China News Service, Shenyang, March 22 (Shen Diancheng) The press conference of contemporary artist and mountaineer Sun Yiquan’s fourth climb of Mount Everest was held on March 22 in his hometown of Shenyang.
On May 21, 2019, Sun Yiquan was climbing Mount Everest about 8,700 meters above sea level.
Photo courtesy of Sun Yiquan
Prior to this, Sun Yiquan had successfully climbed Mount Everest three times.
On May 19, 2013, 26-year-old Sun Yiquan climbed the world's highest peak Mount Everest for the first time, becoming the youngest mountaineer in China to climb Mount Everest from the southern slope.
On May 20, 2018, Sun Yiquan reached the summit of Mount Everest for the second time after five years.
On May 21, 2019, Sun Yiquan successfully climbed Mount Everest for the third time, becoming the mountaineer who has climbed Mount Everest from the southern slope the most by Chinese people.
March 22.
Sun Yiquan: About to embark on the fourth journey of climbing Mount Everest.
Photo by Shen Diancheng
Climbing Mount Everest, the highest peak in the world, is Sun Yiquan's lingering dream.
It is understood that due to the impact of the new crown pneumonia epidemic, Sun Yiquan failed to achieve the established fourth Everest climbing plan in 2020, but he still insisted on corresponding training and went to high altitude areas several times to adjust.
On May 19, 2013, 26-year-old Sun Yiquan reached the summit of Mount Everest for the first time.
Photo courtesy of Sun Yiquan
The 2020 China Everest Elevation Survey Mountaineering Team successfully climbed to the summit and China and Nepal jointly announced the new elevation of Mount Everest-88.886 meters.
This world-shocking feat is the best commemoration of the 60th anniversary of the Chinese people's summit of Mount Everest, and also the best commemoration of the 60th anniversary of mankind's summit of Mount Everest from the northern slope. It also aroused Sun Yiquan's ambition to climb Mount Everest again.
On May 20, 2018, Sun Yiquan reached the summit of Mount Everest again after five years.
Photo courtesy of Sun Yiquan
Sun Yiquan said that whether it was 60 years ago or today, the spirit of exploration, responsibility, hard work, teamwork, and idealism carried by the mountaineering spirit presents a long-lasting spiritual guidance and sings a song of hard work. The song of struggle.
On May 21, 2019, Sun Yiquan climbed Mount Everest for the third time, becoming the mountaineer who has climbed Mount Everest from the southern slope the most in China.
Photo courtesy of Sun Yiquan
More than ten years ago, Sun Yiquan met mountaineering unexpectedly. Since then, his artistic creation is inseparable from the experience and perception of mountaineering. As an artist, Sun Yiquan consciously injected the spirit of climbing into his artistic practice. He said that climbing Everest to a new height is a new height for Chinese people to explore and understand the world, and a new height for Chinese people's spirit and dreams. Sun Yiquan’s ideal is to transform the faith of being down-to-earth, hardworking, forging ahead, and bravely climbing into better works of art, striving to convey the spirit and power of contemporary China in every work. (Finish)