What is the biggest mountain in the world?

Open a topographic map of southwest Xinjiang with appropriate scale, and you can see three mountain ranges extending from west to southeast-Kunlun, Karakorum and Himalaya. It turns out that the western ends of these three ridges are twisted together, and the East and West Tianshan Mountains dare not shake hands with the three brothers in the cold, and jointly hold up the world's largest mountain knot-Pamir. Due to this special geographical reason, the Pamirs are covered with mountains and ice peaks. Among them, the Muztag iceberg in the Karakorum Mountains is one of the best. Gong Geer and Gong Geer, who have been separated for a long time, are also called "Three Masters of Kunlun". Of course, there is a mistake here. It should be called Karakorum Tri-Man, but it's awkward. Friendly Interface As a world-famous 7,000-kilometer iceberg, Mustag receives dozens of mountaineering teams from home and abroad every year. Every July and August, one of the spectacular sights here is that tents of various colors are scattered on the platform between two large glaciers. Mountaineers dressed in various costumes and speaking various languages have turned this platform into a real international village. Why do so many climbers have a soft spot for Xinjiang, a land full of mountains and peaks? As far as I know, except that its height of 7546 meters is challenging and easy to satisfy climbers' sense of accomplishment, other reasons can be explained by borrowing a sentence from the friendly interface of computer engineering in the field. Its "friendliness" is reflected in external factors such as magnificent landscape, convenient transportation, base camp close to expressway lines, and low climbing technical requirements. With regard to convenient transportation, whether domestic and foreign climbers enter the country from Pakistan or set off from Kashgar, a major town in southern Xinjiang, there is a China-Pakistan highway running through Karakorum to provide convenient transportation. 1669 km road sign is a landmark, and almost all climbers start their hiking mileage from here. One kilometer east of the road sign is the 204 mountaineering base, and eight kilometers southeast of the base is the mountaineering base camp with an altitude of 4350 meters. 204 to 200 kilometers to the north, you can go to Shufu County or Kashi City along the highway with unobstructed four seasons, and go south 100 kilometers to Tashkurgan County. With such convenient traffic conditions, the cost of mountaineering is greatly reduced, but the sense of accomplishment is not diminished. This is what any 7,000-kilometer mountain in China does not have. Of course, don't place any hope on that bravado "base", which is just a small mound 204 kilometers away from Kashgar for climbers to load camel animals or camp. Later, when I came here many times, I realized another meaning of this small mound: it is the only place where local herders want passers-by to camp temporarily. The grassland in plateau area is barren and the growing period is short. The act of camping at will and causing pasture loss is as disgusting as trampling on a luxurious carpet with muddy feet. A mountain without peaks From the difficulty of climbing, Mustag should belong to a powerful peak. There is a height difference of 3 196 meters from the traditional base camp to the summit. Most of the first section belongs to a long gravel hillside with a slope of about 45 degrees. C 1 is only one kilometer in front of the camp. With the different microclimate in that year, the thickness of snow is different, but in general, except for the great physical consumption, the technical difficulty is not great. Before 1998, C 1 camp was mostly built on the ice and snow platform of 5420 meters. However, due to the constant waterfalls, the platform has basically disappeared, and later camps were built in a slightly lower position. From C 1 of 5300m to C2 of 6300m, it belongs to perennial snow-covered area, with steep slope and many cracks at the beginning. When the clouds are light and the wind is light, you can directly observe the climbing process of that route with a telescope near 204. After crossing the first mountain ridge line, it will enter the relatively dangerous ice and snow fault zone and the steep valley bottom, and huge ice and snow accumulation bodies will be hung high on both sides of the line, threatening. There are different technical opinions on this section of the route. One is to pass in groups to avoid falling or falling, and the other is to pass quickly by one person to avoid possible avalanches. Different people have different opinions. But the indisputable fact is that when the weather is bad, everyone avoids setting foot here. Since C2, when entering the area above 6300 meters, the physical consumption suddenly increased, and the difficulty of climbing focused on the endurance of physical strength. The traditional C3 was built at a height of 6,700 meters. In order to reduce the peak consumption, some climbers built a "high C3" camp of 6,800 meters. As for the peak of C3, it is called the slowest and longest period, and it also belongs to the period with the greatest physical exertion. Mustag climbs losers, and most of them lose above C3. No wonder some people complain that they are climbing a "mountain without a top". The reason why I stayed here is because the Subas area in Bulunkou Township, where Mustag is located, has beautiful scenery and stubborn climate. The height of Karakuli alpine lake is about 3650 meters above sea level, and two huge icebergs, Gonger and Mustag, stand in the northeast and southeast of the lake. When the weather is clear, the iceberg outside the lake and the reflection in the lake reflect together, becoming a very beautiful picture. On both sides of her, there are hundreds of miles of Sarekuole ridge peaks. To the south18km, Subashdaban is across the road. On the top of the mountain, you can meet a nest of groundhogs, who are clumsily jumping and enjoying their family. By the way, the west side of Lake Karakuri and the east side of Subashdaban are two good places to see the Mustag iceberg, and many excellent photographs about the father of the iceberg have been born. What is moving is that these two perspectives can fully show the magnificence of the three rift valleys in Mustag Mountain. These cracks, which Diana Shipton called "the trough structure between two ridges", I prefer to regard them as intoxicating scars on the brave knight's face, and Mustag's temperament is among them. To the north of Daban, the glacial water flowing from Aleqiteke made a narrow ditch on the barren grassland, and groups of small fish wandered in the clear water. At the end of July, the beautiful wild flowers around the grassland are a beautiful landscape. Like any plateau area, there is a lack of fuel here, and the smell of yak sprinkled on the grassland is carried away by the old people with baskets before it is dry. The grassland is always as clean as an olive green carpet. Of course, the stubborn climate will change all this at any time. In July, maybe a sudden snowstorm will turn Subas into a white coat in an instant. When the clouds disperse, the sun rises, and strong paper ultraviolet rays are sprinkled on the earth, olive green will reappear in an hour or two. As for the wind in Subhas, it comes every afternoon, and you can see old Gao Yuanfeng one day. But it is also useful. Beef and mutton dried with it can keep a complete mountaineering cycle without rotting. 204. To the east of the boarding base, there is a wooden bridge leading to the animal husbandry point in Subhas, where there are more than ten Kirgiz families mainly engaged in animal husbandry. When summer came, most of them moved to Jiangbulakemugou, five kilometers southeast, where the former British and Indian Consul General in Kashgar and his wife Sipton lived while hiking. In recent years, I found that more and more young people from these families gathered in the area from Lake Karakuri to the mountaineering base camp to sell human and animal feet to domestic and foreign mountaineering teams to improve their lives. They are also familiar with the exchange rate between the US dollar and RMB. This may be a clue that they began to actively move towards the commodity economy. At the end of the article, I heard that a bus road directly to the base camp was built not long ago, which is not good news for me. My attachment to Subashdaban and Mustag makes me sincerely oppose letting the car's tail smoke float to the glacier like suet jade, and opposing letting rubber tires crush those tiny flowers on the platform of the base camp.