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April 22 clear Xigaze - Lazi - New Tingri (157-75 km) total 4832 kilometers
9:00 left Shigatse, the way of the bumps have been accustomed to, and the plateau is always full of sunshine, may be the temperature, but he is not high, a little bit cold. Lazi the way to go, you pass amda south will turn into Sakya forward to Lazi the time wanted to hurry up to the Everest, no Rao Road to the Sakya, now think a little regret, Sa Buddha from sub-fork amda only 21 km.
Sakya Monastery, Tibet Autonomous Region is located in Saga Prefecture run around the mountains, Tibetan Buddhism, Sakya Wei main temple. "Saga," the Department of Tibetan transliteration, which means gray soil. AD 1073 (the Northern Song Xining six years), Tibetan noble family, the descendants of Queensland's Kungong but Jeb (1034-1102) found that rushing mountain on the south side - slope, soil was white, shiny, Xian-Rui phase, that is funded built Sakya, Sakya gradually formed. Sakya Manjusri with the symbol of the red, symbolizing the Goddess of Mercy of the white and blue symbol of Vajrapani to smear the temple walls, so Sakya also known as the "teaching of flowers."
Sakya Monastery built on Zhong Qu River, so called Sa Jianan North Temple and Sakya Monastery have been destroyed is the North Temple, South Temple, well-preserved. First, Sakya Kun Gong founder in 1073 was Jeb Zhong Qu River North in the post-Tibetan mountain building, "White House" (also known Cashmere ancient temple), which is north Sakya Monastery. Because of the way the soil was gray, so that Sakya, meaning gray land. After the temple names, place names, sect members have said Sakya.
Bring up the rear for the Tripitaka library, there are more than 1 period of the Department of Classics is to issue Siba concentration Wei, Tibetan, and other areas of the Shan Xie Kang home with gold, silver, cinnabar juice and Seiko written in ink treasures. Another one "side by the" long and 1 meter wide, I use plywood to protect, all written in gold juice is regarded as written by the treasures in the. The Tibetan Buddhist monastery there were more than 40,000 volumes, including some Bayesian upon. Terauchi been a result of a large quantity of valuable volumes and books, and therefore, "second Dunhuang," said.
As the non-stop, all the way forward, 12 points went to the Lazi. Lazi in Tibetan means "God the Peak, the first to light up the golden dome light," Lazi no features, we are only here to eat and a short stay, 1:45 embarked on continuing to Tingri.
To leave the Lazi, mountain marked up, in the road, we encountered two cars were mighty Everest back from Lhasa, was originally Huang Feng-Lei and his companions were.
"You see the top of Everest it?" I asked.
"See very clearly cloudless." Huang Feng Lei, a look of excitement.
I heard I was a bit worried about our own, because the weather is changing Everest, and has never been a climate will be fixed for a long time. HUANG Feng-lei They see blue skies the past two days on the peak that we see are more likely to diffuse clouds.
"You live in the stronghold of it?" We continue to ask that.
"Live in the Rongbuk Monastery, but the dirty, but you can get up early to watch the sunrise Everest, finally worth it, you can live in a small hotel in the following seemed to clean point."
"Is there to climb?"
"Walking a few steps are all breathe air, but come, you want to climb up tall?"
"We do what it, hoping to climb up on the 1st camp, where there is a high mountain lakes and Rongbuk Glacier, landscape should be beautiful."
"Then I wish you success."
They also bid farewell to the road, cars continue to climb upward. When we see a colorful streamer Mani Dui floating on the roadside, we and Gesang, Lydia, shouting, "Snow said, Snow said, pull that through! ..........。"
This is the Gesang they teach us a Tibetan language in Tibet mountains and way more dangerous, people pass on the highest point of each stacked Mani Dui, Buddha will be in the mountains of the believers who blessed the past, so every one through the ma Nepal heap of Tibetans are crying that word, it means: "Thank Buddha's blessing, we arrived safely."
Streamer drift next to a stone tablet, inscribed: "Kerry pulling the wrong mountain, 5220 meters above sea level."
Gesang, pointing to a row of distant snow-capped mountains, said: "Look, that is Mount Everest."
A row of distant peaks of the mountains there are many, and not that one is particularly high, we are all not tell which one is the Everest, looked at the table, 3 points are. I asked Gesang: "Today you can reach the base camp it?"
"Today that can not tonight to live in New Tingri, tomorrow morning departure to the base camp."
Tingri not far away from the Kerry mistake La Pass, the next went to the mountain, and when we separated into Tingri 4:30 pm, I really did not expect Tingri is so small, only a few hotels.
