17 climbers disappeared mysteriously, and their climbing diaries were discovered many years later, which recorded strange experiences.

In Yunnan, there is a very beautiful snow mountain, which is a famous local attraction.

In addition to tourists visiting such snow-capped mountains, there will naturally be many explorers or mountaineers who come to challenge the summit.

However, there is a "mysterious curse" behind the beautiful snow-capped mountains.

No matter who you are, there is only one consequence for trying to climb this snowy mountain - death!

So until now, no one has successfully climbed this snow-capped mountain.

This snow mountain is the famous "Meili Snow Mountain".

Meili Snow Mountain is the "first of the eight sacred mountains in Tibet" and is known as one of the "Top Ten Most Beautiful Mountains in China" and one of the "Top Ten Majestic Mountains in China". It is located in the Hengduan Mountains in Yunnan Province In the middle of the country, the Nu River and the Lancang River flow beside it. To the south is the Biluo Snow Mountain and to the north is the Adongeni Mountain. In Tibetan religious mythology, the Meili Snow Mountain is the "eldest son" of the Himalayas and is called the "Crown Prince" by the Tibetan people. ", some people also call him "Snow Mountain Prince".

It has the most majestic snow-capped mountains in the world, with thirteen peaks above 6,000 meters above sea level. It is known as the "Thirteen Peaks of the Prince".

Its main peak is Kawagebo Peak, with an altitude of 6,740 meters. In Chinese, it means "precipitous and towering snow-capped peaks in the river valley area." Kawagebo Peak was praised by an American geologist as "the most beautiful mountain in the world" in the 1930s. It is famous for its majesty and enigma. In fact, in the eyes of the Tibetan people, Kawagbo does not refer to the highest mountain. Several peaks standing on the snow-capped mountains are called Kawagbo.

In traditional Tibetan culture, Kawage Bozan is the patron saint of the Tibetan people.

Meili Snow Mountain has four most eye-catching landscapes, they are: "Yubeng Shen Waterfall", "Yubeng Village", "Mingyong Glacier", and "Feilai Temple".

Feilai Temple was built in 1641 AD and has a history of 407 years. Now it is located on the Yunnan-Tibet Highway, with an area of ​​only 1,500 square meters. Feilai Temple is directly opposite Mount Kawagebo in the Meili Snow Mountains. Therefore, many photography enthusiasts come here every year to take pictures of the wonders of "Rizhao Jinshan".

But you need to be lucky enough to see the "Rizhao Jinshan".

Mingyong Glacier is the longest and largest valley glacier in Yunnan Province. It is a long ice belt under Kawagebo Peak. It is a modern tropical monsoon marine glacier. The top is a year-long ice belt. Covered with snow all year round, this is one of the routes for many outdoor hiking enthusiasts.

In Tibetan, it is also called "Mingyong Cha", "Mingyong" is the name of a local village, and "Cha" means melted glacier water. Every summer, the glaciers melt and form a lake with a diameter of about 50 meters. The lake water is as blue-black as sapphire and unpredictable. When night falls, the lake freezes again.

Yubeng Village is located on the Nianci Peak in Meili Snow Mountain and is surrounded by mountains. Therefore, there are only two post roads to enter this village, namely Xidang and Ninong. Yubeng Village is divided into two villages, Shangyubeng Village and Yubeng Village. In order to conquer the Kawagebo Snow Mountain, the Sino-Japanese joint base camp was established near Shangyubeng Village. Yubeng Shen Waterfall is located near Yubeng Village. Along the way, you can also see the landscape of five trees with the same roots.

Yubeng Shen Waterfall is located in the south of Meili Snow Mountain. The waterfall pours down from the cliff. The landscape of the waterfall varies throughout the year. Due to the melting of ice and snow in spring and summer, the water flow of the waterfall increases, and the water splashes continuously hit the ground and splash on the ground. The scene is very spectacular. In autumn and winter, the water flow decreases, and the waterfall only flows down a few water lines, like the white Hada of the Tibetan people. Tibetan people say that bathing under the Yubeng Shen Waterfall can purify the soul.

