Chapter 424 The Last 350 Meters
Why did Fang Shen suddenly stop moving?
The originally moving picture suddenly stopped, until the audience saw a hand that could not reach anything, and then they suddenly realized what was going on.
I didn’t click on it!
Bifang looked up and down. The nearly two-meter-high stone wall above was extremely smooth. It was impossible to grab it even without gloves, let alone with them. There was not a single bulge. If you looked sideways towards the sunlight, you could even see reflections.
In the village, Puba, who was explaining the lesson, looked extremely unhappy: "Oh no, this is going to be difficult."
Wang Yongbo and Yao Jun, who were standing by, became anxious after hearing this: "What do you mean?"
"Generally speaking , if you are doing independent rock climbing, you have to choose the path in advance. Sometimes you will hang yourself down from the cliff and simulate it in your mind to see if there is a safe foothold for each step and whether the protruding rocks are firm."
"So mountaineering requires a guide to determine the route, including the rock climbing route, but Bifang is a solo climber on Mount Everest and has never been to Mount Everest before. He is a complete newcomer on Mount Everest ! There is no one to guide him, so he can only walk on his own. In other words, he tried to open up a new route on this rock wall, but now he has reached a dead end!"
This is why opening up new routes is one of the four great achievements, because you will encounter many such situations in the process.
Maybe there were cracks on the road, or maybe halfway through the climb the rock wall was too smooth and we had to give up and start over.
"There's a Chinese saying that a skilled cook cannot cook without rice. It's impossible to climb a rock wall without a foothold. It's useless to rely on manpower alone, no matter how high the skills are, because that's totally unscientific! Look around, there are no rocks within a radius of more than 1.5 meters. There is a bulge outside, and there is a better route to climb on it, but it's out of reach now!"
As an experienced guide, Phurba is proficient in Chinese, English and Hindi, and can use many idioms with ease. At this moment, he was speaking and typing at the same time, not only explaining it to everyone, but also to the audience.
How do I climb this?
The audience was confused. It sounded like they had no choice but to go down and choose another route, or just take a detour?
In any case, clinging to the rock wall without any safety measures is an extremely physically demanding task, and the more you hesitate, the more dangerous it is.
Not only the bystanders, but Bifang himself felt the pinch.
Many people who climb a peak solo don’t do it solo the first time , but instead climb it once before making the attempt. Only a few climb like Bifang do.
It was my first time here and there was no one to lead me, so I could only walk along the route I could see.
The climbing ability contained in the orange skill is indeed powerful, but it is a skill after all, not a gecko-like suction cup that can grow out of thin air and walk sideways on any smooth wall.
[This is the most hardcore mountaineering I have ever seen]
[Is Lao Fang trying to gather the four great achievements and attain godhood? ]
[This is the Alpine Giant Route]
[Come back, don't hesitate, Lao Fang]
In the live broadcast room, the audience looked at Bifang with admiration but regret. It seemed that they had to start over again.
But the current altitude is already 8501 meters. The "yellow belt" of Mount Everest consumes physical strength. Going down and starting over, or taking a detour, will be a severe test of Bifang's physical strength.
There was no time to think, Bifang looked around and found the rock that Puba mentioned. It was parallel to his gaze, but too far away, more than one and a half meters away from the nearest left hand.
As Purba said, out of reach.
Want to start over?
Bifang shook his head. The consumption at 8,500 meters was greater than he had imagined. Instead of gambling on an unknown future, it would be better to break the rules and choose the present.
A few seconds later, the audience saw Bifang lower his eyes, reach under his neck, pull up half of the mask, and then grab the ice pick hanging on the side of his thigh and bite it in his mouth.
Then he pulled a rope from his bag, tied a knot with one hand, tied it to the end of the ice axe, grabbed the handle, and smashed it hard against the rock wall.
The rock wall was hard and smooth, but not without flaws. At least just above the rock that Bifang was holding with his left hand, there was a crack so small that even a finger couldn't fit in. At this moment, Bifang was smashing it with an ice pick.
The first time, the ice pick didn't hit the target accurately. The second time, it hit the target accurately, but not deeply enough. At this time, the head of the ice pick had begun to deform slightly.
Bifang took a deep breath, and finally, on the third strike, he hit the tip of the pick hard, and the crack that had been frozen for quite some time instantly expanded.
But that was not enough, Bifang shook it hard, pulled out the ice pick, and with a final push, smashed it in hard. The entire front third of the ice pick was completely embedded in the rock wall, shaking up and down, and it was very solid.
What is he going to do?
The audience asked Purba, but he couldn't answer and didn't know the meaning of this action. But soon, everyone was stunned.
His eyes suddenly looked up to the sky, and then calmly looked forward. A strong hand held the ice pick. The next moment, his sight suddenly became vague, and when he looked down, Bifang's feet had left the support point!
He's shaking!
The whole person uses the ice axe as a support point, swinging left and right like a pendulum!
Use shaking to increase distance and get out of trouble!
In a blink of an eye, the audience members who understood what was happening broke out in cold sweat on their palms, as if the hand holding the ice pick was theirs!
madman!
So scary!
Was there not a trace of fear in his mind?
Is this really a human being?
For Bifang "swaying" on Mount Everest, the reason why it looks thrilling is only because of the height. If it were on a flat ground, no one would be shocked. At most, they would sigh that the body is really healthy, which is not even considered strong.
The most important thing is that this method consumes much less physical energy than taking a detour or starting over.
Puba wiped the sweat from his palms and couldn't help but gasp at Bifang's audacity. He would never have dared to think of such a way to break the deadlock. "He is a natural adventurer. In this field, he is the most outstanding person of this era."
[If he had tried his best to climb the mountain in his lifetime, it might have become a miracle, a history, a legend.]
[Don’t challenge someone’s amateurism with your professionalism (laughs)]
[Damn it, it’s a monster among monsters]
【Our role model】
【Fang Shen, yyds! 】
[I was surprised to see the protagonist of Berserk run away for three days. I didn’t expect that reality is even more outrageous than anime! ]
By swaying left and right, the reach of Bifang's arms expanded greatly, and he successfully grabbed the rock protrusion on the other side and stepped on the rock underneath.
With two new fulcrums, Bifang quickly shifted his center of gravity, and finally pulled the rope in his hand, pulling the ice axe little by little, swinging it left and right.
The ice pick was stuck too tightly, and it took Bi Fang a long while to pull it out again and retract it along the rope.
Unfortunately, the two hits just now caused quite a bit of damage to the ice pick, and the originally sharp tip of the pick became much blunter.
After shifting the center of gravity, the road ahead suddenly opened up.
After inserting the ice axe back into the slot on his thigh, Bifang took out the water bag to replenish some water, and then continued climbing.
Fifteen minutes later, the stone wall was climbed over and the slope instantly slowed down.
The last three hundred and fifty meters.
