After the summit of Mount Everest, he spent four months returning to China.

Everest is the last obsession of entrepreneur Pu Aimin. And when the trip to Everest superimposed the epidemic, things were dramatic. He went through a lot of hardships to reach the top, but he almost collapsed on his way home.

In the end, his journey to Mount Everest lasted 196 days and flew 35, kilometers, which may be the longest record in the history of Mount Everest climbing.

I set out because of my obsession, and I tried my best to come back alive because of my family ties. Finally, I was alive, but it took four months to come back.

Life is a journey that goes hand in hand with uncertainty forever.

On April 12th, Pu Aimin set out from Shenzhen, flew from Chongqing to Kathmandu, Nepal at an altitude of 1,4 meters, then flew to Lukala at an altitude of 2,8 meters by small plane, and walked along the famous EBC line for 12 days to reach the Everest base camp at an altitude of 5,5 meters.

In this process, Pu Aimin had little opposition and felt very relaxed. "I played all the way."

Before this Everest trip, Pu Aimin spent five years preparing. Including running training for 2, kilometers, climbing training for more than 6, meters, equivalent to 7 Everest, and physical training for more than 6 hours. It has successively climbed Siguniang Mountain and Haba Snow Mountain at an altitude of more than 5, meters, Jade Everest at an altitude of more than 6, meters and muztag ata at an altitude of 7,5 meters.

To climb Mount Everest can be considered as a challenge to self and a conquest of nature, and there are many attributives full of coercion to modify this matter. But for climber Pu Aimin, on the way to the altitude of 8848.86 meters, all his glamorous titles no longer exist. His more important preparation is to prepare for not coming back.

in other words, prepare for not coming back, and then go all out to bring yourself back.

In early April, students from Peking University's HSBC Business School practiced for Pu Aimin. During the dinner, they put up a slogan: I wish Pu Aimin success in climbing Mount Everest. Between the flowers and the flowers, Pu Aimin smiled on his face, but what he thought in his heart was: "This may be my last party with my classmates."

In the end, after countless attempts to give up, Pu Aimin felt that this was related to his three big dreams in life-going to Mount Everest, studying at Peking University and going to the world.

The last two dreams have been fulfilled. I studied at HSBC Business School of Peking University, and have been to dozens of countries. Moreover, I once ran seven marathons on seven continents in seven days by running.

The most difficult dream, Pu Aimin put it last. For him with a successful career and a happy family, this may be his last obsession.

Pu Aimin found many predecessors, teammates and leaders who had climbed Mount Everest, including Sherpa guides, and asked them for advice on possible situations and coping strategies. These people include Wang Shi, Yu Liang and Cao Jun, including Xia Boyu, a legless climber.

"It turned out that their experience played a great role in my successful summit." What Yu Liang told him was one word: endure. Persistence is to endure, and finally when I feel that there is no hope, I will go up.

While waiting for good weather at Everest Base Camp, climbers have to carry out necessary training programs, such as ice climbing and ladder walking.

The ladder is laid flat on the ground, so there is no danger. You can easily walk past it. Some players went to rest after walking a few times, while Pu Aimin insisted on walking back and forth on the ladder for three hours. In the end, you can do it with your eyes closed.

It's not difficult to walk with a ladder laid flat on the ground, but such a ladder is placed at the first checkpoint after leaving the base camp-Khumbu Glacier. It is nearly 1 meters high, and it is impossible to bypass. There are countless ice cracks that change shape at any time. Ice collapses occur every day, and 3% of the victims are buried here.

"I want to know how to reduce the probability of accidents when passing through the Khumbu Glacier. First, it is fast, second, it passes at night, and third, it hangs ropes. There are ropes all the way to ensure safety. " However, the rope also has the problem of rope. Every time the rope passes through a node, it is necessary to take off the hook and hang it on another section. This is very troublesome and consumes energy. Some people think that in order to save energy, they will not hang it. "But I'll hang up even if I'm in trouble again. It can reduce the probability of accidents. As long as you hang the rope, even if you step on it and fall off, the rope will continue and the hook will continue, and you can still be saved. "

Luozibi, located at an altitude of six or seven thousand meters, has a height difference of 1, meters. Looking down, the route is visually vertical. "You can't see your head up or down." Pu Aimin walked for about 1 seconds and rested for 3 seconds. He couldn't breathe. He was more anoxic than other teammates. "Because I run the marathon faster, I need more oxygen."

Take high altitude physical fitness as an example. Pu Aimin is an environmentalist. He always picks up rubbish when climbing in Shenzhen. On Mount Everest, he keeps this habit.

He took a photo with only a dozen plastic bags. I only picked up so much, not because there is less garbage on Mount Everest, but because with the increase of altitude, the two actions that I need to squat together every time I pick up garbage have already exhausted my physical strength.

