[Xinjiang Story] Retired teachers in Xinjiang have been "obsessed" in mountaineering for more than 30 years and have climbed Mount Everest

  [Concurrent] Folk mountaineering enthusiast Wang Tienan

  Mountain climbing is not a great thing, it is a way of life, a way of life that I pursue in my life.

  [Commentary] His name is Wang Tienan. He is 65 years old this year. He is a retired teacher of a college in Xinjiang and the first person to successfully climb Bogda Peak in China.

Since his first mountaineering in 1989, Wang Tienan has successfully climbed the summits of Mount Everest, Muztag, Bogda and other peaks in more than 30 years of mountaineering experience, and his footprints are all over the land of Xinjiang.

The 1997 climb of Bogda Peak, although not successful, left a deep impression on Wang Tienan.

  [Concurrent] Folk mountaineering enthusiast Wang Tienan

  After I arrived at the base camp of Bogda Peak, I got a very serious mountaineering disease. This disease is called alpine pulmonary edema.

This is also a coincidence. I ran into two herders on the night of the illness. They came up to pick snow lotus. They rode two horses. Our teammates blocked the herdsmen and asked the horses to carry me down. I didn’t have any consciousness when I got on and off the horse. , I was in a coma. After arriving at Tianchi, I only woke up after the altitude was low. This time (climbing) Bogda Peak taught me a painful lesson.

  [Explanation] In the following year, Wang Tienan devoted himself to physical recovery, and at the same time strengthened the learning of mountaineering skills and alpine medicine.

Finally, in 1998, Wang Tienan and two other teammates again decided to climb Bogda Peak, but that time an accident happened again.

  [Concurrent] Folk mountaineering enthusiast Wang Tienan

  When the two of us were relatively close, I saw that his chest was full of blood, and his mouth was full of blood.

After he saw me, neither of us said a word. After he gave me the stove and gas tank he was carrying, he turned around and went down.

At that time, I was very uncomfortable. I felt that this was our team member. He was in great pain. He was spitting blood in his mouth. At that time, I thought, I must take his wish to the top.

  [Explanation] With the wishes of his teammates, Wang Tienan and another teammate launched a sprint towards the summit. Finally, they successfully climbed the Bogda Peak and became the first person in China to summit the Bogda Peak.

Climbing, exploring, crossing mountains and rivers, crossing ice peaks.

Over 30 years of climbing career, Wang Tienan was injured all over, suffered from alpine pulmonary edema, and fractured both legs, but the physical pain failed to stop him from obsessing with a hobby.

  [Concurrent] Xinjiang folk mountaineering enthusiast Wang Tienan

  I have to climb this year, and in May I will go to the Karakoram Mountains and climb the Pamirs.

You can't do without the mountains, and you can't do without these friends who are with the mountains. It can be said that it is still a kind of love to persist for so many years.

  Li Mingfei Li Qiang reports from Urumqi

Editor in charge: [Li Ji]