The photographer dreamed that the camera was broken.

In Yunnan, there is a very beautiful snow-capped mountain, which is a famous local scenic spot.

In addition to tourists, there will naturally be many explorers or mountaineers coming to challenge the summit.

However, there is a "mysterious curse" behind the beautiful snow mountain.

No matter who you are, if you want to reach the top of this snowy mountain, there is only one ending-death!

So up to now, no one has successfully climbed this snowy mountain.

This snow mountain is the famous "Meili Snow Mountain".

Meili Snow Mountain is "the first of the eight sacred mountains in Tibet" and is known as "one of the top ten most beautiful mountains in China" and "one of the top ten majestic peaks in China". It is located in the middle section of Hengduan Mountain in Yunnan, next to Nujiang River and Lancang River, with Robbie Snow Mountain in the south and Adoni Mountain in the north. In Tibetan religious mythology, Meili Snow Mountain is the "eldest son" of the Himalayas and is called "prince" by Tibetan people.

It has the most magnificent snow-capped mountains in the world, with 13 peaks over 6 km above sea level, and is known as "Prince Edward XIII Peak".

Its main peak is Erpo, Cavaca, with an altitude of 6,740 meters, which means "the peak of steep and towering snow-capped mountains in the valley" in Chinese. In 1930s, an American geologist praised Cavaca Erpo as "the most beautiful mountain in the world". It is famous for its grandeur and incredible. In fact, in the eyes of Tibetans, Kawagebo does not mean the highest mountain. Several peaks standing on the snow-capped mountains are called Kawagebo.

In Tibetan traditional culture, Kawagebozan is the patron saint of Tibetan people.

Meili Snow Mountain has four most striking landscapes: Yubeng Waterfall, Yubeng Village, Mingyong Glacier and Feilai Temple.

Feilai Temple was founded in 164 1 year and has a history of 407 years. Now he is located on the Yunnan-Tibet highway, with an area of only 1500 square meters. Feilai Temple is opposite Kawagebo Mountain in Meili Snow Mountain. So every year, many photographers come here to shoot the wonders of "Rizhao Jinshan".

But you need to be lucky enough to see Rizhao Jinshan.

Mingyong Glacier is the longest and largest valley glacier in Yunnan Province, and it is a long ice belt under Erpo, Cavaca. It belongs to the tropical monsoon and modern glaciers of the ocean, and the top of the mountain is covered with snow all year round, which is one of the routes for many outdoor hikers.

In Tibetan, it is also called "Mingyong QIA", which is the name of a local village. "QIA" means water melted by glaciers. Every summer, glaciers melt and converge into a lake with a diameter of about 50m, and the lake is as blue and black as sapphire and unfathomable. When night falls, the lake will freeze again.

Yubeng Village, located in Nianci Mufeng, Meili Snow Mountain, is surrounded by mountains, so only two post roads can enter this village, namely Xidang and Ninong. Yubeng Village is divided into two villages, namely Shangyu Village and Yu Xia Village. In order to conquer Kawagebo Snow Mountain, a Sino-Japanese joint base camp was established near Shangyu Village. Yubeng Waterfall is near Xiayu Village, and you can also see the landscape of five trees with the same root along the way.

Located at the southern foot of Meili Snow Mountain, Yubeng Waterfall plunges down from the cliff. The landscape of waterfalls is different all year round. In spring and summer, due to the melting of ice and snow, the water flow in the waterfall increases, and the spray constantly hits the ground, splashing the ground. The scene is spectacular. In autumn and winter, the water flow decreases, and the waterfall just flows down several waterlines, like the white Hada of the Tibetan people. Tibetans say bathing under waterfalls can purify the soul.

After reading these, I believe it is difficult for everyone to associate beautiful snow-capped mountains with disasters.

What the hell is going on here?

As we all know, in the eyes of mankind, the best way to conquer the earth is to conquer Mount Everest. As the highest mountain in the world, with an altitude of 8844.43 meters, it is known as the "mother of the earth" and "the respect of thousands of mountains". At the beginning of 65,438+09 century, many athletes and scientists in mountaineering were fascinated by it. Up to now, more than 3,000 people around the world have successfully conquered Mount Everest.

However, in the process of conquering Everest, some athletes inevitably died because of extreme weather or some reasons of their own. But even so, people continue to challenge like Mount Everest. However, there is no historical record that humans have successfully climbed the Kawaberg Peak at an altitude of 6,740 meters. Even China has enacted laws and regulations prohibiting all individuals and organizations from climbing Meili Snow Mountain in any name and form.

Speaking of which, I have to mention 17 cursed climber.

