The degree of enlightenment of a person is exactly the same as the depth of pain he suffers.

The more suffering a climber takes the initiative to endure through climbing, the more you suffer, the more you will have different understandings of material enjoyment, a peaceful and ordinary life, friendship and love, and the value of standing between heaven and earth.

It is hard to find enlightenment, but your understanding of yourself and life must be different.

k2—This simple combination of letters and numbers may seem ordinary to ordinary people, but it has unusual meaning for any mountaineer. His other name may be more familiar - Jogoli Peak, altitude          8611, the second highest peak in the world, is recognized by the mountaineering industry as the most difficult mountain in the world to conquer.

Today, when commercial mountaineering is extremely mature, about 500 people can be sent to Mount Everest every year. Since the Italian mountaineering team first reached the top in 1954, there have been only 300 people so far. The largest number of people in the Chogoli Peak, known as the barbaric peak, is less than 50 people, and its death rate is as high as 27%.

Compared to the Mount Everest Base Camp that can be reached by car, just reaching k2 is a big challenge. Whether from the domestic side or the Pakistani side, ordinary people want to reach k2. The base camp can only use the most primitive means of transportation - feet.

It takes about 1 week to reach the hike, but it takes 2 weeks to go back and forth. Just standing at k2 is exhausted.

Of course, money can make the devil push the mill. According to the mountaineering company, prepare for Johnson 1                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 �

Especially the senior guide, he has been guiding the climbers and hikers who come to challenge k2 since many years ago. It is said that he successfully reached the top as a collaboration more than ten years ago. But like those unknown Sherpas, you cannot find his name in any summit record.

As an old-fashioned guide, Moussa must start and end with madam or sir, and his words and actions are also filled with the caution and gentlemanly style of a British housekeeper.

I thought the first two days of hiking would be relatively easy, but I didn’t expect that this was the most painful part of the itinerary. The hike that lasted more than 8 hours a day was in the dry and hot valley under high temperatures of 30 degrees. Although there was a big river flowing around me, the water vapor was dried by the hot and dry air before it was dissipated.

The turbid river water completely cut off the idea of ​​drinking water from a large gulp. You need to carefully consider the remaining distance and the amount of water left in the water bag when you drink every sip of water. The only chance to relieve heat is to wade through a waist-deep glacier. However, after just a few seconds of biting cold, Johnson promises that you will find the high temperature so cute and charming.

With high reflux, low fever, heat stroke, blistering, everyone in the team had more or less discomforts, and even began to fear the subsequent journey. Fortunately, after the first two days, everyone was enjoying a long-lost rest in the camp, drinking black tea, and listening to Musa recalling the past, the sun was putting orange on a mountain in the distance.

From the distance from payu, you can see the roads and peaks in the distance from the previous yellow to black, and even the turbid currents that were rushing all the way were swallowed up by the darkness.

I know without Musa's answer, that is the gateway to k2 - Bartolo Glacier - the second largest vertical drop in the world, except for the third largest glacier outside the north and south poles.

"Brother, follow me closely and don't leave this path, it will be very, very dangerous!"

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The so-called glacier is not as crystal clear as imagined. On the contrary, the annual temperature difference and geological changes have made the surface of the glacier full of gravel. This gravel beach, which seems to be the same as an ordinary river beach, is full of dangers. It is impossible to predict whether the thousand-year-old black ice or the abyss waiting for you under the shallow gravel. The only thing you can rely on here is the unclear path that the porter and climber have stepped on over the years, but this is only relatively safe.

Without the guidance of a guide, the crisscrossing paths may take you to completely different directions, and the flow of glaciers also means that the safe road last year or even a few days ago may not be safe now. The roar of the glacier comes from the depths of the soles of the feet, like the breath of a dragon. If you don’t want to be swallowed by it in one bite, then follow the person in front of you, do not believe any stone except the stone you have seen him stepping on!

Under the huge gravel is the thousand-year-old black ice and the abyss. This is the most terrifying place. The endless gravel road, one step higher and one step lower, is not only your soles, but also your perseverance.

The endless gravel road is just a meeting gift. When crossing the edge of the glacier, the huge rock beach composed of several meters high rocks that you need to jump past is the real challenge. Seeing the guide and the porter flashing among the huge rocks one by one, they move like a flat ground, but when you jump on a huge rock, you often can't even find the next step. What's even more terrifying is that if you are not careful, you will be at risk of falling off the huge rock. At the least, the skin will be blooming, and at the worst...

Fortunately, the itinerary on the next day was very easy. I arrived at the camp in just a few hours. Johnson even slept beautifully on the big rock by the ice lake half an hour away before slowly rushing to the camp.

Just as we were drinking afternoon tea and enjoying this rare relaxation leisurely, a drum beat broke the tranquility of the camp. Looking down, the porters and chefs from various teams had already circled a huge rock, knocking the cheerful rhythm with plastic buckets, while our chef Manzu had already danced in the venue.

The applause was faster and the drum beats were pleasant, and Manzu's dance steps were also pleasant. On several occasions, he almost jumped to the edge of the huge rock, and further down to the abyss. Every time he turned around freely, he would receive more warm applause, drum beats and cheers. This guy was dancing in the clouds.

After passing urdukas    The back road became easier, at least there were no more of those huge rocks that made people collapse. As the altitude increased, the glaciers gradually became naked. Large sections of ice ridges protruding from the ground began to appear on the roadside, and the color of the ice was no longer gray-black mixed with sand and stone, and even a strange and charming blue was revealed in the sun.

concordia     The goal of this trip is the best observation deck in Pamir. It is k2 to the north and 3 to the east and 8,000 meters of peaks - Bloat, Gashulbrum i                                                                                                                                                                                                                               �

However, it seems that k2 is not willing to submit so easily. After seven days of difficult trek, he looked out from concordia and clouds, let alone k2, even Bloat is hard to see.

At this moment, everyone was pressed into the tent with a grey frustration. If tomorrow is still the weather, we have been ready to wait for more than one day. But if we still can't see the day after tomorrow, our supplies will no longer be allowed to wait for another day. It seems that everything can only be left to fate...

Without waiting for the next day, Johnson, who had just lying into the tent to sleep, was awakened by the cheers outside. He didn't even have time to put on his coat. He rushed out of the tent as fast as possible and saw it in the cold wind of concordia.

At sunset, k2    It already has a little out of his head!
Chapter completed!