Guangxi Dacao Tiankeng Cave Exploration Travel Notes

Guangxi Dacao Tiankeng Cave Exploration Travel Notes

I have long wanted to do something exciting and feel my heartbeat. Just as October 1st is approaching, I searched all the outdoor websites on the Internet. First, I eliminated those things that children would play like house with, such as carrying tents and backpacks, camping at the beach or along mountain streams, and switched to something cooler. The mountaineering and rock climbing website finally locked in the "Guangxi Tiankeng Cave Exploration" activity organized by Yingying and Suntou.

The first time I saw an eagle was while climbing in Yosemite. As soon as I walked in, I asked, "Who is the Eagle?" In fact, with a quick glance, I have already confirmed the long-haired black guy sitting in front of the bar. One look at his appearance and I can tell that he is a cool guy who has been running wild on the cliff outdoors for a long time. His style is as outstanding as that of a boy from an art school. After exchanging pleasantries, the unshaven Sun Tou also showed up. The Eagle introduced Sun Tou's status as the "Mountain Liaison Officer" of the China Mountaineering Association with a bit of flamboyance. Since I was dressed as a polite white-collar worker when I first got off work, my image and temperament were not like a snake in a cage with the other person, so I asked a little guiltily, "Are there any requirements for signing up?" The Eagle said boldly and proudly: "We are playing with courage"! It seemed that they were also eager to round up the last two or three people, so I just caught up with the opportunity.

Because we will set off in three days, most of the twenty teammates who are traveling with us are members of the "Shenzhen Mountaineering and Climbing Training Center" and have some experience in outdoor climbing and equipment operation. Only four of them are temporary. Participating non-members. After signing up, I did two less-than-an-hour SRT equipment operation training (single rope vertical lifting technique) in a rock climbing bar within two days. Then I just prepared to travel, packed away belongings, and purchased personal equipment.

Midnight Run

On September 30, we arrived at the Gaokeli Rock Climbing Bar at 7:30 pm. After a while of loading the car, waiting for people, taking photos, etc., we officially set off on the road at nine o'clock. Because there were too many cars on October 1st, after running all the way, the traffic jam started when we arrived at the Dongguan Expressway section, and the atmosphere in the car was quite depressing.

As the team leader, it is Eagle's unshirkable responsibility to liven up the atmosphere. In Zhao Benshan's words, "First tell a joke to open up the awkward atmosphere." The eagle had no choice but to dig out the "dirty jokes" from seven years ago to entertain everyone. Unfortunately, the development of "jokes" has changed with each passing day. The "concentration" of things seven years ago was too low and could no longer satisfy the appetite of the times. End of joke , after a moment of silence, everyone "pretended" to be funny and cheered out of politeness. On the other hand, Sun Tou often "acts like a spoiled brat" and always leans on Fangfang. Amidst Fangfang's laughter and scoldings of "**!**!", although the plot failed to succeed, he still managed to win the battle between "Warhead" and "Breathe and Hush". , "Freedom in the Wind" and other ruffians' singing, Yao transformed into the number one entertainment star in the car.

The pride I felt when I signed up a few days ago gradually subsided. In my memory, "adventure" is a dream that has been buried in my heart since my childhood. Get some confidence from your imagination. Now that I was really heading straight for the sinkhole, I felt a little uneasy at the thought of sliding down a rope as thick as my index finger from a cliff more than 100 meters high.

I always felt like there was a heavy stone weighing on my heart along the way. I was really unsure whether I would have a mental breakdown and "rebel the revolution" when I was at the top of the tiankeng cliff. I’m not familiar with it. If the car is composed of three generations, old, middle and young, I must be at the level of the old revolutionary. I have always wondered whether there is a generation gap with the "younger people", and it seems a bit dull and depressing. At night, as the Toyota bus ran wildly at midnight, my mind was still in a daze. I thought of "The Five Heroes of Langya Mountain" for a while, and then thought of Stallone's "The Peak" and the cliff leap in "First Blood". Gradually I gained some confidence.

The distance from Shenzhen to Leye County, Guangxi is about 1,400 kilometers. After a long day and night of driving, we finally arrived at 8pm on October 1st. Due to frequent traffic jams along the way, we were delayed for at least three hours. We originally planned to camp at Dacaotun near the Tiankeng, but because it was too late, we had to stay in Leye County first to recover and recharge our batteries.

