in order to replenish energy, these things still had to be eaten intact.
"When people are in a low-pressure state, their blood supply will change, and the sensitivity of their brain nerves will change accordingly. Once the sensitivity of the brain nerves that perceive taste changes, the taste will be different from that in a normal environment. It will be about 30% lighter. The Sherpas live here all the time and are used to it. We just came here, so naturally we are not used to it."
"In addition, there are also reasons for smell, but in our perception of taste, smell accounts for up to 80%. Olfactory cells can only work better in a humid environment. Now we are gathered around the oven. Although it is warm, dryness is inevitable. The combination of the two makes the taste lighter."
At present, the scientific community generally agrees that there are only sour, sweet, bitter, salty and fresh tastes, plus in 2015, scientists at Purdue University in the United States confirmed the sixth taste.
These taste molecules will be captured by the tongue, which will then transmit information to the brain and "tell" the tongue what the food tastes like.
At the same time, the sense of smell is also one of the weapons for catching things, but nowadays the brain and nose are much duller, so it is naturally impossible for them to produce too many smells normally. This is why airplane meals are generally unpalatable.
"Doesn't it mean that the food gets less tasty the higher you go?" Yao Jun looked shocked?
Bifang shrugged: "Do you really think you're here for vacation? It's good enough to have something to eat. We can't even send supplies up there."
Yao Jun felt a little suffocated, and his mouth was full of air. He waved his hands in disappointment: "Hey, I'm a little short of oxygen again, I'll take a rest first. I heard from Rob that we have to train tomorrow."
Everyone smiled at each other, quickened their eating speed, then spread out their sleeping bags next to the fireplace and crawled inside.
Bifang was the last one. He then said good night to the audience and was about to go to bed, but he saw many audience members calling him. He just lay down halfway and then raised his body again.
[Old Fang, your furnace is not extinguishable? ]
[Yes, there is no crack in your tent, right? Won't you get poisoned? ]
【How come Lao Fang also stumbled? 】
"Oh, this." Bifang casually pulled out a fire stick, opened the stove and flipped it over. Unexpectedly, not only did the fire not go out, but a lot of fuel was added. Then he smiled and said, "How could I forget such a thing? But what is burned here is not coal, but biomass pellets. This thing is made of firewood, straw and other biomass briquettes. There is no tar when burning, and the smoke and dust emissions are also low. The excess is discharged to the outside through the smoke pipe. There is no smoke and odor, clean and hygienic, and more environmentally friendly than coal. It burns fully and there is no such thing as carbon monoxide, so there is no need to worry."
[Emm, hugging my little earthen kang, I have learned something new]
[There are so many tricks. I envy the rich guys. Seeing Fang Shen spend hundreds of thousands of dollars, I am so jealous that my teeth are broken.]
[What's the big deal? You have to know that he spent your money. Isn't his climbing the same as yours? You will also be the man who climbed Mount Everest without oxygen.]
【I am Leopard Head Zero Charge! 】
[Speaking of which, Sir Alex is so persistent that he can still go to the base camp at the age of 90. The last time I went to xz, I almost died. It turns out that age has nothing to do with being a loser. I am the only one who is not.]
Bifang was amused by the liveliness of the audience, and they chatted for a while before finally going off the air.
Before going to bed, I looked at the number of people in the live broadcast room and found that the peak today had reached 2.45 million, which is cause for celebration.
My challenge to Mount Everest hasn’t officially started yet. I’m just chatting and enjoying the scenery, but I’ve already received the same number of viewers as during my usual peak live broadcast hours.
It seems that the arrival of Sir Alex Ferguson did play a significant role. The host of Animal World came to Fang Shen's live broadcast room, and the news spread from one person to ten, and from ten to a hundred, and even attracted many people who never watched live broadcasts, just to see with their own eyes what kind of live broadcast could attract Sir Alex Ferguson to join.
