Chapter 49 fourth quarter

At twelve noon, in the tent of the main camp. Everyone gathers around the map, and now there are two problems to be solved.First, the specific location of the "LX" shaped mountain; second, search for the plan of the "Holy City of Glaciers". Everyone studied carefully for a long time, and finally determined the specific location of the "LX" shaped mountain—the area on the east side of the main camp, with a horizontal distance of about five kilometers.Although there is only a horizontal distance of five kilometers, there are three steep snow peaks, steep ice waterfalls, ice valleys tens of meters deep and so on.Therefore, Captain Li decided to request helicopter support.

Now, the area where the "Holy City of Glacier" is hidden has been locked, but the area of ​​this area is not small.After careful consideration, Captain Li decided to divide the archaeological team into four teams on average. If any team found the "Holy Glacier City" first, it would immediately notify the other three teams by walkie-talkie.In this way, the search speed can be accelerated. Before the helicopter arrived, all the team members gathered in front of the tent, and Captain Li divided them into four teams equally.Jin Kun, Xie Hu, Zhong Weiguo, Liu Xie, Yi Xiaotian, two Tibetan mountaineering team members, and a team doctor were assigned to the fourth team, with Zhong Weiguo as the captain.

Fifteen minutes later, the helicopter flew to the destination with four teams. Soon, the helicopter arrived over the destination.Through the frost-covered aircraft window, several tall snow peaks can be vaguely seen on the left side, and there are continuous mountains covered by ice and snow.Looking at the mountains, there are countless winding ice valleys, like giant white pythons straddling them. The helicopter circled over this area, but failed to find a safe landing point. The driver could only lower the helicopter to the lowest level, and then descended the hanging ladder. In the cabin of the fourth team, everyone put ice axes and ice axes into their backpacks, then put on their backpacks, put on mountain goggles and gloves, and prepared to climb down the hanging ladder.

Yi Xiaotian squeezed to the cabin door and glanced down, feeling dizzy and weak all over.More than ten meters below, there are uneven mountains covered with ice and snow. The hanging ladder outside the cabin door is blown by the mountain wind. If you accidentally fall down while climbing the hanging ladder, Will be smashed to pieces. Yi Xiaotian was so nervous that her heart thumped, and she took half a step back: "So high? Can you lower it a bit?" The driver's voice came from behind: "It has been reduced to the lowest level." Jin Kun patted her on the shoulder, and after a few words of encouragement, he raised his voice and said to everyone: "Everyone, the 'Holy City of Glacier' is hidden below, let's go down now and find it!"

"Okay!" Xie Hu took the lead in responding, and was about to climb down the hanging ladder. As the team leader, Zhong Weiguo quickly stopped him, and told everyone: "There are many dangers on this snow mountain. After going down, you must be careful and obey the command! Also, when climbing the hanging ladder..." Xie Hu interrupted him impatiently, and urged: "Professor, stop talking, let's go down quickly." After all, Xie Hu got out of the cabin first, and climbed down the hanging ladder with hands and feet.Climbing a hanging ladder more than ten meters high is not difficult for a special soldier.Twenty seconds later, he was standing on the top of the snow-covered mountain.

Jin Kun, Zhong Weiguo, Liu Xie, the team doctor and two Tibetan mountaineering members climbed down one after another. Now, only Yi Xiaotian is left in the cabin.She stood inside the cabin door, sweating coldly from nervousness.In such a harsh environment, climbing down a hanging ladder more than ten meters high is indeed very difficult for a girl who has not received special training. Jin Kun tightened his hands on the hanging ladder and shouted towards the helicopter: "Xiao Tian, ​​believe in yourself, you will definitely be able to climb down!" Yi Xiaotian took a deep breath, put her heart on the line, grasped the hanging ladder with both hands, and climbed down bit by bit.With everyone's encouragement, Yi Xiaotian finally climbed under the hanging ladder.She took a few breaths, looked up at the hanging ladder that was quickly retracted, and felt like she was alive after a catastrophe.

The sound of the propeller breaking through the air gradually faded away, and the helicopter disappeared behind the snow-capped mountains. The "Holy City of Glacier" is hidden between two peaks, so it is meaningless to search for it on the top of the mountain.The two mountaineering team members have already chosen the way down the mountain, but the mountain is very steep. In order to prevent someone from accidentally rolling down the mountain, they took out the main rope and connected all the team members together. Yi Xiaotian looked at the rope tied around her waist, thinking that everyone is now a "grasshopper" on the same rope, but it's not bad, everyone is in trouble together.

The snow on the top of the mountain is hard and slippery, leaving only shallow shoe prints when you step on it, which is almost the same as the ice surface.Two mountaineering team members asked everyone to take out crampons and put them on the soles of the shoes to enhance the grip function.After everything was ready, two mountaineering team members walked in the front with ice axes in their hands, and the others lined up and carefully walked down the steep snow slope. The snow slope was not too long, but it was uneven. It took them half an hour to walk to the foot of the mountain.At the foot of the mountain is a narrow valley, only 100 meters long, and the end can be seen at a glance.

