Everest

Due to the high altitude, the sunlight on the ridge was several times stronger than usual. Geng Aiqing started sweating not long after walking. When it was close to two o'clock, they stopped to rest for a while. Geng Aiqing put his The hat was pulled off and stuffed into the backpack indiscriminately. The wind was blowing on the top of his sweaty head, making him feel the coolness that he had not seen for a long time. In fact, he was not the only one like this. As early as an hour ago, Lin Sheng and Pei Lei He had already taken off his coat and tied it around his waist, while Yongke was very prescient and put on a small solar-powered fan, blowing on himself while walking. Luosang got used to the environment here, so there was no What a big reaction.

The strange thing is Shen Biwen.

During the rest, Geng Aiqing sent Shen Biwen the small ham sausages that Pei Lei distributed to everyone. He happened to see the back of Shen Biwen's head lowered and exposed. He found that Shen Biwen's back collar was almost soaked. Sweat was also streaming down his forehead, but even so, Shen Biwen still zipped the down jacket tightly, and had no intention of taking it off at all.

"Brother Shen, aren't you hot?" Lin Sheng came over to take the bun that Shen Biwen had brought, and asked casually, which just revealed the question in Geng Aiqing's heart.

Shen Biwen looked a little confused, he paused before smiling slightly: "I feel fine."

Lin Sheng used his hand as a fan to fan the wind, stuck out his tongue and said, "Is this okay? I'm going to die of heat..." As he spoke, he began to pull his clothes again.

"I can't take it off anymore." Shen Biwen stopped him, "It will be windy after a while, and I will catch a cold if I take it off again."

Lin Sheng pulled up his clothes and said with a smile, "No, no, I didn't intend to take it off, I just wanted to get some air." After speaking, he saw Geng Aiqing who had been standing by the side as if in a daze, "What are you doing here?"

Geng Aiqing was obviously not in a daze. He immediately raised the sausage in his hand and threw it into Shen Biwen's arms: "Uncle Pei asked me to bring him the sausage!"

"Thank you." Shen Biwen nodded at him.

Geng Aiqing looked at him for a while, then reluctantly took out a pack of tissue paper from his pocket and handed it over: "Wipe it, your forehead is sweating."

"Thank you." Shen Biwen took it. Geng Aiqing noticed the slender wrist that was exposed when he stretched out his hand, and the color difference from the color of his hand made Geng Aiqing pay more attention to Shen Biwen's face. Eye.

Compared with when we first met, Shen Biwen is obviously much darker and thinner. Shen Biwen was originally a thinner type. He still remembers complaining about his figure when he first met him, although later I have seen it with my own eyes, but Geng Aiqing still feels that his figure is unique among many climbers. Most climbers belong to Pei Lei's type. They don't have to be tall, but most of them are very strong. Lin Sheng He's a little fat, and he's gotten stronger after training his muscles, but he's tall, which makes up for it a little.As for Geng Aiqing himself, he has a more flattering figure. Although he is not a very strong type, his shoulders are very broad. Wearing a few layers of clothes and a down jacket makes people feel very strong. In fact, his legs are relatively long, so he looks very tall and straight, so he looks even a little more stable than Lin Sheng.

Although this is not the case.

But Shen Biwen is different. Ever since he came to Mount Everest, he has been losing weight at a speed visible to the naked eye. Pei Lei once secretly mentioned this matter to him, expressing his concern for Shen Biwen, but Shen Biwen Bi Wen has always taken good care of his own affairs, so Pei Lei did not tell Shen Biwen about this matter in the end.

Geng Aiqing was having an awkward fight with Shen Biwen at that time, so she didn't pay attention at all.

Today he suddenly remembered it, so he paid close attention to it, and was a little shocked to find that Shen Biwen had almost lost weight.

"What else is there?" Shen Biwen asked after eating for a while and realized that Geng Aiqing hadn't left yet.

Shen Biwen's eyes were very bright, Geng Aiqing thought, this is also a change, and after coming to Mount Everest, Shen Biwen became extremely excited, he smiled a lot, and his eyes brightened a lot.

"It's nothing..." Geng Aiqing pretended to be indifferent and sat next to Shen Biwen, and asked casually, "Huh, I think you seem to have lost weight?"

Shen Biwen took a bite of the bread, touched his face while chewing, and asked in confusion, "Is there any?"

"Yes!" Geng Aiqing gestured affirmatively, "I lost a lot of weight, what's the matter with you? Lose weight?"