Gesang said: "This is not a true Tingri County, because many people go to Everest, which was built in several hotels, in order to distinguish it from Tingri County, here is the new Tingri, called the Old Tingri County, Tingri. "
Gesang brought us into a hotel in the middle there is a compound, the compound is surrounded by three rows of rooms words, the south is a row of shops of the house, two rows of the Northwest is the room, the room is very simple, and only a few wood Banchuang, there is regular supply of electricity.
Kelsang asked: "Otherwise go to look at the hotel by car 45 minutes on that, but a few hundred pieces to a room."
We laughed: "That will not be our choice, where only 15 ah, okay a little shabby."
Gesang said: "Then we went to Mai Menpiao had."
The original ticket in next door to each into the mountains green fee is 65 yuan, the vehicle maintenance fee is 405 yuan, as we did with the good of the package it hurdle fare includes costs 405 dollars to not keep us out.
Back to the hotel, Shanshan reconnaissance returns: "This hotel is very expensive, we still use supply it." Our supply is actually instant noodles, plus two sausage is delicious in here.
Gesang, and also come up with Lydia, their supplies, a bag of fried barley flour, and the Sheung Shui summarized shape into groups became Ciba, very convenient. "Want to try a little?" Gesang to shape into college Ciba handed over.
Ciba faint little taste, a bit like we eat stir-fried rice cakes. Lydia has come up with two leg of lamb, has been air-dried, there is no moisture in. Lydia, a good knife to cut a small piece of fed leg of lamb to: "Come on, try this."
Pork is too dry to chew for a long time before it can be softened, and taste is also a faint, a little salty. I asked Gesang: "This leg of lamb how to do it?"
"Kill the sheep, and placed directly under the sun dried."
"It will not bake the sheep before it?"
"No, do not."
I had just eaten the sheep mummified, Lydia, I suddenly saw maggots crawling on the ground there are several animals and found that originally came from the leg of lamb on the fall: "This leg of lamb is broken and can not eat."
Only now that I just do not know if I have these crawling maggots eat it, well, anyway, is also a high-protein, I now need to add it.
Here 4,5 points on the afternoon of blowing wind, people can be blowing, the night has come very late, 9:00 until dark, dark on the power generation, and not by solar energy, used diesel generators, lights dim light given at night there is no dry, they go to bed early to sleep.
Tip:
Everest as far away as the China-Nepal Highway about 100 kilometers south of border line. From Shigatse to New Tingri Lazi find bandwagon is not very difficult, but to the mountain stronghold of the remaining 100 km ride on the opportunity to sit quite low, it is proposed chartered from Lhasa to be the most secure.
Usually the travel agency in Lhasa, the organization is "Everest pilgrimage on the 5th Tour", via Yangzhuoyong Lake, Gyantse, Shigatse, Tingri, Everest Base Camp, Rongbuk Monastery, costs about 1,000 yuan.
April 23 clear New Tingri - stronghold - Old Tingri (100-85 km) total 5017 kilometers
7:30 left Tingri, the days not all bright, exceptionally bright sky of the stars. Shanshan walking in the dark room, breaking the store when the warm water bottle, money-losing Needless to say, and strange is that after every place has a warm water bottle to suffer, Shanshan by us called the "thermos bottle killer."
Walk along the China-Nepal Highway 11 km, see Everest protected areas, signs turn left, from good-bye to the asphalt road, the worse the degree of road to be added, I really do not know if the vehicle maintenance fee is 405 yuan on how useful.
Mountaineering is not far from the checkpoint. Inspectors have not woke up, we knock on trying to get it up and carelessly read the documents and tickets on the release, behind closed doors and then engaged reverse gear and sleep.
I jokingly said: "If I had known this way, tickets are saved, we've passed, he did not wake up."
Kelsang who pointing to the distance seems a little out of the mountain, said: "A lot of foreigners like free riders, they come from that camp, you can bypass the checkpoint., But they are not all in order to free riders, but like stroll down to the base camp. "
Shanshan asked "Then go a few days?"
Gesang said: "About three days to go around it, back to their own tents and food."
Big brother sitting in the front seat car outside the car laughed, pointing to: "Why bring food? It's filled with food."
On the slopes of the original vehicle had a few rabbits are running, dark brown coat, and the slopes of the hills, as either they are running, is not easy to find. Did not expect in this barren hillside, which a few rabbits longer so fat, we have seen DC saliva.
