"Everyone has a climber in their heart, they want to climb their own Mount Everest"

Laila 2022-04-21 09:01:42

I can't say how quiet Beijing is after midnight, but at least on the way home from the cinema, the bustling Beijing can no longer be seen. A few days ago, I heard the old sister mention the film "Desperate Altitude". After listening to her, she seemed to have a lot of emotions after watching it, so I decided to watch it today. There is no lingering sorrow of previous movies, nor the fire and gunfire of commercial blockbusters. A film that doesn't have too many ups and downs, but after watching it, as far as I am concerned, it can be considered a vigorous one. I don't know much about the Mount Everest mountaineering accident in 1996, and I haven't studied filming, nor am I a good storyteller, so as far as the film itself is concerned, I don't have much qualifications to comment on what kind of film it is. However, maybe a good movie is not about how gorgeous the film itself is, or how beautifully the props are set, or how detailed the plot description is by the storyteller. For me, judging the quality of a movie is how long it can make me remember and what it can remind me of.
Watching the climbers in the movie, whenever they are exhausted, always reminds me of the experience of walking alone in the Grand Canyon. Compared with the climbers of Mount Everest, going back and forth in the Grand Canyon is definitely a drop in the bucket, but from the moment when I was exhausted and my thigh cramps on the return trip, at that time, the way back might be my Mount Everest. At the moment when I returned to the top of the Grand Canyon with all my strength, I saw that everything in the valley was shrouded in gauze-like sunshine. Although those exhausted people did not retreat at all, the emotion in their hearts supported them to move on.
On the way back from the theater, the foggy Beijing night seems to have that contemplative atmosphere. Since returning to China, I have been persuading myself not to be entangled in the past, but to live in the present and look at the future. But if you can never let go of the ties of the past, how can you simply look to the future? There is such a scene in the movie. There are people who try to reach the top of Mount Everest for the first time, people who have reached the top several times but have not succeeded, and climbers who have already "conquered" other world peaks. When they were asked why they were obsessed with reaching the top of Mount Everest, some people answered simply, that they wanted to reach the top, while others answered, since they have already climbed to other peaks, why should they let this one go? The story tells the reason for the summit. In fact, no matter what reason people have for wanting to "above" the clouds, it's because, no matter what the present, Mount Everest is part of the past for them, or it was the past that brought them to the top 's motivation. Such a tie, for these Everest warriors, is the 8,800-meter peak. For every ordinary us, the ties of the past are not as difficult to climb as the 8,800-meter peak.
People have been climbing the mountain of past entanglements. From the moment you found your goal and made up your mind, you began to think of a way to go through hardships to solve the goal set at this moment in the past, and then you climbed to the peak with incomparable excitement. Admire the infinite scenery in front of you. However, what you think of infinity is actually short-lived, and after a while, you start to take such infinity for granted. Then you start searching for the next target in infinity. In front of you is the dark Xumi, and you start to build a horizontal ladder to the next goal, trying to find the next goal. You build and climb. Over time, you can not only stand on the edge of the horizontal ladder that is being built. At this time, you have no way to go back, because you have crawled all the way, and the way back is far away from yourself, and you can't look down, because you are afraid of falling into the abyss of Sumeru. On the empty spiral ladder, you walk forward, until you find the foot of the next target, you will not drop your feet and no longer step on the hole. When you make up your mind to start climbing the peak of this goal, it also becomes the past. You have started to resolve the next tie in the past. So when will it start now? It is when you step on the horizontal ladder that is being built above the sumer and the void that you will live in the present and focus on the future.
No matter how difficult the ties of the past are to overcome, there will always be a next past in life opposite the abyss of Sumeru. For everyone who is struggling in any corner of the world, or for those who are in transition, life has to have a period of adaptation, like going back and forth between camps at different heights before summiting Mount Everest Train to get your body in top shape. And don't be afraid of the taunters who have already reached the top of the mountain. As Nietzsche said: "Everyone who has already reached the top, they laugh at courage and the climbers behind them. But courage needs to be laughed at." Maybe the glory of the past is like Mount Everest, standing on the top of life, We acknowledge and embrace our glorious past. However, one day, like those brave climbers, I will once again climb to the "top of the world", the "Everest" that belongs to me.

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Everest quotes

  • Title Card: Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay became the first climbers to summit Everest. Over the next 40 years, only top professional climbers attempted the same feat. One in four died.

    Title Card: 1992: New Zealander Rob Hall pioneered the concept of commercial guiding on Everest for amateur climbers. Over the next four years his team, Adventure Consultants, successfully led 19 clients to summit without a single fatality.

    Title Card: 1996: Other commercial operators follow Rob Hall's lead, including Scott Fischer's Mountain Madness. More than 20 expeditions compete to summit Everest in the same two week window.

  • [first lines]

    Rob Hall: Can you just listen up? Guys? We got 2,000 feet, 600 vertical meters to Camp Four. It's roped all the way, so I know you can make it. Now, once we get to the yellow band we're gonna regroup, put on the masks, turn on the gas. Make sense?