Pay tribute to Xia-an old man who is determined to climb Mount Everest.

On May 18, 14, 10 and 4 1 day, 69-year-old Xia stood on the top of Mount Everest with a pair of artificial limbs, becoming the first disabled person in China to climb Mount Everest and the oldest disabled person in the world. At the moment when he reached the summit, he was also elected as Lawrence's "Best Sports Moment Award" in 20 19.

19 February 19 Early in the morning, 70-year-old Xia stood on the stage of the Laurence World Sports Awards ceremony in Monaco, holding the trophy high.

At this time, it has been more than nine months since the successful summit of Mount Everest. It was this old man who lost his feet more than forty years ago that conquered Mount Everest.

Xia said this in his acceptance speech:

This is so affectionate and peaceful. "It finally accepted me", but a seemingly plain sentence contains countless hardships in Xia Lao's life, which makes people deeply moved.

In retrospect, it has been more than forty years since Xia Lao first climbed Mount Everest at the age of 26 and finally reached the summit at the age of 69.

1974, 25-year-old Xia was still a football player. By chance, he signed up for the mountaineering team. The next year, he and his team set out to climb Mount Everest.

"At that time, I was still thinking that I would come back to continue playing football and not engage in mountaineering for a long time." Unexpectedly, he never played football again, but he never gave up climbing mountains.

It turned out that 1975, during the summit of Mount Everest in May, Xia Boyu thought that he was angry and was not afraid of the cold, so he gave his sleeping bag to his teammates, causing his feet to be frozen and necrotic. A few days after returning to Beijing for treatment, nine members of the China mountaineering team successfully climbed to the top, but he needed amputation.

Losses are inevitable. But when he knew that he could walk and even climb mountains with artificial limbs, he felt that life had hope again.

Xia Bozhen said:

But from then on, Xia also fell in love with mountaineering:

In this way, the former football player unfortunately lost his feet at the age of 26. But it was this climber who lost his feet. From then on, he made up his mind to measure Mount Everest with his legs.

However, this is not enough.

Since then, Xia has been doing weight-bearing squats, sit-ups and pull-ups every day to keep fit. Later, he developed cancer.

Summer is said to:

Xia insisted on training while cooperating with treatment, and even magically controlled her condition. This time, fate finally bowed to the warriors, and Xia He began a new challenge.

In 2008, he returned to the Everest Base Camp and even tried to climb the Qinghai Emerald Everest at an altitude of 6 178 meters.

In 20 12, at the age of 63, he stood on the Mount Mustag Ata in Xinjiang at an altitude of 7546 meters.

Finally, in 20 14, at the age of 65, he set foot on the mountain road leading to the top of Mount Everest again.

However, when he successfully reached the Nepalese Everest Base Camp, the Everest avalanche claimed the lives of 16 Cabar guides. All mountaineering plans in Nepal have been cancelled.

On 20 15, I set out again in the summer, but was attacked by the earthquake in Nepal. He survived, and his dream of climbing Mount Everest ran aground again.

20 16, the fourth challenge to Mount Everest in summer. When we reached the height of 8750 meters, we were caught in a snowstorm. Xia made the most difficult choice in his life-withdrawing troops.

Xia is going to go up first, whether he can come down or not. Can see five young Sherpa guide behind him, he still hesitated:

This time, he is only 94 meters away from the summit of Mount Everest.

In the summer of 20 17, due to severe thrombosis of lower limbs, he stopped challenging Everest due to special treatment.

On May 8, 20 18, it rushed to the top of Mount Everest for the fifth time in summer.

Finally, on May 18 14, 69-year-old Xia climbed Mount Everest for the fifth time and stood at the peak of Mount Everest-8844 meters.

In forty-three years, the snow-capped mountains made his hair gray, and the wind and frost made his forehead wrinkle deeply, but it also wrote a magnificent time for a determined mountaineer.

Just like Santiago in The Old Man and the Sea: "Everything about him looks old except his eyes. They are as blue as the sea, they are happy and refuse to give up. "

Old Xia, with his own efforts, has realized his dream for many years, but also challenged many impossibilities, which is embarrassing and even more touching!

Pay tribute to the old man Xia who climbed Mount Everest!

? (Source-China News Network)