Gesang smiles: "Do not think, and can run faster." Hardly faded, it has been four Cuantao a few rabbits out without a trace, no wonder there is a proverb said: "The gain on the rabbit faster." Either personally see, also can not imagine a rabbit in such a high altitude can be key to step like a champ.
Our car was in the rugged mountain road, struggling to crawl, climb a mountain pass when they saw a row of snow-capped mountains is located in front of the spectacular scene unusual roadside there is a stone table, it is precisely engraved above the immediate scenery, from the description above only know, in front of a row of snow-capped mountains is the highest in the world of the four mountains, four snow-capped mountains over 8,000 meters arranged in one, from left to right are: Makalu, 8463 meters; Lhotse, 8516 meters; Mount Everest, 8848 meters; Cho Oyu, 8201 meters. From here follow the same track more than 20 kilometers down the mountain you can reach the Rongbuk Monastery.
12:00 arrived at Rongbuk Monastery, where Lex Everest is the best location, I saw Mount Everest in front of the stand, like a giant pyramid, straight up into the sky of the snow-capped mountains towering high-rise, the mountain steep, like the goddess of the crystal peaks hair, shining in the sun under the sun and the moon shone like sparkling glory of the snow-white peaks floating on the Cowin, like a white Qi Fan, from west to east at high altitude winds in the breeze and unpredictable flag Cloud makes the goddess sometimes calm, such as young girls, sometimes solemn, such as the wise, and sometimes ferocious, such as gods.
Cowin also said that the weather report, if there is a long, flowing at the peak of Kiun, illustrated above, is a big blizzard blowing 9, but the foot is still one of the serene.
Qomolangma, the Tibetan language means "third goddess." Legend of Mount Everest and its right and left sides of the four peaks are formed five fairy descended, known as "Longevity five sisters." Everest ranked third, named Chui Yan fairy, is to defend the regime and the proliferation of ethnic goddess. The remaining four peaks, respectively palm Fukurokuju of Longevity fairy fairy palm of farmland Ching-Hui; palm crown treasure and keeper of the animal husbandry Yong Ren Shi fairy fairies.
Everest is the Himalayan mountain peak, elevation of 8848.13 meters, is the world's tallest peak. Is located in the middle of the Himalayas into Nepal border, on the north side of peak in Tibet Tingri County, Shigatse region south. Snow peak a distance, hanging glaciers, towering peaks silver with one of holy images. In about two years since the Mesozoic Yi Sanqian to Qiqianwannian on Mount Everest, or as part of the ancient Mediterranean, and Southeast Asia to West Asia, North Africa, southern Europe, the sea interlinked. The early Tertiary Period lasted from about the late Cenozoic Mount Everest until the end of the marine history. Has been buried in the depths of rock layers under the sea by the strong impact of the Himalayan movement, the rise of sea, turned out to be a gradual increase in the highest and most young "Roof of the World"
Range of 20 kilometers around Mount Everest, the peaks everywhere, the world's 14 peaks above 8,000 meters and there are five here, there are 38 peaks over 7,000 meters, forming a peaks save animals and forceful in topography, known as the "third level the earth," the laudatory name. According to scientists, the determination of Everest is still rising, with an average annual rate of 3.2 to 12.7 mm and continue to refresh its own created world record.
Looking back on Rongbuk, this world's highest temple, now become a stronghold from the north slope to climb Everest. Rongbuk, full name of the "pull the heap check flannel winter Akuma Monastery," an altitude of about 5154 meters. Founded in Tibetan tractor year (AD 1899), by Lama Ngawang Tenzin Norbu to create, is a Red Sect (Nyingma) temple. According to legend, the four major sects of Tibetan Buddhism, Padmasambhava, founder of one of the Nyingma masters have come to practice Buddhism.
Si Wai addition to the main monastery, but also repair a small temple there are eight, including a nunnery. Lama 250 people, nuns, 350 people, including monks and nuns in Nepal where there were 15 people when the nun, a monk seven. Ningma influential in Nepal, so there are many Nepalese temple monks. Monks and nuns chanting in the same one by the Church, do Buddhist activities, which are red to teach a major feature of the temple.
June 4 is the monastery every year Tibetan calendar festival, Buddhists believe that this day is the first time of Sakyamuni preaching days. This is great people will wear new clothes, rushed to the nearby temple pilgrimages, chanting, and then in the wild dancing and singing until the sun before returning home. If you came to Rongbuk monastery's Day, not only monks and nuns can be seen with Buddhist activities carried out in a hospital, but also to a nearby mountain to enjoy performances of "fruit harmonic" dance.