1July, 998 18, the villagers of Mingyong village grazed in the summer pasture at an altitude of 3,800 meters as usual, and he found colorful things scattered on the glacier. So he took a closer look and got a fright. There are many remains on the glacier, and there are various items beside it, such as notebooks, cameras, watches, altimeters and so on. The villagers were frightened and hurried back to the village to report to the village chief. Because the communication equipment was relatively backward at that time, there was no telephone in the village and the traffic was inconvenient, the village chief's younger brother ran to the county town on foot and reported the matter to the county.

After hearing the report, the county leaders immediately sent people to understand the situation. These people arrived at the scene and collected about 65,438+00 bodies and 20 bags of scattered articles. After investigation, it was confirmed that these bodies belonged to members of the Sino-Japanese joint mountaineering team at that time. The remains have been deformed for a long time, but they are usually identified by carrying relics and clothes with them. Finally, the identities of five bodies were confirmed.

With the spread of the news, many relevant personnel came to Mingyong Village. This discovery has brought the "curse" that has been dusty for seven years into people's sight again. This was the Kawagebo mountain disaster seven years ago.

However, local Tibetan compatriots feel gratified and excited. Kawagbo is known locally as the Sleepless Mountain. In the understanding of local villagers, these people were trapped by the mountain gods because of blasphemy and disrespect, and they were released by the mountain gods after seven years of hard labor. These bodies are the souls of climbers who refused to dissuade them from being detained by mountain gods seven years ago. Today, seven years later, the mountain god threw their bodies out, and it was really an epiphany.

The cause of the incident began with 1986. At that time, Japanese mountaineering was in full swing. They applied to the National Sports Committee of China for climbing Meili Snow Mountain. China and Japan signed a contract to jointly conquer Meili Snow Mountain and set up a joint mountaineering team within ten years.

The climbers are mainly from Kyoto University in Japan. It was one of the most powerful mountaineering teams in Japan at that time. More than 1/3 members of this mountaineering team have successfully climbed the peaks above 8000 altitude. In addition, many consortia in Japan expressed their support for this mountaineering activity, so this mountaineering team was equipped with the most advanced mountaineering equipment in the world at that time.

Geologists and meteorologists have also conducted various studies on Meili Snow Mountain. The leader of the mountaineering team is Professor Shang Zhilang, a doctor of meteorology. The vice captain is China mountaineer Song Zhiyi, who has set a new mountaineering record for many times.

After making full preparations, they began to climb the mountain.

1987 In the summer, this team came to the foot of Meili Snow Mountain with off-road vehicles and various mountaineering bags. Enthusiastic Tibetan villagers thought that this was a expedition team from afar, enthusiastically presented Hada to them and entertained them with local highland barley wine and Zhu Biao velvet. Mountaineers like this warm atmosphere very much. They often leave the camp to visit nearby villages. They get along well with the local villagers and have a good chat.

In their chat, the villagers learned that these people were going to climb Meili Snow Mountain. The villagers were surprised that they didn't "know" where Meili Snow Mountain was. It turns out that these people are mountaineers and have never heard of mountaineering as a sport before.

Tibetan compatriots get along well as climbers, but with the progress of mountaineering, the villagers finally know that this group of people originally wanted to conquer their patron saint-Kawagebo.

It turns out that people don't directly call Meili Snow Mountain by name in the local area. They call Meili Snow Mountain Ani Kawagebo, which means Grandpa Kawagebo in Tibetan.

These villagers can't understand why they climbed on grandpa's head.

The villagers feel that this sacred mountain has given them all the materials in their lives. Their drinking water is left after the melting of snow and ice on the mountain, and the food eaten by cattle and sheep is also given by this mountain. They think that these climbers' climbing behavior is a desecration of the holy mountain. If the holy mountain gets angry, the patron saint will leave them and disaster will happen.

Therefore, the climbers' spirit of exploration and conquest conflicts with the local religious belief of respecting and worshiping the holy mountain. High-level officials also paid attention to this issue, but the mountaineering plan was approved after consultations between China and Japan.

19901February, started climbing under the dissuasion of villagers. After investigation, the climbers worked out a brand-new climbing route. Before leaving, a blessing ceremony was held in Feilai Temple. These climbers are full of confidence, because they want to conquer a snow-capped mountain that humans have never conquered, so they started this mountaineering operation with amulets obtained from Japanese temples. No one feels any different from the past.

But what they didn't know was that just before they were about to leave, tens of thousands of Tibetans spontaneously gathered near Meili Snow Mountain. They knelt at the foot of the mountain and prayed that the mountain gods would bring them a painful price.

