Chapter 372 Mountain
On the bench in the waiting hall, tall oxygen tanks were piled up together to form a small hill. Next to it sat a young man wearing a black baseball cap. People coming and going in the hall all looked at the hill curiously.
At this time, a young man suddenly walked up to the man in the baseball cap and asked nervously, "Excuse me, are these oxygen tanks for sale? My grandfather is feeling a little unwell. Can you make them cheaper? Three hundred is really too expensive."
Bifang looked up at the old man who was having trouble breathing on the bench on the other side, grabbed a few oxygen cylinders and stuffed them into the young man's hand: "Take it, it's free."
"Ah, thank you, thank you..." The young man took the oxygen tank with a look of surprise and bent down to thank him. However, when he lowered his head, his eyes suddenly met those calm eyes and he became excited. "You, it's you, Fang!"
"Shh!" Bifang stretched out his hand to silence the man, and with his other hand he firmly grasped the young man's wrist and pulled it down suddenly, preventing him from getting up and shouting.
The young man was forced to swallow the second half of the word, but he could not hide his excitement. He bit his lips tightly, and the muscles on both sides of his cheeks trembled slightly.
If there is any young person in China who doesn’t know Fang Shen, then he definitely doesn’t understand what ideals, passion, and adventure are!
"Oh my god, oh my god, is it really Master Fang? I saw the poster on the Langya official website this morning. Are you really going to climb Mount Everest?" The young man asked in a low voice, trying hard to suppress his excitement.
Mount Everest, that’s Mount Everest.
The highest peak in the world, does your idol really want to climb Mount Everest?
The next second, the young man's heart suddenly exploded, and he saw Bifang nodded with his own eyes!
"I'm in transit here. I won't stay too long. I don't want to cause any trouble. Do you understand?"
The young man nodded vigorously: "I understand, I understand!"
"Okay, go find your grandpa. He's been waiting for a long time."
"Thank you, thank you Fang Shen."
The young man's heart was pounding in his chest. The feeling of unexpectedly coming into close contact with his idol was so exciting. That was God Fang, the idol admired by countless young people, and he actually handed him an oxygen tank in person!
Wolves, bears, groups of sharks, ancient creatures, and even armed poachers, one after another, creatures that are terrifying just by hearing about them fell on Fang Shen’s path. This fucking living legend, a life idol!
That's what a man should do! That's what a man should do!
Seeing the young man jumping around with the oxygen tank and returning to his family in excitement, more and more people who felt unwell but could not afford an oxygen tank turned their attention to Bifang. However, before they could get close, a crackling sound was heard.
A towering mountain of oxygen tanks fell down, and two people, one fat and one thin, one tall and one short, suddenly climbed out from the mountain of oxygen tanks. They threw out an empty tank casually, opened the tanks and breathed oxygen in exactly the same movements, and the focused gazes dispersed again.
A small number of humans can be found inside a large number of oxygen tanks.
"Inhale, exhale! Inhale, exhale!"
One fat, one thin, one tall, one short. They breathed evenly and rhythmically, their lungs like a broken bellows. Bifang looked at them speechlessly: "Why don't you go to the hospital? There's really no need to wait here. I'll tell you when the plane arrives."
"No, there are still three hours left. I can hold on! I just need to wait to get on the plane. Besides, I have money! If I had known this, why would I choose the LS route? Why not fly directly from somewhere else? Why must I come to such a high altitude? Isn't this torture?" Yao Jun glared at Bifang. "Besides, how can you be so generous to others! I bought the can!"
"You said you are rich, and the LS to Kathmandu route is the one I specially selected. You definitely don't want to miss it."
Yao Jun scratched his head, not quite understanding. What was so bad about missing a route?
"Any surprises?"
"You'll know when the time comes." Bifang blinked mysteriously and quickly changed the subject, "By the way, did you fall asleep on the plane just now?"
"Hmm? You didn't sleep?"
Bifang suddenly realized, no wonder these two guys reacted as soon as they got off the plane, it turned out to be because of this.
In addition to those who have reactions right after getting off the plane, there are actually quite a few people who don't feel anything when they first arrive in LS, and some may even have the illusion that "I don't have a headache or shortness of breath, I don't have any altitude sickness at all!"
That's because the oxygen content in the blood is still sufficient when you just get off the plane and does not decrease with the increase in altitude.