The tremor in front of the sinkhole

I was woken up by my teammates in the same room at 6:30 in the morning, and there were rapid footsteps in the hotel corridor. I jumped up from the bed, feeling something strange in my heart. A kind of excitement before a war. After breakfast in the small streets of the county town at around seven o'clock, the Toyota bus officially roared away to the Dacao Tiankeng ten kilometers away.

After crossing a narrow gravel road that had just been built on a hillside, we arrived at Dacaotun near the top of the mountain at about nine o'clock. The station wagon slowly drove into the basketball court of Hope Primary School and prepared to set up camp in the primary school. . While the principal of the primary school was busy, the village children gathered around to chase and play in the stadium. The small mountain village with less than 20 households became as excited as a festival. This was the third time that Principal Tian received the Eagle. His tone was warm and courteous, as if he had become a friend. The Eagles had reminded everyone beforehand that they would voluntarily donate some stationery to Hope Primary School, so the teammates took out the purchased stationery and piled it on the court. The principal was grateful beyond words, and with the joy of the harvest, he ordered the children to take the stationery back for safekeeping. room.

After sorting out the rock climbing equipment and caving items, the team started heading towards the back mountain after the eagle gave the order. The air in the mountains in the early morning is fresh and moist, and it is refreshing to take a deep breath. In the morning sun, a group of people wearing helmets and carrying rope equipment looked like a group of miners working in the mountains. Wearing a helmet, sunglasses, and a camouflage uniform, the "surprise" look is full of foreign style. He is like a United Nations military police officer on an overseas expedition. He deserves to win the coolest rock climbing image award.

I have imagined the spectacular momentum of the tiankeng for countless times. The one I longed for the most was to climb a cliff in the thick fog, and suddenly dare not put down the raised foot! In the overture of "Symphony of Destiny": "Dang! Dang! Dang! Dang--!" Amidst the deafening sound, the sinkhole flew into my eyes! The scene must have made people stunned, and they enjoyed the excitement brought by the visual shock in a brief psychedelic state. Unfortunately, ten minutes later, I followed the "miners" to the Dacao Tiankeng in a daze, as if I had swallowed a fairy fruit that I should have slowly savored without knowing its deliciousness.

The Guangxi mangrove expedition team arrived at the tiankeng earlier. A beautiful blonde girl appeared sitting on the rock among the people sitting on the edge of the cliff. The appearance of the foreign girl made the people in the mangrove forest very special. Colors of the International Brigade. Song Jie, who is well-known in the domestic rock climbing community, is working on the cliff (fixing the rope for descent), wearing a red professional caving costume that is very eye-catching on the steep cliff.

"Big! This sinkhole is so fucking big!!" An unknown person muttered to himself. The slight dizziness that struck me as I approached the sinkhole prevented me from judging how far apart the cliffs were between the sinkholes. According to data, Dacao Tiankeng is a medium type among the 26 tiankeng in Leye County. The mouth of the pit is oval, about 300 meters wide at its widest point, and about 160 meters deep. There is a hole on the north side of the pit bottom that leads to the ground. underground river. Three sides of the sinkhole are gray-white steep cliffs. The rocks are dotted with trees and dark green vines. The scenery is magnificent, like a natural giant bonsai. The other side is a steep slope with rocks mixed with green shrubs. You can climb down with bare hands without using a rope. However, vertical descent with a single rope from the most dangerous cliff is the most exciting way to play. This also fulfills Comrade Motoyama's life philosophy of "happiness is suffering" in the rock climbing world.

At about 11:20, Ying Ying and Sun Tou fixed the No. 1 and No. 2 rappel ropes on the edge of the cliff about six or seventy meters away from the mangrove descent point, and everything was ready. , the atmosphere started to get a little tense. Everyone gathered around the top of the rugged cliff, staring at the eagle as he put on his equipment and then stood leaning on the cliff in a cool pose for everyone to take photos and videos. After chatting and laughing, he disappeared under the cliff. Due to professional admiration for the eagle and the calmness of the descent, the scene did not show a suffocating atmosphere. However, a few minutes later, a strange cry suddenly came from the pit, followed immediately by the dull sound of objects falling to the ground. "It's over! It's over!" Someone shouted in a trembling voice. People sitting on the ground jumped up, and several young ladies turned pale with shock! After listening to Sun Tou's walkie-talkie chirping for a while, the eagle finally sent word. It turned out that a stone was hung up by a rope and fell. What a false alarm!