The plan of the mountaineering team went smoothly, and everything was the same as the previous mountaineering activities. They successfully established Camp 1, Camp 2 and Camp 4, but there are differences between Chinese and Japanese mountaineers on Camp 3. Japanese mountaineers think that Camp 3 should avoid the avalanche area and stay away from the ridge to ensure the safety of the team.

However, the Japanese team insisted on building the camp near the ridge, because the climate in Kawagebo is very unstable now, so we should try our best to reach the top as soon as possible. At loggerheads between the two teams, the captain decided to build Camp No.3 in the center of site selection between China and Japan.

Camp 4 was built in front of a big ice wall, with an altitude of about 5900 meters. It is also the base for the team members to climb the mountain, and the team members are preparing here for the first time.

1990165438+At 0: 30am on February 28th, five members of the mountaineering team began to approach the ridge, and the altitude at this time has reached 6,200m, which is the highest altitude for humans to climb Kawagebo so far. When they told the news to their companions in Camp 3, the excited companions began to cheer for the upcoming victory.

But when the five players were about to reach the summit-only 300 meters away from the summit, the weather at the top of the mountain suddenly became extremely bad, with strong winds mixed with snowstorms and snow hitting the players' faces like stones. The players waited until four o'clock in the afternoon, but the weather showed no sign of stopping. In desperation, the captain reluctantly gave the order to suspend the mountaineering operation, and everyone went back the same way.

It was not until late at night that the team members struggled to return to the camp in the snowstorm. Although they failed this time, the players were still very excited. With this experience, they believe that they will succeed in reaching the top next time.

At the foot of the mountain, Tibetan compatriots were furious when they learned that the climbers were about to reach the top. They vented their anger at Kawagebo loudly, and tens of thousands of lamas and Tibetans went to Feilai Temple to worship Kawagebo. They cried angrily and begged the patron saint to punish these rude outsiders, otherwise they would never worship him again.

With the experience of the last summit, plus the weather forecast of the meteorological station. The mountaineering team plans to capture the top of the mountain at19911. Members of the mountaineering team waited silently in Camp 3, praying that the bad weather would end soon, but instead of stopping, the snowstorm became more and more fierce. The mountaineering team can only get in touch with the base camp through the intercom. When the base camp knew that they were trapped by bad weather, everyone in the base camp was worried, but they could only pray for them silently.

199 1 year 1.3 night 10.30, at this time, the snow outside the camp has reached 1.6 meters thick. The base camp had a voice contact with Camp 3. It was creepy that during this contact, several climbers shouted that there was a magnificent temple. Then the intercom was strangely disconnected.

There is one more bizarre thing. The son of Li Zhiyun, one of the members of the mountaineering team 17, suddenly cried at home and said to his mother, "Dad was buried in the snow." Prior to this, Li Zhiyun's son did not have any abnormal performance.

On October 4th, 65438/kloc-0, the bad weather finally stopped, but after the last contact, the climbers never contacted the base camp again. A sense of foreboding welled up in the hearts of the base camp staff, who immediately reported to their superiors and requested to send a professional rescue team. However, there is too little information about Kawagebo, the oxygen is very thin, and the oxygen content on the top of the mountain is almost zero, so helicopters dare not act rashly and cannot carry out air rescue. Most of the staff in the base camp are logistics personnel, who have no rescue experience and dare not act.

Until 65438+1October 20th, professional rescue.

As soon as the team arrived, the bad weather appeared again and the snowstorm raged. Even the most experienced Tibetan mountaineering association can barely reach Camp No.1 at the lowest altitude.

Later, in the rescue process, they finally overcame the hardships and came to Camp No.2, where they found the diary of a Japanese mountaineer, Sato, in which some bizarre events were recorded. According to his diary, all the climbers had the same dream before they set off. They dreamed of a deer standing on a snowy mountain. The deer was shining with dazzling golden light. The deer looked down at them on the snowy mountain, and then the deer left.

Behind the deer, followed by a silver-gray surging wave. But they didn't realize that it was a warning from the mountains. On the contrary, they thought it was a good sign and still chose to challenge Kawaberg.

In the later diary, the abnormal performance of the only female player in the team was also recorded. From 65438+ 10/month 1, Keiko Kitai's symptoms of mountain sickness suddenly became very serious, his body kept burning and his mouth was still talking nonsense.

She kept shouting, "Coming!" Coming! Let me go home while there is still time! "

65438+1on the afternoon of October 3rd 10, after the call with the base camp, the periphery of Camp 3 was suddenly shrouded in fog, and the normal recording stopped at this time. Then came the illegible handwriting: "Darkness enveloped them. Here they come. We were wrong. It's too late to go down the mountain. Help me! " ! I don't want to die! "... 65438+1On October 22nd, the rescue team gave up the search and rescue, and all the personnel were evacuated safely.

