The last time I saw the movie that climbed Everest was the "Climber".
In the movie, Yang Guang, a mountaineer played by Hu Ge, left a deep impression on everyone.
He is both a good physical mountaineer and a kind, righteous and passionate young man.
However, during a mountain climb, he lost his legs by giving up his sleeping bag to someone else.
"I'll be back to climb Everest!" Yang Guang's words were deafening.
Everyone does not know that the mountaineer named Yang Guang, played by Hu Ge, actually has a prototype character, his name is Xia Boyu.
And this movie, which will be released on December 3, tells his story -
Endless Climb
In order to show respect for Xia Boyu's grandfather, the narration of the entire movie is voiced by Hu Ge himself.
In the CCTV program, Hu Ge also expressed his high respect for Xia Boyu more than once.
The audience can't help but wonder, what kind of person is Xia Boyu? Why can a star like Hu Ge admire him?
That's exactly what the movie "Endless Climb" tells us.
The word "endless" is even appropriate, but for Xia Boyu, it is a long story.
From our perspective today, Xia Boyu is just a 72-year-old ordinary uncle with amputated legs.
But it is such an ordinary master who has created a "miracle" that ordinary people can never reach.
Xia Boyu was born in Chongqing in 1949 and moved to Qinghai with his parents in 1956. After this, he became a professional athlete and trained in football.
In 1974, as we saw in "The Climber", when the Chinese mountaineering team selected the second mountaineer, Xia Boyu was selected with excellent physical fitness and began his mountaineering career.
8848 was just a string of numbers for Xia Boyu at that time, and his starting point was quite high, climbing The Robuche Mountain at an altitude of more than 6100 meters on his first mountain climb.
In 1975, he had become a major member of the Chinese mountaineering team. When he launched the impact on Mount Everest, Xia Boyu was only 26 years old, and this flesh-and-blood young man was holding back a momentum to climb Mount Everest, but when he reached 8600 meters, more than two hundred meters away from the summit of Mount Everest, he was blown down by the wind.
Because the weather forecast at that time was not accurate, the sudden snowstorm was quite fierce, and the climbers had little food, oxygen and fuel left, and the climbing team had no choice but to retreat.
When he retreated to 7600 meters, a Tibetan teammate lost his hiking bag and sleeping bag, and Xia Boyu saw the situation and gave up his sleeping bag to him.
At that time, Xia Boyu's body saw the situation, "the fire is very large", in the mountaineering team there is a "fire god" name, counting him is the least afraid of cold.
But while waiting, Xia Boyu fell asleep without paying attention.
Climbing Everest is the most afraid of falling asleep, and many climbers fall asleep and never wake up. Fortunately, the next day, Xia Boyu woke up, but when he returned to the camp, he found that his hiking boots could not be taken off.
When he found the doctor, his feet were already frozen black: "It's frozen, there's no way." The doctor shook his head helplessly, and just like that, 26-year-old Xia Boyu lost his legs.
What struck him even more was that his father died between his mountaineering.
It was as if overnight, the misfortune of the whole world had befallen this young man, and Xia Boyu, who had suffered physical and mental injuries, had a very poor mental state, and Xia Boyu's mother even wanted to exchange her legs for her son.
Depressed for nearly two years, Xia Boyu met a German prosthetic expert who told Xia Boyu that with today's prosthetic technology, he can not only get back on his feet, but also challenge Everest again.
A sentence from the expert ignited Xia Boyu's hope of re-climbing Mount Everest, but adapting to the prosthesis is a very difficult process, and the skin will wear out bleeding and even infect the skin with a slightly large amount of exercise.
In 1993, an even bigger blow fell on Xia Boyu, who unfortunately suffered from cancer and thrombotic disease.
In order to fight the disease, Xia Boyu has undergone many major surgeries before and after, but in order to climb Mount Everest again, he has always remained optimistic.
In order to maintain his physical condition, he began to engage in disabled sports, whether it is wheelchair basketball, wheelchair table tennis, wheelchair throwing he participated, and won many awards.
Over the years, Xia Boyu has also retained his fitness habits.
He trains at four o'clock every morning and does 1500 weight-bearing squats, 100 pull-ups, 360 push-ups, and 420 sit-ups.