Bifang closed his eyes with satisfaction. After this live broadcast, he would have a lot more wilderness points, at least three hundred, which was at least a high-level equipment.
The plan is passed.
the next day.
"I can't do it anymore. You guys go. If I climb again, I will be disabled." Wang Yongbo took a deep breath of oxygen and said with dark circles under his eyes.
Wang Yongbo didn't sleep well last night. He had to breathe oxygen from time to time. Even when he fell asleep, he felt as if something was pressing on his chest in his dreams. He felt extremely uncomfortable. If he continued to climb, he might really die on Mount Everest.
It was already extremely difficult for him to travel a long distance to the camp at an altitude of nearly 6,000 meters. Going further up, although the vertical altitude was only 3,000 meters, how much distance was left to walk?
Climb up the Jiuhuang Mountain in Beichuan on foot? It's only about 2,000 meters high. You can imagine how difficult the rest of the journey would be. It's simply not something he could do. If he really climbed up, everyone would have to distract themselves to take care of him, which would be bad.
As for the rest of the journey, Bifang plans to advance step by step, and finally wait for the weather forecast at an altitude of 7,900 meters. Once the weather is suitable, they will reach the summit before 2 pm and then return.
Bifang scratched his eyebrows. He was expecting Wang Yongbo to give up. “Then do you want to go back first? Rob will go up with us. At this time, no other guide team will go down the mountain. If you want to go down, you can only go down with the Sherpa who brought the food.”
Wang Yongbo waved his hand: "It's okay, I'll wait for you here. It's more than 5,000 meters. I feel fine. Just ask the porter to bring me more oxygen cylinders."
After saying that, Wang Yongbo turned on the oxygen concentrator beside him and skillfully inserted the oxygen tube into his nose, as if he were a seriously ill ICU patient, and looked at Bifang with some amusement.
Shaking his head, everyone ignored him and followed Rob on the training. Today they would first go to the pass, and then conduct a series of training, return to the camp to rest at night, and then continue to move forward the next day, striving to reach the second base camp.
Time is tight, but there is nothing that can be done about it. Bifang and others arrived late, so the main training ground can only be changed to the third camp.
As a result, as soon as they left the camp, Yao Jun ran into trouble. He grabbed Bifang and looked constipated.
Bifang was confused: "What's wrong?"
Yao Jun's face flushed red, he looked around, and after a long while he asked, "Is there a toilet here?"
Bifang pointed speechlessly at the gravel formation beside him.
Yao Jun was extremely embarrassed. He looked at the extremely spacious gravel array and almost died on the spot. Brother, you are still broadcasting live, and you let me stay here?
But when the whole team stopped because of Yao Jun's toilet problem, he felt embarrassed and had to take the toilet paper and find a big stone in the gravel.
It was definitely a unique kind of outdoor defecation. Yao Jun had experienced outdoor defecation before, but what was different from his experience in China was that he used to find bushes and other cover to block the view outdoors, so the vision was not very wide. But there were no bushes here in the gravel array, so he could only find a big rock to hide behind. Although it could block the group members' view, the space behind his buttocks was very wide, and the view was at least 2 to 5 kilometers away.
This means that people 2 to 5 kilometers behind can see him. Is there anything more exciting than this?
This is the first time I enjoy spending my youth under such a vast sky. What else could I ask for?
When the team regrouped and headed to the pass, they encountered Tibetan snowcocks again. Unfortunately, they did not stop this time. They took two photos and continued on their way.
After walking up a comfortable gentle slope, everyone entered the gravel formation. These scattered stone formations were the masterpieces left behind by the movement of the glacier.
"Start climbing the slope immediately and check your crampons. Don't be careless. We are already above the snow line here and it is very dangerous." After walking two hundred meters, Rob said, panting.
Everyone stopped to check, and Bifang tapped the crampons on his feet to show them to the audience. Many viewers who had no mountaineering experience only then realized that a pair of claw-like attachments had appeared on Bifang's hiking boots.
