Hill is there but there is death

"Why do you want to climb Mount Everest? "("Why do you want to climb Mount Everest?" ）

"Because it's there. "("Because it's there." ）

In 1923, the United Kingdom Mountaineer George Mallory (George Mallory) and the United States the New York Times a conversation became schooled many extreme sports enthusiasts in a century's classic motto. Hu Wu Lei I grew up watching you play

Now, this sentence words in of subject from "it" into has "mountain", "because mountain on in there" became how many some tacky of heart chicken soup taste, in author recently see of two Department on climbing Everest of movie in, it are appeared has--Himalayan ladder must life elevation, former is Department documentary, which is is Department has documentary style of feature film, two Department movie are put Everest took have is beauty, two Department movie itself of quality is remarkable. Only limited to shooting position, two films for commercial mountaineering, some say.

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Movie stills of the zero altitude. China Visual

First sentence, Mallory himself died on the way to climb Mount Everest, about whether he is successful in 1924 the last challenge, still unsolved case of the century.

To come back to the ladder and the zero altitude in the Himalayas, which are essentially talking about how to train a qualified Wizard of Everest documentary, which is about as qualified Everest how Wizard story by cheating customers.

It is said that filming the Himalayan ladder originated: located in the rongbuk monastery on the Northern foot of Mount Everest, 5100 meters above sea level is the highest elevation on Earth Temple, agusangjie is the only temple monks, the embodiment of his Everest as dakinis, that humans should not disturb her, but his son is a graduate of "the Tibet mountaineering school" mountain guide. In 2010, the producer Lei j j to shoot has just returned from the Summit of Everest base camp entrepreneur Wang Shi, met the son of agusangjie, who tuoleijianjun a scripture to its parent. So Redknapp on trip to rongbuk monastery, let them make a full record of Everest documentary ideas.

The zero elevation taken from a mountain on May 10, 1996, the core team was two commercial expeditions: from New Zealand led by the famed guide Rob Hall "expedition advisory" (Adventure Consultants) company's commercial team, as well as by the United States of sikete·feisheer's "mountain madness" (Mountain Madness) company's team. In the two teams other than the wizard were amateur outdoor sports enthusiasts. In 2014, the Everest avalanche Mount Everest before the worst accident in the history of mountaineering. Total of 8 climbers dead, two of them climbing experience Wizard failed to survive. Disaster due to two top team competition, led to climb to the top of the road block, 34 were trapped by a snowstorm, and the tragedy took place.

In the ladder in the Himalayas, described commercial mountaineering is not much, but it is particularly interesting when the couple finally climbed to the top of Mount Everest, next to the Tibetan guide in photography with a Chinese urged them to hurry, then drove them down. The zero altitude as if to explain why the Tibetan guide so worried because, if you miss the window period, would experience what kind of crisis.

So, why do you want to climb Mount Everest?

Movie stills of the ladder in the Himalayas. China Visual

A couple of weeks ago, the Himalayan ladder had organized several meet with creators of mapping field, after mapping the Exchange session, one wizard in the film was asked similar questions: "can you climb Mount Everest as I age? "The impression the wizard always answer" Yes ".

Once, I took after the meeting that the uncle asked if he could climb Mount Everest, he looks a little middle-aged spread, "do you really want to climb Mount Everest? "I asked.

"Yes, this is my dream for years. "Uncle replied.

"Why is Everest? "

"Because the mountain is there. "Uncle can say that famously smug himself.

The zero altitude has a similar plot, at the Everest base camp, also asked the question, same answer, "because the mountain is there. "Then the questioner was urgent," it's not the reason you wanted to climb Mount Everest. "

The zero altitude is adapted from the into the thin air strip (Into Thin Air), this book since its publication, English version sold millions, and was translated into 25 languages in publications around the world, known as the "climber's Bible". It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize, was named time magazine book of the year, has long taken when the New York Times best-seller list for up to 52 weeks. The book author, United States writer qiaoen·kelakaoer as outdoor magazine correspondent following the Mt Everest led by Rob Hall, was one of the survivors of that mountain.

But compare the into thin air strip of the zero elevation, both for rendering of mountain is not the same. In the movie, the rescuer faces human choices, real people compete by rescuers and another chance of survival, jilted despair, frustration or resentment, these dramas are lightly skips over. Rendering out of, with a sentence saying, is restore they these people is how "not for died on not died" of, like Luobu·Haer led of "for died team", he led of players, some tempered, some persistent, some even ice claw how wear are not, Luobu·Haer himself also non-to meet customer of requirements, had has window period top, led to eventually tragedy of occurred. Finally, the "giving money is big," the Texans actually survived and really really looking angry.

Centuries of world geography and discovery, to explore the unknown Western high society fashion first, then as the middle class grows, Europe and the United States for all sectors of the pursuit of fashion, the trend since the 20th century, after the explosive development of science and technology, many people on the adrenaline. However many people only know the mountains there, ignoring the deaths there. Not every adventurer deserves in history. Today, almost every Hill has commercial mountaineering company at a price, as tourists seem to you, just click the mouse, the next moment in the top circle of friends.

So, if you want to climb the heights of what, across the Valley, before the swim across the Strait, first take a look of the zero altitude, not the author of this risks looking petty and saying "paying for sins" such as acid. If there is no reverence, if only to want to show off in front of people in future, and that it was too late to stop it. Web search with famous mountains in China, and one of them is wearing shoes to climb the snow-capped mountains.