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Fourteen 8000-Meter-High Snow Mountains
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By Xiangjun





Two-face beauty.

Jing Luo was a surprise 20 years ago. Yumiao Tian who was Jing Luos schoolmate at North China Electric Power University, remembers that Jing Luo who was 19 years ago ran towards the crowd in red suspender trousers with her long hair flying in the air one day during the freshman military training. And she was so pretty that everyone stared.

 

Everyone thought she was eye candy, but at the end of the freshman military training, she did high kicking as the representative of all the female in her class. She held on and did not give up, and in the end, she became the winner.





Her life collapsed.

I liked dancing when I was little, but my mom said that dancing had no future, so I studied computer major which was chosen by my parents, then after I graduate, I went to work for my boyfriend. I was terrified because I lived all my life for other people. She cried in the dark, but she never regretted, because this was her life, but she wanted to live for herself since then.

 

She survived all the road that every Beijing drifter had to walk on, and she had the happiness every girl dreamed of. At 2005, Yumiao Tian met Jing Luos son who was just born, all Jing Luo talked about was her son and husband, and she looked happy. Jing Luo named her son Nuonuo and dreamed about living happily ever after with her husband, but what she did not know was that she lived in a lie.

 

When Nuonuo was one year old, the lie collapsed. Her husband disappeared one night, and she suddenly had over 2 million RMB debt. Before she could react, the snow wave hit her on the head and sent her to the rock bottom.

 

The blows I faced during climbing was nothing compare to the event that caused my family collapsed and destructed everything in my life. The scary creditor came to her home again and again, and she was too terrified to sleep, so she had to pack her bag and take her one-year-old kid with her, then started to move over a dozen of times in two years.

 

Until 2008, all the debts were settled, and they could stop moving, and suddenly she felt free but facing the broken life, should she spend the rest of her life as a dissatisfied wife and die in sorrow? She could not stop thinking about the snow mountain she did not get to climb before the event.

 






The gift to celebrate rebirth.

She really fits climbing because she is light on her feet and her breath is light too. At 2009, Jinmao who was a traveler just arrived Beijing, and he was attracted by the Jing Luos posture when he saw Jing Luo dancing on the ice for the first time.

 

Then they traveled to Tibet together, and she listened to a song which named the Wings of Angles on the road repeatedly. When they were circling the mountain, her tears suddenly started to drop once they faced the holy mountain——Kangrinboqe. Jingmao knew that she had a load on her mind.

 

After they came back to Beijing, Nuonuo who was four years old climbed on his neck like a monkey. Jinmao felt sad when he saw Nuonuo so longing for fathers love, so he showed great concern for Nuonuo, but he did not expect the fragile girl passed three levels in a year.

    

From the third peak of Mt. Siguniang which is 5355 meters above sea level, Chola Mountain which is 6168 meters above sea level, to the Noijin Kangsang which is 7206 meters, and she wanted to climb mountains that were 8000 meters above sea level.

 

Climbing mountains allow people to look at the higher ground that is what attracted me the first place. Longing made things less desperate. Snow mountains made she felt free, but she could not dare to challenge mountains that were 8000 meters high until she met Chunfeng Yang at Chola Mountain.

 

The mountaineer in front of her who is called Daxia by everyone was fragile, and Jing Luo could not believe that she was the one who climbed the most 8000-meter-high mountains among all the unprofessional mountaineers. As a newbie who just started to climbing two years ago, Jing Luo felt like she was an ignorant student, even though she could not understand what they said, but she longed for it. She remembered what Chunfeng Yang said,your technique may be better than me but are you braver than me? 

 

Am I brave enough to climb a mountain that is 8000 meters above sea level? After climbing a 7000-meter-high mountain, should she keep challenging or stop?

 

In the fall of 2011, Jing Luo decided to join the team that was organized by Chunfeng Yang and challenged the eighth highest mountain in the world——the Manaslu Mountain. This trip was a gift to celebrate rebirth, and she gave to herself when her 36-year-old birthday was coming, and she used a hundred thousand RMB which was supposed to be the payment of a car.

 





Climbing over the mountain of reality.

You can stop climbing for a while, but you must have a mountain in your heart. Jing Luo kept encourage herself like this in the Weibo at the end of 2011. She was muddled at the first half of her life and life played her, but in the end, she finally found a thing that she wanted to do, she did not want to stop.

 

Even though her friends and family did not understand her, in May of 2012, Jing Luo went to the fifth highest mountain in the world——Makalu Mountain. Mountain climbing needs good physical condition which you can not have when you are old, but you can find jobs later. She decided to uses these years to chase her dreams and go as far as she could.

Overcoming another difficult climbing experience made Jing Luo the first Chinese woman who climbed to the top of Makalu accidentally. And this sense of accomplishment made she realize that she had great potential.

 

Then she finished climbing Yang-chhen-dzo-nga, Gasherbrum, Gasherbrum, Dhaulagiri, and then the K2 which is one of the most challenging mountains to climb in the world. In three years, she climbed seven mountains that are over 8000 meters above sea level. She grew in a speed that surprised all her friends and made her rise in the mountaineering circle fast.

 




The deaths that came after.

Overcoming the difficult levels of life, terrors waited for Jing Luo on the mountains. At the third highest peak in the world —— Yang-chhen-dzo-nga which was also the third 8000-meter-high mountain she climbed, the snow mountain showed Jing Luo how cruel death was.

 

At that time, Jing Luo was still a newborn calve and did not afraid of tigers. When she reached 7900 meters, her Sherpa guide who lacked experience withdrew unexpectedly because he was too afraid, and left her alone on the mountain. She did not know that she should go up or go down.