What makes him more gratified is that as can be seen from the photos, none of the dozens of wrapping papers he picked up had Chinese characters. "I just don't think these were thrown by China people."

between dream and reality, the biggest constraint is family.

Before leaving, Pu Aimin was weighing the relationship between the realization of dreams and family responsibilities. "I have been thinking about it, and I have to think about it. This is unavoidable."

Pu Aimin started his business in Shenzhen for 2 years, and he has a son and a daughter. He left a letter to his family. Say it's a letter from home, but from another angle, it's actually similar to a suicide note.

in the letter from home, he confessed what he should. The most important thing is to explain to the children. He wrote down some hopes: I hope they will grow sturdily, be self-reliant and never give up.

At least several times, Pu Aimin felt that he might die. Until May 12th, Pu Aimin, who was preparing for the Everest Base Camp, heard the news that two climbers died during the summit. He really felt that death was so close to him.

The position where death really approached Pu Aimin was about 6,2 meters above sea level. On the way from C1 to C2, an avalanche rushed towards him. At that moment, all he could do was lie prone on the snow.

Most of the people who died in the avalanche were thrown by air billow, so lying down is the only way. For avalanches, it is impossible to predict and prepare, and it is purely luck. When the avalanche in the movie comes, people run away. "You can't run away. How can you run past it? Besides, if you run two steps at high altitude, you can't run. You can't even walk. How can you run?"

Finally, the avalanche stopped more than 1 meters away from Pu Aimin, and for the first time in his life, he felt frustrated that he could only resign himself to fate.

"Being afraid or not will not reduce the possibility of danger. What I can do is to prepare as comprehensively as possible to reduce this probability." Pu Aimin feels that this is his necessary responsibility as a husband and father.

In the end, it is also the picture of his family that keeps flashing back in his mind, which makes him come back safely.

The last hurdle to the summit is Hillary steps, named after the first climber who climbed Mount Everest. It is a narrow ridge that only allows one person to pass, with cliffs on both sides. Located at an altitude of 88, at the top of Mount Everest, it is within reach, but the height of tens of meters is precisely the road with the highest mortality rate.

In this last section, people who climb Mount Everest have to wait in line here every year because they have to pass in turn. In previous years, some people waited in line for four hours at the longest, and some people failed to climb the summit because the queue time was too long. There are people who are exhausted because they are waiting for their physical strength.

This year, because there were few people suffering from the epidemic, Pu Aimin only stood in line for half an hour.

When going up, Pu Aimin suddenly found a man lying across the road in front, with his legs stretched out in the middle of the road. "It is a mountaineering predecessor who has been dead for many years."

Pu Aimin said that when he saw this scene, he felt both admiration and fear. He admired him for keeping himself on the road of pursuing his dreams forever. What he was afraid of was that he thought of himself again. Is it possible that he could not get down?

Standing on the top of Mount Everest and the top of the world, at that moment, Pu Aimin didn't feel that he had done something awesome. All the people he had asked before when he learned the scriptures said that he would not feel great when he reached the summit. Pu Aimin felt that their answers were not very credible at that time.

At this moment, Pu Aimin first breathed a sigh of relief. "It's finally the end."

Next, let the Sherpa guide take photos for himself.

Then, he carefully stood around the small platform on the summit of Mount Qomolangma, and thought, "I have arrived here, so remember what it looks like here." At the same time, at that moment, he suddenly had the idea that "the whole world is under me".

it took about 1 minutes to finish the above, and he began to withdraw.

"I'm at the top, and I've only finished half my work." Go all out to go up and down, Pu Aimin has only one goal in mind: to be alive!

"I want to live no matter what, this is my truest idea."

on the way down, it is also very dangerous. On the ice wall of a cliff, Pu Aimin's crampons were suddenly entangled in the road rope. In an instant, people turned upside down, and then quickly fell. Soon the descent device locked the rope and the fall stopped, but Pu Aimin was hung upside down, and he was rescued when the guide arrived.

A Sherpa transports an injured person down the mountain, and only one person can be transported by eight people, and the injured person is dragging in the snow.

This reminds Pu Aimin of a joke he heard before, saying that Sherpas can be invited to mount Everest as long as they have enough money. "Down, eight to one, can only drag, up? No amount of money is possible. "

This year, while climbing with Pu Aimin, there is a prince from the Middle East, one of the richest countries in the world. There are more than a dozen bodyguards to climb Mount Everest, and Sherpas have invited dozens of people, but he still has to finish it step by step.

After reaching the summit, Pu Aimin evacuated to Kathmandu on May 28th, taking a rest and waiting for the scheduled flight back to China on June 6th. A few days later, he received the news that the flight was cancelled. From then on, Pu Aimin found himself in an endless wait.