About twenty minutes later, the eagle arrived at the bottom of the pit safely, and then "Bao Rui" and "Huahua" descended from the No. 1 rope and the No. 2 rope respectively. The teammates began to lower the men and women step by step. A cliff more than 100 meters deep. As the number of people decreases, the psychological tension becomes more and more uneasy. "Come on, ten meters is death, and one hundred meters is death!" "Out of breath" Xia, who has been playing rock climbing, shouted fiercely before, and it seemed that he still felt a little guilty. It is said that last year, a young lady finally mobilized for a while, but she was hanging in the air and did not dare to let go of the rope. She was begged and scolded by the hawk, and she was coaxed and tricked by the gangsters. After more than half an hour, she finally managed to pull her off. Get it down.

Another generous lady created a rock climbing slogan with great advertising effect: "I would rather fall to death than laugh to death!" Perhaps it was this sentence that forced me to have no way out!

Just imagine, if a few hungry wolves or tigers pounced on you at this moment, and there was only one hanging rope to escape from the cliff, it would really be paradise! So, after becoming a dozen teammates, I started to take the initiative to apply. Just like "Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" me, I also yelled in my heart, "It's a knife to stretch your head and shrink your head!" Then with the help of Sun Tou Fasten the protective rope. The procedure is generally as follows: put on the safety belt and descender, first fasten a protective rope, and then walk to the edge of the cliff (it is the top of a cliff more than 100 meters high, and it will make people dizzy just by looking at it) !), climb down with bare hands to the Mao point about 1.5 meters away (the focus point of the descent rope cannot have too much friction with the rock wall, so it must be hung in a place where it can be suspended), and buckle the descender (STOP) at the Mao point. Click on the rope and untie the protective rope to descend. The problem lies entirely in the psychological factor, that is, the sense of trust in the rope as thick as the index finger! The ropes and equipment are the most advanced professional rock climbing equipment imported from Europe. It is no problem to hang a jeep on a cliff with a single rope. Therefore, if you are used to it, you will enjoy it, if you are not used to it, you will be afraid! For a rookie like me who is about to complete the "virgin descent", the situation is like Du Qiu when he was on the run. He got into the cockpit of an airplane for the first time, and after a little guidance, he had to drive into the sky. When you were bungee jumping and didn't dare to jump, someone would kick you in the butt. When you descended vertically on a single rope from the cliff, you were completely under your control.

Perhaps the charm of extreme sports lies in this, blocking the escape route and challenging the maximum potential of life! The "scorching sun" that I walked down with had already reached the 90th point of the No. 1 rope. Girls could still be so calm. Why should I hesitate? I had no choice but to follow and climb to the rock. When I just got off the next position, the only small rock that could be used for my feet was occupied by "Scorching Sun"'s feet. When I got to the 90 point of the second rope, I had to change my feet through this point. At that time, the descender of "Scorching Sun" was installed backwards and was being unpacked and reinstalled. I could only climb on the cliff. I couldn't go up or down. I had to dig into the rocks with my hands and wait. My eyes accidentally glanced at the bottom of the pit. The teammates who came down first were like dwarves. dwarf! "MY GOD! I'm dead this time!" His hands and feet began to tremble a little, feeling like a death row prisoner standing on the execution ground waiting for the gunshot! Although there is a protective rope buckled on the body at this time, the protective rope does not bear any force. Its only function is to wait until you step on the air and fall, so that it will be stretched to hold you. Therefore, the balance and force of the whole body must be relied on by oneself. . Time was like a knife cutting through my heart second by second, lasting about five or six minutes. These were the most impactful minutes in my life, and they almost completely destroyed my mental defense! When "Scorching Sun" finally freed up his legs to let me pass, his hands were almost useless due to excessive exertion.

When I saw others trembling just now, I felt a little disdainful in my heart, but now it seems that it is just a matter of fifty steps and a hundred steps. Among the twenty-two people who went down, I guess no one was as unlucky as me. I suffered for five or six minutes. I originally planned to go to the sinkhole to feel my heartbeat, but now it was better. I even experienced the feeling of shivering. ! When I climbed to the 90th point of the second rope with the mentality of "If I don't go to hell, who will?" I found that I could hang up the descender easily while standing. When I finally buckled the STOP button, I felt a little better. He was so down-to-earth that he even didn’t forget to ask Sun Tou for a commemorative photo with a silly smile. When "Qingfeng", who was holding a DV video camera, asked me to say a few heroic words, my mind really went blank!