After reading this, I believe it is difficult for everyone to associate beautiful snow-capped mountains with disasters.

So what is going on?

We all know that in human minds, the best way to conquer the earth is to conquer Mount Everest. As the world’s highest peak with an altitude of 8844.43 meters, it is known as the "Mother of the Earth" and the "Honor of Ten Thousand Mountains". "In the early 19th century, many mountaineering athletes and scientists were obsessed with it. To date, more than 3,000 people around the world have successfully conquered Mount Everest.

However, in the process of conquering Mount Everest, some athletes inevitably died due to extreme weather or their own reasons. But even so, there are still people who continue to challenge Mount Everest.

But for the Kawabog Peak, which is 6,740 meters above sea level, there is no history of human beings successfully reaching the summit. China has even formulated regulations prohibiting all individuals and organizations from climbing Meili Snow Mountain in any name or form.

Speaking of which, we have to mention the 17 cursed mountaineers.

On July 18, 1998, the villagers of Mingyong Village were grazing their cattle on the summer pasture at an altitude of 3,800 meters as usual, when they discovered colorful things scattered on the glacier. So he took a closer look and was shocked. There were a large number of remains on the glacier, and there were various items next to them, including notebooks, cameras, watches, altitude tables and other items. The villagers were so frightened that they hurried back to the village to report to the village chief. Because the communication equipment at that time was relatively backward, there were no telephones in the village, and transportation was not convenient, so the village chief's brother ran to the county on foot and reported to the county chief. reported the incident.

After hearing the report, the county leaders immediately sent a team to understand the situation. These people arrived at the scene and conducted collection work. They found about 10 corpses and 20 bags of scattered items. After investigation, it was confirmed that the bodies were members of the Sino-Japanese joint mountaineering team at the time. The remains had long been deformed, but the identities were roughly clarified by carrying relics and clothes. In the end, the identities of five corpses were confirmed.

As the news spread, many relevant people came to Mingyong Village. This discovery brought the "curse" that had been sealed for seven years into people's sight again. This was exactly the Kawagebo mountain disaster seven years ago.

But the local Tibetan compatriots felt relieved and excited. Kawagbo is known as the Sleepless Mountain in the local area. In the understanding of local villagers, these people's souls were trapped by the mountain god because of their blasphemy and disrespect for the mountain god. They worked as hard labor for seven years before being released by the mountain god. . These corpses are the souls of the mountaineering team members who were detained by the mountain god seven years ago for not listening to the dissuasion. Today, seven years later, the mountain god threw their bodies out. This is really a manifestation of the mountain god.

The story begins in 1986. At that time, mountaineering in Japan was in full swing. They submitted an application to the China National Sports Committee to climb Meili Snow Mountain. China and Japan signed a They signed a contract, agreeing to jointly conquer Meili Snow Mountain within ten years, and established a Sino-Japanese joint mountaineering team.

The mountaineering team members mainly came from Kyoto University in Japan. At that time, it was one of the most powerful mountaineering teams in Japan. More than 1/3 of the members of this mountaineering team have successfully climbed mountains above 8,000 altitudes. In addition, many consortiums in Japan expressed support for this mountaineering activity. Therefore, this mountaineering team was equipped with the most advanced mountaineering equipment in the world at that time.

Geologists and meteorologists have also conducted various studies on Meili Snow Mountain. The leader of the mountaineering team is Professor Kamijiro, a doctor of meteorology. The vice-captain is Chinese mountaineer Song Zhiyi, who has set mountaineering records countless times.

After sufficient preparations, they began to climb the mountain.

In the summer of 1987, this team arrived at the foot of Meili Snow Mountain in off-road vehicles and various mountaineering bags. The enthusiastic Tibetan villagers thought this was a scientific research team from afar, so they enthusiastically presented Hada to them and entertained them warmly with local highland barley wine and Zhu Biaorong. The mountaineers love this welcoming atmosphere so much that they often leave the camp to visit nearby villages. They got along very harmoniously with the local villagers and had great conversations.

During their chat, the villagers learned that these people were going to climb Meili Snow Mountain. The villagers did not "know" where Meili Snow Mountain was and expressed surprise. It turned out that these people were mountaineers and had never heard of mountaineering as a sport before.