That night and the next day, as the blood oxygen content decreases, symptoms of altitude sickness such as headache, nausea, shortness of breath, fatigue, and fever will come flooding in.
"But if you sleep, your blood circulation will slow down, and you are sitting, so oxygen cannot be delivered in time. When you wake up after the plane lands and find yourself in a low-oxygen environment, you will easily feel uncomfortable. It looks like you slept soundly, and you may have entered a deep sleep all of a sudden. Otherwise, you should be fine if you can hold on for a few hours."
Yao Jun and Wang Yongbo were listening with great interest, but when they heard the last sentence, they flew into a rage: "It's all because of you. You're in such a hurry. I was busy arranging things for you last night. Of course I was sleepy during the day! You don't have to do anything but talk. Don't you know that we'll run ourselves ragged?"
Bifang shrugged and ignored it. This time they were going to the south slope of Mount Everest, which required reaching Nepal. However, there were no direct flights from Shanghai to Nepal, only from Guangzhou, Kunming, Chengyang, LS and Xiangxiang. Taking the distance and the need to adapt in advance into consideration, they took the route of Shanghai - LS - Nepal.
LS is 3,650 meters above sea level. If people from plains go to LS, they will generally have some altitude sickness. However, Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal, is much better. It is only more than 1,000 meters above sea level, so normal people will have no problem.
At noon, Bifang took the two of them to eat while they were breathing oxygen. They waited until three o'clock in the afternoon when the plane finally landed. The three of them packed their luggage and set off from LS, flying directly to Kathmandu, the capital of Nepal.
Kathmandu, abbreviated as Kathmandu, is the largest city in Nepal. It is located in the Kathmandu Valley, at the confluence of the Bagmati River and the Bishingmati River.
Surrounded by mountains, Kathmandu was founded in 723 and is an ancient city with a history of more than 1,200 years. Many people first learned about this beautiful ancient city through the movie Doctor Strange.
Exquisite architectural art and ancient wood and stone carvings are symbols of Nepal's ancient culture. Successive dynasties built numerous palaces, temples, pagodas and gardens here. The total area is less than seven square kilometers, but it has more than 200 pagodas and temples, and nearly 3,000 large and small temples!
Kadu is located on the southern slope of the Himalayas, providing a natural barrier to shield the city from the cold winds from the north. The city is also facing the warm current of the Indian Ocean to the south, creating a unique geographical environment. The average monthly maximum temperature is no more than 29 degrees Celsius, and the minimum is no more than 2 degrees Celsius. The sun prevails all year round and it is surrounded by green trees, making it an excellent tourist destination.
One of the purposes of Bifang and others after getting off the plane was to meet with Jarrett's photography team here, find a guide company, and then go to the camping site.
On the plane, Wang Yongbo sank comfortably into the seat. When he got back on the plane, he had recovered a lot, without any trace of his previous decadence.
Wang Yongbo was amazed at Bifang who had also spent half a day in LS but was not affected at all. He asked curiously, "You are so good, why do you still need a guide?"
Bifang drew aside the curtains and replied, "You need a permit to climb Mount Everest, and if you want to, you must hire a guide. Although climbing the snowy mountains and crossing the wilderness are both survival in extreme environments, I am not simply trying to survive. If I were just surviving in the mountains, I would naturally not need a guide, but I am not. I want to reach the summit, which are two different concepts. I must know the route to the top of the mountain in advance in order to make a favorable judgment. This is a path explored by countless climbers with their corpses."
The word "corpse" made Wang Yongbo and Yao Jun shudder, as if they had already seen the mountain trail paved with bones under the ice and snow.
Ignore the beauty of Mount Everest. It is not the highest peak at all. It is clearly a towering tombstone!
As the two were joking, Bifang knocked on the porthole with his knuckles: "Watch out, this may be your only chance. I bought a window seat specially."
Yao Jun and Wang Yongbo poked their heads out curiously. The plane was still climbing steadily. Suddenly, the clouds below the plane became thinner, the hazy mist slowly dissipated, and people's pupils dilated rapidly.
That's a mountain!
Big mountains!
At dusk, the Himalayas stretch across the west of the earth, like a natural barrier separating China and Nepal. The light golden edge is bordering the mountains and the sky, so bright that it is dazzling.
But the setting sun could not suppress the light of those stars. Seven iron-blue stars rose in the golden sky, and their light was as cold as newly sharpened iron swords.