"I use full-claw professional crampons, which require shoes to have crampon slots. The advantage of full-claw crampons is that they are very stable after being fixed, not easy to loosen, and are relatively free and convenient to put on and take off. But the disadvantage is that if the shoes are made with crampon slots, then the soles need special reinforcement. The soles will be very hard and heavy, and difficult to make, resulting in the overall price of the shoes not being too low. I didn't install them yesterday, but today we are already above the snow line, so I have to install them."
Rob pointed to the footsteps not far ahead and said, "Because there are many ice crevices nearby, it is very dangerous, so we can only follow the footprints of our predecessors."
The group followed the traces and soon came to a huge rock. They then climbed up at an angle of nearly 60 degrees. Hail began to fall from the sky at some point and the only thing they could hear was their own overloaded breathing.
The environment was really harsh, with thin and dry air, temperatures of minus five or six degrees, extremely strong ultraviolet rays, and a tired and cold body. One could only rely on willpower to keep going.
The snow on the ground was getting more and more, and thicker. Just when everyone was about to give up, a vast expanse of white snow came into view.
Rob raised his head, made the sign of the cross on his chest, and said excitedly: "We're here, the pass!"
Once you reach the top of the pass, your view suddenly opens up, and you can even see the entire rolling mountain range through this natural window.
Bifang finally saw the snow-capped mountains in the distance and the endless sand below the mountains.
Pull out the altimeter.
5814M There is no city above the county level higher than this pass. The highest XZSH County is only 5000 meters. Now, they are much higher than most humans. At the same time, there are no permanent residents on the earth at this altitude. The oxygen content in the air is only about 50% of that in the capital. But there is one advantage.
There is no haze at all.
The air is cold but extremely fresh, as if what is inhaled into the lungs is not air but water.
Standing here, Bifang can clearly see a large pit across the earth. It is the lakebed of a large lake - Duoqing Co. The snow-capped mountain behind Duoqing Co is the Zhuomulari Snow Mountain with an altitude of more than 7,000 meters.
On the dried-up lake, violent winds blew rain and gravel across the ground. Everyone looked toward the snow-capped mountains and found that the clouds behind them were rushing towards the low-lying passes between the peaks like a tide. Those were water vapor from the distant Indian Ocean, and they were trying to cross the highest mountains in the world. Although they successfully climbed over the peaks, they gradually dissipated not far from the pass.
Everyone stretched out their hands, as if they could feel the moist moisture.
Attenborough was a little blinded by the ultraviolet rays, but he could still make out. He smiled innocently and joyfully like a child and said, "Behind the snow-capped mountains is Bhutan, and around the snow-capped mountains is the mysterious Yadong Valley. I have been there before and was shocked. This side of the snow-capped mountains is dry sand, and only the most drought-resistant plants can survive in such an extreme environment; and on the other side of the pass are humid foothills covered with clouds all year round. Most of XZ is on the north side of the Himalayas, with a climate dominated by high-altitude desert or dry-warm river valley climate. Although the species are special, they are not rich. However, the Himalayas are deeply cut by rivers with several grooves, and water vapor diffuses and rises along the valleys, creating It has created a completely different climate from the surrounding area, and many subtropical and even tropical plants are able to grow to higher altitudes along the warm and humid environment created by water vapor. The temperature and humidity changes caused by the huge altitude difference from the peak to the valley make the plant community here extremely varied and the species extremely rich. The high mountains between the valleys serve as natural barriers and form geographical isolation, which makes the plant species here drastically differentiated, and many narrowly distributed species appear. For various reasons, the valleys in the Himalayas have become the most biodiverse area in the entire XZ, and have also become the most attractive plant holy land in China. I was really excited when I went there, it was simply heaven! "
The lord was dancing with joy at this moment. He had been to both sides of the mountain, but he had never been to the top of the mountain to look down at both sides. The magnificent scenery even made the trekking pole in his hand fall off and fall straight down the ice slope into the valley.