Zhong Weiguo thought that this valley was narrow and short, and it was impossible to hide the "Holy City of Glacier", so he asked everyone to climb the opposite mountain and go to the back of the mountain to find it. After taking a short breath, everyone began to climb the snow mountain.The mountain is gentler than the previous one, but it is still very difficult. After exhorting everyone, two mountaineering team members took the lead to climb up. Everyone followed the order just now, with ice picks in hand, and stepped on the footprints of the team members in front of them to climb up.When she was about to climb to the top of the mountain, Yi Xiaotian, who was in the middle of the team, was a little overwhelmed. Her legs were sore, her body was weak, and the clothes on her back were soaked with sweat.She wanted to ask everyone to stop and rest for a while, but when she looked up and saw that she was about to reach the top of the mountain, she gritted her teeth and insisted on climbing up.

Five minutes later, everyone climbed to the top of the mountain.Yi Xiaotian was exhausted to the extreme, and couldn't care less about her ladylike image, so she sat down on the ground, panting heavily while wiping off the hot sweat from her face. "Look, everyone, what is that?" Xie Hu called out loudly. Yi Xiaotian thought that he had found the "Holy City of Glacier", so he quickly stood up and looked into the distance.I saw a high-altitude mountain peak appearing in front of me. The top of the mountain was shrouded in snow and mist, which was both illusion and reality.There is a blue glacier between the two mountains, which is very open, like a huge blue mirror, extending infinitely to both ends, with no end in sight.

Yi Xiaotian had never seen such a magnificent and fantastic glacier, and she couldn't help but be fascinated by it.After a while, she looked back and asked in confusion, "It's strange, why is there a glacier between these snow-capped mountains? And it's dark blue?" "It's nothing strange." Zhong Weiguo explained, "This is a mountain glacier. Under the action of heat and pressure, the snow on these mountains will slowly melt and freeze into ice at the foot of the mountain. After countless days and nights, it will form This is the alpine glacier that we see now. The blue color of the alpine glacier shows that this ice is quite pure." Jin Kun pointed to the glacier at the foot of the mountain, and said, "The glacier below is very wide and sandwiched between two mountains. It is very similar to the one depicted on the ancient map. We should look for it carefully." Everyone agreed with his point of view, and after a break, they were ready to go down the mountain. However, this side of the mountain is unusually steep, with a slope of nearly forty degrees.The two mountaineering team members discussed and said to everyone: "The snow slope is too steep, everyone take off the crampons, and we will use the method of sitting down the mountain." When Yi Xiaotian was training at the mountaineering school, she didn't hear the teacher talk about this climbing method, so she asked, "What is downhill riding? Is it sitting on a snow slope and sliding down?" The two mountaineering team members were amused by her words. One of them took out the ice ax from his backpack, walked to the snow slope, and explained while doing a demonstration: "Sitting downhill is very simple. When you go down the mountain later, you just need to imitate my action." That’s it. There are a few key points to keep in mind: lower your center of gravity, bend your legs to exert force actively, put the soles of your shoes on the snow slope, hold the ice ax with both hands, and push along the snow on one side, just like paddling Almost, with the help of this reaction force, the body quickly slides down the snow slope. Hehe, but don’t sit on the snow slope, or your butt will be worn off.” A trace of embarrassment flashed across Yi Xiaotian's face, she nodded and said, "Yes, I see." Everyone lined up in a column, using the method of sitting downhill, sliding down the mountain one by one.Sitting downhill greatly accelerated the speed of going down the mountain, and it also saved energy. It took them only ten minutes to reach the bottom of the mountain. Standing on the broad alpine glacier and looking up at the icebergs and snow peaks shrouded in snow and mist, everyone felt as if they had entered a mythical world.However, no one expected that the danger hidden under the beautiful picture was quietly approaching them. Jin Kun withdrew his gaze and looked at both ends, but there was no end to the glacier.He hesitated for a moment, then greeted: "Come on, let's look to the left first." The surface of the alpine glacier is very smooth. Everyone put on their crampons and walked to the left.After walking for a long time, the distance between the peaks on both sides became narrower and narrower, like walking in a valley.After another hour of walking, there was a huge turn ahead.After turning over, the ice surface became uneven, and there were even many large ice blocks near the foot of the mountain.The ice cubes are of different heights and shapes, like ice sculptures carved by nature. Xie Hu looked at the big ice cubes on both sides, and said with emotion: "If you put light bulbs on these ice cubes and charge them, it will be much more spectacular than Harbin's Ice and Snow World." "Yes! This natural ice sculpture is eye-catching, no matter how you look at it, it is comfortable." Jin Kun echoed. Just as he was talking, he heard a mountaineer in front exclaim "be careful", and at the same time, there was a loud "click". Before Jin Kun could react, he felt the main rope around his waist pulled violently.The force was so strong that he lost his footing and fell heavily to the ground.The strength of the main rope did not disappear immediately, dragging him on the ice for several meters before gradually stopping. The sound of "Kaka" mixed with exclamation was endless. Jin Kun fell so that his eyes were staring at gold stars, he shook his head vigorously, looked ahead, and couldn't help breaking out in a cold sweat.