At this time, strange things happened again. Shortly after their evacuation, a huge avalanche occurred near the base camp. A towering fir forest was submerged by heavy snow, which made people feel scared. In the next few years, natural disasters more or less occurred in nearby villages. The local villagers said angrily, "This is all the result of those people not respecting the patron saint."

With this lesson, it stands to reason that people should have awe of mysterious power, but mountain climbers don't believe in mountain gods. Mountaineering organizations from more countries applied to chinese mountaineering association to climb Meili Snow Mountain. For professional climbers, the meaning of life lies in conquering one mountain after another that humans have never conquered.

However, Kyoto University still has the right to climb this snowy mountain for the first time, and plans to prepare again and launch a second impact.

1996, the mountaineering team of Kyoto University made more preparations to prevent the last disaster from happening again. So, the mountaineering team once again entered Meili Snow Mountain.

This time, people in Xizang and the mountaineering team had a more serious contradiction. The villagers stopped their work, cattle and sheep were left unattended, and farm tools were thrown into the field. The villagers are lying on the only way for the mountaineering team, ready to stop the climbers with their bodies. They can only protect their holy mountain in this way.

However, the villagers' obstruction did not cancel the mountaineering plan, but quietly, as if there was a mysterious force guarding the mountain, and the second mountaineering operation still ended in failure.

The Central Meteorological Observatory, Japan Meteorological Observatory and Yunnan Meteorological Observatory always pay attention to the weather in Kawagebo. The mountaineering equipment this time is more advanced than last time. Before climbing the mountain, these climbers paid tribute to the monument of the dead climbers and vowed to climb to the top of the mountain this time anyway to realize their wishes.

This mountaineering operation is more cautious than the last one. More than a month later, the climbers came to the site of the last mountaineering operation in Camp 4. The mountaineering team was ready to rush to the peak at this moment, but at this moment, the Japanese Meteorological Observatory suddenly reported that there was a huge dark cloud near the snow-capped mountain and it would arrive in Kawagebo in a few days. This snowstorm will be worse than 199 1. With the last lesson, the climbers immediately prepared to retreat and returned to the base camp within one day.

But something strange happened again. As soon as the climber got down from the mountain, his hind feet were informed and the huge dark clouds were blown away. It is also a good weather for climbing on Kawagebo, and I missed the excellent mountaineering opportunity. Maybe the mountain god is in the dark clouds above Kawagebo. The second mountaineering plan ended in failure.

In 200 1 year, in order to respect the Tibetan people's beliefs, the local county people's congress standing Committee legislated to prohibit climbing Meili Snow Mountain. Since then, Meili Snow Mountain has become a forbidden mountain, and no one has successfully climbed the top of Meili Snow Mountain.

When local residents mentioned this disaster in 199 1, they had their own version: they said that the mountain god went to India to attend the mountain god conference, so he climbed so high. When I came back, I found a few black spots on my body and shook down. They are convinced that ordinary people disturb the mountain gods, and the mountain disaster is naturally expected.

It has been 30 years since the disaster, but he was surprised and frightened when he heard the bad news, just like yesterday. 1991June, Kobayashi was still a junior at Kyoto University. At that time, shortly after he returned to school after the festival, the bad news reached Kyoto University: the plan of the Sino-Japanese joint mountaineering team to climb Meili Snow Mountain failed, and the team members might be killed due to bad weather.

"They may not be dead yet?" Xiao Lin is unwilling to accept the news of his friend's death.

He is also a member of the mountaineering team of Kyoto University. I didn't take part in this mountaineering activity because I went back to my hometown. Fortunately, he escaped the disaster. And he will never see his teammates again. After that, he attended their funeral, but there was no body or coffin.

"What happened then?" "What's the difference between Meili Snow Mountain?" .

Kobayashi has been unable to let go of these problems and has been reluctant to forget his teammates. 1998 The discovery of the body of the climber completely changed Kobayashi's fate. Xiao Lin had a strong idea in his heart and went to Yunnan to look for the remains and find the answers to his questions.

After the news reached Japan from 1998, Kobayashi visited Meili Snow Mountain for more than 20 years, but failed to come to China in 2020 due to the epidemic.

1In July, 1998, a Japanese reception team was sent to the local area for investigation, and Kobayashi also participated in this operation. After seven years, Kobayashi finally saw his teammates again, but at this time it was separated by Yin and Yang. For seven years, the climbers' faces have been frozen, melted, and then frozen again ... then they crossed the ice waterfall and reached the glacier, and their faces were beyond recognition. 10 Only 5 of the bodies were confirmed. One of the bodies had a love letter from his girlfriend in his pocket, and the other raised his arm as if to catch something before he died. A watch was also found at the scene, and the time stayed at 0 1:34 forever.