When I pressed STOP and slowly fell, I couldn’t tell whether I was in a dream or reality. My slow brain even temporarily forgot about the “horror”. After descending about twenty meters on the cliff, due to the concavity of the rock wall, the whole person was hanging in the air. The original plan was to take out the camera and take some aerial photos of the invincible landscape, just as Wang Anshi gained from visiting Baochan Mountain: "The wonders and wonders of the world often lie in dangerous and remote places that are rarely visited by people." According to Eagle, there are currently no more than 50 people in Shenzhen doing the single-rope rappelling over 100 meters in the air. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. However, because it was my first time to operate STOP, I lacked control skills, so I didn’t have the courage to play. I just wanted to quickly descend to the bottom of the pit, and I no longer had the intention to enjoy the stunning scenery in the sinkhole.

At this moment, I suddenly remembered that my cell phone was not turned off, and I thought that it was a critical moment, so I must not be distracted by the phone call, otherwise, no matter who the hell he is, I would definitely hunt him down with a knife when I get back! At about 2pm, I successfully descended to the bottom of the pit! At this time, "Surprise" was leisurely boiling water on the mountaineering stove to make Gongfu tea!

Searching in the Cave

The underground hall is the destination of this adventure tour. It is said that it is so big that it is more than enough to fit into the Beijing Workers' Stadium. While the teammates behind him were still descending one after another, the eagle who came down first had already entered a large semi-enclosed cave at the bottom of the pit, and was tying a lanyard at the entrance of a hole about two meters wide and four meters long. This hole is It is a shaft type, more than 30 meters deep, with a small top and a big bottom. From here, you officially enter the underground world!

Just as we were falling from the cliff like magic soldiers descending from the sky, a team of seven people also from Shenzhen was climbing down the tiankeng from the west slope. This group of friends only brought a ten-meter-long nylon rope and hired a local guide to explore the cave. When they stumbled and climbed to the bottom of the pit through hardships, they discovered that although the underground world is very exciting, But it was also very helpless. The door to the underground hall could not be opened with a ten-meter-long nylon rope, so the expedition had to be aborted midway. When I saw the eagle, I offered to pay a fee to go down the cave, but I was politely declined! When we climbed out of the sinkhole in frustration, our driver teased us again: "Look, the guy who is descending on the opposite cliff is our buddy!"

At about 3:40, Sun Tou, who was in charge of cleaning up, was the last one to go down to the bottom of the sinkhole. Two fellow sufferers, Lao Hu and Lao Liu, who were both non-members like me, also successfully fell to the bottom of the pit. All the people gathered at the entrance of the cave, and the pioneer Ying Shuai first explored the way. After that, the one-day trip to the underground world of this expedition began.

After having withstood the test of the 100-meter-long cliff of the tiankeng, the 30-meter-long underground hole was "sprinkled with water!" and the teammates began to scramble. Sun Tou couldn't help but think about going down. "Huahua" anxiously tried to dissuade him and said: "If you go down, we will have no heads!" Yes, we all have no heads and only the body is left. How terrifying! "Huahua's" Cantonese Mandarin always brings some comedy at key moments. In the end, there were only four people left. The others, in the words of "Huahua", "killed (next) one first, and then killed (next) one by one." I quickly put on my equipment and stepped back to stand on the edge of the cave after Sun Tou's final instructions. I thought to myself, if there are sinkholes of more than 100 meters, why are we still afraid of this cave of more than 30 meters? But when I turned back and glanced into the cave, I was still trembling with surprise. I scanned with my headlight and saw that the four walls were steep. I could only see the weak headlights of my teammates moving at the bottom of the cave. It was dark all around, making it even more eerie and scary. Look at how deep it is. More than thirty meters! But the arrow was on the string, so I had to shoot it. I made a move of my heart, relaxed the stop, and stood sideways in the hole. Then I forced out a smile and said to Sun Tou: "Take a picture!"

At 4:30, I finally went down to the bottom of the cave. It should have taken less than five minutes. I untied the rope and found that the bottom of the cave was much wider. It was like entering the belly of a mountain god, but the ground looked like a funnel. The slope is also uneven, and the surrounding slopes spiral into a small dog hole of about half a square meter, which leads to the ground at an angle. If you carry a slightly larger bag, you will definitely not be able to get through it!

