Chinese lesson 23 in the second volume of the first day of junior high school

On the morning of May 24, the sun was shining, the peak of the pointed cone of Mount Everest stood above the blue sky, and white clouds lingered among the mountains.

At 9: 30 a.m. Beijing time, four young mountaineers-athletes Wang Fuzhou, Liu Lianman, Qu He and first-class athlete Kampot (Tibetan), carrying backpacks and holding ice picks, began to attack the last 380 meters of Mount Everest. Other team members retreated to the camp at 8 100 meters to recharge their batteries, so as to provide all kinds of support to the team members who rushed to the top when needed.

Now, in this ice and snow at an altitude of more than 8,500 meters, these four outstanding China mountaineers, under the traction of a red knot, together with Qi Xin, are marching bravely towards the foggy summit of Mount Everest. In order to reduce the burden on their backs as much as possible, they calculated one by one, and abandoned everything they didn't need for the time being. They only brought oxygen bottles, cold-proof sleeping bags, pencils, diaries, movie cameras and a five-star red flag entrusted by the mountaineering team to take them to the top, as well as a plaster statue of a bust of Mao Zedong about 20 cm high. Even so, their progress is still very slow. Because they have gone through a week of hard March since they went up the mountain on May 17, and their physical strength is huge.

The players who stormed the peak walked for about two hours before they rose about 70 meters. At this time, the "second step" blocked their way.

Commandos climbed the steep rock wall along the route of the third March reconnaissance, braved the cold of MINUS 30 degrees Celsius and wore special alpine boots with steel claws, which made it difficult for them to step on it. The one who bent ahead slipped several times in a row. He was dizzy, his back ached and his legs weighed a thousand pounds, but he gritted his teeth and kept going.

Near the last three meters at the top of the "second step", the rock wall becomes vertical and smooth. At this time, Liu Lianman walked in front of escorting. He put his hand into the crack in the rock, pedaled on the rock surface with his toes, and climbed inch by inch with all his strength. However, due to poor physical strength, the body tilted slightly and fell to the same place with a plop. Liu Lianman climbed four times in a row and fell four times, so tired that his whole body seemed to fall apart.

Everyone must stop and do something. At this moment, Liu Lianman suddenly remembered his experience of successfully climbing the high wall with the help of the "ladder" during his time as a fireman in Harbin. He resolutely squatted down to the front of the rock wall, let others step on his shoulder, then stood up slowly, let others' hands grab the support point at the top of the rock wall and climb up. At this height, the body will have a serious reaction to any small action. Liu Lianman braved the "golden flower" in his eyes, his feet trembled and his breathing became heavy. However, Liu Lianman has been insisting. He lifted Qu up first, and then Kampot. Finally, Wang Fuzhou and Liu Lianman climbed up with the help of the rope lowered from above.

After climbing the top of the "second step", they realized that it took them more than five hours to climb the whole "second step" because of their weakened physical strength, but it took them three hours to climb the last 3 meters of rock wall.

It began to get dark, and the cold wind screamed bitterly.

They thought they would reach the peak before dark, but now it seems that this estimate is obviously wrong. Night is about to become the second obstacle on their way forward. In the last 200-300 meters on the northern slope of Mount Everest, which humans have never reached, it is really difficult to accurately estimate in advance what difficulties they will encounter and how far they will go.

The brave commandos are still moving forward step by step. However, due to the long time in the previous stage, the oxygen cylinder barometer on their backs showed that the oxygen capacity was not much. Moving on may be seriously threatened by lack of oxygen. At this time, Liu Lianman was very weak because of excessive fatigue, and he would fall down unconsciously every step or two, but he stood up slowly and still insisted on moving forward.

It is not only extremely difficult but also quite dangerous to March in the mountains in the dark under the condition of weak body and severe hypoxia. Now, every step they take, how much pain their bodies have to bear! Jan Hesban, the organizer of the British "Everest Committee", wrote in the book "The Adventures of Mount Everest": "The human body suffers no more pain anywhere than a climber on the last day of climbing Mount Everest. ..... Even with perfect physique and exuberant energy, if his courage is not enough to endure the snowstorm of bones, his nerves dare not practice the edge of Cui Wei's hanging rock, and his will can't go forward when sleeping sickness strikes like death, he still can't reach the peak. " For his colleagues in Jan Hesban, his remarks are really reasonable. However, for strong China climbers, what kind of difficulties and obstacles can stop their progress? For the honor of the motherland and the nation, to fulfill the people's entrustment, and to reach the summit in the last good weather cycle before the arrival of the long rainy season in the Himalayas, the four warriors still bravely marched forward and continued to March on the rugged mountain road.