They had an incomparable God's perspective of the vast, majestic Hengduan Mountains and Himalayas, and the winding rivers shining with blue light.
The roof of the world was reflected in Bifang's brown pupils. He said softly, "From Chengdu to Kathmandu, via LS, this is the only route in the world that flies over Mount Everest. It is also known as one of the most beautiful routes in the world."
If you depart from Shanghai to LS and change to a flight, you can also take this line, which is why Bifang wants to come to LS. This is the most worthwhile place to fly to Nepal!
"Damn, no wonder you insisted on flying from LS, so this is the reason. It was worth it for me to stay up late to get the ticket !" Yao Jun praised angrily without blinking. Any blink at this moment would turn into a regret in life.
Everyone looked greedily at everything in front of them, even if their eyes were dry and sore.
The last rays of warm light shone between the mountains. Falcons flew across the sky at a rapid speed. Between the valleys, small yellow flowers of unknown species formed a knee-high sea of flowers. Until the intersection of the mountain and the sky was out of sight, the small yellow flowers swayed with the wind, turning over layer of flower tides. The frozen land slowly breathed in the fresh air in this rare thawing season.
"Rainbow, rainbow!" someone suddenly shouted.
Everyone turned their eyes to the sky, even the flight attendants who were used to it couldn't help but cover their mouths and exclaimed.
It was truly a semi-arc of rainbow light, stretching from that golden corner all the way to the distant horizon.
Such a pure color, hanging in the air like a dream, no rainbow I have ever seen in my life has been so stunningly beautiful.
"How can there be a rainbow if it's not raining?" someone asked in surprise.
"It's an ice rainbow!" Bifang's pupils almost expanded to the limit, and his heart was pounding. "Rainbows don't necessarily appear after rain. As long as there are enough small droplets in the air and sunlight, a rainbow may appear. But here is ten thousand meters high, and the air is full of ice crystals. This rare phenomenon can only be seen when the light from the sun passes through the high-altitude cirrus clouds. This is not just a rainbow, it's also a sun dog!"
Yao Jun asked curiously, "Rare, how rare is it?"
"You may only see this once in your life!"
"It's like this here, everything is simple. There is green grass everywhere, and when the sky is clear, you can see blue when you look up. There is a rainbow, and half the sky is filled with its color. It's not like the east, where you can see people everywhere." A Tibetan with rosy cheeks said excitedly.
"There are mountains! There are mountains!" someone else shouted.
Mountain?
Where isn't a mountain?
Everyone was confused and suddenly became stunned.
It's a mountain.
Real mountains!
It was hard to believe their eyes. When the last rays of sunlight shone on the earth, a mountain shrouded in clouds and rising to the sky appeared before them.
The sunlight shines on the top of the mountain, shining golden, and clouds are wandering near the top of the mountain.
Many people on the plane had never imagined that the plane they were on would actually pass by this majestic mountain. When they suddenly saw it at this moment, it was as amazing as a miracle.
“For many landscapes, we can only know what they look like when we see them with our own eyes. Otherwise, they will only remain as they are imagined in our minds.”
"It's the Goddess Peak." Bifang's wildly beating heart suddenly calmed down. It was not that he was not excited, but he was numbed by the tremendous beauty. The warm electric current flowed from his scalp to his toes, and finally turned into cold sweat and discharged from his body with the expansion of every pore.
This is what he most looks forward to, desires most, and wants to stick to most. That is his belief!
“That’s what I’m after.”
Bifang's voice was barely audible, but was still heard by Yao Jun who was standing behind him. Yao Jun looked quietly at the pious expression on Bifang's face, his heart filled with solemnity.
What attracted you to Bifang’s live broadcast room?
I also love the sport and I know many professionals who have made achievements in their fields, but no one has ever given me the same shock as Bifang.
What is the gap between these people and Bifang?
At this moment, Yao Jun finally understood deeply.
It’s great that I didn’t miss any of his live adventures.
Is this what Fang Shen is pursuing?
Wang Yongbo in the front row leaned back in his seat, unable to exert any strength at all. In the past, when he watched Bifang’s live broadcast, he could feel the tension, the fear, and the boiling in his blood.
But I have never been able to experience "beauty" as deeply as I do today.
Is this what adventure is?
Is this nature?
Is this what I lack?
“So beautiful!”
