Before the New Year in 2021, the Gangbaying Changlong Border Defense Company of a border defense regiment of the Tibet Military Region organized a patrol of a glacier at an altitude of 5,943 meters.
In order to learn more about border patrols, the headquarter reporters followed the border guards and soldiers to exclusively record this patrol road.
No matter how tired it is, no one will shrink
This is a patrol road with an average altitude of more than 5500 meters. The foot is full of gravel and snow. It cannot be called a "road" at all.
Coupled with the high altitude and lack of oxygen, the reporter was left behind due to lack of physical strength after less than half an hour of departure.
Headquarters reporter Guan Meilu: I
feel very dry and bloody in my throat.
The company commander explained that soldiers who have just come to the plateau often react, even for an "old Tibet" like him, the road is not easy.
The platoon leader Solang Dundup had just arrived in the company less than a month, and he had altitude sickness when he set foot on this patrol road for the first time because of lack of physical strength.
Wang Xu, commander of the Changlong Border Defense
Company of a certain
regiment of the Tibet Military Region Border Defense:
We even have several mountain passes, and the average altitude of the several mountain passes each time we arrive is above 5,000 meters.
The altitude of our other mountain pass should be 6800 meters.
There is only one path from the foot of the mountain, and there are many rocks falling on the mountain after the wind blows.
So when we get there, the first thing is to pass quickly, but it's difficult to go fast on the plateau, and the ice is also more dangerous; if it snows, we must change the way and step on it very firmly.
Headquarters reporter Guan Meilu: The altitude is a bit high. Walking for 5 minutes here is like walking for 30 minutes in Beijing.
Wang Xu, company commander of the Changlong Border Defense Company of Gambaying, a border defense regiment of the Tibet Military Region: High altitude is like moving forward with a heavy load.
Stick to one step, stick to one more step.
This is what the soldiers encouraged each other in the harsh environment.
For them, every step is a responsibility.
"I would rather go forward ten steps and die, never go back half a life", no one will shrink back, all are walking forward.
The logistics are guaranteed and life is not hard!
After staying in Tibet for a long time, the skin of many soldiers grew red, and their hair fell off a lot.
But if you ask them if life here is suffering, they will answer in unison: No suffering.
Wang Xu, company commander of the Changlong Border Defense Company of Gambaying, a border defense regiment of the Tibet Military Region:
Hair falls easily, but I have more hair.
Isn't it stressful?
It just feels like Gamba soldiers, it's nothing, the environment is difficult is hard.
But none of our fighters felt bitter, and they all thought it was good.
I don't know how long I have been walking, and finally it's time to eat.
This year, the soldiers ate a new-style self-heating box lunch, with curry chicken, pork with pickled vegetables, rice and noodles.
Wang Xu, commander of the Changlong Border Defense Company of a Gamba Camp of the Tibet Military Region Border Defense:
I have been here for eight years. In the ninth year of this year, I still feel that a lot has changed. The ones we used to eat were really not good, but they could be eaten. full.
It is not enough to eat, but to eat well.
I think the country is relatively strong now.
Our current border defense infrastructure, security capabilities, housing conditions, patrol conditions, and warmth are generally good.
All officers and soldiers of the Gamba Border Defense Battalion wish the great motherland prosperity and the people of the whole country a Happy New Year, Tashi Delek.
Patrol this time
10 kilometers round trip, 18 kilometers on foot
Walked for 8 hours
The company commander told us
The company’s patrol line is 59 kilometers long
This patrol road takes an average of three or four days
This year, he has walked more than 500 kilometers
No matter how hard, no matter how hard, no matter how tired, I have to go down
Because of China's territory
There must be Chinese footprints
Producer丨Zhang Wei, Tang Yi, Lu Yi
Producer丨Zhang Jianqing, Zheng Hong
Planning丨Liu Xiaoyu, Guan Meilu, Yu Jun
Reporter丨Liu Xiaoyu Gao Dongxing Guan Meilu Liu Zhidan Chen Qi Yu Peng Zheng Kun Li Gang Wang Gan Xu Rongfeng Lu Yapeng Liu Hongzhong Xu Jiajun
Late stage丨Wang Yiran
Vision丨Xing Cheng
Editor丨Yang Xiaohan