The lower right there is a local Tibetan opened a snack bar, we have to eat inside into the rest, the inside filled with people, they were tourists from around the world are self-boil the coffee, is really a miniature United Nations. The walls covered with pictures of returning tourists stay away from home, looks are the United States, allows you to enjoy the weather in every season, under the charm of Mount Everest.
A Tibetan guy gave us a bowl of noodles cooking on the Tibetan girl has given us cup butter tea, buttered tea and drinking fragrant, as if tired along the way are removed, we can stand Buzhe praise to the Tibetan girl: "Ma-date view of many tea cakes ( Tibetan means "good taste of the butter tea"). "Tibetan girls in exchange for the brilliant smile.
We held a 8 km outside of the real work towards Everest base camp. When I saw the base camp when you made me look like startled, in the not to base camp, I have been so naive as to believe that camp should be a certain size buildings, the camp did not expect that only neutral with snow valley a few small tents, there is not much popularity, shipping more than a man of yak.
At this time only to find, here is more like an international village of tents big and small countries have raised the flag, colorful look very good, and some I did not recognize any country, but it is strange without our Chinese national flag, may this year, China not yet the mountain climbers.
Do not look at these kinds of tents are not great, but the equipment inside is the most advanced, satellite phones are everywhere, to facilitate in this isolated place and contact the outside world.
Here is a small United Nations, known as the Himalayan Himalayan International Village. Vertically, on the entrance to the village square stone tablet inscribed: "Everest base camp 5200 meters above sea level." Alongside a small stone pillar, the pillar of text engraved countries is to climb Mount Everest at the expense of the warriors of the nationality and name, I do not know what the back of a small animal, I do not know what the mascot.
Look up Everest, the world's tallest peak waved us forward, and she is so real in front of the stand, whether it be standing here one can not resist her attraction.
We bid farewell to the base camp to camp on the 1st of 5600 meters above sea level embarked, we do not have any of the equipment and experience, do not look where you can climb up, but could not conceal the excitement in mind that with the ability to climb up where the where.
High altitude hypoxia is no sense to people who've been unable to experience, I have no reaction to the altitude, it relied on stamina climb over one another Yigu a hillside. Breathing increasingly difficult to feel the loss of physical Daomo how much is to continually stop and Dakoutaikou to the cold air intake into the body.
A look back, camp has been far left of the foot of the mountain, but we also spent more than two hours, even now at this rate can be continued to climb, but also into the night to reach the camp on the 1st, there is no Wizard is not possible, we all know it is time to stop, but no one wants to leave, have sat silently looking Everest mountain.
The fun of climbing is that conquest, conquest is not high, but the peak set for ourselves, and we climb up here are all extremely excited, no wonder she can attract so many suitors.
Re-up is the famous Rongbuk Glacier area, glaciers in the Earth's gravity, not of years of ice and snow moving slowly along the valley formed. Rongbuk Glacier is located at the foot of Mount Everest 5300 meters to 6300 meters wide area from the Rongbuk Glacier, the West Rongbuk Glacier, the Far West Rongbuk Glacier, the Rongbuk Glacier, the Far East Rongbuk Glacier, the composition of a total length of 26 kilometers, with a total area of 1500 square kilometers, is the world's most fully developed, unique and best-preserved glacial morphology.
Serac clusters of up to 40-50 meters, serac clusters, glacial lakes, cirques, horn peaks, knife ridges and other exotic non-interrupting the natural shape of the ratio. Of these natural ice sculptures in the world, are constant through the sun sculpture is made after the formation of slow decline, but this process is generally a few decades old can reach a hundred or more. As the scenery Qi Jue, it has been climbing explorers hailed as the world's biggest "mountains of the Park." After collection of three glaciers in the north extension of the towering Mount Everest hold up. Everest is like an indomitable spirit of the giant pyramid peak straight into the sky, very spectacular. Gaze Everest, to make people a long time immersed in it a sight to behold, majestic and solemn atmosphere.
We are a no equipment, no wizard, two, three had no time and had to turn back, but I know I will come back to a round I do not park dream.
Looking back to last Rongbuk Everest, Mount Everest was finally off the face of mystery yarn, she would have exposed the true face.
We began to Old Tingri backdrop In the vast wilderness on the Benz, there is simply no way to speak of, just follow the traces of the ground used cars, cars on the road bumps in the rugged, suddenly car was a high slope toss our heads have hit the roof, and before we could react, has been heavily fell onto the car floor. "When" is heard metal sound, startled us.
