Expedition stuff, complete
One week to departure.
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262 days to Day 1 (1st attempt) California Climber's Salute. Two of us on the summit of DaFeng (四姑娘山大丰), in China. Elevation 5,025 m. This peak had been on my mind for more than ten years! After it's over, what's next? We wanted to climb something higher, and as always, without guides and porters. Naturally, there was yet another peak, equally desired by me and equally hard to even think it was possible to climb: Denali (6,190m), the highest mountain in North America. Now, it made perfect sense to attempt. Since that day, Denali would be mentioned by two of us every single day.
Day 9 - 14K camp, retreive cache from Windy Corner
Retreived cache from below Windy Corner - carried it twice in the backpacks. Very strong wind. 17K camp to summit temperature: -35°C From Denali Dispatches : "..Windy Corner still in challenging shape -- icy and exposed. Lots of crevasse falls and self-rescue at 13,200 feet. ..Patrol #1 was the only team at high camp yesterday, and in light of a poor weather forecast, they descended to 14 camp today in snow and wind. No teams (NPS or otherwise) are currently above 14,200 feet." TODAY'S STATS Denali Mt. Foraker Registered Climbers 1,065 12 Climbers Currently On Mountain 369 9 Completed Climbs 40 2 Number of Summits 0 0 Summit Percentage 0% 0% Weiwei writes: Following the harrowing experience of traversing Windy Corner, it took us an entire day to recover and mentally prepare for retrieving our cache. Despite the favorable weather, we remained in our tent. The thought of having to cross the traver...
紧张，但是期待......
ReplyDelete- 下个月我要去旅行了
ReplyDelete- 哇，太羡慕你了（我也想去）
是我们更有时间吗？不是。
是我们更有钱吗？不是。
是我们不需要工作吗？不是。
大多数人会说：等我退休了/等我有钱了/等我做完这件事/等孩子长大了/等贷款还清了.......
你发现了吗，这些回答里都有一个共同的字：”等“！
可是，就在这等待中，一辈子就过去了。难道你愿意一生只活在等待中吗？在生命的尽头，现实生活中，电影The Bucket List里卡特最后拥有的幸运机会，会降临到你的头上吗？显然不会！那还犹豫什么？想做就做，说走就走！（再次感叹：Common sense is not common.)