The eagle and the vanguard had already disappeared into the dog hole. At 5:20, Sun Tou, who was responsible for cutting off the rear, was the last one to go down to the bottom of the cave. After the follow-up people arrived, I couldn’t wait to climb down the slope and down the dog hole. After getting through the narrowest part, I could stand up. However, the slope was steep. It was too steep and I couldn't hold my feet, so I had to jog forward a few steps. Don’t listen to a faint greeting coming from your ears: How do you feel? It seems to be the sound of "cool breeze". When I stopped and took a look, I saw that the ground had become slightly flat. The teammates who had arrived earlier were shining lights everywhere, as if they had descended into a dead canyon at night. Feel? I crawled into a hole that was only big enough for a small dog to fit in, and suddenly I found that I had entered another huge dark world. The range of the overhead light could no longer reach the edge. I couldn't tell whether it was a dream or reality. !

We finally entered the edge of the underground hall. This is a huge cave formed by millions of years of underground river erosion. According to British explorers, the hall is about 300 meters long and 200 meters wide. meters, the highest point is about 260 meters, and the top is only about 20 meters above the ground. It is just below our base camp, Yanglintun Hope Primary School. It is currently the largest underground hall in China and the second largest in the world. According to the description of British explorer James: "It is shaped like an extra large gourd, with a long and narrow section in front, a bit like the Channel Tunnel."

According to the appraisal of Chinese and foreign joint expedition experts organized by the Chinese Academy of Sciences in 2001, this place was a vibrant marine world in the ancient Permian period. It is said that the four walls of the cave are also covered with fossils of marine paleontology. However, due to limited lighting and time, , we failed to take a closer look. At the entrance of the underground hall, the Chinese and foreign joint expedition team also discovered a piece of charcoal ash. The ashes were piled very neatly. It was obvious that someone had used it to make a fire for lighting or heating. Judging from the degree of calcification of the ashes, it was at least hundreds of years old. History, that is to say, there were people living in this hall hundreds of years ago, were they savages or refugees? How did he get in and out of the thirty-meter-deep vertical hole? It's still a mystery.

The air in the underground hall is humid and cold. Walking in the bed of the underground river, there is no concept of "drilling into a cave" as imagined. The surrounding mountains still feel like mountains, and the valleys are still valleys, just like walking on the river in the dark night. On the bank, the river bed was dry, but the soil was soft and soft. It was obvious that underground rivers had flowed through it not long ago, and from time to time, clear ponds of various sizes were seen. Underground rivers are also divided into four seasons. During the rainy season, the river water is turbulent and the undercurrent is turbulent. It turns into a dry period in autumn and winter. A member of the local amateur "Flying Cat Expedition Team" was accidentally drawn into an underground river during the rainy season and died.

From the moment you enter the cave, the surrounding area of ??the underground hall is covered with stalactites of various colors unique to underground caves, with different shapes and charming shapes. After walking for more than an hour, the underground hall seemed to have reached its end. After climbing up a high slope, they had to drill through a gate-like hole at the top of the slope, and then they had to climb down a very steep slope. At this time, some teammates did not want to go down due to fatigue or fear, so they had to let Bao Rui lead them in the original place. I waited on the ground while others continued to move forward. I also hesitated again and again. When no one climbed down again, I gritted my teeth and bravely climbed down. It seems that in the underground world, just like the "upper world", you have to climb mountains when you need to, and you have to go down rivers when you need to.

After climbing down the cliff-like steep slope, we probably entered what the British described as "like the narrow Channel Tunnel". Only then did we begin to feel a bit like exploring and walking in the cave, and the colors of the stalactites became more brilliant. When it gets up, the shape becomes even weirder, giving off an eerie atmosphere under the illumination of the headlights.

After the team swam in the underground river for about three hours, for safety reasons, they had to stop and start their return journey. On the stalactites of "layers upon layers of terraces", people took photos one after another. Finally, under the advice of the eagle, everyone turned off their headlights and experienced a few seconds of "absolute darkness!" and "absolute silence!" That's when it was truly blinding! I wanted to experience it for a while longer, but within five seconds, someone quickly turned on the lights. Although there were twenty-two people present, there was still a somewhat scary atmosphere.

