60 years ago, the body of flesh and blood became a "Chinese ladder"
Our reporter Bai Bo
Sixty years ago, at 4:20 in the morning on May 25, 1960, it was a moment that all Chinese people will always remember.
After two difficult months and two months, members of the Chinese mountaineering team, Wang Fuzhou, Kampot and Qu Yinhua, conquered Mount Everest, the world ’s highest peak, for the first time from the northern slope. This moment shocked China and shocked the world.
Sixty years later, on May 27, 2020, the Chinese Mount Everest elevation survey mountaineering team once again completed the feat of reaching the summit and measuring Mount Everest, setting a new record.
A few days ago, our reporter interviewed the descendants of two mountaineering heroes Wang Fuzhou and Shi Zhanchun (the captain of the Chinese mountaineering team at that time). At this particular time, they asked them to review the glory of their fathers.
"My father never talked about work at home. For me, mountaineering was his job since I was young, and there are not many special concepts." Wang Yizhou's daughter Wang Yi recalled that until 2005, she was translated as a Chinese-Japanese women's joint mountaineering team. It was only at the foot of Mount Everest that I really felt the greatness of my parents for the first time.
"The elevation of Mount Everest Base Camp is 5200 meters. We climbed up for a while, and everyone walked quite naturally. Suddenly, I felt that I was" lost ", and there was a big heart left." This is a mountain reaction, safe. In view of this, Wang Yi quickly withdrew.
"It's just over 5,000 meters. Imagine what it would be like over 8,000 meters? The oxygen on it may be only one-third of that on the flat ground. At this moment I realized that their group of people was amazing."
The conditions of Everest Base Camp were already perfect in 2005, even "luxury". Not only do they have beds, they even have bathtubs, and mountaineers can soak in the sun. However, in 1960, when the conditions were behind, every decision made by Chinese mountaineering team members could set a record in human history.
"There is no tent to spend the night at an altitude of more than 8000 meters. They are definitely the first. No one has done this." On the night of May 3, 1960, the mountaineers were in the "insurmountable" How did you spend the second step on Mount Everest? Shi Yan, the son of the Chinese mountaineering team leader Shi Zhanchun, confided to the media for the first time-
The Chinese mountaineering team climbed to the end of the third march of Mount Everest for the first time. Some members left the "Assault Camp" to establish the final charge at an altitude of 8500 meters. Shi Zhanchun and Wang Fengtong (who were members of the Chinese mountaineering team) went on to find the route to the peak of the assault. .
Not far away is the "second step". This is a steep rock wall, nearly 30 meters high, with an average slope of 60 to 70 degrees, which is equivalent to a seven or eight storey building. Twenty or thirty years ago, British mountaineers collapsed here many times, failing.
It was already night when Shi Zhanchun and Wang Fengtong climbed to the top of the "Second Step". If they want to move forward, they must climb a vertical, smooth cliff over 3 meters high. It was dark all around, not going up and down, and not coming down, so I could only spend the night here and wait for the dawn.
"My father hasn't eaten anything for three or four days at this time, so he eats snow. After a long period of weight-bearing, the physiological reaction is very strong, and oxygen is also reluctant to use ..." Shi Yan said, in order to survive, it was even more thorough to see the peak after dawn. Road, the two decided to dig a hole in a snow bag beside them.
The snow cave just fits two people. Under the severe cold of minus 40 degrees Celsius, without taking a breath of oxygen from the oxygen cylinder, Shi Zhanchun and Wang Fengtong hugged tightly together ... This night, they created a miracle in the history of human climbing.
20 days later, when the summit commando composed of Wang Fuzhou, Kampot, Qu Yinhua and Liu Lianman launched their final charge along the route that Shi Zhanchun proved, the last barrier in front of them was more than 3 meters from the top of the "second step" High cliffs.
The four people have continued to march for 8 days in the fourth march, and their physical exertion is huge. They failed to climb up after seven or eight trials. Liu Lianman was born as a firefighter and suddenly thought of a way to set up a ladder.
In order to steadily step on Liu Lian's shoulders, Qu Yinhua first took off the mountain boots, and then took off the socks. The severe cold at an altitude of 8700 meters caused Qu Yinhua's toes and heels to be frozen and removed, and Liu Lianman also fell behind due to physical overdraft. After more than three hours of hard work, Wang Fuzhou, Kampot, and Qu Yinhua reached the top of the "second step."
When the Chinese mountaineering team summited Mount Everest for the second time in 1975, a pair of metal ladders were erected here. This is the "Chinese ladder". Before entering the museum in 2008, the Chinese Ladder helped more than 1,300 climbers from all over the world realize their dream of conquering Mount Everest.
"The practical significance of the Chinese ladder is far from the ladder of a few meters, but all these people who are willing to be people. The original" Chinese ladder "is the ladder of flesh and blood. Marshal He Long said that Chinese mountaineering is moving forward by the power of the whole country. It is the national power of the Chinese people that helped the three heroes to conquer Mount Everest. The glory of climbing Mount Everest belongs to all Chinese. Unity and hard work are the real Chinese ladders, "Shi Yan said.