Kobayashi tidied up these relics and remains and muttered, "You finally came back." . These unrecognizable bodies, Xiao Lin feels that these bodies have unusual significance to him. First, Kobayashi was "full of expectation and nostalgia" for these bodies, but he did feel the "weight of death". Xiao Lin, who died many years ago, feels so real at this moment.

These bodies were cremated in Dali and another funeral was held here. The family of a mountaineer held the ashes and said to himself, "I didn't expect the disaster to have happened for seven years, and now it's finally over." Hearing this, Xiao Lin woke up. He said: "I want to seriously consider the weight borne by the remains of these victims. It is this sentence that has always supported my work of finding relics for many years. "

After returning to China, Kobayashi resigned and decided to become a photographer and pursue life with photography. He became a freelance photographer shooting nature. However, Kobayashi will never forget Meili Snow Mountain. He wanted to see Meili Snow Mountain again, which brought him many questions, so the next year he came to Mingyong Village at the foot of the snow mountain, trying to find the bodies of other teammates.

Whenever Kobayashi comes to China, Tashi, the branch secretary of Mingyong Village, will entertain him and let Kobayashi live in his home. Tashi's mother goes to the canal to fetch water every morning, and then pours it into the bucket at home. The canal is the meltwater of Mingyong Glacier, with large water flow. In summer, the water is cold and biting. This water source is the drinking water source of the villagers and their pride. Every time Kobayashi thinks that the remains and relics of climbers have polluted the water source, Kobayashi feels bad.

Therefore, when he lived in Mingyong Village, he made up his mind to clean up the water for the villagers, which became an important reason for his persistence for so many years.

After that, Kobayashi lived in Mingyong Village for nearly a year. Every week or two, Kobayashi goes into the mountains to search with Tashi, secretary of the village branch. After unremitting efforts, they finally found the bodies of four climbers. These bodies have been corroded by nature, and some of them have left only the bones of the soles in hiking shoes.

During his stay in Mingyong Village, he once returned to Tokyo, but life there bored him. He sits in his room in a daze every day, or counts the time while squeezing the subway. His mind always remembers the days in Mingyong Village. So, he returned to Mingyong Village, and after that, he photographed some different scenery almost every year, which became his spiritual pillar.

When the glaciers melted in summer, the relics of the team members were gradually exposed to the glaciers. There are almost no complete relics, mostly rags and colorful plastic fragments. It's not so much collecting relics as picking up garbage, as if the mountain gods cleaned up these dirty things. By 20 19, the bodies of 16 players had been found and their identities were confirmed. The undiscovered player is team doctor Masataka Shimizu.

After Kobayashi's eight-year search here, the remains and relics of Glacier Mountain are almost gone. But just then, they found a roll of film and they developed the photos. In the photo, he saw the team members smiling and carrying their luggage, and saw the calm camp No.3 before the disaster. These photos gave Kobayashi great comfort.

Ten years later, he and his teammates "reunited" again. Kobayashi often recalls them and thinks about what it would be like now if they hadn't climbed Meili Snow Mountain. Time flies for many years, and Kobayashi has also entered the age of knowing destiny from a young college student.

20 1 1, Xiao Lin is in poor health. I went to the hospital for examination and found that it was a serious lung disease. Therefore, he removed a part of his left lung. Fortunately, it's not lung cancer. After the recovery, he immediately set off for Meili Snow Mountain to continue his work. Because the body of the last climber had not been found, Kobayashi always felt that there was something wrong with him.

Kobayashi once said, "As long as I am alive, I will continue to look for it." . But now he changed his mind: he felt that the mountaineer's body was washed into the river by the melting water of the glacier. He will visit Meili Snow Mountain again this year. If he still can't find it, he will end his 24-year search.

In Kobayashi's eyes, death does not mean the end. After the death of his teammates, he personally searched for their bodies and accepted the Tibetan people's belief in the reincarnation of life and death. He firmly believed that life would still exist in some form after death. His wish is to continue the will of his teammates.

Subsequent scientific research shows that the geological conditions in Kawabata are poor, the weather is bad and changeable, and avalanches are prone to occur.

However, paranormal, who has been hiking twice, always makes people feel the sacred and unstoppable power of nature. With the development of the times, Kawagebo is no longer just watched by his followers. More and more tourists come from the ends of the earth and eventually return to the ends of the earth.

They are just passers-by.

Snow Mountain is the eternal protagonist of this land.