Considering Liu Lianman's physical condition, and in order to gain time, everyone unanimously decided to stay in Liu Lianman, and the other three rushed to the top as quickly as possible.

When Wang Fuzhou, Qu and Kampot continued to head for the summit, Liu Lianman was lying beside a sheltered rock to rest. Severe hypoxia made his ears buzzing, his eyes were black and white, and "Venus" splashed everywhere. He began to enter a semi-coma. He knows very well that he is in what people call a "dead zone" and the danger of suffocation may happen at any time. He opened the oxygen bottle beside him, and the red pointer on the barometer showed that there were dozens of pressures of oxygen left. However, in front of his eyes, it is the back of his comrades who are hitting the peak. He knew that when his comrades came back from the summit, they would need oxygen more than he did. He decided that he would rather endure the pain of suffocation or even the threat of death than leave the last bit of oxygen to his comrades. He decisively put the oxygen bottle back and fell asleep. ...

Time is running out. Liu Lianman, who was in a coma, felt more and more numb in the cold, and his heart beat faster and faster in the absence of oxygen. He is clearly aware that death is coming to him step by step. How Liu Lianman wants to live! He has never felt so strongly that he should try his best to live. Living is happiness, victory and everything. But he felt more deeply that the three comrades who struggled to reach the top should live a better life than him, because they shoulder a glorious and arduous mission! Their safety is a greater happiness and victory for him ... He is worried that he has stopped breathing in a coma, and his comrades do not know that oxygen is still stored in his oxygen bottle. He struggled to sit up again and left a short message for his comrades in the diary with a pencil.

Comrade Wang Fuzhou:

I have not completed the arduous task entrusted to me by the party and the motherland. This task is left to the three of you to complete! I still have some oxygen in this oxygen tank, so I'll leave it for you three to use when you come back victorious! It might be useful.

Your Comrade Liu Lianman.

At the same time, Wang Fuzhou, Qu, and Kampot all trudged forward in the boundless darkness. The snow slope at the foot becomes steeper and smoother. After they climbed over two rocks, they climbed a snowy slope. Kampot, a Tibetan player, opened the road ahead and was so tired that he couldn't even straighten up in a few minutes. So Qu stepped forward to clear the way. It took him a long time to take two or three steps forward, but his legs went soft and he slipped back to his original place. Finally, Wang Fuzhou went to the front, and he insisted on opening a way forward for everyone.

The night is thick, the mountains of Mount Everest are hazy, and only the summit can be seen vaguely. Wang Fuzhou, Qu, and Kampot crawl on the ground, relying on starlight and reflected snow light to identify the road, and every step forward requires great efforts.

The night is getting deeper, there are mountains and mountains everywhere, and only a little starlight shines in the air. The shadow of Mount Everest began to become very low in front of them.

By the time they reached 8830 meters, Wang Fuzhou, Qu and Kampot had all run out of oxygen. But at this time, the wind is getting smaller and smaller, which is very beneficial to the summit. They stood silently on the rocky slope for a while. Wang Fuzhou first said: "Comrades, the three of us are now shouldering the task of conquering the main peak. There is no oxygen, so keep walking, although it may be dangerous. But can we back off? "

Qu and Kampot agreed in unison and replied firmly: "Keep going!"

They threw away the empty oxygen bottles on their backs and boldly and decisively started the arduous and dangerous climb that has never been seen in human history.

Now, every step they take, they have to stop and rest for a long time. There is a serious lack of oxygen on the mountain, dizziness, breathlessness and weakness. They have heavy limbs and slow movements, and it takes more than half an hour to climb a rock one meter high. They endured great physical pain, helped each other, encouraged each other and continued to walk to the top.

After crossing a snow slope in the east, Wang Fuzhou, Qu and Kampot bypassed the stone slope in the north and continued to climb, finally reaching a place where rocks and snow met. Looking around, in the dim night, the shadows of Mount Everest are crawling under their feet. Now, there are only shining stars above their heads, and there are no more rocks to climb. They finally reached the summit of Mount Everest and completed the pioneering work of climbing the world's highest peak from the North Road in human history.