"If you go back in time" should be regarded as one of the most helpless assumptions in the face of misfortune. In 1974, a Chinese mountaineering team went to Qinghai to select members to climb Mount Qomolangma. Xia Boyu, 25, who was originally training in the soccer team, succeeded in being selected to the national mountaineering Team commandos by virtue of his excellent physical quality. The next year, Xia and his team climbed to the top of Mount Qomolangma. Limited by the current climbing equipment and the accuracy of the weather forecast, the team made several attempts to reach the top without success. In the bitter wind, the team had to give up their plan to ascend the summit and chose to retreat. At 7600 meters, the team decided to rest. However, a Tibetan member of the team lost his sleeping bag on the return trip. In order to help his teammates, Xia Boyu did not hesitate to give him a sleeping bag, but he just slept in his clothes. When xia returned to safety, he tried to change his shoes, but found he couldn't get them off his feet. The doctor came to cut the shoes with scissors. What he saw was a pair of feet that had been frozen purple and black, without a trace of temperature. Xia suffered severe frostbite below the ankle and had to have his leg amputated. At the bottom of his life, he learned on his sickbed that the former team members successfully climbed Mount Qomolangma news, just feel like falling into the abyss. Ordinary people are still difficult to accept the physical disability, as an athlete, how to comfort themselves? After many years later, Xia boyu recalled the situation of that year, his tone still reveals the self-mockery and sour. After more than a year of pain, Xia learned from a foreign prosthetic expert that he would be able to live as a normal person and even climb mountains.

 

 

After two amputations and a bone shave, his faith was the only thing that sustained him as he prepared for his return to Everest. At that time, medical care was limited, so Xia's first pair of artificial limbs was made of wood and iron bars. He could barely walk, but every step was like stepping on a knife's blood -- blood oozing from the chafing of the amputation port and the rough prosthesis. The prosthesis gave Xia a glimmer of hope, and it was the only way to his faith. So he couldn't stop walking. He still demands the physical qualities of a mountain climber, going to bed at 9 PM and getting up at 5 AM to exercise, taking cold showers all year round, 1500 squats with weights, 100 pull-ups and 360 push-ups a day...... He trained relentlessly until his body went into overdrive. Xia had to have his leg amputated again in 1993. After a second amputation, bone scraping is often required to stimulate the growth of flesh in order to allow the bone to heal quickly. At first, xia boyu's lower limbs were numb and unable to move for two days, but he could not move until the third or fourth day. As a result, Xia had to put his training schedule on hold for a few days each time he scraped his bones. In order not to delay his training, he discussed with the doctor not to take anaesthetic. After only a few minutes of scraping, Xia could clearly hear the squeak of the blade against the bone, shaking like an electric shock. By the end of the scrape, the man was drenched with sweat. "In 1996, he developed lymphoma and underwent multiple operations. After years of walking between life and death, even the fear of death is exhausted, and the only thing that can sustain life is faith.

 

 

Four failed attempts to reach the summit, and each was a life-or-death challenge, which was even more difficult. The difficulty is not only mechanical stiffness, but more importantly, the loss of the ability to perceive the environment; Only after the perception of each step slowly reaches Xia's waist can he determine whether his body is in balance. Xia boyu was 65 years old when he entered Everest in 2014 with 16 Sherpas. While climbing, they encountered a huge avalanche, 244 meters from the summit. Dream all at hand, even if there are all kinds of helpless, he also had to choose to turn back. In 2015, Xia returned to mount Everest. Before he left base camp, he received word of the 8.1 magnitude earthquake and avalanche that had struck Nepal. This time he narrowly missed death, but thought: "As long as I live, I will come to mount Everest."

 

 

Xia boyu, 67, made his fourth attempt to reach the summit in 2016. All went well at first, and the party climbed up as planned. When faith has taken root in my heart, when fanatics can die for their dreams, when 40 years of persistence is only a hundred meters away, fear seems to amplify the madness and obsession at the top. Mountaineers can put their lives on the line, so can they risk the lives of their fellow climbers for their dreams? Xia boyu looked back and saw five young faces, known as "porters of the Himalayas," who led the team on every climb. But it's not their desperate dream. It's their livelihood. At 94 meters from the summit, Xia made his decision: retreat. This is the closest xia Boyu has ever been to the summit, and it is also the most difficult choice in his life. His decision to retire this time also made him question the faith he had held for 40 years. He kept falling in the snow and began to wonder if the road would never end. I was overwhelmed by despair, but I was pressed down by my tenacious mind and dream. "I will stand on the top of Mount Everest even if my last breath is left." No mountain is higher than a man. Six days later, xia Boyu, a 69-year-old legless climber, appeared at the top of Mount Qomolangma. He was on top of the world, clear in the sky. Dressed in a red mountaineering suit, hat, glasses and an oxygen mask, he couldn't tell the difference from his fellow travelers. But under those abrupt steel prosthetics, has been forced to go through 40 years of ups and downs. In 2019, Xia boyu won the Laureus World Sports Award for Best Sports Moment of the Year. "It finally accepted me when I climbed Everest for the fifth time, aged 69," he said with mixed feelings. "Xia Boyu climbed not only to the top of the world, but also to the top of his life. In fact, there is a peak in everyone's mind. It may be an asset, it may be health, it may be a good job, it may be a preferred city, it may be a way of life, it may be an uncontested career. It takes root from the bottom of my heart, and gathers in the mountains we look at and climb day after day. Because of its existence, our every step has a direction, years have a meaning. Although not every mountain can be reached successfully, but when people spend a lifetime to reach the top of faith, the world is already at your feet.

 

The above article comes from Yimei Media

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