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The Old Boys’Dreams Are Going to the West.
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The Old Boys’Dreams Are Going to the West.

Article Editor: Huicheng Vehicles

We come to this world, and we are going to meet many people. It is easy to meet someone that you can drink a bear with, but it is hard to find someone taking an adventure with. I am lucky that I found five.

Big Boss, Heshuai, Suoye, Shengli, Qingzi, and I. Our average age is above 40 years old and way past the unsettling age. But we can’t ignore our unsettled heart. If your destination is the same, then there is someone you are destined to meet. Such as this trip to Tibet, our four old boys agreed immediately. Taking a road trip to Tibet allegedly is every man’s dream. Half of the people around me are still dreaming, and half have accomplished their dream. We started our journey to the west driving a Maxus D90 and a T60 with hope and without worries.

We, six people, have worked together for twelve years. It is rare among modern private companies. We know each other's temper very well. We can speak our ideas and come to an agreement when we encounter problems. We eat together, live together, work together and enjoy our trip while facing wind and snow, ups and down and high altitude. When we arrived the Sertar Larong Wuming's Buddhist College which is 3700 meters above the sea, Suoye had a sever altitude sickness. He had a low fever all night, and he couldn’t sleep. He held an oxygen tank and breath from it all the time. We didn’t dare to bring him to Nianboyuze Snowy Mountain, so we sent him to the Sertar County Hospital. He was diagnosed with mild pneumonia and could turn into pneumonedema any minute. We talked about changing the road 317 which passes Changdu to 318, and we talked behind his back that we were not going to let him go to the home base of the Everest and Kangrinboqe. We even prepared a car to send him to the emergency room. Thankfully he overcame altitude sickness, and he repaid us with his delicious soup rice and stewed mutton.

Big Boss said that if you don’t know what does death looks like, and you don’t know how to live. So we went to see the celestial burial in Shiduo Forest of Sertar. The celestial burial here is not on the top of a mountain, and it is held in a round stone fence around one man tall and ten meters wide on a slope. The opening facing the slope is covered with tarpaulin. There were hundreds of vultures standing on the slope, they paced restlessly and waited a hundred metes away for the ceremony to be over just like the tourists. There were hundreds of vulture circling in the sky and too afraid to come down. Because at this moment, only the deceased’s family members, friends, monks and the celestial burial master can be near the fence, even distant relatives can’t be near. That day was the ceremony of four people, and the ceremony lasted nearly one hour. During the ceremony, a police officer came to determine the identification of one person. We guessed he was either died in an accident or an early age. When the ceremony ended abruptly, the tarpaulin was collected. The vultures came in the fence like a flood and covered every inch. There were more vultures than people on Beijing subway during rush hours in the morning and night. Half of the vultures didn’t have a place to stand, so they had to wait around stretching their necks and flapping their wings. They were making noise one after another.

At night, our Tibetian guide Bianba told us about the celestial burial custom. In the west of Sichuan, they cut open the head and abdomen of the deceased and throw the whole body to the vultures. The celestial burial near Lhasa is the most orthodox. They separate the body, get rid of the bones. They smash the bones and blend with highland barley into a ball shape, and then they feed the vultures with it. Then they feed the vultures the meat, brain, and organs in this order. This is the best way for a deceased to enter the afterlife. The burial in Ali is the most rogue one, especially the celestial burial platform near Kangrinboqe because there haven't been any vultures for years so the feed the remains to wolves or wild dogs after some simple process. We went there later too, and there were used knives, axes, and bones scattered around the platform.

The last stop of the road north was going to Pujoon Glacier from Shuanghu County and then back. The 180 kilometers of road is made of sand and stone. But it was better than the washboard road we passed a few days ago, barely any big pits. Our average speed was 70. The pebbles we stirred up made the car tinkle. Pujoon Glacier is a glacier on land which is rare and located in the Qiangtang No Man Zone which is one of the three biggest no man zone. The environment there was awful, 5500-6500 meters above sea level. The cold wind was blazing. It is the forbidden area of human, the heaven of wild animals. The two drones we brought DJI 3 and Wuliqi crashed one after another, and it was like there is a god of mountain protecting this place. There were obvious gullies under our feet which is the mark of the receding glaciers. Is it partially influenced by human activity or global warming’s consequence? I hesitated whether to take a piece of the glacier to put in the scotch. But in the end, we brought nothing but photographs.

We left the glacial at 9 p.m. Our new driver of D90 rushed out the main road accidentally and our car sunk in the mud because washboard road has low adhesive force. All the electronic devices and horsepower output were useless facing the mud. We used our two shovels digging in a shift. The converted capstan of the T60 pickup was used for the first time. We rescued D90 with dragging and digging. It was already 10 p.m, and many green eyes were shining not far away in the dark wildness. The forest ranger told us that we would encounter wolf pack if we camped, so we went to stay for the night in the county.

36 days long trip finished in a blink. Old boys bickered, interrupted, sing, and talked about religions and politics, etc. Those things made the road trip every day full of fun. Who said long road trip need a girl? We needed peeing freely at the pass that is 5000 altitudes high, and we needed supporting and looking after each other when we circled the Kangrinboqe mountain. Our team had three major goals. The first was seeing the Alps mountain, the second was circle the Kangriboqe mountain, and the third was the great north line. All the goals were achieved because we were united and lucky. The shadow of us taking pictures seemed like the shadow of the mountains afar.

This was not only a trip to achieve our dreams, but we also had jobs. We were testing Maxus D90 SUV which was released recently. We tested it’s over normal use and long distant drive. This trip was over 12300 kilometers long. Except for highway and national highway, we encountered all the possible bad road conditions such as gravel road, washboard road, bomb pit, mire, and river. The total length of the unpaved road was nearly 3000 kilometers long. We often could only pass the truck that is used for fixing the road and tracked engineer vehicle after a half day drive, and there were no other private cars. Luckily, D90 had a good function, soundproof and vibration damper. You could link the car’s audio with your cell phone through Bluetooth. The beautiful views outside shifted unstop while people and the luggage jump with the music. All the difficulties became the spring breeze. D90 is a tool that can company your nine-to-five work and a friend who can company you when you travel around the world.

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