Shen Biwen laughed before he swallowed the bread: "Why lose weight? I still need to lose weight..."

"But you still lost weight?" Geng Aiqing stared at his face, he found that Shen Biwen's face was a little red, "Your face is very red, is it too hot?"

Shen Biwen turned sideways without any trace: "No, I feel fine."

"Really..." Geng Aiqing felt a little embarrassed when he saw his evasive movements, so he stood up, "Uh, well, if you need my help, just tell me."

"Yeah." Shen Biwen swallowed the bread in his mouth and ignored him.

Geng Aiqing felt bored and left. Before leaving, he was dragged by Lin Sheng to take some photos. He was so angry that he couldn't help asking Lin Sheng for portrait loss fees. Lin Sheng blocked the matter with a smile.

On the way up, they met another mountaineering team. This was a very concise mountaineering team with only two people. Geng Aiqing realized that they were foreigners when they got closer.

"Pei!" The leading foreign man seemed very happy to see Pei Lei, and hugged him when he came up, then saw Yong Ke next to him, immediately put on a surprised expression, went up to hug her, and followed Behind him is another younger man who has been silently following behind him.

"Why are you here?" The foreign man's Chinese sounds good, but there are some accents unique to foreigners.

"What else can you do here?" Pei Lei laughed loudly.

The foreign man showed a regretful expression.

"What's wrong?" Yong Ke asked.

The man shrugged, and grabbed the shoulders of the young man next to him. He pulled him over and said with a smile, "My little baby is very rebellious, I have to take him back!"

Pei Lei and Yong Ke didn't seem surprised by this incident at all, they just asked, "How high have you climbed?"

The foreign man showed an exaggerated disappointed expression, raised his finger and said: "Ah, 8700, ah, there are still more than 100 meters to reach the summit!"

"Ah..." Pei Lei and Yong Ke stepped forward to give him a hug again.

The man hurriedly dodged, and put on a grinning expression on his face: "Farewell, if you do this again, my little baby will really cry next time."

Geng Aiqing noticed that there seemed to be a gleam of water in the young man's eyes.

"It's okay..." The foreign man held his companion's hand, put it on his mouth and kissed it with a smile, "It's not that I haven't climbed to the top, so don't blame yourself!"

The young man hesitated for a while, then quickly said a few words in English, which Geng Aiqing understood, which probably meant that if he hadn’t had a high reaction, then it was very likely that he would have reached the top, and it was all because of him. etc…

The leading foreign man chuckled twice, whispered a few words in English, the younger man stopped immediately, and took a step back with a blushing face.

"Okay, we're leaving, let's go eat hot pot!" The foreign man patted Uncle Pei on the shoulder, "Come on!"

Pei Lei and Yong Ke nodded with a smile.

When they were far away, Lin Sheng couldn't help asking: "They..."

"They are a couple, do you even need to ask!" Geng Aiqing said immediately.

"..." Lin Sheng gave him a strange look, and then finished his sentence, "Did they climb Mount Everest alone?"

Geng Aiqing: "..." What a disgrace! ! !

Pei Lei nodded solemnly: "Yes, Mike is very good. So far he has climbed to the summit twice, and once from the south slope."

"South slope..."

"Yes." Yong Ke sighed, "Originally he planned to climb to the summit again from the south slope for the third time, but unfortunately he encountered that mountain disaster."

Geng Aiqing's expression also became serious. He knew about the mountain disaster. In fact, the tragic accident was processed by the media and became a psychological shadow for many climbers, even those who didn't pay much attention to mountaineering at that time. He also heard about this matter.

They are currently at an altitude of about 6100 meters. For the north slope, this is only a little more difficult than the road below, but for the climbers on the south slope, they have just escaped the pursuit of death-Kumbu at an altitude of 5800 meters The glacier, the Khumbu Glacier is a group of glaciers that move with great variability. The time to cross the glacier can only be around the early morning, because after the sun comes out, under the sunlight, it will cause the glacier to crumble and melt, and it will continue to expand And changing iceberg cracks are threatening the lives of climbers all the time.

But despite this, thousands of climbers still flock to the south slope every year, trying to conquer the Khumbu Glacier, because compared with the relatively gentle north slope, there can taste the sensory stimulation brought by climbing faster.

"...Mike was one of the survivors of that mountain disaster, and almost all his companions who were with him died at the time..." Pei Lei sighed, "It's really... oh."

Geng Aiqing looked at the upright Mount Everest in the distance, and thought of the smile on the man's face just now, for the first time, he felt a sense of confusion. Seat peak.