 

There is no more fixed line in front, and the rubble looked like the gate of hell and with one slip, I could fall in the abyss. But you see, the old man in front of me lacked oxygen and help, and had one artificial leg. At least, my arms and legs are healthy, why should I be afraid?

 

Jing Luos voice was shaking when she recorded the video at the place that looked like the gate of hell. She looked at the old Hungarian man who was climbing with one artificial leg and tried to control her arms and legs which were shaking due to nervousness. She set her mind and kept going.

 

That climbing scared Jing Luo the most afterward, because 15 people climbed to the top of the mountain and she was the only female one, yet while descending the mountain, five people died including the old man with one leg who encouraged her and another fellow mountaineers that encouraged each other.

 

I never saw Jing Luo so devastated. In Yumiao Tians memory, even during the event that tore her family apart, she never looked so vulnerable. After she returned from Yang-chhen-dzo-nga, she looked stunned. Looking at the dark and smiling face on the pictures, she could not control her tears. Everyone in that photo was gone, except me……”

 

That climbing changed my psychological status. Jing Luo always thought that she was a little woman, and just liked climbing at first and did not overthink, facing the shock of death for the first time made her thinking.

 

Climbing mountain is a dangerous sport……” Jing Luo found an article named Mountaineering, Death and Survive which was written by Dongdong Yan who was a mountaineer that passed away a year ago. She passed through interest and tried to understand the truth of climbing better. One day after reading the article, bad news came again.

 

At June 2013, guns were fired at the base camp of Nanga Parbat. Unfortunately, Chunfeng Yang, Jiangfeng Rao and other people were killed by the terrorists. The chase of finish climbing 14 mountains by nonprofessional mountaineers which were almost finished, but now the quest became unclear.

 

Jing Luo received the sad news at the subway, and she did not remember how she got off the subway with tears and running around among the crowd like a chicken. Without Chunfeng Yang as an example, she would never have the courage to climb her first 8000-meter-high mountain, and if Jianfen Rao did not encourage her when she was about to give up, she could not climb her second mountain Makalu successfully.

 


 

Experience snow slide.

When will you stop? Yumiao Tian used to try to talk Jing Luo out of it, but with all the deaths, she stopped. Since Jing Luo had experienced the worse kinds of stuff, she believed that no matter what would happen in the future, Jing Luo could handle it.

 

Especially in the summer of 2014, Jing Luo became the first Chinese female that climbed to the top of K2 which impressed the whole mountaineering circle and sponsors started to support her. With everything looked so good, she had a bolder idea which was to climb the seven 8000-meter-high mountains that she hadnt tried at 2015.

 

When she was proud, more attacks came. At July 2015, when she was climbing the 12th highest mountain in the world——Broad Peak, with a thundering sound, snowballs fell fast and covered her and made her rolling for over 50 meters.

 

Except for being scared, all she could think about was that this was it, and she could never see her son again.

 

That was the most fatal snow slide Jing Luo had ever met. She was buried in the snow alive, and before she was suffocated, someone saved her life by clearing the snow on her and dragged her out. Her body shook uncontrollably, and she could not believe that she almost died once she lied on the rock.

 

The most unbelievable thing was that two days later, Jing Luo went back to where she escaped from death and kept going.

 

Even though she did not make to the top, but seeing how snow slide could not stop her, the foreign mountaineers were shocked and said, you look small, but your heart is stronger than ours.

 




Moving forward in fear.

She climbs fast, no wonder people call her Rabbit. At the fall of 2016, Daxiao Zhang who is a Beijing mountaineer saw Jing Luo walking on the ice in a bright green down jacket from afar while he was descending and she was forty minutes faster than her teammates on Chooyu Peak which was the sixth highest mountain in the world. At that moment, I realized that it was not luck that made she conquer so many 8000-meters.

 

A year after the snow slide, Jing Luo returned to the wild and kept dancing on the knifes tip like a rabbit. She climbed three 8000-meter-high mountains, but applause came with terror.

 

At May, she re-climbed Annapurna Peak, and whenever she heard a little sound, she acted like a scared rabbit and worried about if there would be snow slide. When she climbed the Nanga Parbat Peak, a round rock fell and missed her head by 10 cm and hit her arm.

 

After the near-death experience, she was more cautious and gave up rationally. But she also promised to come back next year.

 

Compare to the danger of mountain climbing, and she was more afraid of how short and  invariable life was.Be defeated by life or challenge my self and give myself another platform? I choose the latter one.

 

On the road to Broad Peak, with a loud sound, the snow rock in front of them collapsed and Nurbu who is a Sherpa passed and fell. Jing Luo sat instinctively and held on to the rope, the Sherpas behind them yelled stop!

 

Thankfully Nurbu stopped himself with ice ax and did not fell off the cliffs.If I walked one more step, I would be the first one to fall. And the three people tied with me would probably...

 

Even though they were near the end, they still could die any minute. She filmed the scene with trembling hands, tried to calm her bouncing heart, and kept climbing.

 

They escaped from death again, in July 2017, after trying for three times, Jing Luo stood on the top of Broad Peak which was also the thirteenth 8000-meter-high mountain she had climbed, and with one more, she would finish climbing fourteen 8000-meter-high mountain.

 

At September, she finally arrived Shishapangma. There is still time to seek confirmation and to finish the unfinished fourteenth mountain.

The fifth 8000-meter-high mountain of life will be full of thorns and challenging new levels.

Whether on the mountain and off the mountain, you will success and nothing will be complete. And the most important thing is that can you look up as if there is a mountain in you when you hit bottom.

 

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