The flight has been rescheduled all the way, from the end of June, July, August, and then to October. The last rescheduling has been pushed to November 11th. The return date is always out of reach, and he feels that the flight waiting to return to China in Kathmandu is basically impossible.

In Nepal, China people flew to Egypt in other mountaineering teams, saying that Cairo had a plane to return home. So, on August 24, Pu Aimin flew to Egypt.

But he can't go back in Egypt because he won't be given the green code.

At this time, in his information channel, the only way left is to return to China from the United States. A month later, Pu Aimin flew from Egypt to Seattle, USA.

Seattle still doesn't give him a green code, and the policies vary from place to place and at different times. The requirement here is that you can't transfer from a third country to China.

After staying in the United States for a long time as required, Pu Aimin flew from Los Angeles to Guangzhou on October 3rd.

after 14+7 days of isolation, on October 24th, Pu Aimin returned to his home in Shenzhen.

At this time, 196 days have passed since he left Shenzhen on April 12th to set foot on Mount Everest.

It took Pu Aimin four months to go home this time and flew 35, kilometers.

When he first evacuated to Kathmandu, Pu Aimin was physically exhausted, but he was extremely excited. After all, he successfully climbed to the top and safely evacuated. He was very happy. At the same time, Kathmandu is also a tourist city, and the time waiting for returning to China is not lonely at all. Even if the flight was cancelled on June 6, he didn't think it was very important.

"I never thought it would be so difficult to return to China when I talked about the national disaster before, and I never thought I would stay abroad and never come back."

In Pu Aimin's view, the epidemic situation abroad is serious, and it is normal for domestic airlines to cancel flights for some important activities. After that, on August 1 ST and 11 th, the flight was postponed all the way, and he was still full of hope. "I will definitely be able to return to China, and there will definitely be planes."

After the postponement to the 11th, he felt something was wrong. Many local people said that he might not be able to go back until the end of the year.

Pu Aimin, who dreams of seeing the world, has been to dozens of countries, but after the epidemic began in early 22, he didn't go abroad. "If I knew it was so difficult to return to China, I would consider climbing Mount Everest again next year." In fact, what Pu Aimin is experiencing at this time is the daily life of many people who are stranded overseas because of the epidemic and cannot return to China.

During his stay in Nepal and Egypt, Pu Aimin stayed in a hotel, and his daily expenses ranged from 3 yuan to 5 yuan. His economic conditions were acceptable and he could work online. Pu Aimin did not feel great pressure, but during this period, he really felt the difficulties of many ordinary migrant workers.

Many of them have been away for longer, and some of them were abroad before the outbreak began, and they have never been able to come back since. Their own income is not high, and many of them have lost their jobs, so the economic pressure is quite great.

What is even more embarrassing is that Nepal's tourist visa is up to 15 days, and you must leave the country before it expires, otherwise it will be illegal to stay. Some China people, either traveling in the past or passing through Nepal, can't leave until their visas expire, thus forming a situation where they can't rely on each other.

This will lead to two consequences, one is deportation, and the other is a fine. There is no place to expel, only a fine, which is $8 per day. Later, the embassy came forward to communicate, and the fine was reduced to $3 a day, but it was still a big burden to stay for a long time.

For Pu Aimin, what makes him collapse is that waiting seems to be endless.

"If you are sure when you can return to China, you can wait, but in this case, you don't know when you will stay."

Just like climbing Mount Everest, you can tell how far it is from the top according to the altitude change on your watch. But if we don't know that the top of Mount Everest is 8848 meters, how high is the mountain and when is the end of the climb?

Because countries have different policies on the epidemic, Pu Aimin has not been isolated in Egypt or the United States. In the United States, he specially went to the supermarket to see if there were any paper towels, because at that time, there were domestic media reports that American paper towels were all snapped up, but what Pu Aimin saw was that everything was normal in the local supermarket, and he also specially took a video from the supermarket and sent it to friends in China. Including wearing a mask, he also paid attention to it. Some people wear it outdoors and some people don't, but when they enter convenience stores, the clerk refuses to let customers in without masks.

On the one hand, there is information about the United States on the mobile phone, and on the other hand, he sees the actual situation in an American supermarket. At this time, he feels that the transmission of information is somewhat biased.

While waiting for the time to return to China in the United States, Pu Aimin has hope. He knows that he can leave when he has enough time. During this time, he and his teammates lived in a family hotel in the United States, lived with the American landlord, had a public kitchen, and went shopping and cooking every day.

Waiting for the day to return to China is also a hard time. Living expenses and air tickets are not small expenses. But Pu Aimin still feels happy. After all, there is no need to worry about not coming back, and North.