The Tibetan compatriots have always been getting along well with each other as mountaineering team members, but as the mountaineering progresses step by step, the villagers finally know that this group of people originally wanted to conquer their patron saint-Kawag Bofeng.

It turns out that people in the local area do not directly call Meili Snow Mountain by its name. They call Meili Snow Mountain Anika Wagebo, which means Grandpa Kawaboge in Tibetan.

These villagers can't understand why they want to climb on their grandfather's head?

The villagers feel that this sacred mountain has given them all the supplies in life. Their drinking water is left after the ice and snow on the mountain melt, and the food that the cattle and sheep eat is also given by this mountain. They believe that the climbing behavior of these mountaineers is a desecration of the sacred mountain. If the sacred mountain becomes angry, the patron saint will leave them and disaster will occur.

Therefore, the mountaineers’ spirit of exploration and conquest conflicts with the local religious beliefs of respecting and worshiping the sacred mountain. The upper-level leaders also paid attention to this issue, but after consultations between China and Japan, the mountaineering plan was approved.

In December 1990, mountaineering began despite the villagers’ dissuasion.

After investigation, the mountaineering team members formulated a new climbing route. Before departure, a blessing ceremony was held at Feilai Temple. These team members were full of confidence because they wanted to conquer a snow mountain that had never been conquered by humans, so these team members led We started this mountain climbing operation with the amulet obtained from a Japanese temple, and no one felt any difference from the past.

But what they didn’t know was that some time before they were about to set off, tens of thousands of Tibetan people spontaneously gathered near Meili Snow Mountain. They knelt devoutly at the foot of the mountain and prayed to the mountain god to bring them happiness. Come with a heavy price.

The mountaineering team’s plan is proceeding smoothly, and everything is the same as the previous mountaineering activities. They successfully established Camps 1, 2 and 4, but the Chinese and Japanese mountaineering team members had differences regarding Camp 3. The Chinese mountaineering team members believed that Camp 3 should avoid the avalanche area and stay away from the ridge, so as to ensure that the team safety.

However, the Japanese team members insisted on building the camp close to the ridge, because the climate in Kawagbo is now very unstable, and the summit should be reached as quickly as possible. The members of the two teams couldn't argue, and the captain decided to build Camp No. 3 in the center of the site selected by China and Japan.

Camp No. 4 was built in front of a large ice wall, with an altitude of about 5,900 meters. It is also the base for the team members to climb. Here, the team members are preparing to summit for the first time.

At 11:30 a.m. on December 28, 1990, five members of the mountaineering team began to approach the ridge. At this time, the altitude reached 6,200 meters. This is the highest height that humans have climbed to Kawagbo so far. , when they told the news to their companions in Camp No. 3, the excited companions had already begun to cheer for this imminent victory.

But when the five team members were about to climb to the top - only 300 meters away from the top - the weather on the top of the mountain suddenly became extremely bad, with strong winds mixed with blizzards, and the snow was pounding like rocks. On the faces of the team members. The team waited until 4 p.m., but the weather showed no sign of letting up. In desperation, the captain reluctantly issued an order to suspend the mountaineering operation and everyone returned the same way.

It was not until late at night that the team members returned to the camp with difficulty despite the snowstorm. Although they failed this time, the team members were still very excited. With this experience, they believed that they would be able to successfully reach the summit next time.

At the bottom of the mountain, the Tibetan compatriots knew that the mountaineers were about to reach the summit, and they were extremely angry. They loudly vented their anger to Kawagebo. Tens of thousands of lamas and Tibetan people went to Feilai Temple to worship Kawagbo. They cried angrily and begged the patron saint to punish these rude outsiders, otherwise, They will never worship him again.

With the experience of the last summit push and the weather forecast from the weather station. The mountaineering team planned to launch an attack on the top of the mountain on January 1, 1991. The members of the mountaineering team waited silently at Camp 3, constantly praying that the bad weather would end soon. However, the snowstorm not only did not stop, it became more and more fierce. The mountaineering team could only communicate with the base camp through walkie-talkies. When the base camp knew that they were trapped by the bad weather, the people in the base camp were very worried, but they could only pray for them silently.

