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What are the famous mountaineering accidents in history?

Mount Edgar disaster in 2009.

A few years ago, National Geographic had a series of documentaries "Climbing the Dangerous Peak in the First Time", one of which recorded an accident in Gongga Mountain area of China.

Three American mountaineers became attached to Mount Edgar because of a wallpaper and trained for a long time before leaving. Farewell wishes from family and friends.

Mount Edgar is in Yanzigou, and the route into the mountain is very dangerous. In order to choose good weather, the three decided to stay for a long time, and the villagers would send supplies regularly.

Unfortunately, the weather is not beautiful, and Edgar is not so easy to show his true colors.

Drink tea after drinking tea, and learn to play the flute when the cell phone is dead. After a month, the energy consumption is almost net, and it is easy to have a weather window. In order to complete the climb in the shortest time, they transported their equipment to the climbing point under the rock wall.

Unfortunately, the weather in western Sichuan is changeable, there is heavy snow behind the small window, and the visa is about to expire. They had no choice but to give up and go back to China.

The accident happened on their way to retrieve the equipment. Days of heavy snow are brewing this upcoming avalanche. Three people were buried.

It was an American friend who first discovered the accident. A few days after the appointed time, there was no news from friends outside the ocean. Call the liaison officer in China, and Xie Deng immediately organized a rescue team.

At that time, Yan Dongdong and Bin Sun participated in the rescue. In the first rescue, the bodies of two team members and the photographer's camera were found.

The memory card of the camera is well preserved, which is the true image of this documentary.