In this underground dark world where you can’t tell whether your eyes are open or closed when you turn off the headlights, if a person gets lost and the headlights run out of batteries, he may be waiting for a long time. If we don’t get rescued, we won’t starve to death, we will be scared to death in advance!

However, this terrifying underground hall has a very romantic name "Red Rose Hall!" According to international caving conventions, whoever discovers the cave first has the right to name it. In February 2001 Three cave explorers, Alan Ritchie, Robert Gallett and James Acker from the British "Red Rose Cave Exploration Club", visited this cave to investigate. Therefore, perhaps it was named "Red Rose Hall". Comes from this.

Returning to the World

Evacuating the underground hall feels a bit like a victory escape. We have three levels to pass: the first level is to find the puppy hole into the underground hall from the original route; the second level is to use a hanging rope to climb up a vertical hole more than 30 meters deep, which is a test of will and physical strength. ; The third level is to climb out of the tiankeng along the steep slope to the west of the tiankeng, and climbing at night is not only a test of endurance, but also extremely dangerous. If you step on the wrong foot, you will be killed in the tiankeng!

The excitement when entering the cave has gradually subsided. Thinking of the difficulties and dangers on the return journey, I feel a little heavy. Moreover, when I "experienced the darkness" just now, it caused a bit of a scary atmosphere. My steps were much more hurried, and I didn't know who it was, and started telling ghost stories, which made my nerves extremely tense! Although it was an amateur expedition, the team remained fairly orderly during the retreat. Some people were looking for the way in front of us, while others were cutting off the trail behind. I was a little selfish and ran in the first echelon.

However, they were punished half an hour later. Because the first echelon was walking in a hurry, they just immersed themselves in their journey and left the river far away and climbed up a large slope, thinking that they would reach the entrance of the hall after going up the slope. When we were almost climbing to the top, we suddenly heard an eagle calling from "down the mountain". We were going the wrong way! At this time, I had finished drinking the water. After climbing for so long, my throat was smoking. When I heard that I was going the wrong way, I wanted to collapse on the ground immediately! When I returned to the river, only Sun Tou and two or three others were left behind. At this time, be sure not to tap someone on the shoulder from behind, otherwise it will scare someone to death!

The underground rivers stretch for more than 200 kilometers and crisscross with more than 20 tiankeng underground rivers within dozens of square kilometers in Leye County. There are holes in the holes. Once the path goes astray, the consequences will be Unthinkable. An hour later, the team finally arrived at the entrance of the underground hall. The teammates in front were getting into the puppy hole one by one. At this time, due to internal urgency, I ran to a place where my teammate’s headlights could not reach to solve the problem. Maybe I ran a little too far, and suddenly I discovered a deep cave. Because the power of the headlights was weakened, I couldn’t illuminate the bottom at all. Just when I was about to take advantage of it, my headlight suddenly went out, and it was suddenly pitch black. My whole body was terrified. Because there was a bottomless abyss next to me, I didn't dare to move even half a step! If all the other teammates got through the small hole, I would be the only one left in the underground hall. There was no guarantee that a mutant alien would not fly out of the hole next to me and sweep me away! Although he had a spare battery on him, it was extremely inconvenient to replace it in the dark, so he had to shout for help. Fortunately, a teammate's headlight shone over him and he was able to escape the predicament.

However, my "experience" was more fortunate than "freedom in the wind". The comrade was the first to arrive at the entrance of the cave, and when he was lowering his head and arching into the small hole, don't listen to the sound coming from the black hole. Rich bass stereo sound: "Are you back?" I don't know if the nerves of "Freedom in the Wind" were temporarily confused at this time. It is said that it was also a strange scream, and he quickly called his friends to be brave. It turns out that the men and horses in the Guangxi mangrove forest have been struggling all day, and now a few people have just descended to the bottom of the cave, but the guys squatting at the other end of the cave didn't turn on the light, so they scared "Freedom in the Wind" half to death!

At about 9:30 pm, all the people drilled through the small hole and returned safely to the bottom of the cave more than 30 meters deep. Due to the sudden encounter with the "mangrove" in the cave, there were still about ten people on the other side who had not descended, and both parties could not get up and down at the same time (stones would fall and injure each other). If they had to wait for the other side to finish descending, it would probably take one to two hours. At this time, it was extremely cold inside the cave. The teammates were cold, thirsty and tired. After coming out of the cave, they faced the severe test of climbing into the sinkhole. If we follow the original plan and use a lift to climb up this thirty-meter cave shaft entirely by physical strength, it will take at least twenty minutes for all the people to climb up, even if they are skilled in rock climbing such as "Surprise", and they will have to fight hard. Until tomorrow morning!