At 10:30 pm on January 3, 1991, the snow outside the camp had reached 1.6 meters thick. The base camp made voice contact with Camp No. 3. What was creepy was that during this contact, several mountaineers screamed loudly and said that a majestic temple had appeared. After that, the intercom was mysteriously disconnected.

There is also an even weirder thing. The son of Li Zhiyun, one of the 17 mountaineering team members, suddenly burst into tears at home and said to his mother: "My father was buried in the snow." Before this, Li Zhiyun's son had no abnormal behavior.

On January 4, the bad weather finally stopped, but after the last contact, the mountaineers never contacted the base camp again. An ominous premonition came to the hearts of the base camp personnel. He immediately reported it to his superiors and requested the dispatch of a professional rescue team. However, there was too little information about Kawagbo, and the oxygen was very thin. The oxygen content on the top of the mountain was almost zero, so the helicopter did not dare to take rash action and could not launch an air rescue. Most of the personnel in the base camp are logistics personnel with no rescue experience and dare not take action.

It was not until January 20 that the professional rescue team arrived. However, bad weather appeared again and a blizzard raged. Even the Tibet Mountaineering Association, which has the most experience, We could only barely reach Camp No. 1, which is the lowest altitude.

Later, during the rescue process, they finally overcame the difficulties and came to Camp 2. In the camp, they found the diary of Sato, a Japanese mountaineer, which recorded some bizarre events. His diary recorded that before they set off, the mountaineers all had the same dream. They dreamed of a deer standing on the snow-capped mountains. The deer's whole body was emitting a dazzling golden light. The sacred deer was in the sky. The snow-capped mountains looked at them with contempt, and then the deer left.

Behind the deer was a wolf shining with silver-gray light. But they did not realize that this was the warning given to them by the sacred mountain. Instead, they thought it was a good omen and still chose to challenge Kawaborg.

In the subsequent diary content, the abnormal behavior of the only female member of the team was also recorded. Starting from January 1, Kitai Kiyoko's symptoms of altitude sickness suddenly became very serious. Her body was always hot and her mouth was hot. He kept talking nonsense.

She kept shouting: "It's coming! It's coming! Let me go home while there is still time!"

At 10 o'clock in the evening on January 3, with After the call at the base camp, a burst of heavy fog suddenly enveloped the outside of Camp No. 3, and the normal recording stopped at this time. Then came the unreadable handwriting: "Darkness shrouded, they are coming, we were wrong, it was too late to go down the mountain, save me! I don't want to die!"... On January 22, the rescue team gave up the search and rescue, and all personnel evacuated safely. .

At this time, something strange happened again. Not long after they evacuated, a huge avalanche occurred near the base camp. A fir forest that towered into the sky was crushed to the ground by snow, which made people feel frightened. In the following years, natural disasters occurred more or less in nearby villages. The local villagers said angrily: "This is all It’s the result of those people disrespecting the patron saint.”

After experiencing this lesson, it stands to reason that people should be in awe of the mysterious power, but mountaineering enthusiasts do not believe in mountain gods. Mountaineering organizations from more countries have applied to the China Mountaineering Association to climb Meili Snow Mountain. For professional climbers, the meaning of life is to conquer mountains that have not yet been conquered by humans.

But Kyoto University still has the right to be the first to climb this snow-capped mountain, and plans to prepare again to launch a second attack.

In 1996, the Kyoto University mountaineering team made more adequate preparations to prevent the last disaster from happening again. So, the mountaineering team entered Meili Snow Mountain again.

During this mountaineering trip, the Tibetan people and the mountaineering team had more serious conflicts. The villagers stopped what they were doing, their cattle and sheep were left ungrazed, and their farm tools were abandoned in the fields. The villagers lay on the path that the mountaineering team must pass, preparing to block the climbers with their bodies. They could only use this method to protect their sacred mountain.

However, the villagers' obstruction did not cancel the mountaineering plan, but quietly, as if there was a mysterious force guarding the mountain, and the second mountaineering operation still ended in failure.

