Speaking of snow mountain climbers, people must have such an image in their minds: wrapped in thick winter clothes, wearing dark goggles, and leaning on a cane, slowly but firmly descending from the snowy ridge Walking up, step by step, step by step...
Sula Wangping, born in Heishui County, Aba, Sichuan, is a representative figure of Chinese folk mountaineering.
On May 15, 2019, under his leadership, a group of 15 people overcame numerous difficulties and finally succeeded in reaching the summit of Mount Everest at 8,848 meters.
They were the first team to reach the summit of Mount Everest that year.
Sula Wang Ping's team climbed Mount Everest.
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Since then, Sura Wang Ping has gained a resounding nickname "Captain Everest" in the local area.
Later, their deeds were also filmed into the film documentary "Captain Everest".
At present, the film documentary has completed all post-production and is in the review stage. It is expected to be released around May this year.
After his dream reached the summit of Mount Everest, "Captain Everest" Sura Wang Ping admitted in an interview with a reporter from China News Agency that his biggest dream now is that the documentary film "Captain Everest" can be released as soon as possible; the other is to expand the team. With more than 100 people, the mountaineering career will be bigger and stronger, and it will also bring more job opportunities and income-generating channels to the hometown.
Sula Wang Ping's team climbed Mount Everest.
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The "high light" moments of mountain warriors
Mount Everest is not only the highest peak in the world, but also the highest point that climbers eternally pursue.
Being able to stand on the top of the world, standing on the highest point, is by no means a goal that can be achieved on a whim, nor is it a glory that can be obtained by chance.
Sula Wang Ping was born in a small village at the foot of San'ao Snow Mountain in Heishui County, Aba, Sichuan.
At the age of 23, an investigation by the Chinese Mountaineering Association to San'ao Snow Mountain gave him his first contact with climbing, starting his mountaineering journey and completing the climbing of the highest peaks in Asia and Africa.
Sula Wang Ping's team climbed Mount Everest.
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The time goes back to Nepal time from 8 am to 14 am on May 15, 2019. At the summit of Mount Everest at 8,848 meters above sea level, under the leadership of Sura Wang Ping, 15 climbers of the Sichuan-Tibet Mountaineering Team safely avoided the harsh Troubled by factors such as weather and congestion on dangerous road sections, the summit of Mount Everest has been one after another.
On the second day, they returned home from Kathmandu by plane and safely returned to Chengdu, Sichuan.
It is Sula Wang Ping's dream to reach the summit of Mount Everest, and this time it is his "highlight moment".
Since then, he has a resounding nickname "Captain Everest" locally.
Whenever recalling this experience, Sula Wang Ping's eyes are full of pride.
The documentary "Captain Everest" movie poster.
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"Captain Everest" released in May this year
After reaching the summit of Mount Everest, Sula Wang Ping’s team not only runs daily climbing services, but more importantly, they are intensively shooting the film documentary "Captain Everest". They hope to condense the climbing experience into this film documentary. in.
This film documentary tells about the various difficulties faced by the climbing team led by Sula Wang Ping in the process of climbing Mount Everest, and reproduces the experience of Sula Wang Ping's team ascending Mount Everest for the first time.
At the same time, the film documentary also described the team climbing Sanao Snow Mountain, Siguniang Mountain, Tianhaizi Mountain, Queer Mountain, Muztagata, Manaslu and other famous peaks from 5,000 meters to 8,000 meters. The hard work of climbing the world's extremely high mountains...
Sula Wang Ping's team climbed Mount Everest.
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The film documentary will record every bit of the Mount Everest climb through precious lenses, and use drones for aerial photography for the first time, presenting the beauty of Mount Everest and the difficulties of climbing in front of the audience from a new perspective.
Sura Wang Ping revealed that at present, the film documentary has completed all post-production and is in the stage of submission for review. It is expected to be released around May this year.
Sula Wang Ping's team climbed Mount Everest.
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The big dream of "Captain Everest"
"If my father hadn’t asked me to study cultural knowledge, or if I met a professional mountaineering team by chance, I wouldn’t have come out of the mountain." Sura Wang Ping said in an interview with reporters that his team currently has 50 Most of the remaining team members were brought from hometown by him, and some came from poor families.
"We must lead them to continuous training, but also to learn cultural knowledge, improve business quality and cultural level."
According to Sula Wangping, although mountaineering is currently only a niche market, the future market prospects are quite large.
In particular, as the countdown to the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics enters the countdown, it will surely bring "new winds" for climbing icebergs and snow-capped mountains.
A few years ago, he revealed that the rewards of mountain guides are relatively high, and the fees for mountaineering services increase with the increase in altitude and difficulty.
Generally speaking, the price for a customer to climb more than 5,000 meters of San'ao Snow Mountain is about 4,000 yuan, while the price for climbing Mount Everest is between 350,000 and 450,000 yuan.
Sula Wang Ping's team climbed Mount Everest.
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Sura Wang Ping said that his biggest dream now is to hope that the film documentary "Captain Everest" will be released as soon as possible; the other is to encourage more people from his hometown to join, expand the team to more than 100 people, and make the mountaineering career bigger. Strong, it also creates more employment opportunities and income-generating channels for people in their hometown.
Author: Wanggui Hong Kim Woo Han Peng single