Lydia, get off a look, we are most concerned about has finally happened, the car's chassis plate fracture, and the chassis plate is to the entire vehicle weight distribution in the end plate of the bearing, another damping role, functions like a human spine . In addition to barrel of oil than we have no parts, but there is no man's land, no car passed, and we can not help but to worry about them.
Lydia, a careful examination, said: "The fracture of the left front wheel which one, not cars center of gravity location, but also in the bottom one, half an hour can be repaired."
Lydia, and Kelsang has placed a tool, the head of the jack the car up, do not support the car plate loose down the bottom of a steel plate is clearly seen from the middle into two completely off. I am really surprised at this barren hills and remote places, and no welder to repair.
Gesang the old inner tube cut about 3 cm wide strips, Gesang in vehicle use off of the steel strip to tie together, as with a bandage to pick up the same as broken bones.
I could see God, and asked Lydia: "It's so simple on-line, and steel can load it?"
Lydia laugh: "This is very common in Tibet, especially Ali no man's land, road bumps not any signs of human habitation, vehicle bad are common, we can not put all the parts are put on it, particularly as such a heavy steel chassis, components . lorries off the steel plate are using this method. "
Since I have seen the burning flame spray tank, with steel tires then it is not surprising. Lydia turned with half an hour, put the car repaired, we continued to hit the road, traveling in the Himalayan mountains, one can often see the magnificent mountain scenery rolling. Sometimes, also crossed the icy river, weighted down the ice, "La La" and torn voice, we all went over to get off to reduce the weight of cars, car slowly opened the past, the near misses.
I finished packing a few photos are car side camera bags, Lydia, suddenly starting the car suddenly stopped the car rear wheel is positive pressure in my right foot, I so painful Kuangpai body cried out: "drive ! car! car .........!"
Car of the people are so scared that happened, Lydia, is glance right and left will not drive, waiting for him to react, only then cars and running, the wheels on the foot pressure in my past, I saw my feet with shoelaces foot has been pressed was ± a ± a, they hastened to take my shoes off to check my feet, my foot just left a hole in the ground.
My feet have become somewhat flat, and red with a large, touch a bit, but fortunately no broken bones, this is not steel plate, pick up tires like the legs, although painful, but not so intolerable, I'd glad that my feet would hurt, it does not hurt if more terrible.
Gesang said: "Fortunately, yes mud, the tire has enough gas." My Hou Dixie has also helped me a lot, or else, I can really broken feet. Lydia, naturally we Haibian meal, he saw that I do not have all right, actually dare and I joked: "If you really broke, I went to pick Tian Zangtai give you a foot to give you a better."
I thought: either on-site only you will be running the way a person, I shall now put you in burial.
7:30 we went to old Tingri, Tingri in Tibetan means "fixed voice whispered," Legend of a lama Stone, "set" is heard, fell on the site. Later, a small hill in the construction of the temple, that is called Tingri Monastery.
New Tingri here than most, there is still a beautiful road, because it is a must-Nepal Highway. In fact, that is, more than 300 meters long on both sides of a road full of shops and hotels opened, but even in this big of. Not think there is a few households Sichuanese to open a small restaurant, the business kinda fire, and the price is Guile Dian, but it is still acceptable, taste pretty good, that is more expensive than meat and vegetables, think of from more than 300 kilometers of Shigatse, or Lhasa shipped farther, and not surprisingly the.
I really admire Sichuanese, the hotels have opened to the foot of Mount Qomolangma, as well as what can daunt them.
We picked a Tibetan-owned hotels - rongxar Hotel (RONGSHAR HOTEL), the room filled with Tibetan characteristics, the middle of the big courtyard put a bunch of barley, making the room you can smell the aroma of grain, but also there is an attractive 'unitary position'.
Shanshan in order to prevent the "thermos bottle killer" is once again rampant, as the three of us, such as special forces stormed the room, first thermos bottle placed in a safe place to put away before waiting for Shanshan entry. But the thermos bottle finally failed to escape the hostility of Shan-shan, in future we are all afraid to thermos bottle placed in the room, and the thermos bottle placed on the owner of the room, to the time Zaiqu Na.
Everest Admission: 65 yuan per visitor. To enter the number of cars Automobile basis having to pay road construction costs 405 yuan per vehicle Accommodation: Everest base camp to live Rongbuk, 25 yuan each bed is very simple.
Old Tingri to live rongxar Hotel (RONG SHA HOTEL) beds each 10 yuan, clean and there are Tibetan characteristics.
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