In "Endless Climbing", Xia Boyu's training content and process are recorded one by one.
Looking at Xia Boyu, who is over 60 years old, he is covered in tendon meat, and many young people are afraid that they are ashamed of themselves.
Finally, in 2011, the World Climbing Championships in Italy set up a disability group, and After only two months of training, Xia Boyu won two world championships in the men's difficulty and speed races of the leg amputation event.
This gave Xia Boyu the confidence and courage to impact Mount Everest again, and for this reason, he had waited for more than thirty years.
In 2014, Xia Boyu was ready to attack Mount Everest again, but he encountered a snowstorm in the middle, and he had to choose to give up when he was over 60 years old.
In 2015, 66-year-old Xia Boyu put on a prosthetic leg again to climb Mount Everest, but happened to encounter the Nepal earthquake.
The avalanche rushed down next to his tent, and all 16 Sherpas who were building the road ahead were killed, and the lucky Xia Boyu retrieved a life.
Although he was still alive, Xia Boyu was more and more unwilling in his heart: "God put all kinds of difficulties on my head and gave me so many blows, did he want to stop me from climbing Mount Everest?" ”
In 2016, Xia Boyu, who was already 67 years old, tried to climb Mount Everest for the fourth time. At an altitude of 8,750 meters, he encountered a snowstorm.
There are only 90 meters left from the summit of Mount Everest, and it only takes more than 1 hour to reach the summit with full strength, if it had been placed 40 years ago, he would not hesitate to rush up, but this time, he hesitated.
Can I come back safely when I climb up? Xia Boyu not only considered his own life, but also had five sherpa guides in his twenties by his side.
After a difficult ideological struggle, Xia Boyu decided to withdraw, the dream was in front of him, and he could get it at his fingertips, but Xia Boyu lost it again.
In February 2017, Xia Boyu submitted the climbing formalities and wanted to try climbing for the fifth time. But in that year, Nepal issued a mountaineering ban on people with disabilities.
Seeing that the age is getting older and older, one day later, Xia Boyu's physical state will decline by one day. This made him lament the injustice of fate.
In order to continue to reach the top, Xia Boyu decided to fight a lawsuit with the Nepalese government, and the ban was finally lifted in March 2018.
On April 12, 2018, 69-year-old Xia Boyu arrived at Everest Base Camp for the fifth time and successfully reached the summit of Mount Everest on May 14.
The five challenges were finally successful, and Xia Boyu not only realized his dream, but also created many miracles.
He became the oldest person in China to reach the summit of Mount Everest, and the first person in China to rely on a prosthetic leg to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
He was not only the first bilateral amputee to reach the summit of Mount Everest on the south slope, but also created a new Guinness World Record title.
Standing at the top of Mount Everest in his heart, Xia Boyu's mood was not as excited as he imagined, looking at the small mountain under the world's highest peak, the little golden light reflected by the sun, Xia Boyu finally came to the top of the world that he had dreamed of for 69 years.
"I don't dare say conquering Everest, but Everest accepted me." Xia Boyu said that in the movie "Endless Climbing", Xia Boyu also released for the first time a photo of his prosthetic leg climbing Mount Everest.
This pair of prosthetic limbs means a lot to him.
From losing his legs at the age of 26 to today's 72 years old, on the road to pursuing his dreams for 43 years, it is this pair of prosthetics that helps Xia Boyu overcome difficulties and strive to move forward.
In many interview programs such as CCTV's "Let's Talk" and NetEase Open Class, we can see Xia Boyu's figure.
Compared with the power of other role models, Xia Boyu's success is far more than "climbing Mount Everest".
In order to stick to his original dream, he never gave up for 43 years, exercised day after day, had the opportunity to launch an impact like the top of the world, and stunned himself to become a legend.
This is also the reason why he can become the fourth person after Liu Xiang, Yao Ming and Li Na to win the laurels World Sports Award, the highest award in the sports world.
He told us that ordinary people can not only live truly, but also achieve remarkable and extraordinary achievements through their own efforts.
As it is said in "Endless Climbing", "Life is not afraid of being late, just look at whether you dare to dare or not."
As long as we keep walking and climbing endlessly, sooner or later we can reach the other side of our own lives like Xia Boyu.
(Movie Rotten Tomatoes Editorial Department: Miao Miao)