The Central Meteorological Observatory, Japan Meteorological Observatory, and Yunnan Meteorological Observatory are always paying attention to the weather in Kawagbo. The mountaineering equipment this time is more advanced than the last time. Before climbing the mountain, these mountaineers went to the monument of the fallen mountaineers to worship and vowed to climb to the top of the mountain no matter what, to fulfill their wish.

This mountaineering operation was more cautious than the last time. More than a month later, the mountaineering team members arrived at the location of Camp 4 in the last mountaineering operation. The mountaineering team was ready to rush to the top in one go, but at this time the Japan Meteorological Observatory suddenly informed that there was a huge dark cloud near the snow-capped mountains and it would reach Kawagbo in a few days. This snowstorm would be worse than the one in 1991. bad. With the lessons learned from the last time, the mountaineers immediately prepared to retreat and returned to the base camp within one day.

But something strange happened again. As soon as the mountaineers descended the mountain, they were notified that the huge dark cloud had been blown away, and it was good weather for climbing on Kawagbo again. An excellent climbing opportunity was missed. Maybe the mountain god is in the dark clouds above Kawagbo. The second mountaineering plan ended in failure.

In 2001, in order to respect the beliefs of the Tibetan people, the local county People’s Congress Standing Committee legislated that climbing in Meili Snow Mountain was prohibited. Meili Snow Mountain has since become a forbidden mountain. No one has successfully climbed on any peak of Meili Snow Mountain. Climb to the top.

When local residents mentioned the disaster in 1991, they had their own version: They said that the mountain god went to India to attend the mountain god conference that year, so the mountain god was allowed to die. They climbed so high that when they came back, they found several black spots on their bodies, so they shook them off. They firmly believe that if mortals disturb the mountain gods, mountain disasters are naturally expected.

It has been 30 years since the mountain disaster happened, but the feeling of surprise and fear he felt when he heard the bad news was just like yesterday. In June 1991, Kobayashi Shoei was still a junior student at Kyoto University. Not long after he returned to school after the holidays, bad news came to Kyoto University: the Sino-Japanese joint team's plan to climb Meili Snow Mountain failed. Bad weather has taken its toll.

"Maybe they are not dead yet?" Xiao Lin was unwilling to accept the death of his friends from an announcement.

He is also a member of the Kyoto University mountaineering team. He did not participate in this mountaineering activity because he returned to his hometown. Fortunately, he escaped this disaster. And he would never see his teammates again. Later, he attended their funeral, but there was no body or coffin.

"What happened at that time?" "What is so different about Meili Snow Mountain?".

Kobayashi has never been able to let go of these problems, and has never been willing to forget his teammates. After the climber's remains were discovered in 1998, this completely changed Kobayashi's fate. Xiao Lin had a strong idea in his heart to go to Yunnan to search for the remains and find answers to the questions in his heart.

Since the news reached Japan in 1998, Xiaolin has been visiting Meili Snow Mountain for more than 20 years. However, he was unable to come to China in 2020 due to the epidemic.

In July 1998, the Japanese containment team was sent to the local area to investigate, and Kobayashi also participated in this operation. After seven years, Xiao Lin finally saw his teammates again, but now they were separated by yin and yang. Over the course of 7 years, the faces of the mountaineers continued to freeze, melt, and then freeze again... After passing through the icefall to reach the glacier, their faces were no longer recognizable. Only 5 of the 10 bodies were identified. One of the remains had a love letter from his girlfriend in his pocket, and another had his arms raised high, as if he was grabbing something just before death. A watch was also found at the scene, indicating that time lasts forever. Stayed at 01:34.

Xiao Lin sorted out these relics and remains and murmured: "You are finally back." Xiaolin felt that these unidentifiable corpses had unusual meanings to him. First, Xiaolin was "full of expectations and nostalgia" for these remains, but he truly felt the "weight of death." This moment just felt so real.