At this time, "Mangrove"'s strategic retreat decision brought a turn to the situation. Although Song Jie's team was well-equipped and well-trained, when descending into the tiankeng, they used a point-changing technique in the middle of the cliff (I don't know whether the rope length was insufficient or intentional), so the speed was extremely slow. Although they started descending before us, But when we returned from the underground hall, they only went down to the entrance of the cave. Because the team members were extremely exhausted, they decided to give up entering the cave. It is said that the foreign girl even lost her international temper because of this. This is the second amateur expedition team to die during October 1st.

Next, the two gangs from Guangxi and Shenzhen merged into one. Song Jie and Eagle, the two comrades who went caving together last year, worked together again and changed their strategies to install a pulley on the top of the cave. , manually drag the teammates up one by one from the cave. Although this method can save the climber's physical strength, it takes four or five strong laborers to drag a big living person up to the hole like a log. Fortunately, the two groups of people took turns to operate, and finally in the early morning At 2:40, everyone was pulled up to the entrance of the cave.

After leaving the dark underground world, the joy of returning to the human world has not yet been fully digested. A new test is coming. At this time, we are still at the bottom of the sinkhole more than 160 meters deep, and the revolution has not yet begun. To succeed, comrades still need to work hard!

At that time, most of the people in the mangrove forest had left early, and the few people left behind seemed like hosts leading the way for us. But I decided to follow Bao Rui, who was visiting Tiankeng for the second time. Bao Rui weighs more than 190 kilograms, and endurance sports such as mountain climbing are not his strong point. Therefore, it was very comfortable for him to lead the way and control the pace. In the dark night, a series of factors such as tension, thrills, and terror seemed to condense into a whip, lashing everyone hard. Therefore, the climbing speed was extremely fast. In only about an hour, everyone finally climbed out of the sinkhole. It was already three forty in the morning.

Cooking and talking about heroes in a rock climbing bar

After the sinkhole adventure tour was successfully completed, the team began a series of corruption getaways. First, we went rafting under the Immortal Bridge on the Buliu River, and then headed to the Sino-Vietnamese border to see the Detian Transnational Waterfall, and camped on the mountaintop viewing platform. At night, the "warhead" even tricked four corrupt people into going down the mountain and swimming naked in the waterfall (according to reports from the masses) , one of them is a woman! On October 6, we returned after visiting Lingtong Grand Canyon and arrived in Shenzhen at 8 pm on the 7th.

On the evening of October 10th, the teammates reunited at the Gaokeli Rock Climbing Bar, with Sun Tou as the host. The brothers and sisters drank wildly in line with the principle of "eat your own food sparingly and drink other people's food ruthlessly." He drank until Sun Tou was frightened and then he got drunk and finally stopped. This gathering is also a "big exhibition of Tiankeng images and images", which is quite reminiscent of the bittersweet.

The thrilling scene when I descended into the sinkhole was captured on camera by "Little Sister Qingfeng"! Although I didn't see much "shaking" in the footage, I was just obviously a little nervous and helpless. The process of fierce ideological struggle on the top of the cliff took a little longer, and there was even a clear trend of "beating me to death". Returning to the rock climbing bar, I was exaggerated by the "Qingfeng", and my teammates rushed to tell each other. Finally, the female reporter from the Southern Metropolis Daily who came to interview also asked with concern: "According to the people's reports, when you climbed down Shaking badly? "Is there any mistake? Those who trembled more than me were not caught out, but I was regarded as a role model. It seems that the power of the media is infinite. If I had known better, I would have bribed Comrade Qingfeng in advance.

You don’t want to see the mountains when you come back from the Five Mountains, and you don’t want to see the mountains when you return from Huangshan. This trip to the Tiankeng has raised your appetite too much. I really don’t know what other activities can stimulate new impulses! It is said that the eagle is planning a "cave diving expedition". That thing is so professional that it may not be possible for ordinary people to pursue it. Perhaps the 613-meter-deep Dashiwei Tiankeng is still full of great temptations!