The remains were cremated in Dali, and another funeral was held here. A family member of a mountaineering team member held the ashes and said to himself: "Unknowingly, it has been seven years since the disaster happened. Now it's finally settled." Hearing these words, Xiao Lin was enlightened. He said: "I have to seriously consider the weight of the remains of these victims. This sentence has always supported my work of searching for relics for many years."

After returning to China, Xiaolin resigned and determined To become a photographer and use photography to pursue the life he longed for, he became a freelance photographer shooting nature. But Xiaolin could never forget Meili Snow Mountain. He wanted to see Meili Snow Mountain again, which brought him many questions, so the next year he came to Mingyong Village at the foot of the snow mountain and tried to find the remains of other teammates.

Whenever Xiao Lin came to China, he always entertained him and let Xiao Lin live in his home. Tashi's mother went to the canal to fetch water every morning, and then poured it into the water. Into the bucket at home. The water in the canal is melted water from the Mingyong Glacier. The water flow is large and the water is freezing cold in summer. This water source is the source of drinking water for the people in the village and is also their pride. Every time Xiao Lin thought about the remains and relics of the mountaineers polluting the water source, Xiao Lin felt bad.

Therefore, when he lived in Mingyong Village, he was determined to clean up the water sources for the villagers, which became an important reason why he persisted for so many years.

After that, Xiao Lin lived in Mingyong Village for nearly a year. Every one or two weeks, Xiao Lin and the village party secretary Tashi would go into the mountain to search. After their unremitting efforts, they finally discovered the remains of four more mountaineering team members. These remains had been corroded by nature and were beyond appearance. Some of them had only the sole bones of their hiking boots left.

During the period when he was stationed in Mingyong Village, he returned to Tokyo, but the life there bored him. He sat in his room in a daze every day, or counted the time while squeezing the subway. The days in Mingyong Village always came to his mind. Therefore, he returned to Mingyong Village. Almost every year after that, he would take pictures of different scenery, which became his spiritual support.

When the glaciers melted in the summer, the team members' relics were gradually exposed on the glaciers. There are almost no complete relics, most of them are some rags and some colorful plastic fragments. It is more like picking up garbage than collecting relics, as if the mountain gods are cleaning out these dirty things. As of 2019, the remains of sixteen team members have been discovered and identified. The team member who has not yet been discovered is a team doctor, Hisanobu Shimizu.

After Xiaolin’s eight-year search, there are almost no remains and relics left in Glacier Mountain. But just then they found a roll of camera film and they developed the photos. In the photo, he saw the team members laughing and carrying their luggage, and he saw the calm Camp No. 3 before the disaster. These photos gave Xiaolin great comfort.

More than ten years later, he and his teammates were "reunited" again. Xiao Lin often thinks about them and wonders what they would be like now if they had not climbed Meili Snow Mountain. Time passed by many years, and Xiao Lin also entered the age of knowing destiny from a young college student.

In 2011, Xiao Lin was in poor health. After going to the hospital for examination, he was found to have a very serious lung disease. Therefore, he had part of his left lung removed. Fortunately, it was not lung cancer.

After his body recovered, he immediately left for Meili Snow Mountain to continue working. Because the body of the last mountaineering team member had not been found, Xiaolin always felt like there was a hurdle in his heart that he couldn't get over.

Xiao Lin once said: "As long as I am alive, I will keep looking." But now he has changed his mind: He thinks the mountaineer's body has been washed into the river by melting glacier water. He will visit Meili Snow Mountain again this year. If he still cannot find it, he will end his twenty-four-year search.

In Xiaolin's eyes, death does not mean the end. After experiencing the death of his teammates, personally searching for their remains, and accepting the Tibetan people's belief in the cycle of life and death, he firmly believes that after death , life will still exist in some form. His wish is to continue the legacy of his teammates.

Subsequent scientific research showed that the geological conditions of Kawaborg are poor, the weather is bad and easy to change, and avalanches are prone to occur.

However, the supernatural events of the two mountain climbing operations always make people feel the sacred and unstoppable power of nature. With the development of the times, Kawagbo is no longer just watched by his believers. More and more tourists come from all over the world and eventually return to the ends of the earth.

They are just passers-by.

The snow-capped mountains are the eternal protagonists of this land.